This is more like it! No sooner had I posted out of focus leaked photos of the new Sony Ericsson Ai, much better pictures have emerged, showing the Ai in its shiny silver and brooding black finery. The keys are small, the phone is slim, and it looks set to challenge the LG Chocolate in the looks department.

More leaked pictures, this time from Sony Ericsson. The picture above shows the Sony Ericsson La and Ni (codenames at the moment), a Walkman phone and a CyberShot phone respectively. The Li will apparently be a low-end CyberShot phone, possibly called the Sony Ericsson K650i, and is expected to come with 2 megapixel camera, auto focus, and the same specs as the Sony Ericsson K800.

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.

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 fro Nokia’s 2007 N-Series phones), and a class-leading 3 inch LCD screen.

With most new products, a list of “the best 40 fakes of [insert overhyped-product here]” would merit a single post at most, but with Apple’s iPhone, you get a whole blog devoted to such fakes. So much hype surrounds Apple’s forthcoming iPhone that Okan Vardarova decided to create a blog showcasing the best photoshopped ‘concept iPhones’ (aka fakes) that have been created by Apple FanBoys worldwide. He’s already compiled 40 fake pics!

Rumours have filtered out that Sony may be working on a new Playstation mobile phone. The rumours seem to suggest that the device, should it exist, might come in the form either of mobile-phone functionality added to the PSP, or adding Playstation-branded content to a beefed up game-playing Sony Ericsson phone.

Apple iPhone hype continues unabated, but this time it’s the fanboys doing the hyping. Christopher and Gregory DeSantis have made their very own Apple iPhone promo video (beats a be-Photoshopped mock-up I guess!), showing what they believe the new phone could look like.

Nokia have announced their N-Gage mobile gaming phone will shortly cease to be.  They’ve decided the N-Gage was not the success they wanted, so have discontinued it, and aim to include the main gaming features of the N-Gage within their…

 
Nokia have seen the future of mobile phones, and it’s smart – very smart. According to VNUNet, Bob Ianucci, head of Nokia’s research centre, foresees a fundamental shift in mobile phone technology, as handsets develop from relying exclusively on embedded…

As if to highlight the difference between Asian and US mobile phone markets, TelecomAsia are reporting that mobile phones with DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) will make up more than 70% of the South Korean market in the next three years.
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Pictured above is a neat montage of all mobile phones that are available in the US for Christmas 2005.  The picture is a montage made by Russell Beattie, who also gives a neat run down of the state of the…

Samsung have started a round of mud slinging.   According to Harry Choi, head of Samsung’s mobile phone design, Nokia’s phone design has clearly declined from what it was a couple of years ago. He claims Samsung has managed to shake…