A new LG handset was announced for Alltel (and in the long run, I suppose, Verizon) this morning. Don’t let its appearance fool you, my friends - this is no standard flip phone. This one will change your life.

Okay, fine. It won’t change your life. In fact, with its defining features being a 1.3 megapixel camera and Bluetooth, it’s all pretty standard. It’s the first Alltel handset to feature Fastap “Press-to-Experience” shortcut keys tucked between the numbers on the keypad, which I suppose is pretty exciting if you’ve never owned a cell phone before. You can nab one in blue or red at Alltel.com or any Alltel spot for $49.99 beginning this day.

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Attention fellow BlackBerry Users-

At 12:01 AM EDT on the 13th of November, MySpace is releasing their much anticipated mobile application for the BlackBerry platform. You can download it here from your desktop or navigate here from your BlackBerry browser.

For those of you who still use MySpace, RIM has set up a page where you can find the latest applications from RIM and third celebration vendors along with tutorials, contests, news and other RIM-related happenings.

That’s all. And from all of us at MC have a pleasant evening.

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This morning T-Mobile Germany announced the 8900 and now CellPhoneSignal has found the FCC filing for North America. The baby Bold is expected to hit both GSM networks here in the US.

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If anybody but theBoy Genius managed to scrounge this one up, I’m not sure if I’d believe it. From the details of the leak, it seems that Nokia is working on something they’re referring to internally as “Wahoo”, which looks to have been designed by taking a dash of BlackBerry Pearl Flip and throwing in a whole lot of Motorola RAZR.

Nothing too groundbreaking spec-wise, with its most notable feature being a 1/2 QWERTY keyboard similar to the SureType keyboards found on the BlackBerry Pearl devices. Beyond that, it’s got quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, dual-band HSDPA, assisted GPS, dual displays (2.0″ 240

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Still fawning over the HTC Touch HD? Well, meet its more massive, badder brother: the HTC MAX 4G.

Just announced this day, HTC’s newest beast is the world’s first GSM/WiMax handset. If you’re thinking to yourself, “Aw man, a GSM/WiMax handset would be pretty much useless in the states”, you’re totally right - and HTC seems to concur. Like the Touch HD, we’ll be missing out on this one. Russia, with their significantly farther along WiMax network, will be the only ones getting it for the time being - no word yet when they’ll actually get it, however.

So what are we missing out on? Check out the specs after the jump.

Specs

• Processor: Qualcomm

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At long last, Sony Ericsson has announced U.S availability of the Xperia X1. Because it’s definitely the best day to send people to the mall, they’ll be launching the handset on Black Friday (November 28th).

With a Black Friday launch date, at least it’ll come in at a bargain price, right? Try $800 bucks. As of right now, the X1 is only planned to be up for sale as an unlocked handset through Sony Style stores and authorized Sony retailers, with preorders beginning November 13th. Sorry, Sony Ericsson - the X1 is a gorgeous piece that I’ve been gushing about for months, but I think I’ll skip this one so I have the ability to, you know, afford food.

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With Windows Mobile 6.5 now pretty much a sure thing for 2009, the churn of the rumor mill is growing ever louder. Smartphone France has supposedly dug up some screenshots of the new operating system. As these shots will no doubt pop up week after week on forums around the intertubes until 6.5’s eventual release, we’ll go ahead and weigh in now: fake.

Signs of Shenanigans:

• Begin menu Windows icon: Looks care about it was ripped out of the first Google Image Search for “Windows logo” by someone using the polygon selection tool while wearing a blindfold. It’s all sorts of chunked-up, but not in a way that JPEG compression might cause.
• Clock, first image: Far, far off center and glowy blue? Pft.
• Icons, both images: Why do the WiFi signal strength and battery meter icons switch places from screen to screen? Why is the “Today” icon ripped directly from Mac OS X? Why is the clock icon on the right so awkwardly small and showing a completely different time?
• Text margins, both images: The margins of the soft key menu labels are all off - the gap on the left is significantly more massive than the one on the right.

