szSprint has introduced two new phones on its network: The Sanyo Zio and Samsung Transform. Both the phones are High-end Android phones which are available on contact basis. The company has also launched Sprint ID.

Samsung Transform will be available for US$149.99 with a two-year contract and US$100 mail-in rebate. The device features a 3.5-inch HVGA display, horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel rear camera with flash, VGA front-facing camera, a 2 GB micro SD card, and Android 2.1.

The Sanyo Zio as per the company will be available for US$99.99 after a two-year contract and US$100 mail-in rebate. Zio features a 3.5-inch “high-resolution” WVGA touchscreen, 512 MB of internal memory, 3.2 megapixel camera, 30 FPS video capture, a 2 GB micro SD card, and Android 2.1.

Sprint ID, a new profile-based feature that let customer easily customize their phone with predefined groups of ringtones, wallpapers, applications, and widgets is also available now. These ID packs contain tailor-made content for groups of users including business professionals, gamers, sports fans, and many more.

HELSINKI, Finland — Nokia is launching a framework for automatically feeding content to mobile phones.

Called WidSets, the technology “brings Web 2.0 to your mobile device,” said Tom Henricksson, director of Nokia’s Emerging Business Unit. “It goes to other Internet sites and gets feeds from them, but [users] determine what Internet services you want to have visible on your phone.” Once selected, “you just hit install.”

WidSets allows users to build a content library that may include RSS (really simple syndication) feeds, blogs and photo upload sites that are multicasted to Java-enabled devices. It updates selected content and forms a “symbiotic” relationship with the Web to allow both the device and the Web to work together. “You have exactly the information you are interested in, but in a cost-optimized way on your handset,” said Henrickson.

The launch fits into Nokia’s overall theme of “human-centered” design. Henrickson said he expects the technology to be community driven, with user rankings and the ability for users to generate their own “widgets.”

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