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The Sony Ericsson today announced the Z750i, its first tri-band HSDPA phone for the North American Market. The Z750i offers full broadband speed for accessing the web, handling email and picture blogging on the move. Available in Phantom Grey or Rose Pink, the Z750i has mirror-like qualities, hiding an external display that lights up to show an incoming call or text message.

Integrated with a 2.0-megapixel camera, the Z750i takes great photos, viewable on a large 2.2-inch screen. Using the phone’s HSDPA capability, uploading camera pictures to a blogsite can be done at broadband-speed, making it easy to keep friends and family updated.

The Z750i HSDPA enabled phone is optimized to deliver the information quickly, straight to the phone’s desktop - whether the latest news headlines via an RSS ticker scrolling across the screen or a traffic update just before leaving work.

The Z750i also offers a media player that supports all the major music formats, so users can enjoy their favorite songs while traveling. Additionally the Z750i provides a built-in FM radio with RDS and 3D gaming capabilities.

For consumers who might not be ready for a fully featured smartphone, the Z750i is the first Sony Ericsson handset to offer push email. On the Z750i users can easily send and receive email from wherever they need to work. The Z750i is Exchange ActiveSync enabled and supports wireless synchronization and Direct Push of email, calendar and contacts. Moreover, it also includes support for Java push mail solutions provided by third parties and leading email standards, such as POP/IMAP.

The Z750i will be available first in North America before wider distribution to other global markets later in the year. It is a tri-band HSDPA (850/1900/2100), quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900) phone and will be available in selected markets from Q3 2007.

Sony Ericsson Z750i Specs:

- Imaging and Entertainment
- OLED External Sub-Display
- 2.2-inch QVGA 262K-Color TFT display
- Picture Blogging
- Video Blogging
- 2.0-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and VGA video call camera
- PictBridge
- Landscape media playback & browsing
- Slideshow 2.0
- Media Player (MP3/AAC/AAC+/e-AAC+/WMA)
- FM Radio with RDS
- 3D Gaming
- Web and Email Full HTML browser with RSS Reader
- Live Tickers & RSS Feeds
- Customizable User Interface & desktop
- Exchange ActiveSync advanced
- Push email
- POP3/IMAP4 email
- SMS, EMS, MMS
- Multi-client Instant Messaging support
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Offers up to 32 MB user memory
- 128 MB Memory Stick Micro (M2), with support up to 2 GB Memory Stick
- Bluetooth 2.0 EDR + Stereo
- USB 2.0
- FOTA
- OMA DRM 2.0
- MTP
- SAIC
- Speakerphone
- Tri-band HSPDA (850/1900/2100) / Quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900)
- Colors: Rose Pink/Phantom Grey
- Size: 97.4 mm x 49 mm x 20 mm
- Weight: 110 grams
- Talktime: GSM up to 9 hours / UMTS up to 3.5 hours
- Standby time: GSM up to 400 hours / UMTS up to 350 hours

Sony Ericsson today announced its new W580i Walkman phone, a slim slider music phone that delivers the full Walkman phone experience along with gaming, imaging and fitness applications.At just 14 mm thin, the Sony Ericsson W580i is offered in two colors - Style White or Urban Grey. Highlighted by orange accents, the W580i is illuminated in the dark with light effects along the side that change as users navigate the Walkman music player.

The slim form factor hides a Walkman 2.0 music player, making it simple to organize and play favorite tunes. The Disc2Phone music management software and USB cable included in the box allow for easy transfer of music to and from a PC. Listeners can also tune to their favorite radio programming as the W580i offers an RDS-FM radio. Additionally, the TrackID feature makes it easy to identify music tracks not recognized.

For impromptu photos, the W580i integrates a 2.0-megapixel camera, also functioning as a portable photo album and pocket gaming device. Fast connectivity allows users to access picture blogging and instant messaging. With numerous 3D games already preloaded on the W580i, the large 2.0-inch color screen is ideal for gaming as well as web browsing and viewing camera photos.

The W580i ships with a 512 MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) to store about 470 full-length music tracks, with the ability to add more memory for storing multimedia content.

In today’s fitness focused world, the W580i Walkman phone features helpful sports applications. While listening to music, users can also track of their steps, their calories and monitor their running speed/distance/time.

The W580i Walkman phone is a quad-band EDGE device (850/900/1800/1900) and will be available in selected markets from Q3 2007.

