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Samsung has announced the upcoming availability of its new SGH-F480 TouchWiz touchscreen smartphone.

The device will be released in the European market on June 2008, with other regions to follow. Here's the official set of its specs:

SGH-F480 Specification:

• Network: GPRS / EDGE /3G/ HSDPA 7.2 mbps;
  
• Band: GSM (900/1800/1900).

HTC plans to release a Windows Mobile 6.1 update for its TyTN II smartphone in the near future, but if you can't wait you can get it now from MoDaCo.

There are some insignificant video performance tweaks, apart from the updated system, but nothing revolutionary to mention.

We recommend you to update the device anyway.

For a "very limited time" Helio offers its Ocean smartphone for just $99 after rebate.

While the price seems very reasonable, we wouldn't rush, as this could mean that a new device is coming soon...

So, you can either buy the handset now, or continue to wait for the second Ocean to appear - the choice is yours.

HTC presents its latest entry-level smartphone, the P3400i.

It looks slick and stylish, runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS, and features a variety of multimedia apps and services, such as media player, email client, mobile office, and even Windows Live Messenger, all available to the user while on the go.

The device will be available at the end of May for $488.

 

This is the new Samsung SGH-i900 (Anycall i908).

Does it remind you of something? Judging by its specs this handset is rather a media centre then a phone. It has everything one might need. I'm almost in love. :)

• Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro;
• Size: 112 × 56 × 13;
• 3G HSDPA;
• 3.

The device you see on the photo is the upcoming Palm Treo 800w aka Zeppelin. Yup, looks as usual, nothing new here... Like you expected to see something different from the Palm's standard design. And what about the specs?

• Windows Mobile 6.1 OS;
• CDMA;
• EV-DO Rev. A data;
• 320 x 320 touchscreen;
• GPS;
• Bluetooth;
• Wi-Fi;
  
• microUSB

The release date is scheduled for July 22nd.

According to a Czech site, E-TEN will be launching the new glofiish DX900 dual-SIM smartphone next month at Computex in Taiwan.

Now, dual-SIM handsets aren't as rare in Asia, as they are in the U.S. It would be great to see these (DX900) on sale stateside, especially with tri-band HSDPA in the mix.

We hope for an official announcement and launch in the nearest future.

Eddie Wu, Microsoft's Managing Director of ODM Embedded Devices for the Asian market, stated that the company expects to have 40% of the global smartphone market by the summer of 2012.

According to Canalys, in 2007 Microsoft only managed to reach 13% of the market. The result is far from impressive, and I don't understand how they plan to reach 40% in less than 4 years.

Briefly: HTC held a press conference in Taiwan yesterday.

The spokesman announced that the company's new Diamond smartphone will be available there in June for $772 sans contract.

Note that the price may change depending on the region.

ASUS announced they'll be launching their new P560 smartphone next month.

The device was announced at CeBIT earlier this year; it runs the new Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 OS and features HSDPA, Wi-Fi, 3.2Mpix autofocus cam, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, GPS, microSDHC slot, 256MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM, and more.

The price is pretty high, though - €500 (about $772).