Targetting at Southeast Asia, rural China and Latin America, Motorola is planning to build a charging system on bicycle which will charge the mobile phone when people travelling around the places. Zander said many overseas countries lack wire-line telephone networks. Cellphones are quickly becoming an important tool for people in these emerging markets.

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The phone comes witha stylist design and has a 0.3 megapixel camera, 65k colors screen and simple phone function. The black version looks as good as the white casing design,but it still doesn’t have the the bluetooth and IrDA connection. GPRS will be the only wireless means to download ringtones and java games.

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Using a Bluetooth-enabled PC, the Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone will connect to your VoIP messenger with its echo cancellation and noise suppression filtering. In addition, it provides over three hours of talk time and up to 30 hours of standby time. Users are able to select their favorite Internet phone services to place calls and can use the convenient hands-free mode or, for more privacy, the handset mode.

Using a Bluetooth-enabled PC, the Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone will connect to your VoIP messenger with its echo cancellation and noise suppression filtering. In addition, it provides over three hours of talk time and up to 30 hours of standby time. Users are able to select their favorite Internet phone services to place calls and can use the convenient hands-free mode or, for more privacy, the handset mode.

When a call is finished, the user just slides the phone into the notebook’s PC card slot for storage and recharging. The Vo200 is compatible with major Internet services such as Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk. Suggested retail price: $89.99.

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The Sony Ericsson AI (W880i) is thin from every espect. It has a slim body, thin/tiny keypad and smaller quick access buttons. The tiny keypad remind me of Sony Ericsson P990 external keypad design. Another photo shot on W880i with keypad lights on is available here.

Possible Feature List:

• Messaging (SMS, MMS, email, IM, PTT) SMS, MMS 1.2, OMA push email not,
  IMPS 1.1
• WAP/Web-Browser Netfront Access 3.3
• Java/ Games (embedded/3D) Yes (MIDP 2.0) / Yes
• DRM OMA DRM 2.0
• RDM OTAP 7.1, OMA DM 1.2, OMA-CP 1.1
• Interfaces USB 2.0, BT 2.0 (A2DP)
• 2 megapixel camera
• 1.8" 256K colours TFT QVGA screen
• 240 x 320 pixels
• Video player/Streaming Yes/Yes, H.263, MPEG-4, H.264 playback
• Video telephony Yes
• Music player Yes, Walkman player 2.0
• Ringtones (supported codecs) MP3, eAAC+
• Memory (int./ext. incl.) 32 MB internal+ 1 GB MS Micro
• Band Triband (900/1800/1900)+UMTS 2100
• GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA class GPRS (class 10)/UMTS
• Battery (standby/talktime) ~300 hours / GSM: ~7, UMTS: ~3 hours
• Dimensions (mm) (LxWxH) 102×46,5×9,4 mm
• Weight (g) <80g

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– SOURCE: MOBILE-REVIEW.COM