Sony Ericsson W580i Specs:

- 14mm slim compact slider design- 2.0-megapixel camera
- 2.0-inch QVGA 262K-Color TFT screen
- Picture Blogging
- Walkman music player 2.0 for multiple music format support (MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA) and music playback up to 20 hours
- FM Radio with RDS
- TrackID music recognition software
- Disc2Phone Music Management Software
- Music Illumination Effects
- Stereo Headset or wireless A2DP (Bluetooth streaming sound)
- Speakerphone
- Flash theme
- Pedometer
- Active Applications
- Bluetooth 2.0
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Full HTML Browser with RSS
- Instant messaging
- USB Mass storage
- 512 MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) (expandable)
- Up to 12 MB user free memory
- EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- Colors: Style White/Urban Grey
- Weight: 94 g
- Size: 99 x 47 x 14 mm
- Standby time: up to 370 hours
- Talk time: up to 9 hours

Nokia today announced that the Nokia N95 started shipping in European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets. The Nokia N95 is an all-in-one multimedia device with a unique 2-way slide design, integrated GPS functionality, a 5.0-megapixel camera and support for high-speed mobile networks.

Designed for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) networks and with support for WLAN, EDGE and WCDMA networks, the Nokia N95 provides excellent coverage and connection speeds. Browsing the internet and subscribing to favorite news feeds is a pleasure using the Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map.

The Nokia N95 offers entertainment with a sharp color display, built-in stereo speakers, a standard 3.5 mm audio connector and support for compatible microSD memory cards. With powerful 3D graphics, the N95 has a user interface that makes it intuitive to find the features and services.

With its integrated GPS and Nokia Maps application, finding the way is easier. The Nokia Maps application includes maps for more than 150 countries, enabling users to explore the world, find specific routes or locate services such as restaurants and hotels and covering more than 15 million points of interest. They can also purchase additional features, such as city guides and voice guided navigation.

The 2-way slide design is easy to switch between different modes, going from reading maps to watching a video with a simple slide. With Carl Zeiss optics on the 5.0-megapixel camera, consumers can capture print quality photos and DVD-like quality video clips.

The Nokia N95 is based on the S60 software on Symbian OS, enabling users to personalize their device from a wide choice of compatible applications that can be downloaded to the Nokia N95, including games, navigation, entertainment, productivity and creativity.

T-Mobile today began distributing an Over-the-Air (OTA) software update for the Sidekick 3. Over the next month, the OTA update (officially called Release 3.4) will provide a variety of enhancements including the ability for T-Mobile Sidekick users to get myFaves on their device, when they choose a myFaves plan. Some of the new features and improvements include:- myFaves: Now T-Mobile Sidekick 3 users can have the myFaves experience by choosing from a range of myFaves plans to get unlimited calling to those five designated people - to any number in the U.S. - even landlines (excluding toll-free and 900 numbers). The myFaves interface, which features icons or photos on the home screen for five ‘Faves,’ also enables the user to access a straightforward communications menu for calling, texting and multimedia messaging. To turn on the myFaves interface, customers will need to accept the OTA update and call T-Mobile customer care or go online to choose among the myFaves rate plans.

- Active Address Book: Call, text, email, or IM a friend directly from the address book with the press of the trackball. Users can even map their address.

- Text message character counter: So customers know when they’ve said as much as they can say in a single text message.

- Ability to save photo attachments from emails to a photo album on the Sidekick.

T-Mobile cannot give a precise date or time when Sidekick 3 customers will receive the update on their device. Over-the-Air updates are sent out in blocks to prevent overload to the wireless network. All devices that require the Over-the-Air update will receive it.

T-Mobile today announced the exclusive availability of the Motorola RIZR Z3, the first GSM slider in the U.S. Featuring premium communications and multimedia features, the RIZR Z3 is offered in a vibrant pearl blue exterior with soft-touch finish.

The RIZR Z3 also integrates a 2.0-megapixel camera with 8x zoom, high-intensity camera light, landscape view finder and dedicated external camera button, giving users the experience and benefits of a functional digital camera, with the capability to shoot and share photos quickly.

Sharing pictures is simple using T-Mobile’s My Album, a personal online album that stores pictures, video and voice messages for easy viewing and sharing. Customers can access the My Album link built into the RIZR Z3, and quickly access their myFaves contacts to send fun picture messages, as well as video, text and instant messages.

Users also can rock to favorite tunes with a built-in music player that supports a variety of audio formats and stereo Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free listening. Storage space for music, photos or files is expansive, using the microSD slot for up to 2 GB of optional removable memory. The RIZR Z3 is equipped with video capture and playback, quad-band technology and USB 2.0 connectivity for file transfers and data access.