There are just too many mistakes that any first year graphic design student would catch. The whole thing just looks cheap and, well, fake.

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It’s 8 am, and you’ve got a WebEx meeting at 8:30. Unfortunately, the children need to be at school by 8:15, and it’s a 40 minute roundtrip to drop them off. Your options? Either you’re going to be hopping from coffee shop to coffee shop looking for parking lot WiFi, or the kids are playing hooky through first period this day. PhoneTopp, a startup out of San Jose, California, has a new option, which they’re announcing at today’s Under the Radar conference: attending web conferences on your smartphone.

In a current survey of over 15,000 web conference regulars, PhoneTopp found that over 62% of respondents wanted to be able to participate in a web conference through their smartphone. Unfortunately, current desktop conferencing solutions were a bit too bulky and processor intensive to be ported to run on the significantly less powerful hardware available in smartphone handsets, so Phonetopp took a different approach: cloud computing.

By passing web conference data through Amazon’s EC2 servers, PhoneTopp was able remove much of the rendering legwork from the handset and significantly lower bandwidth requirements. They’ve also modularized each element of the conference, freeing up screen real estate and further optimizing bandwidth - not paying attention to chat? Hide the chat pane, and that data won’t be sent until it’s required. With these optimizations in place, PhoneTopp’s able to send web conference data over 3G with a latency of right around 5 seconds.

Being that they built the solution from the ground up, they’re also able to add a few features very special to their offering. Amongst these is something they call “mobile rewind”. Miss a slide? PhoneTapp stores past slides, so you can peruse them at your liking without holding up the entire meeting.

Though they’re announcing the product this day, PhoneTopp is going to spend another month or so polishing up their service before letting anyone poke and prod at it. After seeing a demo of the product, I can state that the whole thing seems dead simple: Answer a phone call, launch the application, and you’re in. Want to see for yourself? Head to PhoneTopp.com and sign up for their beta - private beta begins in December, and early adopters get 3 months of the $8 per month service for free. Public beta will begin sometime in the first quarter of next year.

PhoneTopp will support Microsoft Live Meeting and Webex conferences during the beta periods, with support for Adobe and Citrix conferencing on the way. Device-wise, they plan on supporting the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices.

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Consider the E63 a more economical choice to the flagship E71 at 200 Euro. Seriously. Full list of specs after the jump, but I’ll save you trouble. The E63 features Wi-Fi, a 2-megapixel camera, and GPS. Again, it’s the baby brother to the E71 and comes in blue and red.

Size
Form: Monoblock with full keyboard
Dimensions: 113 x 59 x 13 mm
Weight: 126 g
Volume: 87 cc
Full keyboard
High quality QVGA display

Display and 3D
Size: 2.36″
Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
Up to 16 million colors
TFT active matrix (QVGA)
Two customisable home screen modes

Security features
Device lock
Remote lock
Data encryption for both phone memory an microSD content
mobile VPN

Keys and input method
Full keyboard
Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email
Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling
Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning ability
Accelerated scrolling with NaviTMKey

Colours and covers
Available in-box colours: Ultramarine Blue and Ruby Red

Connectors

Micro-USB connector, full-speed
3.5 mm standard AV connector

Power
BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery
Speak time (maximum): GSM up to 11 hours; WCDMA up to 4h 40 min
Standby time (maximum): GSM up to 18 days; WCDMA up to 20 days;WLAN idle up to 170 hours
Music playback time (maximum): 18 h

Memory
microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB
110 MB internal dynamic memory

Data network

CSD
HSCSD
GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)
EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100, maximum speed 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
- WLAN Security: WEP, 802.1X, WPA, WPA2
TCP/IP support
IETF SIP and 3GPP

Local connectivity and synchronisation

Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
- Bluetooth profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP
MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support
Bluetooth (Bluetooth Serial Port Profile. BT SPP)
File
Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket
connection to any specified port (a.k.a HP
JetDirect™).
Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon
protocol (RFC1179).
Support for local and remote SyncML synchronisation, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync

