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Samsung are to release their Samsung BlackJack HSDPA smartphone in the US tomorrow via Cingular. Clearly aimed at the Blackberry market, the BlackJack is a full-featured smartphone with tiny QWERTY keyboard and all the office productivity apps you could wish for.

More details of the Samsung BlackJack smartphone after the jump.

Panasonic have announced the new Panasonic P702iD mobile phone, which apparently comes with a 128 gradational LED light called ‘Hikaridrops’! What does this mean? It means the outside of the phone offers 10 variations of illumination pattern with stunning resolution.

And what does the P702iD do with this feature? Why it reads your emotions of course, by analyzing your voice as you chat and displaying different patterns and emotions on the front of the phone – presumably so everyone can see how annoyed you are wiht the person on the other end, as well as hearing your irritation! Most useful!

[Source: Aving.net]

Mobile phones have vibrated for a while now, usually to alert the user to an incoming call. But Immersion has announced “next generation TouchSense vibration” technology that offers a wider range of vibration effects and improved synchronization with audio and onscreen graphic events.

Proof of its effectiveness comes from a contract freshly signed with Microsoft for use in its XBox 360. More interesting (possibly!) to mobile phone fans is that Samsung, LG and Pantech have also signed up for the technology for use in their future mobile gaming phones.

[Source: Aving.Net]

RFID is converging with mobile phones at a rapid pace, and new applications are emerging that begin to show the potential of this convergence. Korea’s KTF, for example, has announced the new ‘GREEN TAXI’ service, which enables pasengers to get information on the taxi by scanning an RFID tag embedded within the cab’s seats.

Samsung have announced a new, er, handset, designed to drive the adoption of WiBro, Korea’s high-speed mobile Interent technology.

The Samsung SPH-P9000 Deluxe MIT is a bit of an odd one – part mobile phone, part PDA, part Internet tablet without the tablet!

It features all that you’d expect from a mobile phone.

1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, etc. But it also features a few things that you maybe weren’t expecting.

More details and pictures of the Samsung SPH-P9000 Deluxe MIT after the jump.

Samsung have given us a glimpse of some of the technologies they’re working on for their next generation mobile phones. According to Kang-Hun Lee, vice president of Samsung’s Next-Generation Terminals Team, future mobile phones will have 5GHz processors, 10GB-20GB of memory, and will seamlessly move from one network to another, whether the network uses cellular, mobile WiMAX or other technologies.

All pretty standard stuff so far – these predictions are simply extensions of what current generation mobiles already offer. However, Lee didn’t stop there with his predictions…

Mobile TV as a technology has been the buzz word of 2006, with most handset manufacturers introducing mobile TV phones of some form (with the exception of Sony Ericsson, although a Sony Ericsson Wega phone may be on its way for 2007).

Mobile phone operators across Europe are readying their networks for the provision of mobile TV, Virgin has released its ungainly looking Lobster mobile TV phone in the UK, the US market looks on eagerly, but will probably have to wait till 2010, while the Koreans are now probably watching holographic mobile TV!

But there’s one question that no-one’s asked yet – what will we all actually be watching? And will we bother with the traditional TV channels when we’ll have free access to a Mobile YouTube?

Camera phones have come on in leaps and bounds this year, evolving from the poor quality VGA resolution of two years ago to the 10 megapixel monsters of today. But which camera phone manufacturer’s phones consistently produce the best photos?

Of course, each manufacturer produces camera phones of different quality, and so some phones will be better than others. But each manufacturer tends to build its camera phones using a common set of technologies, and so some manufacturers will be consistently better than others. We check out the reviews across the web to determine whose cameraphones regularly come out on top – will it be Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Samsung or Motorola?

Here’s something I bet you never thought you’d see – not just a Sony PSP phone, but a Sony PSP phone playing Nintendo’s Mario! Before you get too excited, look again, and you’ll see that actually it’s a Sony PSP clone – in fact, it’s a Chinese mobile phone, the V191, which clones Sony’s PSP shape, and adds Nintendo’s Mario for good measure! Intellectual property? Nah, who needs it!!

LG have announced the new LG KB1800 mobile TV phone. We’re all used to Korean mobile TV phones by now, and the LG KB1800 doesn’t offer anything new over the rest of the competition. In fact, it looks just like a standard mobile phone, and maybe that’s a real sign of the times – that an ordinary Korean phone now comes with TV built-in, no-one bats an eye-lid, and it looks no different from your standard run of the mill mobile phone!

It wasn’t that long ago we’d all have been amazed at TV on a phone (in fact, for most of us where mobile TV is still a dream rather than a reality, we still are!). Ah, how quickly we grow accustomed to the new mobile phone gizmos!

More details and pictures of the LG KB1800 mobile TV phone after the jump.