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Samsung SGH-i560 is a new GPS-enabled slider phone available soon at Vodafone.

Running on Symbian OS, the device features GPRS/WCDMA/HSDPA connectivity, a 3.2Mpix camera with 16x digital zoom, and a 2.4" QVGA 262k color TFT display.

The handset is expected to be released sometime in Q4 2007 for around €415.

Good news for those waiting for the Samsung SGH-F700 to come out.

It will become available in Europe at Vodafone's 3G network this November, so get ready for the BIG release!

And for those unfamiliar with the device, the F700 is a 3G multimedia smartphone, featuring a large 3.

Vodafone UK has unveiled its Christmas 2007 cell phone collection - a set of stylish, easy to use, full-featured handsets delivering exceptional Internet and multimedia experience.

The collection includes the new 8GB Nokia N95 multimedia computer, Samsung SGH-F700V (Croix), Blackberry Curve 8310 and Sony Ericsson Walkman Phone W910i.

Vodafone presented three special edition phones branded by the McLaren Mercedes. It can be explained that Vodafone is the sponsor of the McLaren Mercedes team in the Formula 1 and introducing these devices hopes to help their team. The handsets have new color schemes and are very hot now.

These three devices are: McLaren Mercedes 770SH - 3G clamshell from Sharp, McLaren Mercedes GX29 - 2G clamshell from Sharp, McLaren Mercedes SGH -Z720M - this is the Samsung Ultra Edition.

Yahoo! and Google are working hard in order to gain mobile leadership. Both companies are making new mobile initiatives and mobile-based advertising programs in order to obtain first place in a world that is rapidly shifting to Internet access on mobile devices instead of PCs.

It seems that Yahoo! Is winning as it made an agreement with Vodafone to provide mobile advertising across Vodafone's entire wireless content network.

Vodafone Group is going to limit its terminal platforms in order to be more efficient at device support, to such three standards as Symbian Series 60, Linux and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile.

As well Vodafone also reported about a deal with Microsoft concerning the development of software to cost effectively speed time to market for devices.

Vodafone in the co work with TomTom a route-planning specialist are going to develop as they declare the world's first commercial traffic data system based on tracking thousands of mobile phones in real-time. The system works using standard signaling data sent back and forth between mobile phones and cellular base-stations to pin-point a handset's location and speed.

Asus Tech made for Vodafone a Windows Mobile Smartphone VDA IV that was approved by the FCC. This smartphone is a tri-band GSM with 3G frequencies for Europe/Asia. However, it doesn't have any camera which means it is not capable of Video Calling. This standard smartphone doesn't stand out anyhow.

The specifications of Vodafone VDA IV are the following :

• Tri-band GSM, Single-band UMTS, GPRS Class 10
• Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone
• Intel PXA270 312MHz Processor, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM
• 2.

Sydney, Australia, Sunnyvale, CA and Waterloo, ON - Vodafone Australia, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of BlackBerry® Connect™ for the Palm® Treo™ 650 smartphone on the Vodafone mobile network in Australia.(1)

The BlackBerry Connect software enables Vodafone’s new and existing Treo 650 users to enjoy push-based wireless email and calendar synchronization with BlackBerry Enterprise Server™.