Is it time to set-up a comparison between these two devices? Well the iPhone 3G is already out there and has been reviewed many times by some of our colleagues, but the BlackBerry Thunder hasn’t been announced, reviewed, or fully leaked: it’s full of speculations. Even the name is under battle: is it Thunder, or Storm, or Thunderstorm? Honestly…

Jim Hill at ElectrigPig thought it was time to get these phones in the battlefield, and after reading his points, he can sort of prove that the Thunder is better than the iPhone, even with the few specifications that we are aware of.

There are 8 reasons: the Thunder is better for typists; Better contracts (in terms of price plans); Better for business (BlackBerry has a huge reputation with businessmen); Better memory (microSD removable memory); Better display (resolution at 360×480 pixels with advanced haptic feedback); Better compatibility (Has Bluetooth, which works in headset-only mode with the iPhone, USB, and is designed for Windows, which is the most used operating system in the world); Works with iTunes and Windows Media Player (BlackBerry Media Sync); has Visual Voicemail for any network.

I wonder what he will come up with once the device IS released.

You might have read the recent rumour that Sony Ericsson is going to make a new announcement by next week. We speculated over the release of the devices codenamed Remi and Hicaru, but here we have a slider leaked with the name of G705.

The Sony Ericsson G705 features a 3 megapixel camera, built-in GPS, WiFi, a M2 memory card slot, and has 128MB of internal memory. Geo-tagging is included in the software.

We don’t have much more information, but we do have quite a lot of pictures, which are available after the jump.

Source: SE4M via GSMArena

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The Nokia 5610 is available in diverse countries. The release date on the T-Mobile USA network is scheduled to be on the 11th of August, by next week.

There are images leaked that point out to a white version of the device which features a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, 3G, and a 2.2” display.

More images available after the jump.

Source: Cellphone Signal

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Sanjay Jha was just named the Co-CEO of Motorola, but it’s not him who will uplift the company, it’s the 8 megapixel camera-phone codenamed Alexander. In terms of looks the phone isn’t very attractive, but the specifications that our source is providing us might just be able to level Motorola with their rivals. Here are some of the features of the upcoming phone:

• Windows Mobile 6.
• 5 or 8 megapixel camera (probably
• NVIDIA 3D graphics chip
• A-GPS
• Q4 release date

Earlier this week Motorola’s CEO Greg Brown had announced that the company is planning on releasing 34 new phones until the end of 2008, which is the double of what was released last year.

A person working on Motorola’s development plans also leaked that one of those 34 devices will be the one codenamed Halo, which is designed to combat against the iPhone. This comes already a bit late, as Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and BlackBerry have something in the market, or already coming up soon to face the iPhone. The only hint we have from this leaked statement is that Motorola is working on a powerful touchscreen phone.

Source: Boy Genius Report, Cell Phones etc

T-Mobile leaked a roadmap where it shows the release dates of the Sony Ericsson TM506 (Q3), BlackBerry Curve Sunset (August 4th, Monday), BlackBerry 8120 Sapphire (Q3), BlackBerry Kickstart (Q4), BlackBerry Bold (Q4/Q1 09), Nokia 1680 (Q3), Motorola ZN5 (Q4), T-Mobile Shadow II (Q3/Q4), Samsung T109 (Q4), an unknown Samsung with a 5 megapixel camera (Q3/Q4), and the HTC Diamond, the first HTC with Google Android Operating System (Q4).

This confirms our story that HTC is releasing the first phone with Google Android on Q4 this year, and showcases the most wanted release dates - Motorola ZN5, BlackBerry Kickstart.

Source: Cellphone Signal via Unwired View