AT&T’s President and CEO of Mobility and Consumer Markets Ralph de la Vega called Blackberry Torch, introduced by Blackberry and AT&T, the best Blackberry device ever made. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has also named the device as the first touch QWERTY slider. It means that it provides both a slide out keyboard, and a touch screen. It is the first smart phone from RIM that uses the web kit browser. The device also provides a 5megapixel camera with flash. It is also the first Blackberry with the version 6 of the RIM’s new operating system. Touch will be on sale on August 12 and will be of $199 with a two years contract. We are present at that event at which AT&T and RIM are introducing the device in New York City. We will update this post live with the latest details.

Features provided by RIM that are called fresh are as follows:

New Homescreen:

Notification previews:

A tap on the notifications will give you more details.

Additional content and views:
Put bookmarks and contacts on the home screen. Swipe actions will allow users to use the frequently used items.

Universal search:
You can search all the contents like email, BBMs, web, and calendar appointments, etc on your device. Just search for an artist and you will get her/his music in Slacker Radio.

Media Features:

• Detailed viewing of pictures
• You can select more than one picture at a time by touch screen, and can share them with your friends, or can move them to other folders.
• Geolocation: pictures will be named by the camera according to the device’s GPS.
• Podcast app: you can subscribe, download, and listen to podcast.
• Wi-Fi music sync: you can see your library of music.
• Unified social feeds: aggregation of feeds from facebook, twitter, flicker, etc will be seen.

Applications:

• Simplified app discovery: Blackberry world comes uninstalled on the Torch. App search is made on the new universal search feature.
• New payment options: Developers can setup a try before buying it. Additional levels of games can be purchased by you.
• New advertising APIs: For their ads, developers can get access to multiple ad networks and analytics.
• Enhanced dev platform: You can access calendar and location by it.
• Apps: Developed for earlier versions of Blackberry and it will still work on Blackberry 6.

by Flyinace2000

Himfr.com reports 3G mobile phone sales Break 1 million in China?China Telecom accounting for half the market share

According to industry consulting firm three-consultation report shows that 11 of China’s 3G mobile phones during the Golden Week sales exceed 10 million units; 11 this year, during the period, 3G mobile phone sales has exceeded 1 million.

Mobile phone chain Dixon pass the statistical data show that 11 golden weeks, 3G mobile phone sales grew super 150% sales increase of more than 2G handsets. Prior to that, according to telecommunications consulting firm Borth Consulting study shows that the domestic 3G mobile phone market in the first half the size of the overall sales of 22 million units, of which China Mobile’s TD Mobile and China Unicom’s WCDMA handsets respectively 30% and 16% of the market share, China telecom market share of 54%, accounting for more than half of market share in 3G handsets.

This, bda analyst Chuang Wei-yin said that China Telecom in 3G network construction schedule and coverage advantage, thereby gaining market leader. The same time, low-cost 3G handset strategy thousand dollars, but also play a very important role.

At the same time, there are other industry comments that, indicating that reached the area of mobile communications with only one year of China Telecom, followed by “end-first” strategy has been initially successful.

3G mobile phone sales topped 1 million

Mobile phone chain in the complex, according to Telecom’s sales data shows that 11 golden weeks, 3G mobile phone sales increased by 36% than in the past.

The mobile phone chain Dixon pass statistics show that in just the past 11 golden weeks, 3G mobile phone sales grew 150% super-reach its peak this year sales of 3G handsets, average daily sales of more than 400, 3G Internet access The last card is also a significant increase in sales.

Three consulting firms in the industry advisory report said that 11 golden weeks, in the 2G mobile phone sales have soared, driven by, 3G mobile phone sales also increased significantly, 11 of China’s 3G mobile phones during the Golden Week sales exceed 10 million units, Until this year, “11 Golden Week”, 3G mobile phone sales has exceeded 1 million.

China Telecom accounted for 54% market share in 3G handsets

According to Sino’s statistics, in September this year, CDMA mobile phones sold 2.87 million, the market share of 20% in December last year to 11% increased by 9 percentage points, the new CDMA users is approximately 3.5 million, a record high .

Borth consulting telecommunications consulting firm, a study showed that the domestic 3G mobile phone market in the first half the size of the overall sales to 22 million units, of which China Telecom’s network coverage and by virtue of the advantages of a smooth transition, accounting for more than half of 3G mobile phone market share in China TD Mobile and China Unicom WCDMA respectively 30% and 16% of the market share. This means that China Telecom, the actual market share of 3G mobile phones 54%.

Borth Consulting predicts that the 3G handset sales this year will reach 5.6 million, while China Telecom’s 3G mobile phone sales are expected to reach 2.8 million.

LG officially announced the launch of a Chocolate phone series, the BL20. The device will come with a touchscreen of 2.4 inches and a 5 megapixel camera – as well as BL40 – with LED flash and autofocus capability.

In terms of storage, the handset has 130MB of internal memory and a card reader 8GB MicroSD. Networks Quad-band GSM and 3G will be supported and, thanks to the Hotkey widget, users can customize their home screens with shortcuts to your favorite applications. Among them is a new feature called “Clear Capture Memo”, which writes text messages and voice.

Chocolate BL20 come to Europe in October costing approximately U.S. $ 394 without the need to sign a plan.

Leaked 3 weeks ago, the unannounced Samsung S8000 Cubic has got more info available through the Euroset.ru pre-order page. The online retailer was accepting the pre-order of Samsung S800 for about 480 euro, though the pre-order page was removed not too long after reports on few blogs. Other than the 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, the full touch screen phone is using a 3.1-inch AMOLED display screen. The display screen supports up to 16 million colors with WVGA (480 x 800) resolution.

The Samsung S8000 Cubic will also comes with built in FM Radio, microSDHC card slot, 2GB internal memory, 3.5 mm headphone jack, WiFi, GPS and bluetooth.

Samsung S800 specifications

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS 900/2100
• 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, WLAN 802.11 b/g
• 3.1 ? AMOLED touch screen, 16 million colors, 480 x 800 resolution
• 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, dual LED flash
• FM Radio with RDS
• 3.5 mm headphone jack
• GPS/ A-GPS
• USB
• Bluetooth 2.1
• 2 GB internal memory
• microSDHC card slot

We’d all but forgotten that National Geographic runs a little phone business on the side through a retailer partner, but yeah, it does — and after a couple years of forgettable hardware, things are starting to get interesting. The idea with these guys has always been to offer SIM cards that offer global roaming at a price that has at least a fighting chance of not bankrupting you, but the problem is that with a traditional phone, you’ve got to replace your regular SIM card while you’re using it; dual-SIM phones exist in bountiful numbers outside the US, but finding a domestic model is nigh impossible. The new Duet D888 option let’s you mix up one of Cellular Abroad’s roaming SIM along with a second of your own, so theoretically, you could makethis your primary phone if you do a lot of traveling and hate breaking your fingernails (or your will to live) every time you want to swap cards between phones. As far as we can tell, the D888 lacks GSM 850 — so don’t expect stellar reception stateside — but it could be enough to get you by between trips to Madagascar.