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Samsung seems to be leaking like a rusty bucket at the moment, as yet another Samsung mobile is leaked before MWC. This time, it’s the turn of the Samsung Acme i8910, a good looking touchscreen phone that comes paced to the gills with multimedia features.

Unlike the 8 other low end phones that were leaked earlier this week, the Acme i8910 seems to offer some genuine innovation. With the i8910, the Samsung S8300 and rumours of a 12 megapixel camera phone in the works, Samsung looks set for an exciting MWC event after all!

More details and pictures of the Samsung Acme i8910 after the jump.

LG are set to release a very iPhone-looking phone in the form of the LG Arena KM900. The LG Arena is obviously a touchscreen phone, but what’s most striking is just how similar its interface (“S-class” apparently, whatever that means!) is to the iPhone’s.

It’s not how a phone’s interface looks, though, it’s how intuitive and responsive it is to use that will determine its success. Obviously this is difficult to assess from a screenshot alone, but we shouldn’t have long to wait for the real thing, as it’s rumoured to be on show at MWC 2009 in a couple of weeks.

We do have some news on the specs on the LG Arena though, after the jump.

Almost a year ago to the day, Garmin announced its first Sat-Nav GPS phone, the Garmin Nuvifone. They never released it, though, and it’s been festering away in their R&D labs ever since. It seems they felt they didn’t have the technical muscle to develop their own phone, so they’ve given the job to Asus. So for this year’s MWC, step forward the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60.

Based on the same set of features that Garmin promised us a year ago, the G60 is the first in what Garmin promises to be a range of new Sat-Nav phones developed jointly in a new partnership with ASUSTek.

Will it be any good, though…

If you’re Samsung, then the words credit and crunch seemingly don’t mean all that much. While other mobile phone manufacturers are struggling even to stay afloat (Motorola, for example, just posted a loss of $3.6 billion), Samsung will be showing off no less than 8 new mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress in two weeks’ time – including a top of the range camera phone with 12 megapixels.

More details and pics after the jump.

More new Android devices are just around the corner. General Mobile (who?!) will be showing off the General Mobile DLST1 Android phone at MWC 2009 in a couple of weeks, while T-Mobile’s Senior VP for Engineering and Operations, Neville Ray, has told Fierce Wireless that the company will be releasing more Android phones to succeed the G1 later in 2009.

As there’s no more details from T-Mobile on their new G2 (assuming that’s what it’ll be called), we’ll stick with the General Mobile Android phone, which, if it’s released as promised, looks like it’ll give the HTC-based G1 a good run for its money.

More details after the jump.

Nokia are rumoured to be launching the new Nokia E75 at this year’s Mobile World Congress next month. Luckily we don’t have to wait long, as we have a few leaked pictures of the E75 now. The E75 is a new business phone from Nokia that takes its cue from the E90. Just like the E90, it features a slide out QWERTY keyboard, as well as a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

In fact, apart from GPS, it’s got exactly the same features as the E90, but with a smaller screen.

Details of three new Samsung phones have been leaked. The three phones include two smartphones (the Samsung Louve and Samsung Pivot) and a “tough phone” (the Samsung B2100), and will apparently be shown off at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next month.

More details after the jump.

Almost missed this one! Just before the New Year, leaked pictures emerged of the Samsung S8300, a new camera phone from Samsung that looks set to take over over where the U900 left off. The S8300 comes with an 8 megapixel camera, and includes GPS, FM radio, a gorgeous 2.8″ 16 million colour AMOLED screen and 7.2 Mbps HSDPA.

That’s a great spec, but it could be the start of a new trend in mobile phones throughout 2009…

Samsung have announced that their first Google Android powered mobile phone will be released later in 2009. Samsung were one of the first members of Google’s Open Handset Alliance, and have been rumoured to be working on an Android-based handset for some time.

Today sees official confirmation of the development of such a handset, with a Samsung spokesperson saying “We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers.” The new Android phone will be sold through T-Mobile and Sprint, and will feature a touchscreen (naturally) and the usual plethora of Google apps (Maps, G-Talk messenger, GMail, search and calendar).

Graphics company NVIDIA have been shouting about a stunning mobile graphics processor for over a year now, but with little success. Despite stunning demos that have consistently put every mobile phone interface to shame (and yup, that does include the iPhone), they haven’t had even so much as a nibble from a mobile phone manufacturer – until now.

In news that will delight mobile phone fans, HTC has adopted NVIDIA’s new Tegra processor to power some of its new handsets for 2009. Which handsets will get the new Tegra processor are as yet unconfirmed, but given that HTC have several new Android handsets in development, there’s every chance we could see a stunning new NVIDIA-powered HTC Android phone ship later in the year.

More details after the jump.