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Sony Ericsson W880i

Photos and specs of the new Sony Ericsson W880i, formerly known under the code name "Ai", have surfaced online.

Palm Treo 750

Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Palm announced the latest in its line of smart phones - the Treo 750 for Cingular Wireless. The Palm Treo 750 is the first Palm Treo smart device on the Cingular 3G/UMTS network.

The Palm Treo 750 phone is a five-band world phone, and runs Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push technology. The Treo 750 for Cingular offersoffers Palm's exclusive usability improvements and includes powerful business features such as email, security, and web access on the go. With this phone, professionals on the go can access their email and the web at blazing fast speeds.

The Palm Treo 750 also features a full QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 megapixel camera, support for Bluetooth stereo headsets, a 240x240 touch screen, built-in 60MB of user available storage, and a miniSD slot capable of holding memory cards of up to 2GB.

It will be available starting on January 8th at the retail price of $399.99 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate. Starting tomorrow it will be available in both retail stores, online, and through Cingular's B2B organization.

LG VX9400

At today's CES event, LG announced the LG VX9400 V CAST Mobile TV phone to be offered by Verizon Wireless. The new phone will be available in Q1 2007, and will support V CAST Mobile TV. The phone is a slim and sleek, bar-style design with a large LCD screen for optimal television viewing and new, cutting edge features.

V CAST Music and Video are also accessible with the LG VX9400, as are Get It Now, Mobile Web 2.0, Bluetooth capabilities, one-touch speakerphone, and a 1.3 megapixel camera and camcorder. With an external memory card, users can record up to one hour of video.

"The LG VX9400 is yet another benchmark in a long line of firsts for LG Mobile Phones," said Juno Cho, president of LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. "V CAST Mobile TV is truly groundbreaking in mobile phone technology, and we are proud to be among the first manufacturers to support this service that will change the way we use mobile devices forever."

Nokia BH-301 Bluetooth Headset

Nokia has announced the Nokia BH-301 Bluetooth Headset. Match your headset to suit your mood with the interchangeable, stylish covers on the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-301. Available in either a light or a dark variant, choose cover colors ranging from 'pink flower' to 'deep plum', and many more. This headset will keep you talking for up to seven hours or it will survive on standby for up to 200 hours. Convenient keys for controlling your call functions, including redialing and voice dial activation*, will keep you on the go while you communicate.

Phone companies in Brazil blocking YouTube

Telecommunications companies in Brazil began blocking access to YouTube on Monday after a Brazilian model sued to get the popular video sharing service to remove footage of her having sex from its Web site.

Last week, a court in Sao Paulo state ordered phone companies that provide Internet service in Brazil to block YouTube until it removed the video.

Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of soccer star Ronaldo, and her boyfriend, Renato Malzoni Filho, sued YouTube and demanded $116,00 in damages for each day the video, which apparently showed them having sex on a Spanish beach, remained on the Web site (www.youtube.com).

Anyone can post video on YouTube, a unit of Internet search engine Google Inc (Nasdaq:GOOG - news).

The case dragged on for several months before they filed a third lawsuit in December requesting that YouTube be shut down as long as the video is available to users.

Brasil Telecom (BRTP4.SA) said it had blocked Brazilians from seeing the YouTube site. The sex video had been the most widely viewed in Latin America's biggest country for days.

Embratel Participacoes (NYSE:EMT - news)(EBTP4.SA), Brazil's leading long distance telephone company, said it was analyzing the technical details of the legal ruling with a view to complying.

Spain's Telefonica (TEF.MC) said it would obey the court's ruling.

Neither Google, nor the lawyer for Cicarelli and Malzoni Filho were immediately available for comment.

Nokia N76 Phone - Finally a Slim Nseries Phone

Tired of the bulky phones in the Nokia Nseries? All hail the new Nokia N76, one of Nokia's slimmest models yet in this popular range of handsets. Available in a folder design, the Nokia N76 is available in a cool new design.

