What you are looking at above is a clone of the iPhone. It has a 2.8 inch touch screen, Media Player, MP4 and MP3 player, recorder and movie player. It kind of looks ok, although it is quite clearly a copy, including icons of an actual iPhone. Check out the full details over at Lelong.

The P9521 is designed by Porsche and looks great. It is the first ever designed phone by Porsche and is made from aluminium. The phone has a double hinge system which allows you to open the phone, rotate the screen and close it down in a similar way to the Clie. The glass on the screen is mineral glass and it does look amazing. Finger print scanning is built in and can replace a PIN code, or can be used to block access to certain parts of the phone. The camera is a 3.2 megapixel which is quite good and on the connectivity side there is GPRS and EDGE as well as being quad band. Bluetooth and USB are also built in.

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Here is a leaked picture of LGs VX10000. It looks to be quite a cool phone having the qwerty keyboard which flips open. Rumors of some sort of sliding mechanism have also been mentioned. No release date has been given yet.

Via: CrunchGear

The Sony Rolly is a robotic toy which is actually a wireless speaker, audio player and has 1GB of internal memory. The Rolly will dance to the music. When listening to music you get about 5 hours of battery life. If you decide to stream music via Bluetooth then battery life drops to 4 hours 30 minutes. It is set to cost $350 when it hits Japan at the end of this month.

I am not sure if this will do well or not. It seems like an odd idea to have an MP3 player rolling around. I dont really get the point.

Via: Latest-Mobile

The CTR-350 can create a sercure WiFi hotspot from cell phones broadband connection. It allows several people to share the one connection and keep those who shouldnt have access out of the network. WEP or WPA can be used for encryption.

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You will have seen over the past year or 2, kids rolling around on their sports shoes. They are basically regular sneakers but with a roller in the back allowing kids to slide around rather then walk. These latest custom built versions feature a small generator built in which can harvest the power from rolling around. I guess it would be good for powering an iPod or mobile phone in an emergency although I cannot say how much harder it would make it to skate around with the generator kicking in.

Via: TheDailyInvention

At Apples Keynote yesterday there were a number of cool announcements about iPods. The first is the iPod shuffle which will be getting a few new colours and will cost the same at $79 for a 1GB version.

The next iPod in the lineup is the iPod Nano which has gone through a bit of a shape shift and now sports a nice wide screen at 2 inches running 320 x 240 pixels. The cost of a new Nano will be $149 for a 4GB model and $199 for an 8GB version. These will be in store this weekend.

The regular iPod is now named the iPod Classic and is available in silver and black (no white). The 80GB version will cost $249 and has 30 hours of audio playback and 5 hours of video from the battery. The beefy 160GB version is beefy in storage, thicker then the 80GB version, but thinner then the old 80GB version and will cost $349. It can hold 40000 songs, has a 40 hour ability when playing audio and 7 hours of video playback on its battery.

The iPod touch is one I am looking forwards to. Its like an iPhone but without the phone. It has Wi-Fi, Safari, Cover flow and is flash based only. It measures at 8mm thick and has either 8GB of flash which runs at $299 or there is a 16GB model running at $399 which isnt too bad. I personally wish the touch had a 160GB HDD in it even if it did make it slightly thicker.

The iPhone is also set to have a price drop which is good news too.

Which one will you be choosing?

Via: Gizmodo

The Apple iPhone has been very successful which has led Microsoft to rethink their stance on the possibility of a Zune phone. Recently they stated that it is not unreasonable for them to create a phone based on the Zune music platform. Sounds good to me although if Steve Ballmer has input it must have a keyboard. This along with the Google Phone could lead to some nice competition over the years to come.

Via: CellPhoneDigest

The rugged mobile keyboard comes from iKey Inc and is designed for mounting in vehicles. It has full travel keystrokes and has universal mounting holes. It was specifically designed for mounting in police cars, emergency vehicles and marine vehicles. The shape of the keyboard is designed so that it can be easily swung around in a small space. For night time use the keyboard is LED backlit and there is also an integrated touchpad in there too. The keyboard is also sealed so that drinks can be dropped on it and not cause any problems.

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I thought I had a fair few mobile phones because I have never thrown any away after using them. I started off with a Nokia 7110 back in 1999 and have kept each phone each year I upgraded. This guy takes mobile phone collections to the extreme though with a reported collection of 101 phones in 2005. I do not know how many phones he actually has, but I can tell its way more then the 7 or so I have.

Via: About-Nokia