While America releases one of the most sought-after phone since the Razr, China debuts with its own nifty looking gadget phones. The 7500 Prism from Nokia sports a unique interface, with buttons laid out as if you were looking through an actual prism. The features are so far nothing out of the ordinary, including a 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot and a QVGA screen.

While very promising, I think I’m a bit burned out as far as cellular phones go. Maybe in the next few months. the market will focus less on the phones and more on, oh I don’t know, a toaster that won’t burn my bread.

T-Mobile has launched its hybrid GSM / WiFi with the "HotSpot @Home" . @Home relies on traditional cell airwaves out in the field but switches seamlessly to WiFi when it gets within range of a T-Mobile hotspot or any other wireless router you’ve configured to work with your phone. The cool part is that WiFi minutes aren’t deducted from your plan.

Present handsets are the Nokia 6086 and Samsung t409, each for $49.99 on contract and include a Linksys or D-Link router, both specially designed for @Home service. The service itself will run $9.99 per month on individual and $19.99 on family plans for up to five handsets. Review and more pix.

Got a cell phone? Like RC airplanes? Put them together and you get your own personal Google Earth.

Materials needed:
1. Nokia N95
2. radio-controlled model airplane.
3. Pict’Earth software.

Now, if you don’t crash it…

Take Pict’Earth anywhere with you as it fits in your car trunk and is ready to use in less than 10 minutes….Pict-Earth Live processing software displays updated images in real time in Google Earth but also gives you the opportunity to stream this update to any remote authorized Google Earth user.

In the Asia-Pacific region, Nokia has 26 new cell phone models available so far this year. While this may seem a great deal to some, Nokia is known to market at least 40 to 50 per year, so business has been shown to not favor the cellular company for the moment. To counter for these low times, Nokia has displayed three new models in hopes of creating an upsurge in new customers.

The 3 model are as follows: the Nokia 6267, the 3G Nokia 6121 and the more traditional-looking Nokia 3500 (shown above).

Nokia has also agreed with MiTV Corporation to open commercial broadcast mobile TV services in Malaysia in the second half of this year. Unfortunately, only a few commercial networks have been opened around the world. In my opinion, however, Nokia should worry less about bonus features, and more about creating a phone that does just what it says it should do: make a successful phone call.

If the $750 Nokia N95 is too much for your wallet, consider the latest Chinese knock-off E-PDA V16. It’s a bit larger, but sports a three-inch QVGA touchscreen, three-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a multimedia player. It also supports microSD memory cards.

For a third of the price, it looks good to me!

source:iTechnews