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It’s been a while since the last time we reported on a rugged cell phone. But Sprint has just made an announcement concerning the availability of a brand new device coming from Motorola, which is expected to start selling sometime in the near future.

The so-called Clutch, or the Motorola Clutch i465 (this is the full name of the phone), is an iDEN phone, a rugged one, to be more precise, that is currently available for the customers via Boost Mobile.

As for the Sprint release, it seems that cell phone users that are interested in rugged devices will be able to have their own Clutch starting the summer of 2009. The price is of no more than $39.99, if the customer is willing to sign a contract agreement for two years, after a $20 instant rebate and another one of $50 mail-in rebate.

The Motorola Clutch is said to be the first cell phone to be sold as a Nextel Direct Connect phone that is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard. In addition, it comes with a compatibility with the Military Specification 810F, a set of rules that are related to dust, high and low temperatures, low pressure, shocks of all sorts, solar radiation and vibration.



The list of features consists of the following elements: a display with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels, a VGA photo camera, GPS and Bluetooth, push to talk, Group Messaging (the user is able to create groups of no more than 20 different contact and to send messages to these groups in the same time).

Those who want more information about the rugged cell phone can always register at the official website of Sprint where they’ll be able to find out details about the availability of the phone.

(Source: UnwiredView)

I love foreign languages and I have always thought that I’m able to learn whatever language I might want, because there’s something inside me that makes things a whole lot easier. Besides that, I’m a very quick learner when it comes to this area, so it won’t be difficult for me to start the study of a new language. However, with Chinese, for example, I’d like to think the matter twice.

The Chinese alphabet is too damn complicated and I don’t know if I have enough patience in order to descipher it. But Nokia didn’t think of me when decided to launch the Chinese version of the Ovi Store, but of the 1 billion Chinese people out there that would be happy to hear this news.

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The application store is available for the moment in five languages, including English, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, so the Chinese language will be the sixth on the list. The Finnish company said that the new version is expected to become available during this year, so the Chinese customers will be able to download whatever applications they might like directly on their cell phones.

This is a very good idea, as the Chinese Nokia cell phone users has reached the impressive number of 180 million. This means that chances are pretty high for the Chinese Ovi Store to create sensation.

(Source: UnwiredView)

As I said it many times before, each time I had the occasion, the Philips phones are very well known all over the globe for a very important aspect: their long lasting batteries. I’m talking about the Xenium family, of course. And the last Xenium device that I told you about is the X320.

Now, there’s another one in the spotlight, the Philips Xenium X630, a quite good-looking canybar that is expected to become available sometime during this near, in the next couple of months. Chances are high for this phone to start selling in the Chinese market at first.



Being a low-end phone, at the most a mid-end one, the X630’s main disadvantage is the lack of the 3G connectivity, which is a must these days when it comes to the most popular cell phones to be bought by customers.



The list of features includes a 2.4 inches QVGA display with 262k colors, a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth with A2DP, music player and FM radio, and a microSDHC card slot for expandable memory of no more than 8GB.

The most important feature consists of the 1530 mAh battery which is able to provide up to 12 hours of talk time and no more than 50 days of stand-by time. The new Philips phone measures 111.8 x 48.9 x 15.1 millimeters and weighs 118 grams.

Unfortunately, this is right about everything we know about the X630 for the moment. The details about the release date and the price are not available.

(Source: UnwiredView)

Here is the meaning Nokia gives to the word “globalization”, if you didn’t know by now: taking each and every product or service that it might have in mind and then making it available all over the world, in as many countries as possible.

One of these products and services is Nokia Music Store, which allows users from countries such Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and plenty more to come, to purchase the music they like most directly on their cell phones or via PC.



Poland is the next country to benefit the Nokia Music Store, being the first one in the Central-Eastern Europe to be privileged with the service.



So, Polish customers can go to Music.nokia.pl where they can choose from a wide variety of tracks (there are more than 4.5 million songs) performed by both Polish and international artists. It doesn’t matter if you like a certain type of music, you’ll be able to find whatever you like most.

The music available at the Nokia Music Store is provided by the most important labels from all over the world, independent ones also, and there are some special exclusive offers you can enjoy these days. First of all, you can buy the latest album with Moby’s signature on it or you can download the music single called “When love takes over” by David Guetta. And you can do these things before the music I mentioned earlier becomes widely available.

As for the ways of payment, you can buy the music you like either with credit cards or pre-paid vouchers. If you’re interested in only one track, it will cost you PLN 3.49, while the entire album goes to PLN 34.9.

(Source: Nokia Press Bulletin Board)

Ok, maybe “very cheap mobile phones” is an exaggeration, because their price won’t tend to zero, but I’m talking about devices that are cheaper than the latest that the South Korean company has announced in the past couple of weeks. You can easily see that Samsung had its attention focused on smartphones like the Samsung Jet, for example, neglecting for a while the low-end market.

The phones that Samsung has just given the official treatment aren’t new as we say new, because we’ve had the chance to see them before in different contexts. So, give a warm welcome to S6700, C5510, two sliders, to M2310 and M2510.



The Samsung S6700 comes with quad band GSM connectivity, HSDPA, a 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS functionality, Bluetooth 2.1, FM radio with RDS, an internal memory of 120MB and a micrSDHC card slot for expandable memory.



The second device, the C5510 is equipped with the following features and specs: a 2.2 inch display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, quad band GSM connectivity, a 2 megapixel camera with fixed-focus, music player, FM radio with RDS and a memory of 16GB (the external one, provided by card, is included).



The Samsung M2310, for example, is a music-centric cell phone that comes with GPRS/EDGE (no word on the 3G connectivity, at least not for the moment), a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity, FM radio, 3.5mm headphone jack, accelerometer, Mobile Tracker, a feature that helps the user find its phone when the phone is lost or stolen, and microSD card support.



As for the Samsung M2510, it comes with keys dedicated to music, a 2.2 inch QVGA display, a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, USB, a small alphanumeric keypad, FM radio and an MP3 player.

As you probably expected, being part of the low-end category, these phones weren’t designed to impress you with their lists of features, but you might be impressed with their prices.

(Source: UnwiredView)