Sagem my150x

The Sagem my150x is a very low cost phone from this French manufacturer which manages to look very stylish and comes with an interesting display technology too.

It's a very light phone, the Sagem my150x weighs just 65 grams. At just 10mm thick, the my150x is very slim too - in fact, it's one of the slimmest phones on the market. Overall dimensions are 107 x 47 x 10mm, which means that the my150x isn't too small to use. The handset is attractively finished with chrome highlights to add to the slightly unconventional monoblock layout.

Nokia E51

The Nokia E51 is Nokia's new entry-level phone in the E-Series business range, replacing the Nokia E50 which unfortunately failed to make much of an impression on customers.
This is a Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphone, and the Nokia E51 is a quad-band GSM 850/900/1900/1900 MHz phone with dual band UMTS 850/2100 MHz which will make it useful for business travellers. Unlike the E50, the Nokia E51 now adds UMTS (3G) and HSDPA (3.5G) plus WiFi. This makes the E51 useful as an accessory for a laptop, and the inclusion of WiFi also opens up the possibility of using the handset for voice over IP (VOIP), especially with a corporate VOIP gateway - Nokia provide solutions that will work with Cisco and Alcatel systems. At Mobile Gazette, we think that corporate VOIP using devices of this type is likely to be a major growth area during 2008.

Nokia 7500 Prism

• The good: The Nokia 7500 Prism has a gorgeous display and a broad range of features, including Bluetooth. The music player is quite nice, and music quality is respectable.
• The bad: The Nokia 7500 Prism had clunky navigation controls and keypad buttons. Also, call quality was uneven with low volume.

Nokia 6301

With a sleek stainless steel design, the Nokia 6301 launched today offering consumers seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks via Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology. With UMA technology, consumers can use GSM or broadband Internet-connected WLAN networks for mobile services, ensuring excellent coverage and sound quality, even in areas where mobile phone reception has previously been poor.



Orange will be one of the first operators to offer the Nokia 6301, as part of its Unik/Unique portfolio. The Nokia 6301 is an evolution of the modern monoblock design.

CEC F88 Wristwatch Phone

A Chinese corporation called CEC created this watch/phone/internet browser/camera. And all for the very, very low price of $1,111. It was created for a famous Chinese ping pong player… I suppose to keep his hands free? It has 26k colors CSTN display, a built in speakerphone and microphone, voice dialing, and even pre installed world cup games to play on your wristwatch phone. It weighs only 100grams with dimensions: 38.3 x 76.7 x 17cm. The keyboard is on the wristwatch and the speaker can be connected to your finger. Best of all, it has the capacity for videoconferencing with a 180 degree rotating 3 megapixel camera… yes Go Go Gadget fans… just like the Inspector himself used to use to videoconference Penny and the loveable Brain the Dog.

Cell Phones Won't Kill Your Brain

Cell phone use does not appear to be hazardous to human health, according to U.K. study published today, though research gaps mean that the possibility of adverse health effects arising from mobile phone use cannot be entirely dismissed. The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme's 2007 Report, a six year research program found no correlation between short term mobile phone use and brain cancer.

Palm Announces Treo 500v for Vodafone

The Treo 500v is the first full revision to the Treo hardware from Palm in years. It is a new Windows Mobile 6 standard smartphone that abandons touchscreen interactivity, but adds Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR with the HFP, HSP, A2DP, and OPP profiles, a 2 Megapixel camera and 150 MB of usable memory that can be expanded with a microSD card. As with previous generations of Treos, it has a full QWERTY keyboard and large screen. It will support Microsoft's Direct Push email as well as POP3 email accounts. It is a tri-band GSM/GPRS phone, supporting the 900/1800/1900 bands as well as UMTS 2100 3G. Palm will likely release a variant of the 500v that supports US networks at a later date. It is available in white and gray.