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A gold edition of the Motorola A1600 touchscreen phone has just appeared on the Chinese website of the company. Designed in the spirit of the Motorola V8 Luxury edition the A1600 trades the snake for crocodile skin but this doesn’t make it much less tacky.

Adobe and ARM today announced a technology collaboration to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for ARM powered devices, ranging from smartphones to set-top boxes, mobile internet devices, televisions, automotive platforms, personal media players and other mobile computing devices.

While Apple’s iconic iPhone has disrupted the mobile industry forever – and taught the industry a valuable lesson in the process – it should be fearful of sleeping giant Nokia’s response and its ability to reach mass markets. Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic phone is just a warning shot.

Advanced handwriting recognition writes memos and text messages, and edit photo images by touching the screen with the pen tip. A QWERTY onscreen keyboard slides into view when the KP500 is held horizontally, and the auto rotating display always shifts images or documents for proper viewing.

Apple has begun selling unlocked iPhone 3G models in Hong Kong, allowing people to use it with any mobile phone carrier.
On its Hong Kong website, the Cupertino-based company is advertising direct sales of iPhone 3G, saying people can “buy directly from Apple” and choose their own carrier. The 8GB version was on sale [...]

Motorola today announced its Jewel clamshell, a fashion phone with 3D crystal-cut design and mirror finish.

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N85, integrating a 2.6-inch OLED screen and smooth, sleek finish. It boasts N-Gage gaming, music with in-built FM transmitter, 5.0-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and geotagging capabilities.

Verizon Wireless announced today its Blitz, a multimedia device with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard designed for text messaging.