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The FIC Neo1973 is a Linux-based quad-band GSM/GPRS smartphone, the first device to feature the open-source OpenMoKo platform. It is scheduled to ship for sale in September with a price tag of $350.

The device is controlled entirely by its touch screen. However, it still needs to be worked on. The screen is difficult to use and often doesn't respond to fingertip inputs.

Although there were no official announcements made, AT&T is busy refining the EDGE network. Looks like the company wants to attract more subscribers by the time the long-awaited Apple iPhone launches.

Also AT&T has been adding additional T1 connections to their slowest performing towers in order to boost their speeds up to 80kbps.

The new GPLUS GP800 slider phone looks really pretty with its mirror coating. It comes in blue and pink colors and is most likely designed for the ladies. Expect it to be available very soon.

GPLUS GP800 features:

• 2.2" QVGA display
• 3Mpix camera
• FM radio
• Stereo Bluetooth
• 64MB of built in memory
• microSD card s

Like T-Mobile, Alltel will also offer two Samsung phones, R200 and R500.

Samsung SCH-R200 is slim entry-level candy bar phone, which features the same design as the R510, but packs fewer features to reduce the price.

Samsung SCH-R500 is 17mm thin clamshell phone with exchangeable covers. This CDMA2000 EV-DO device features 176x220 internal display and small external one, Bluetooth, 1.

The new GSmart i300 is a small, but powerful PDA phone. This tri-band GSM/GPRS handset runs on Windows Mobile 6, and features:

• 2,4" 262K-color QVGA display
• CPU: PXA270 520 MHz
• RAM: 256MB
• 2,1Mpix camera
• Media player (MP3 and MPEG4)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, WLAN 802.11b/g, mini-USB
• Integrated GPS
• Dimensions: 106,6 õ 53,2 õ 19,8 mm
• Weight: 116 g.

HTC has announced the release of the HTC Touch, the first device featuring the new underlying touch screen technology.
The HTC Touch offers a unique way of controlling touch screen-based devices by recognizing and responding to a finger sweep across the screen.
The TouchFLO technology makes finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, menu, documents, messages and contact lists very easy and convenient.

The much-expected iPhone will be available on June 29th at more than 1,800 AT&T and nearly 200 Apple stores, plus the Apple website. Neither AT&T nor Apple is accepting pre-orders for the device.

Depending on the memory capacity the iPhone will cost $499 or $599. Over 10 million handsets are expected to be sold in the first year bringing the company more than $5 billion.

Sony Ericsson introduced the new W53S clamshell mobile phone in Japan. The W53S is a CDMA 1x handset, which delivers fast download speeds. W53S features a 2.7" LCD display with 16:9 aspect ratio and a new +JOG operation (probably a new revolutionary interface).

You can also customize the phone to your needs thanks to hundreds of Style-Up panels.

Check out this one! It is the Sony Ericsson's PSP mobile phone, designed for PSP game lovers.

The device features a rotating screen. While in the phone mode, you have a simple mobile phone with numeric keypad, menu and function keys. But when you turn the screen around 180 degrees, your menu/functional keys transform into game controls and you have a perfectly good portable gaming device.

Here is picture of a concept Nokia N74 mobile phone. There is almost no info on this one, only suppositions.

All we can say is that the design is bad. The phone could use some contours and smoother rounder edges. Although it has a pretty large screen, with such a boring design this phone will not be popular, the experts guess.