CellPhoneBurn

What could end up being a very important story has filtered through from Engadget Mobile. There’s a rather strong rumour going round that Microsoft may be eyeing up RIM. Or, as they’re better-known, the ones who make Blackberry mobile phones.

Hmm, we’ve heard that before. But, should we give the rumour any credence?

Well, normally, I’d say no, it’s just the normal scaremongering we often see round mobile phones, but once you factor in the so-called credit crunch, and this big global recession, things start to get intriguing. To fully appreciate why, you need to look at RIM’s share price.

News has come down the wire from Electronista, about the top 5 best selling mobile phones in the good ol’ USA. It makes for interesting reading, although not hugely surprising, for the most part. You’ve got two Blackberry mobile phones in the top 5, the LG Chocolate (which I suspect is a different version the one we had about 2 years ago), and the Apple iPhone 3G comes in at the number 2 spot.

What’s moderately surprising (and incredibly depressing) is what the best-selling mobile phone in America is. The RAZR. And I don’t mean the newest version, the V8.

Well, I’ve been hearing rumours about this for a while, but, me being me, I wanted to wait until something official arrived before I shouted about it. Well, now, it’s gone official, according to Engadget.

It’s the LG Prada II, and it’s set to meld the worlds of high-tech and designer fashion, like never before.

Intent on pushing the Blackberry Storm as being the ultimate cool mobile phone, RIM and Vodafone have, it seems, given one to Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton. Ooh, how much do you wish you were him right now? You get to drive frighteningly quick race-cars, be adored by a nation, and get to play with the Blackberry Storm before the general public do.

Life can be so unfair.

Never mind, here’s the video of the Blackberry Storm in action, with Lewis Hamilton behind the wheel (see what I did there?)

Well, we’ve had the revelation that is the LG KC910 Renoir, but that’s not the end of the story…

LG have only gone and confirmed they’re bringing out another 8 megapixel mobile phone, according to Electronista. Only this time, they’ve gone not for a big touchscreen, but a slim, sliding phone that sits just right alongside its big brother. It’s called the LG KC780, but what can we expect from this sliding little beauty?

Annoying news, now, for anyone who’s been waiting to get hold of the Nokia 5800 Xpress. According to Pocket Lint, the new touchscreen mobile phone, Nokia’s first mainstream touchscreen device, has been delayed, and won’t be seen on these shores till 2009.

That’s annoying.

According to USEB, Sony Ericsson are going on the offensive in the coming years, and re-taking their place at the head of the smartphone market. As part of the same announcement, Chief Technology Officer Mats Lindoff said that they’ve over-diversified, bringing out too many similar mobile phones in different product ranges (i.e. two virtually identical mobile phones released in say, the Walkman and Cyber-Shot camps).

Well, yes, a lot of people have noted that. Sister-phones, call them, or the copy-paste strategy. A lot of people have said they don’t like that strategy of making multiple variants of every single mobile phone Sony Ericsson make.

Every so often, Nokia tosses out a mobile phone that’s unlike anything else in their portfolio: a Communicator. You know the ones I mean, things like the 9300, or the Nokia E90. Big monster handsets, that open out to reveal a second screen and a FULL keyboard, thus making them, for all intents and purposes, a mini-laptop.

If rumours are true, then according to Engadget, they could be working on a new one, but this one will be different, since it would inherit the touch-based loveliness of the Nokia 5800 Xpress!

You would’ve had to have been living under a very big and heavy rock not to be aware of the launch of the T Mobile G1, the very first mobile phone ever powered by Google Android. However, very few people have actually had the chance to play with one.

Well, it’s not the real thing in the flesh, but now everyday folks like me and you can have a muck around with it, virtually, online, as T Mobile have put up a T-Mobile-G1-stylee-emulator-thing, to let people fiddle with the menus, and see how it works.

We’ve been waiting patiently for what seems like 3 years for it to be officially unveiled, but last night, the wraps finally came off the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, that touchscreen Nokia that’s been known to us all throughout its development as the Tube.

You know the one. Batman had one…

Time for a story, now, that started out being a silly one, in my mind, until I thought about it, and went, “Actually, that’s a really good idea.” It seems that a familiar branding is about to appear on mobile phones.

It seems that soon we may well be seeing Red Bull mobile phones (translation from Google) in the shops!

You know how it is when you’re reading through your newsfeeds, and you find an article that makes you go, “Ohhhh yes, I have to blog about that”? Well, so it was with me and a story today from Australian newspaper, The Age.

Apparently, scientists down under are harnessing the power of the humble mobile phone to help them work out exactly what koalas are saying to each other, when they bellow, a sound that echoes through Australian forests, in springtime.

By all accounts the Nokia 5800 is finally due to be officially unveiled this week (tomorrow, in fact), so as a bit of a warm-up to the announcement of the first-Nokia-touchscreen-phone-that-isn’t-actually-their-first, I’ve been inspired by an article on Mobile Gazette. Let’s take a look at some of their previous touchscreen mobile phones.

You see, the Nokia 5800 isn’t the first of Nokia’s mobile phones to have a touchscreen, contrary to what some people might be saying. But (and it’s a big but), as you’re about to see, it’s first one that actually looks like you’d want to own it…

Nokia 7700

Well, they were first to announce an 8 megapixel mobile phone in the UK (the Sony Ericsson C905), and if rumours are to be believed, it won’t be long before they’re dropping what I’d like to call the double-figure bombshell on us.

Put simply, it’s rumoured on Mobile Mentalism that Sony Ericsson are in the process of designing a mobile phone with a HUGE 12 megapixel camera in it!

(Just to point out, before anyone gets excited, that pic just to the right, ISN’T it…)

A few days ago, I reported on a story about an upcoming 8 megapixel Samsung mobile phone, complete with full touchscreen interface, called the Bresson. Well, it turns out it’s not the Bresson. The others rumours appear to have been correct.

It is, as reported on Engadget Mobile, the brand new, ultra-sexy Samsung M8800 Pixon.

Gorgeous, ain’t she!