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Cellular One announced the launch of mid-level music phone - Sony Ericsson W580. As you probably know, the W580 is one of the newest Sony Ericsson Walkman slider phones. The W580 is available in two color versions: white-orange and titanium-blue.

This slider is available for $149.99 with a two-year contract.

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LG announced their new 16.9mm slim phone - LG KC1 WiBro. As we can understand from the model name, the handset features WiBro connectivity.  
LG WiBro Phone also features:

• 800MHz Marvell Monahans CPU,
• Windows Mobile 5.0 Premium OS,
• MS Office support,
• enhanced mobile internet access via WiBro service,
• T-DMB support,
• 2.

There are rumors saying that Sony Ericsson plans to launch at least three new handsets on June 14. There were no official announcements made, but if the rumors are right, tomorrow we will finally see the 5Mpix camera-phone called Sofia, which will replace the K800 and K810 models; Maria/Mooi with 8GB of storage capacity, the replacement of the W950; and finally the Shinobu Walkman slider.

It is expected to take place the replacement of LG Chocolate with the LG Shine on 7 February in Europe and shortly after in the US . Some individuals got the invitation to the LG Shine launch party having the possibility to see, touch and trial this device.

About the LG Shine can be said that it's a slider, with brushed aluminum look. Also aluminum is the display that conceals when inactive turning into a mirror.

By hearsay Cingular is going to launch the Nokia N75 . The N75 will be the first N-Series device available directly from a US carrier. These N-Series phones are quite powerful, and Nokia doesn't even call them phones, but call them a "mobile computer". Unfortunately the device supports only UMTS.

The list of features N75 possesses is:

• S60 3rd Edition (Symbian OS)
• Quad-band GSM + EDGE + UMTS (3G)
• Smallish size: 95 x 52 x 20mm
• QVGA screen with 16 million colors
• Bluetooth 2.

Verizon is going to launch LG VX9900, known as the enV this month.

The VX9900 has a 2 megapixel camera with autocamera and flash, an MP3 and video player and some other useful features. Bluetooth 1.2 with supported profiles HSP (headset), HFP (hands-free), DUN (dial-up networking), A2DP (advanced audio distribution), SPP (serial port), AVRCP (audio/video remote control), BPP (printing) and HID (human interface device).

According to the reliable sources the Sony Ericsson is going to launch an ultra-slim, high-end Walkman camera phone as a rival to Motorola's RAZR the device which boost the South Korean firm's handset sales. The new device called “Ai” after tennis player Ai Sugiyama is going to be the sleek candy bar-shaped phone 9.4 millimeters in thickness, slimmer than the RAZR's 14 millimeters.

Qualcomm has got the permission from the FCC to launch its MediaFLO mobile TV network in a larger number of markets. 700 MHz band with spectrum on UHF TV channel 55 is where Qualcomm is building the network.

The FCC's decision was that the network can be launched in areas where broadcasters operate on those channels with 0.5% interference, increasing to 1.

Cingular has launched the Sony Ericsson W300i. As it was announced earlier, W300i is the first from two Walkman handsets to be added in Cingular's portfolio in near future, the second one is W810 and it is still expected to launch on Cingular shortly.

The main features of Sony Ericsson W300i are:

• Quadband GSM plus EDGE
• Walkman music player (MP3/AAC/WAV)
• Speakerphone and stereo speakers
• VGA Camera
• IM: AIM /Yahoo/ICQ/MSN
• Bluetooth
• 20 MB (built-in, flash shared memory)
• Software features include support for Flash Lite and SVG Tiny

Cingular sells the W300i for $19.

Following the success of Audex Bluetooth Jacket Series, Motorola and Burton Snowboards today announced the expansion of their wearable electronics collection, enabling easy wireless communication and music entertainment from snowboard apparel.

New for 2007, the Audex Bluetooth Stereo System streams downloaded music wirelessly from a Bluetooth-enabled phone to an Audex jacket. Users can listen to music and make calls with a push of a button on the jacket sleeve and includes built-in DJ-style speakers in the hood and/or an integrated headphone jack.