Supporting up to 2GB microSD cards, the Nokia N76 is a true music powerhouse. With enough storage capacity to store nearly 1,500 tracks, the N76 pampers the user with easy-access music keys on the front. A standard 3.5mm headphone jack is offered, which makes it easy to connect to your home theater system, for example.

The Nokia N76 reeks of style and a rather nice display offering 16 million colors on a 2.4" LCD. Thanks to the Nokia Web Browser and Mini Map feature, you can look forward to a superior web experience when browsing on the phone. Bookmarks to popular sites like Flickr and Amazon are integrated, along with those for searching, shopping and sharing.

A 2-megapixel camera is equipped on the phone, and it offers up to 20x digital zoom. Measuring 106.5mm x 52mm x 13.7mm, the Nokia N76 weighs in at 115 grams, and is compatible with WCDMA.

For the latest games, the phone is bundled with Java MIDP 2.0. The N76 supports video streaming, and comes with RealPlayer. There's also an FM radio receiver on-board for added entertainment.

Priced at €390 (estimated, pre-tax), the Nokia N76 will start shipping in Q1 2007. Check out the complete feature list in the extended entry.

Cingular seen providing service for Apple phone

AT&T's (NYSE:T - news) mobile phone unit, Cingular Wireless, is expected to provide a service for a phone from Apple Computer Inc.(Nasdaq:AAPL - news), the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

An announcement could come as soon as Tuesday, the newspaper said on its Web site.

Apple Chief Executive
Steve Jobs speaks on Tuesday at the Macworld expo, the company's main annual showcase for new products, and this year's Macworld address has long been seen as a likely kick-off for a phone based on Apple's iPod music player.

Apple watchers had seen Cingular as a top candidate for an iPod phone deal. Some Cingular phones already work with Apple's iTunes music service.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment and a Cingular spokesman was not immediately available

Nokia N93i

Nokia_N93i.jpgAfter the FCC nod Nokia has just announced the Nokia N93i an update to the highly popular N93 clamshell phone. As it turns out it is indeed the N00 which we dug up from FCC reports recently (see n93i story).

Most of the improvements over the N93 are superficial, like the 3.2mm which was shaved off from the width of the device. The make over also included a new shiny mirror finish on its exterior and a metal feel to its keypad. The front panel also hides a 128 x 36 OLED display.

Other standard features include a 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera, bundled 1GB miniSD card, VGA Video capture w/ MPEG4 Compression, WiFi connectivity, FM Radio, and Bluetooth. The phone will run on 3G, EDGE and GSM networks.

The phone also features a new video and photo blogging software called Vox and comes bundled with Adobe Premiere Elements software for PC video editing.

The Nokia N93i will ship sometime in the first quarter of 2007 and will priced at approximately 600 euros ($780 US).

Motorola touts deals with Yahoo, Warner

Motorola Inc. chief executive Ed Zander rode onto the stage Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show astride a yellow bicycle, joking that he pedaled all the way from Chicago because his company was on "expense controls."

It wasn't the first poke Zander would make about the wireless equipment maker's ailing fortunes, even as he opened this year's major technology show by introducing several new products and services that Motorola hopes will boost sales.

The company recently warned of disappointing sales and earnings from the key holiday selling season, causing investors to dump their Motorola stock and industry experts to use phrases like "tired product" to describe the blockbuster Razr line of cell phones.

Zander referenced analyst concerns by announcing the company's latest phone, then lugging a 20-year old mobile handset the size of a brick to his ear.

"The analysts who are here today will like this because there are a lot of gross margin dollars in this puppy," Zander said, commenting that the phones once sold for $4,000 each. "If I could get some of you to buy some, it would sure help."

Zander then introduced a real new phone model, the Motorizer, that would use Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media software to transfer music purchased from more than 200 Web-based stores worldwide to the handset. The phone will become available the first half of this year, the company said.

