The Samsung Gravity is expected to come to Fido on March 16 this year. Priced at a measly $25 on a 2-year contract, the official date of the launch has not been disclosed as yet. However the off-contract price tag can vary later. As Rogers originally launched the Gravity on their main network just over a year ago, the move to Fido would be sensible for it.

Most of the time big daddy Rogers will pass select devices down to his dog ‘Fido’ to make an end-of-life run at a discounted price. The few prominent features of the phone include 1.3mp camera with Bluetooth, Bluetooth, QWERTY keyboard and build-in MP3 player.

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Motorola brings Android to AT&T

With Motorola BACKFLIP hitting the market, AT&T breaks its record and plunges into the market with its first Android device. The highlight of the model as the name indicates is a MOTOBLUR skin with a full QWERTY keyboard.

The Motorola BACKFLIP is indeed a standard Android phone with a QWERTY keyboard on its back. Its features include 528MHz CPU, HVGA touchscreen, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM and a 5MP camera. The phone has a connectivity of 7.2Mbps HSDPA (and quad-band GSM/EDGE of course), WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS.

This is just an example. AT&T is all set to get other Android devices beside the Motorola BLUR. The next to emerge is a Dell Phone, probably the Dell Mini 3iX and HTC phones(s).

The Motorola BACKFLIP is priced at 349 US dollars with no contract or 99 dollars after a 100 dollar mail-in rebate on a 2-year 30 dollar a month contract.

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The Bellperre Nero Gold

Bellperre has continued its lineup of luxury handsets through the launch of its tailor-made NERO GOLD ‘Brushed Steel, Precious Buttons’ mobile phone. The Bellperre Nero Gold (100 x 44 x 15,5mm) is now available in high polished solid silver or gold buttons.

The shiny buttons are meant to capture the light, to create a great design with the unique combination of black crocodile shiny patent leather combined with brush steel metal and shiny gold buttons.

According to Bellperre, the handset includes only luxury leather, pure steel, hard wood, sapphire crystal, precious gold and diamonds.

There is also a 2-inch TFT display made of sapphire crystal that can offer a 176 x 220 pixel resolution. In addition, the Bellperre Nero Gold also features Windows Mobile as its operating platform and includes Bluetooth 2.0 capabilities, as well as a camcorder and a video player.

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LG GS290 Cookie Fresh launched

Following the announcement of its bigger brother- the GS500 Cookie Plus, LG GS290 the third Cookie has hit the market now. Though its camera resolution lacks 3G, it retains the cartoon UI and standard audio jack.

A month ago LG had announced two new Cookie handsets- the GS500 Cookie Plus and the GS290 however disclosed only the specs of the Cookie Plus. Fortunately LG set that right with the latest announcement of GS290 Cookie Fresh.

The spec sheet of the model resembles the original Cookie and while a standard 3.5mm jack is added here, the camera of the set is downgraded to 2 megapixel resolution. The rest of features are as usual. The set has a 3-inch resistive touchscreen, Bluetooth, FM radio and microSD card slot.

The LG GS290 Cookie Fresh will be made available in ten vibrant colors across the markets of Europe and Asia in the second half of this month.

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The Gucci A800 Diamond studded phone, as the name suggests, is a phone involving a lot of diamonds. But what has come as a surprise to many is how gold has been embedded in many of its areas.

Also, contrary to what many expected, the Gucci A800 is light in weight (only 100 grams), with an LCD of 2.8 inches and a 1.3 megapixel camera.

Gucci A800 provides a talk time of 180 to 240 minutes and a stand-by time of 160 to 200 hours and can be used in English, Arabic, and French.

The Accessories of Gucci A800 are exceptional as they add charm to the Luxurious Cell Phone and highlight its features. What also sets this phone apart from the rest is its video quality that enables you to play 3GP as well as MP4.

The Mobile Phone comes along with a powerful Bluetooth, charger, USB Data Cable, batteries and a user guide in which the information is written on how to use the Cell Phone.

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Here comes a mobile phone, inspired by the colours of the ocean. We are talking about the new Ascent Ti Neon that comes with rubber on the back instead of the leather of the regular Ascent Ti, in a choice of four colours: green, orange, pink and white. What makes the phone so expensive could be attributed to its titanium chassis.

