What’s the scariest thing that you could think of if you were a giant super rich company like Verizon, At&T, Sprint or Nextel?

I’ll tell you, GOOOOOOGle! (bad attempt at a joke I know). Just becuase Google is coming out with a phone and possibly becoming a service provider as well there’s no need to worry…yet. I just caught wind that the ultra smart company Google is coming out with their phone by the END OF THE YEAR!! Holy cell phones Batman! Forget Christmas, give me the Gphone already!

Verizon is enticing us (at least me) with four sweet new phones: the Juke, Pearl, Venus, and Voyager.
The Samsung Juke "flick" phone has 2GB of built-in storage, A2DP (which shows up in all these phones) and a VGA camera.
Verizon’s BlackBerry Pearl comes with EV-DO and a 3.5mm minijack, and the VZ Navigator service..
The Venus slider has a dual screen setup, with contextual touch controls and a 2 megapixel sensor with a microSD slot for up to 8GB of expansion.
The Voyager (pictured) has everything from a touchscreen on the outside, and a second screen on the clamshell interior, facing a full QWERTY keyboard. Add V CAST Mobile T, a microSD slot and 2 megapixel camera.

All of these are supposed to be out by Thanksgiving, but no word on prices.

Thank goodness not everyone is trying to copy the iphone – check out the new line of cellphones designed by Naoto Fukasawa. With a form factor recalling a used bar of soap, Fukasawa has paid considerably more attention to the z-axis than our friends at Apple.

thanks core77

Looking more like a remote control device, Motorola has unveiled its landline phones named MOTOLIVN. With location-free bases, these can be placed anywhere you have an electrical outlet.

The MOTOLIVN features:

* Location-free base enabling maximum flexibility in positioning the phone
* Special eco-mode operation
* The ability to store a minimum of one hundred phone numbers
* High-quality speakerphone for hands-free conversations
* Ten different polyphonic ringer melodies
* A multi-language setting
* Up to ten hours of talk time
* One hundred hours of standby time
* The D8 range features enhanced phonebook capacity, a SIM card reader to allow users to transfer contacts, headset socket, and high-definition sound, providing natural, high quality audio
* The D8 Skype product offers easy access to Skype services including buddy lists, SMS and Skype chat (IM)
* The D7 MOTOLIVN range, available in silver, features a blue backlit two-line mono display
* The D8 MOTOLIVN range, available in black/silver and also white/black offers consumers a 3.6cm full-color display

The D7 starts at €49.99 ($70), the D8 will be €69.99 ($97).

A Swiss tech firm OnAir will be setting up service to allow airline passengers to use their cell phones and access the Internet on laptops during flights.

China’s Shenzhen Airlines will set up the service by mid-2009 and hope to have a demo aircraft available for the Beijing Olympics next year.

Shenzhen Airlines President Li Kun said: "We are very proud to be the first airline in China to provide passengers with the ability to communicate during flights."

OnAir has already signed deals with various European and Asian airlines that want to carry the technology, the firm said.

So what are we waiting for?