Motorola also announced a partnership with Warner Music Group to sell Motorizer phones pre-loaded with music, as well as sell ringtones, wallpaper and videos.

Zander also demonstrated a wireless stereo headset that will play music streamed from the phone using Bluetooth. Controls on the headset, which can work up to 30 feet away from the phone, can also pause songs to take or make calls.

Motorola also said it was one of several companies working with Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) to incorporate a new mobile application, Yahoo Go, into its handsets. The software delivers search, photos, local information, e-mail and other Yahoo services.

On the cable TV product front, Motorola said it would expand its "follow me TV" feature to Comcast Corp. systems this year. The service allows customers to pause a program on a TV in one room, then restart it on a monitor in another part of the house.

Motorola also talked about its recent purchase of Good Technology Inc., a BlackBerry rival that provides real-time e-mail for smartphones. The company will soon roll out a program that links Motorola's Q phone to Microsoft Outlook calendars, scheduling and mail services.

Zander noted that Good's chief executive Danny Shader had joined Motorola only recently.

"Did you check the benefits?" Zander asked. "We got you a good stock price," he joked, referring to stock options new executives typically receive. The lower the price of the options when issued, the greater the potential profit when the stock rebounds.

"Bad joke," Zander said to the amused crowd.

Motorola CEO announces new phones, digital TV boxes

San Francisco (IDGNS) - Motorola Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ed Zander rode onto stage Monday for his keynote speech at the International Consumer Electronics Show on a bike armed with one of the company's new products, a mobile handset battery recharger.

It's part of the company's plan to hook the developing world on mobile phones: sell them cheap handsets and solve their power problems with a recharger they can use while riding a bike to the market, or work.

"There are 500 million cyclists in China," he said, pointing out one of the company's target markets.

And he didn't stop there. After a strong introduction, Zander shifted into overdrive, announcing a slew of new products and several deals, including one to put new Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) Go for Mobile 2.0 mobile software on Motorola handsets.

It was a far cry from the Motorola seen last week, the one that saw its stock tumble nearly 8 percent after it announced fourth quarter sales wouldn't be as rosy as expected. The Schaumburg, Illinois, company said last Thursday that its fourth quarter sales will fall about US$200 million short of its previous guidance.

But on Monday, the company gave people something new to talk about, several new handset models, a new online music initiative, mobile e-mail service that syncs with Microsoft Outlook and new digital cable set-top boxes.

Skype offers phones for Web and conventional calls

Skype, which has popularized Web telephone calling, on Monday marked progress in extending its low-cost calling services beyond computers to new types of phones.

At the Consumer Electronics Show here, Skype, a unit of online auctioneer eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - news), said it was introducing 12 new phones and related phone accessories in conjunction with telecommunications equipment suppliers.

The models include a dual-mode phone from Netgear Inc. (Nasdaq:NTGR - news), the SPH200D, which enables users to place and receive both traditional phone calls and Skype Internet calls from a single cordless handset. The device connects both to a standard telephone wall jack and a broadband Internet router.

Unlike many existing Skype-ready phones that need to be tethered to a personal computer, the new model requires only the phone and broadband cable connection.

"We are reaching out to groups that previously had not used Skype because they didn't have access to a PC," Eric Lagier, global head of business development, told a news conference.

"We are really increasing the amount of time, or the possibility, for people to use Skype to make Skype calls.

In addition, Skype said it was working with
Nokia (NOK1V.HE)

The first Skype-ready device will be the Nokia N800, which when combined with Skype, makes the wireless handheld Web device into a Wi-Fi phone, Lagier said. The two plan to work on additional devices, he said.

Other devices come from ASUS, a unit of Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. (2357.TWO), IPevo, a Silicon Valley-based unit of major Taiwanese Internet service provider PChome Online (2349.TW), Philips Electronics NV (PHG.AS) of the Netherlands and Topcom NV, which is based in Belgium and Hong Kong.

