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Philips is revived again. The Dutch maker was one known to create long life battery for its phones. Now, Philips tries to strike again. This time with X800 and X-Connect. The Xenium series now has its LCD built in China.

X800 is a triband GSM/GPRS. What is it inside the phone?

Not only Flash lite that can be embedded into a phone. Microsoft Silverlight, the latest technology from giant software maker, is ready to enter mobile market. Using Nokia Smartphone, with quite amount of RAM, the Silverlight will delight the surface of Nokia phones.

Motorola has not given up with their RAZR2 line up. Although the sales will not be as successful as the predecessor, they try to bring another alternative. Especially for those living in Korea, Motorola unveiled RAZR2 in pink silver theme. The phone is aimed for girls.

Korean's SK Telecom and Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile are in talk for strategic option. Well, it is a term used for any purchase or acquisition regarding business matter. This time, the target is Helio.

As manufacturer are trying to create the best camera phone, Sony Ericsson has different way of thinking. Instead creating a camera phone, they are prototyping a phone camera! Yes, no typo mistake about this.

Verizon Wireless has made a tough decision on announcing they will support Linux as their main mobile platform. However, it won't prelude the idea on keep selling Android platform, Windows Mobile based, and Blackberry.

Yes, it is a prototype. The phone by Matthias Pinkert is designed to be foolproof phone. The phone just only has 4 keys! One for direct calling, one for one-touch calling, one for GPS tracking, and the other for speaker phone.

Sharp is no longer for Japan market. Now they aimed for potential China market. Sharp now has 19.1% of China domestic market share and last quarter reported their sales rose to 4.8%.

Due to the move of Aspocomp and Wintek to telecom park in Chennai, Nokia has already gathered their key suppliers near the manufacturing plant. This move will cut the distribution cost.

NEC is one of the largest GSM phone maker in the Japan. Thus, it is also one of the large supplier for DoCoMo. Now, they also in progress to supply other GSM operator, Softbank Mobile.

Research and Markets, the world largest market reseach resource revealed their forecast on how the japan mobile market going in 2008. It covers some operators, including NTT DoCoMo, KDDI (au), Softbank, and Willcom (PHS).

What is it in the report? Here are the recaps:

The South Pacific country, Tahiti, will soon enjoy the fast connection using 3G. Nokia Siemens Network, second largest network vendor, is elected to implement 3G coverage for Mara Telecom and other French Polynesian islands. The deal is not disclosed.

A spin off of Nokia's late acquisition, Identity System, finally get the buyer. Informatica, a leading independent provider of data integration system, acquire Identity for undisclosed price. The acquisition is fully efective per 15 May.

After Navteq acquisition, Nokia has been aggresively launch high end phones with GPS-enabled. Soon, half of phone manufactured will be equipped with GPS. They expect it be realized by 2010-2012.

What if you are coming to place that bring nostalgic moment in the past? It must be great if accompanied by a romantic song. Well, a good thing Sony Ericsson to offer is the phone can manage to search a location information, find a related songs via Internet, and offer a song (or two) that might suitable with the place or the moment.

Nokia supports the go green campaign by recycling your old phone. Did you know that some part of your old broken piece of junk can be used again, for a new phone or another form, as recycling effort?

Korean manufacturer, LG, finally bring their advanced technology outside their motherland. The HB620T, a DVB-T enabled phone allows use to watch TV in good way of streaming using their freeview digital transmission.

Steve finally allows Asia to enjoy iPhone. The company has made a deal with Singtel group to sell iPhone by the end of the year. What countries are included?