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The amount of new features currently being crow-barred into mobile phones is staggering, and makes you wonder what amazing new tricks our mobile phones will be able to perform in a few years’ time. Well, wonder no more, as this video of the “Sumsing” Turbo 3000Xi Multitask shows you just what you can expect should a team of Dutch designers ever be let loose in Samsung’s R&D labs!!

See the video after the jump.

Sony Ericsson have been rather slow in jumping on the mobile TV bandwagon (at least outside of Japan, anyway). While Nokia, Samsung and LG all shout loudly about their mobile TV phones, with the Korean firms in particular seemingly releasing a new mobile TV phone every week, Sony Ericsson have been quietly assessing the market and keeping their cards very close to their chest.

That’s not to say they haven’t beeen working on it, however. According to Sony and Ericsson (note: not Sony Ericsson, but the two separate companies Sony and Ericsson), they will shortly be developing software for mobile and broadband TV, but no news yet on a mobile TV handset.

Leaked pictures of the Nokia N93i have emerged. The Nokia N93i is, as its name suggests, an update of Nokia’s existing N93 multimedia computer. The 93 focused on video, and although technologically superb, was seen by some as a bit, well, lardy. However, if rumoured specs are to be believed, the new N93i will still be the same size as its predecessor, which is a shame, as it was this that put some people off from buying it.

More details and pictures of the Nokia N93i after the jump.

Flickr have released some interesting stats showing, amongst other things, which are the most popular camera phones its users use to upload their camera phone pics. As you can see from the graph, the top five are dominated by Sony Ericsson and Nokia, with the Sony Ericsson K750i coming out consistently on top.

What’s interesting is that all the top 5 are not necessarily the most popular camera phones, but all are capable of taking good quality pics, meaning picture quality means more to your average flickr user’s choice of mobile phone than any other feature. So if you want a decent quality camera phone this Christmas, just follow the flickrers!
[Source: Flickr, via MobileTracker]

A Nokia N95 review has already been posted on the web! The Nokia N95 received huge attention when announced recently, and it’s not expected to ship until early next year. That’s not stopped The Nokialist from getting their hands on a pre-production model, though, it giving it a very thorough going over.

More on the Nokia N95 review after the jump.

LG’s Chocolate designer phone might have had great sales success, but one user has reported an interesting side-effect of keeping it in his pocket – it turned a distinctly off-white milky yellow colour. When he complained to LG, they replied that the phone was discoloured “because it’s been in your pocket”!

Quite what the guy had been doing with the phone in his pocket, LG declined to mention.

[Source: CellPhoneForums]

A few days ago, the Nokia N97 was the latest rumour to do the rounds, and it looked and sounded great. Maybe a little too great. Unfortunately, it wasn’t real – it was just an ‘idea’ posted in Nokia’s forum that leaked out into the ever-twitchy blogosphere, where great pictures and even greater hype soon take over a post’s true origins.

Damn it! It was a great phone too. Still, on the plus side, Nokia are currently up to the N95 in their numbering system, so a real N97 can’t be too far away. And with the N97′s supposed specs being equivalent to the N95, a real N97 may not be so different anyway. We can still dream…!

Update – over two year later, the the Nokia N97has finally been announced!
[Source: Forum Nokia via Engadget]

LG have shown that while chocolate might be bad for you, the LG Chocolate is extremely good for a high-tech mobile phone company seeking to turn a loss into a profit.

Celebrating the first year of the launch of the LG Chocolate, the company announced the world consumed 6 million LG Chocolate designer phones in 2006, with 3 million sold in the last two and a half months alone.

Better still, the company predicts sales will reach 10 million in the first half of next year.

Such is the success of the LG Chocolate, it accounts for 18 per cent of LG’s total mobile phone sales, and single-handedly turned a $33 million loss posted by the company in the first quarter of 2006, into a profit.

Success with the mobile phone market is difficult and expensive to come by, but the rewards are more than worth it. And with the glorious looking new LG Shine on its way, LG look set to continue the success currently enjoyed by the Chocolate.

[Source:Digital Chosunilbo]

Sony Ericsson have announced a new mobile phone with an exotic looking super-flip form factor. Instead of opening vertically, like a traditional clamshell, the new Sony Ericsson W44S Bravia phone flips open on it side, revealing a huge screen that’s perfect for viewing movies and mobile TV on.

Mobile TV? Yup, this Sony Ericsson’s got the lot.

More details and koads more pictures of the Sony Ericsson W44S Bravia phone after the jump.

Not content with the amazing Nokia N95 announced recently, Nokia may have another treat lined up for us in the shape of the Nokia N97. Another all-singing all-dancing multimedia computer, rumour has it that the Nokia N97 will come with a 20GB hard disk, 5 megapixel camera (which looks to be the new standard for Nokia’s 2007 N-Series phones), and a class-leading 3 inch LCD screen.

More details of the Nokia N97 after the jump.