Philips VOIP841 cordless phone also offers Skype calling without requiring a computer connection. The device connects to an Internet broadband connection or standard phone line.

ASUS's AiGuru S2 connects to a computer through a USB cable connection and comes with both Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) iTunes and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows Media Player for listening to music anywhere around a house with a wireless radio connection.

Other products include a speakerphone that connects to a computer using a USB cable from IPevo and a Philips USB handset aimed at travelers using laptop computers.

By expanding to offer a growing variety of phone models including cordless, computer-connected and dual-mode Wi-Fi/mobile phones, Skype is making it easier for consumers to spend more of their calling time using the company's services.

Calls made to other Skype users are free, while calls placed to non-Skype users worldwide incur charges that are typically lower than standard telephone company calling plans. Skype counted 136 million registered users of its phone services worldwide at the end of September.

The shares of eBay dropped $1.08, or 3.5 percent, to close$29.70, while Netgear gained $1.13, or 4 percent, to $29.60. Both trade on Nasdaq. Nokia dropped 1.01 percent, or 20 cents, to $19.64 in
New York Stock Exchange trading, echoing a similar decline in Helsinki market trading.

(Additional reporting by Eric Auchard in San Francisco)

Sony Ericsson W200 Walkman

Sony Ericsson brings in the new W200 Walkman phone - and SE calls it the Walkman phone for everyone. With enough memory to store about four albums, the phone comes bundled with Disc2Phone music management software.

The W200 is equipped with an FM radio receiver for additional entertainment, which lets you store 20 stations of your choice. A dedicated Walkman key is available on the device. By default, you get a 128MB Memory Stick Micro (M2), which is upgradeable to 1GB.

Thrown in along with the W200 is Sony Ericsson's HPM-64 stereo headphone featuring Bass Reflex. There's also a speakerphone for such mundane duties as alarm clock. A disappointing VGA camera apart, it comes with a decent web browser and supports video messaging, push email and PC sync.

The phone supports Java MIDP 2.0, which is good news for mobile gamers. Now if only they upped the 65k color screen to something nicer...

Expect the Sony Ericsson W200 in Q2 2007 in two flavors: a GPRS 900/1800/ 1900MHz compatible model and a GPRS 850/1800/1900MHz compatible model. SE will be offering it in two colors: Rhythm Black and Pulse White.

No word on the pricing yet. Feature list in the extended entry.

Yahoo and Motorola to 'put the Internet in your pocket'

Yahoo and Motorola announced they have teamed up to "put the Internet in your pocket," as the battle between rival search engines went mobile at the world's largest electronics show in Las Vegas.

Yahoo Connected Life vice president Marco Boerries joined Motorola president Ed Zander to unveil mobile telephones that "bring the Internet to your phone, not the other way around," on the stage of a casino ballroom here.

A beta version of the Yahoo Go 2.0 software could be downloaded as of Monday from the Sunnyvale, California, company's website for compatible mobile telephones already on the market, Boerries said.

Boerries expected over 400 mobile telephone models to be compatible with Yahoo Go by the end of the year. Among the hardware makers working with Yahoo were
Nokia, Samsung and BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Boerries said.

Zander showed off new Motorola mobile telephones that will have the software built in and a one-click access design for easily connecting to the Internet.

"I've been using it," Zander told reporters at the press conference. "I'm a convert."

Yahoo has formed alliances with mobile telephone service carriers around the world to use the "oneSearch" services to make using the Internet on the move as easy as working from a desktop computer, Boerries said.

The oneSearch program, which is included in Yahoo Go, will be made available by Yahoo later this month in a format that will work with any Internet-capable mobile telephone, said Yahoo product strategy director Lee Ott.

"Yahoo oneSearch changes the mobile search game by fundamentally improving the way consumers' access and use the Internet on their mobile phones," Boerries said.

The devices are designed to detect users' locations and provide local information ranging from weather reports to business and events listings along with other search results.

