Mobile pones have increasingly taken on the appearance of Transformers over the years, with all manner of origami-like form factors performing all kinds of gymnastics in an effort to squeeze as much functionality into the device and still be usable.…

Sony Ericsson may have released the K850i, its latest and best Cyber Shot camera phone, but it’s no match for Japan’s latest technological marvels. 5 megapixel camera? Pah! White-balance, BestPic technology and Xenon flash? So last year!
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Seems every handset manufacturer has been asked for their response to Apple’s iPhone. LG’s the latest, but rather than shrugging their shoulders and mumbling “it’s alright, I s’pose” in a teenaged way, they’ve pointed out that the iPhone does in fact bear close resemblance to their own forthcoming LG KE850 Prada phone.

Samsung, somewhat predictably, claims it’s unimpressed by Apple’s iPhone. “Although we are waiting to see how U.S. consumers will react, we are not impressed by its features,” said an official of Samsung Electronics, the flagship of the Lee Kun-hee business empire.

The image above shows the number of blog posts containing the term iPhone before its official announcement. Now compare and contrast with the number of bloggers now blogging about it – it’s off the chart! Over 1.75% of all blog posts contain the term iPhone.

Say what you like about Apple, but boy can they create hype!

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.

Here’s news to gladden my heart! Mad4mobilephones.com have done an analysis of the top 50 mobile phone sites across the web according to their Alexa rank – and MobileMentalism’s number 49! Of course this may change as other people ask “hey, why isn’t my site listed?”, causing the list to be subsequently updated (I was number 46 this morning!) – but still, bask in the glow of glory while I can!

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.

Samsung have announced what they claim is the world’s thinnest mobile phone. The Samsung X828 beats the previous record-holder, the KTF EV-K100 (itself announced only two weeks ago!) by a full millimeter. One millimeter may not sound much, but given that the EV-K100 was only 7.9mm, the new Samsung X828′s record-breaking 6.9mm is a full 12.7% thinner.

This nifty looking beast is the Alcatel OT-C850 mobile music phone. Looking like a weird cross between a futuristic dictation machine and a retro hand-held games machine, the Alcatel mobile phone is short on features, but oozes style. It comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera, 65k colors screen (176×220), and obviously an MP3 player (256 MB memory, plus a microSD card slot).

Nokia will announce their next generation mobile gaming platform at the forthcoming Games Developer’s Conference (GDC) on Monday 20th March. Nokia’s Director of Games Publishing, Gregg Sauter, will give a keynote speech at GDC mobile entitled ‘The Next Generation of Mobile Gaming’, in which he will reveal how Nokia’s next generation and SNAP Mobile gaming platforms will provide market defining solutions to the key issues and challenges faced by developers, operators and publishers today.

This is Sony Ericsson’s Black Diamond, a prototype concept phone by designer Jaren Goh. Not only does it look stunning, it’s designed to come fully loaded with cutting edge edge technologies and materials. Polycarbonate skin, mirror finished cladding, OLED screen providing a ‘borderless screen’ effect and 4 megapixel camera. All theoretical, of course, as it’s just a concept mock-up, but what a stunning design!