Phone model updates

October this year will bring the release of Android - Google's first open source mobile platform.

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It is one of the most traded phones on our exchange: the original iPhone. And now the much awaited 3G iPhone has just been announced last night by Steve Jobs at the WWDC in San Francisco. It is half the price at US$ 199.- with 3 G capability, and a GPS chip. It is black, but you can avail of a white option if you were to opt for the more expensive (US$ 299) 16 GB. The sound quality is vastly improved too.

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It seems like Samsung are willing to repeat the success of their D880 slider with a new SGH-D780 candybar.

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Sales figures from Apple imply that Circa 1 million out of an estimated 3.75 million (Dec 2007) Apple iPhones have not been activated by either AT&T (less than 2 million) or any of it's carriers in the European Market.

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A phone which can work with two SIM cards simultaneously has been a long time dream by some consumers. While Samsung's idea is not new - with Korean WND, Chinese CECT and several others already producing such phones, it is the first one to break the major manufacturer silence.

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Just yesterday a group known as "iPhone Dev Team" released the full software package with instruction which allows to unlock the iPhones completely.

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The Apple media machine is now in over-drive ahead of the imminent introduction of the iPhone, but will it fulfill its promise? To paraphrase Ben Wood from consulting firm CCS, “If the chief executive of Nokia had stood up and said he was launching a phone that was big and heavy, had no keyboard, was only 2G and not available for six months, he would have been crucified”

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LG Electronics has announced the Prada Phone; set to go on sale in late February for 600 Euros. It will be sold through Prada stores, as well as the usual mobile phone retailers, in Europe.

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Here at gsmExchange we have been talking about the eagerly anticipated iPhone from Apple for a while now and finally the company has ended speculation with the announcement by Steve Jobs at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco yesterday of Apple's formal entry into the telecommunications industry with the introduction of its now infamous iPhone.

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