Users could also share videos or photos as they normally would on social networking websites, according to Boerries.

"It is truly the Internet in your pocket," Boerries said. "For the first time, the Internet now fits your phone. For the past 10 years the Internet has been squished onto the phone."

Winning mobile Internet devotees is among Yahoo's top three priorities this year, Boerries said.

"We see it as the next major Internet battle," Ott said. "We think we are positioned to win."

Search titan Google and South Korean electronics giant Samsung also used the Consumer Electronics Show to announce a similar alliance on Monday.

Samsung mobile telephones equipped with Google software applications will enable users worldwide to search the Internet, check e-mail, and map routes, according to the companies.

The mobile telephones will be designed with a Google icon on the option menu to allow a single click connection to Google search, G-mail, and maps, the Mountain View, California, search colossus said.

Samsung has already launched the Ultra Edition 13.8, a combined camera mobile telephone with Google mobile search and G-mail.

Samsung's alliance with Google represents a commitment to "a ubiquitous world where mobile enables our consumers to access information about anything, anywhere, anytime," the president of Samsung's Telecommunication Network Business, Kitae Lee, said in a statement.

The SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS

Treo smartphone users will now have the option to view and control their home television experience at broadband-like speeds using the Slingbox and SlingPlayer Mobile Software. In other words, you will now be able to watch TV on 3G enabled Palm OS devices, such as the Treo 700p.

The SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS will feature an enhanced navigation control, enticing graphical interface, while maintaining the ease of use and functionality of the Palm OS and Treo Smartphone. SlingPlayer Mobile is a software client that gives Slingbox customers the ability to watch and control their home TV from a wirelessly enabled smartphone.

SlingPlayer Mobile now supports Treo smartphones running both Palm OS and Windows Mobile, including the Treo 700p, the Treo 700w, the Treo 700wx and the recently announced Treo 750.

SlingPlayer Mobile is different from other services that are currently available for mobile phones and computers. It gives consumers their entire home TV experience. Anything that can be watched on your TV at home, can now be watched on a Treo 700p smartphone. As well, you can control a home digital video recorder (DVR) to record shows, watch previously recorded shows, and pause and rewind live TV.

The new software, expected to be available Q1 '07 as public beta software that can be downloaded from their site. It will be demonstrated at the Anytime-Anywhere Tech Zone in the Sands Expo & Convention Center, Sling Media booth, No. 69430. Pricing has not yet been determined.

Pretec i-Disk Micro Reader, Moving with Style -- Share Your Files Anywhere, Anytime

Pretec, a leading Flash memory company, has now released i-Disk Micro Reader, the smallest USB Micro SD card reader in the world. The i-Disk Micro Reader is capable of reading Micro SD capcities from 32MB to 2GB and is fully compliant with USB 2.0. Using the device, users can easily share, copy, or synchronize their favorite mp3's and other date. You can even manage your ringtones on a PC or notebook with any standard USB port.

The i-Disk Micro Reader was designed with rounded corners and edges to prevent scratches when carried around with a mobile phone or PDA. The clear see through window allows the user to easily identify the capacity of the Micro SD. Pretec i-Disk Micro Reader is an ideal companion for today's mobile devices, which are increasingly available with Micro SD memory card storage.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet,

Nokia continues to push the boundaries of mobile phone technologies at CES 2007 with the release of its new Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, calling it a "next generation widescreen Nokia Nseries multimedia computer." Based on Nokia's Linux based Table Operating System, the N800 will allow heavy use of Internet applications such as Internet calling, instant messaging, and email as well as the downloading/streaming of multimedia content. An improvement of the previously release Nokia 770 Internet Tablet the N800 promises faster performance, a touch screen qwerty keyboard, an integrated web camera, and support for both WiFi and Bluetooth. Being part of the Nseries also means a more elegant design. The N800 is available immediately in the United States and selected markets in Europe at about $399. Another photo and technical specs after the bump.