Call features

Integrated hands-free speakerphone
Automatic answer with headset or vehicle kit
Any key answer
Call waiting, call hold, call divert
Call timer
Logging of dialed, received and missed calls
Automatic redial and fallback
Speed dialing
Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND)
Fixed dialing number support
Vibrating alert (internal)
Contacts with images
Conference calling
Push to talk
VoIP

Messaging

SMS
Multiple SMS deletion
Text-to-speech message reader
MMS
Distribution lists for messaging
Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts
Cell broadcast

E-mail

Supported protocols: IMAP4, Mail for Exchange, POP3, SMTP
Support for e-mail attachments
IMAP IDLE support
Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email
Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN
Simple Email set-up

Web browsing

Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML,CSS
Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP2.0
TCP/IP support
Nokia browser
- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5
- Mini Map
Nokia Mobile Search

GPS and navigation

Nokia Maps application

Photography
2.0 megapixel camera (1600 x 1200 pixels)
Image formats: JPEG/EXIF
CMOS sensor
digital zoom
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
LED flash
Flash modes: Automatic, Off, Forced
Flash operating range: 1 m
White balance modes: automatic, daylight, incasdencent, fluorescent
Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
Viewfinder
Active toolbar
Share photos with Share on Ovi

Video

Main camera
320 x 240 (QVGA) at 15 fps
176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)
digital video zoom
Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
Audio recording formats: AMR
Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent
Scene modes: automatic, night
Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
Clip length (maximum): 1 h
RealPlayer
Video playback file formats: .Flash Lite 3, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
Video streaming: .3gp, mp4, .rm
Customisable video ring tones

Music and audio playback

Music player
Media player
Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+
Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+
FM radio 87.5-108 MHz with RDS support
Visual Radio support. Read more: www.visualradio.com
3.5 mm Standard AV connector
Nokia Music Manager
Nokia Music Store support
Nokia Podcasting support
Customisable ring tones
Synchronise music with Windows Media Player
Navi™ wheel support
Voice Aid

Voice and audio recording

Voice commands
Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)
Voice recorder
Audio recording formats: AMR-WB, AMR-NB
Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, and AMR-FR
Text-to-speech

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones

Customisable profiles
Customisable ring tones
Customisable video ring tones
Support for talking ring tones
Customisable themes
Customisable home screen content in Business and Personal modes

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Well, well, well. Looks like Velocity Mobile finally found someone to pick up their Windows Mobile devices.

Today, Pharos introduced the Traveler 117 and Traveler 127 GPS smartphones. Each device hasn’t changed a whole lot since we first saw them at CTIA last year, but they’re now equipped with Pharos’s Smart Navigator software, which is specifically designed for Windows Mobile.

The Traveler 117 has a 2.8-inch touch-screen while the 127 has a smaller screen measuring 2.5-inches, but comes with a full QWERTY keyboard.

Both devices are 3.5G and will go on sale December 1 for $530 on the web at Amazon, Dell, Newegg and eXpansys.

Traveler 117 and Traveler 127 Specifications
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Processor: Qualcomm MSM7201-90, 400MHz
Memory: 256MB Flash ROM, 128MB SDRAM
Phone: unlocked GSM quad band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, EDGE / GPRS
3.5G tri band 850/1900/2100 MHz, UMTS 384Kb/s, HSDPA 7.2Mb/s, HSUPA 2Mb/s
Talk time: up to 4 hours speak time and 200 hours standby time
GPS: NMEA0183/AGPS compatible
Wireless: Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth™ v2.0+EDR
Camera: 2.0 megapixel camera for picture or video; 0.3 megapixel front camera for video
conferences
Battery: 1410 mAh Li-Ion, rechargeable/replaceable
Weight: 4.8 ounces

Traveler 117
Size: 4.44” (L) x 2.28” (W) x 0.60” (T)
Display: 2.8″ Resistive TFT LCD, 480 x 640 VGA with 18-bit 262K color ability

Traveler 127
Size: 4.57” (L) x 2.44” (W) x 0.60” (T)
Display: 2.5″ TFT LCD with touch panel, 320 x 240 QVGA with 16-bit 65K colors

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