GRK BLOG/ZINE

If you’re looking for the ultimate in cellular luxury, check out the new Motorola Aura ($2,000). Built more like a fine automobile than a swivel phone, the Aura features a 16-million color circular display, a Grade 1 62-carat sapphire crystal lens, a stainless steel housing that takes nearly two weeks to sculpt, etch and polish, a custom-engineered rotating mechanism with 130 precision ball bearings, CrystalTalk technology for terrific voice clarity, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, Quad-band GSM, and more.

If by chance you have not yet moved on to an Apple iPhone 3G or a Blackberry Bold, then Motorola is still out there, happy to pickup your business. Its newest offering, the Moto Q 11 ($TBA) features quad-band GPRS/EDGE, meaning it’ll be relegated to either AT&T or T-Mobile. It does, however, house WiFi, an ARM 7 LTE processor and GPS. Not a bad option for anyone who isn’t into Apples and those of you who aren’t feeling Bold.

It is time to buy a new BlackBerry! The BlackBerry’s first touchscreen phone - BlackBerry Storm. It will come to Verizon and Vodafone in next month. It includes a 3.26-inch(480 x 360) touchsreen and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera. Other features includes touchscreen keyboard, a full HTML finger-navigable browser, Word, Excel editing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0, 1 GB of on board memory storage and 8 GB microSD memory card, 3.5mm headphone jack. The battery is 5.5 hours of talk time and 15 days of standby time. In the U.S., the BlackBerry Storm gives Verizon Wireless customers EV-DO Rev. A/CDMA ?C technology ?C and (2100Mhz) HSPA/UMTS as well as quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM for global use.

With a touch screen interface, 8GB of internal storage, and a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (€279, ~$386; Q4 2008) has a lot of the same features as the iPhone — but one big one Apple’s handset is missing. The 5800 is among Nokia’s first handsets to support Comes With Music, a service that will provide one full year of all-you-can-eat downloads from the Nokia Music Store. Other features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, video recording, Flash support, built-in stereo speakers, and more.

LG has released the LG KC910, the full touch sreen cellphone with 8-megapixel camera. It with a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, and the LG KC910 will be a slimmest 8-megapixel camera phone at just 13.95mm. Other featuring included record video from 5fps up to 120fps, A-GPS navigation, HSDPA 7.2Mbps and Wi-Fi. It will be available in the world October 2008.

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Today Sony has unveiled three new Walkman players (series S, E and B). The NWZ-S730 Walkman Video MP3 Player just 7.5mm thin, and super-light S-series is the slimmest Walkman player in any of the new series. It has a 2″ QVGA LCD screen which with smooth playback at up to 30 frames per second and selectable horizontal/vertical viewing. You can play video fromats included the WMV with DRM, H.264/AVC and MPEG-4 codecs. The audio supported the WMA, AAC, linear PCM and MP3 formats. It also features integrated active noise cancellation with supplied 13.5mm EX noise canceling headphones. Battery life is said to be 45 hours for music and 8 hours for video. A 4GB model will price at the $150 and comes in blue, pink, red and black. The 8GB model drops blue and retail on $180. [ Link ]

Those longing for the look and feel of the venerable T610, your wait is over. The Sony Ericsson T700 ($TBA; Q4 2008) is the spiritual successor to that great phone, with a sleek black plastic and metal body, and features like Quad-band GSM, UMTS and HSDPA, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a 2-inch display, stereo speakers, and more. It’s the best-looking candybar phone we’ve seen in a long, long time.

Wow, that’s hot! **stiff** Samsung Electronic has launched the ‘Soul Olympic Special Edition (model: CH-W590IL, SPH-W5900IL, SPH-W5950IL)’ to celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympic. It comes with 5.0-megapixel camera, navigation indicators on the keypad, 7.2Mbps HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. The Soul Olympic Special Edition is available for KRW 699,600.

As an official partner of the Olympic Games in wireless telecommunications equipment, Samsung brings out only 2008 Soul Olympic Special Edition handsets, which are equipped with the metal battery cover featuring Olympic logo.

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Motorola has unveiled a new version of PEBL cell phone in Korea that comes with hidden external display. When buttons were pressed, there will be illumination appears on the case. The hidden display is touch-sensitive and you can display pictures on it and can also be used for navigation and control of the phone’s settings. The phone comes with 2.0-megapixel, integrated mp3 player, Bluetooth and high-speed 7.2 mbps data transfer. This Motorola 3G ‘PEBL’ is now available via SK telecom in South Korea.

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When it comes to music phones, the iPhone is still the king of the hill. But if you’re looking for something other than Apple’s touchscreen monolith, consider the Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman Phone (TBA; Q4 2008). This candybar-style phone comes equipped with premium HPM-77 Sony Ericsson headphones and an 8GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card which holds up to 8,000 songs. It’s not lacking on other features, either, with a 5 megapixel camera, flawless video playback on its 2.2-inch QVGA screen, and Quad-band GSM and UMTS/HSDPA capability.