Providing a talk time of 4.5 hours (GSM) and a standby time of around 400 hours, the phone supports the quad band GSM coverage and WCDMA2100 throughout the world.

Ascent Ti Neon has a QVGA display, 4GB of internal memory, 3MP camera and supports Bluetooth interface.

Not to forget to mention, the phone comes with a high performance hands free loudspeaker.

The phone will go on sale in October and will cost nearly $9,900.

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ZTE is all set to change its low-cost handset maker image and enter into the business of higher smartphone market. Android-powered smartphones will supposedly be the next big target of this Chinese company. However, the latest venture to find its way to the market is 4ZTE phones. These phones are expected to circulate even outside China.

ZTE Smooth, the Palm Pre like device has features like Android 1.6, 2.8-inch QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, FM radio, and 3g (UMTS) connectivity. ZTE Blade is another high-end device and has features like Bluetooth, Android 1.6, WiFi, FM radio, GSM/UMTS connectivity and 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen.

ZTE Racer another Android 1.6 phone will have 3G, WiFi, GPS, and 2.-inch QVGA while ZTE Mercury, which is a look-alike of HTC Hero comes with 3.2-inch HVGA display, GPS and EDGE data.

The only problem these Android phones are expected to come across is the distribution otherwise ZTE is super committed to Android.  The ZTE Smartphones will soon be popping on every comer of Europe and US.

Samsung has launched a handset, Anycall Clutch (SPH-W9500) exclusively for South Korean market. Anycall Clutch looks like a variant of the S7070 Diva phone and has the same quilted back. The distinct feature of the model is its diamond-shaped home button.

The set is an all-touchscreen device with a 3.2-inch display, 3-megapixel camera with “3D motion picture feature”, 1.3-megapixel camera for video calls, 3G connectivity (HADPA), GPS, T-DMB mobile TV receiver, SOS function, Bluetooth, e-dictionary and a microSD expansion slot that works with cards of up to 16GB. The 960mAh battery offers enough charge for up to 8 hours of talk and 500 hours of standby time.

The TouchWIZ 2.0 of Samsung is used for all the interaction providing users with a quick way to access the key phone features as well as popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Lady UI is the name of the UI variant on the Clutch and it comes with preloaded widget for party planning and some diet assistant app.

The Samsung Anycall Clutch will be available in three shades including Silver, Pink and Black on KT for 600,000 won, which is about $523.

Constellation C design phone by Vertu has a length of 109 mm, a width of 45 mm, a depth of 15.7 mm and a weight that starts from 140 to 142 grams.

There are models with different combinations: 1) white gold with black ceramic keys, diamond trim and black leather, 2) yellow gold with black ceramic keys, diamond trim and black leather, and 3) yellow gold with black ceramic keys, double diamond trim and black leather.

Providing you a talk time of 5.5 hours and a standby time of around 400 hours, the phone also comes with a 20mm hands free loudspeaker. The keypad is laser etched + back-illuminated and the display of the phone is high resolution and dynamic with sapphire crystal.

Packed with a gamut of features, the constellation C Design phone has certainly met the standards of the present day market. There is Bluetooth and USB, PC and Mac synchronization and modem support!

You can also chose your own leather case – pink leather case with lizard print collar and stainless steel clasp, a black one with lizard print detailing, a burgundy one with crocodile print, or a brown one with lizard print detailing.

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Nokia’s Nuron is all set to go live on T-Mobile’s network on March 17th indicating plenty of pre-launch Nurons running around the wild. For people who look for cheap alternative to the iPhone 3GS, or for those aiming to buy the latest music-oriented XpressMusic phone from Nokia, this phone is the best bait.

The 5230 XpressMusic will hit the US as the Nokia Nuron with features like 2-megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth, memory card, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a 3.2-inch Nhd touchscreen and 3G (HSPA) connectivity. The cost of the set will be $70 based on 2-year contract pricing. The Nuron will also work with the free GPS navigation feature built into its Ovi Maps app, making it a great value for the directionally-challenged.

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