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Samsung are about to unveil their new Samsung SGH-i520, another smartphone form the maker of millions of mobiles (well, they release over 100 a year anyway!).

Details are limited at the moment, but it’s most definitely a mobile phone rather than a full PDA, featuring only standard mobile phone buttons rather than a full QWERTY keyboard like its recently-released sibling, the Samsung SGH-i760.

More details and pictures of the Samsung SGH-i520 smartphone after the jump.

This is the forthcoming Samsung SGH-i760 smartphone. Looking more like a (slightly large) mobile phone than a PDA, the i760 is a fully featured smartphone complete with full QWERTY keyboard that slides down. Based on Winows Mobile 5.0, the i760 is as feature-packed as you’d expect from a Samsung phone (apart from the camera, which is only 2 megapixels rather than the 10 megapixel monster Samsung recently announced).

More details and pictures of the Samsung SGH-i760 smartphone after the jump.

Nokia’s R&D have certainly been busy lately. Not content with developing the stunning Nokia Aeon concept phone, they’ve also completed their SmartPosters technology, which enables NFC-compatible mobile phones to read data from passive RFID-like NFC tags. Nokia intend to embed such tags in posters, which would send data to the mobile phone when the phone is waved over it like a wand.

Apple are hiring. No news there, except for the nature of the post currently on offer – a Mobile Marketing Manager. According to the job description:

“This position is responsible for overseeing worldwide mobile marketing programs for iTunes content and feature campaigns…The successful candidate will bring substantial experience in mobile marketing and partnership management as well as strong leadership and management skills….Collaborate with iTunes Engineering to build program components as the foundation of the mobile marketing strategy. – Engage music, concert, and television fans with compelling offers and promotions. – Strong knowledge of the mobile marketing ecosystem and infrastructure, from carriers to aggregators to agencies to customers. – Strong understanding of the handset technology limitations and their impact on messaging and customer experience.”

Now why would Apple be looking for a Mobile Marketing Manager? Hmmmmm…

[Source: CrunchGear via MobilityToday]

Samsung have finally released their new Samsung SCH-B600, a mobile phone so packed full of features it makes the Nokia N95 look like an old brick (well, not quite!). We first saw the SCH-B600 at CeBIT in March 2006, and were amazed by its incredible 10 megapixel camera, complete with 3x optical zoom, autofocus and a proper flash unit that’s optimized for a 10 megapixel camera.

More than just a gimmick, it seems Samsung really mean business with the camera on the SCH-B600, and are prepared to challenge Sony Ericsson’s latesty CyberShot phones head on.

More details of the Samsung SCH-B600 after the jump.

Just when you thought you’d seen all forms of mobile phone twistiness, Sharp throws a surprise witht he new Sharp 905SH mobile TV phone, which features a new Cycloid design. Looking like a normal clamshell when closed, the Sharp phone can spin its screen 90 degrees horizontally while closed, then flip up clamshell-style to reveal a large and glorious screen ready for mobile TV viewing.

More details and pictures of the Sharp 905SH Cycloid mobile TV phone after the jump.

We’ve mentioned the niftily-named NTT DoCoMo FOMA D702iF mobile phone before, commenting on how its shape seemed to offer women more than just the colour pink. Turns out the D702iF is more in-tune with women than we thought though, as the D702iF actually knows “the rhythms of ladies.”

Nokia have announced the new Nokia 5500 Sport Music Edition. Well, not exactly new, more just a Nokia 5500 Sport with enhanced music features. This follows on from Nokia’s recent expanded push into the mobile music market, with its enhanced N91, N73 and N70 mobile phones that featured new music features and expanded storage, plus its new Nokia 5200, 5300 and 3250 mobile music phones. Nokia are clearly feeling the music at the moment!

So what have they added to the Nokia 5500? Well, a 512 MB microSD card (for storing 375 tunes), a fitness carrying strap, bicycle holder and sports headset packed in a “new energetic color.” Ah, not much then! It does look great, though, and if you were interested in the 5500 before, you’ll really love the new model.

More details of the sort of new Nokia 5500 Sport Music Edition after the jump.

The Samsung D900 currently takes the honours for the world’s thinnest slider phone, at just 12.9mm thin.

Despite its slimness, it’s not exactly feature-light, though. Top of the list comes the 3 megapixel camera with autofocus, closely followed by a great QVGA screen, MP3 player, TV Out, support for microSD cards, and GPRS, EDGE class 10 and Bluetooth connectivity.

As the following Samsung D900 Review shows, the phone is a great looking, slick super-thin phone with loads of features, and which really has the wow factor. It’s not every mobile phone that squeezes a 3 megapixel camera into a device less than 13mm thin!

Read on for the full Samsung D900 review.

The Nokia N95 was announced to an unsuspecting public last week with a features list so long, I need a new blog just to list them all! 5 megapixel camera, DVD-like video, full GPS SatNav, dedicated music buttons and mobile phone keypad in a neat two-way slider form factor, 3D graphics, HSDPA, WLAN, and on and on!

So many features has the new Nokia N95, that the only way to it any justice is to see it in action. So what follows is a round-up of the latest Nokia N95 videos on the web for you to lust after what surely will be one of the biggest mobile phone releases of 2007, and what will undoubtedly be the phone that sets the standard all other high-end phones must reach.

See videos of the Nokia N95 after the jump.