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The new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Smartphone was launched by Vodafone UK and Research in Motion with the Sat Nav 3D mapping application.

It is a phone equipped with GPS, a built-in 2MP camera with 5x digital zoom and flash, e-mail, Internet browsing, music/video player, organizer, video sharing in 240x180 or 176x144 dimensions, support for microSD/SHDC 8GB cards, the SureType keyboard for easy editing and spellchecker, all these in a small and elegant form factor.

"The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Smartphone is designed for people who want business grade functionality along with advanced multimedia capabilities in a small and stylish package,” said Charmaine Eggberry, Vice President and Managing Director, EMEA at Research In Motion. “The addition of built-in GPS along with Vodafone Sat Nav takes the experience a step further by helping you find your way."

LG has made available the KG375 clamshell at Vodafone.
This GSM dual band phone is designed as the most LG clamshells, with round margins, but this time it is bringing more style.

Coming in silver and black, the KG375 weights 68 grams and measures 85x45x19 mm, with a Li-ion battery of 750mAh.



A simple model, this LG doesn’t have camera, 3G function, but the basic indispensable phone features such as speaker, SMS messaging, and alarm, and that’s why it is so cheap, sold at just $99.



You would buy it only if you’d need just a friendly phone that looks cool.

“Good news from T-Mobile!” or better said “Good news for T-Mobile!” because the German court has granted the telecommunications company the exclusiveness to sell the iPhone in this country.
So get ready to say “bye bye!” to the unlocked and expensive devices!

Apple is finally happy that its strategy of selling the iPhone through only one operator in each country has succeeded.
Vodafone has won for a short period of time by obtaining a restriction order for the rival company that was obligated to stop selling locked iPhones.

Klaus Czerwinski, a spokesperson from T-Mobile was happy to declare:
"We are just happy that our opinion is confirmed that this is legal. We still think it is best for the customer."
"From the outset, the intention was ensure clarity on the commercial position in the German marketplace. Vodafone does not believe that the pricing model is in the best interests of the German consumer," added Czerwinski.

Palm Treo 500v is released on the Vodafone mobile network across Europe and comes with the latest Windows Mobile OS.

Palm Treo seems to be building thinner and thinner phones, in this case only 0.65 inches, though the 500v is a little bit wider than its predecessor, having a transflective color screen resolution of 320x240 pixels with a landscape orientation, but no touch-sensitive feature, just a QWERTY keyboard.



With its 2MP camera with 2x digital zoom you can capture pictures at a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels and films at 320x240 pixels, which are the minimum decent expectations from a phone camera these days.
Connection technologies supported are: GSM (900/1800/1900), GPRS class 10 and UMTS (2100).



And there is also the Bluetooth 2.0 support with EDR for stereo headsets.
It has no infrared but a miniUSB port type.
For adding some extra memory, you have the microSD card slot, with which you can increase its 150 MB available memory.



The Li-Ion battery is of 1200mAh and has a standby time of up to 10 days and the talk time of 4.5 hours.

The Palm Treo 500v can be found at a full price of $588 or free with a Vodafone contract of course.

Vodafone is to release Blackberry 8310 Curve in the UK soon, after releasing the phone in Germany a while ago. The phone is the same as the 8300 Curve, with the sole difference that this one also packs GPS functionality.

Blackberry 8310 Curve brings evolved multimedia solutions, including the Sat Nav feature that is powered by Telmap, a very powerful and easy to use navigation application.

Blackberry 8310 Curve is the smallest and lightest smartphone from RIM that comes with a full QWERTY keyboard. The 2 megapixel camera aids in taking decent quality pictures, while more multimedia features come from the phone's media player and internet connectivity.

Moreover, this smartphone also brings business solutions for email and text messaging, not to mention that it provides instant messaging and a web browser. This helps the user to stay connected and up to date with the latest news and pieces of information. These features, along with the GPS, make Blackberry 8310 Curve worth the wait until Vodafone will eventually bring it to the UK market soon.

The 8310 is to be available starting with September 3rd with BlackBerry personal or business price plans, so more people can have access to it.