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LG announced that it has developed the world's fastest "3D Game-Phone." The 3D Game-Phone is the first cell phone ever armed with a 1 million polygon/second graphic accelerator chip, which is five times faster than existing products with 200,000 polygon/second chips, and allows users to play games with more minute and realistic 3D graphics.

The folks at LG also said that it would begin marketing the product in Korea in the first half of this year, targeting game fanatics. Afterwards, it would put it on the North American and European markets as a high-priced, premium product.

Via techeblog.

Nokia and Siemens announced plans to combine Nokia's Networks business group and Siemens' carrier-related operations for fixed and mobile networks to form a new company called Nokia Siemens Networks.

The new company, with 2005 calendar year pro forma revenues of EUR 15.8 billion, is uniquely positioned to deliver compelling customer benefits with a comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions for the converging telecommunications market.

Nokia and Siemens continue to expect that the operations of the new company will start in January 2007.

Via MTN.

The Motorola MOTOFONE F3 is a slim phone on a budget. It is the manufacturer’s attempt to make a mass-seller phone for both entry-level users as a first-phone and for developing countries, but not suffering from the design. As it lacks any functionality but the basic, the phone features grayscale display and battery that should last for a long time between it has to be recharged again.

Although the manual of the phone gives us no indication on its carrier availability, we hope that the Motorola MotoFONE F3 will be offered by either of the major carriers in the States, as a free phone of course.

Via engadget.

The American operator Cingular Wireless together with Samsung and Microsoft has announced a new smartphone Samsung BlackJack, also known as the SGH-i607. This is a slim smartphone with a landscape-oriented display and a QWERTY-keyboard under it.

It is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0. The smartphone features wide communication opportunities – GSM networks (GPRS and EDGE) and UMTS and HSPDA high speed data transfer standard. There is the support of Bluetooth 2.0 interface. In the release there is no info on the support of Wi-Fi. The display has a QVGA (320x240 pixels) resolution, and the camera – 1.3-megapixels.

The operator will release the Samsung BlackJack smartphone in mid November. After all discounts and with the service plan the price will make up $199.99.

Via mobileguerilla.

Verizon Wireless announced two new entry-level phones. First one is the Pantech PN-300, a clamshell that has two displays, the internal of which supports 65k colors. It lacks camera and advanced multimedia features, as it is targeted to people who don’t want to spend much on their mobile phone.

It seems that the clamshell form-factor is the main selling point for entry-level devices, as the other phone Verizon Wireless will offer is also of this design – the Kyocera K323. This one is coming with internal antenna, built-in camera, and bluetooth, but it will also be one of the free phones the carrier will offer in its line.

It’s expected for the Pantech PN-300 to launch very soon, while the Kyocera K323 will be available later, but probably before the end of the year.

Via engadget.