The leading company in mobile phone innovation and design, HTC Corporation (High Tech Computer Corporation) has announced an updated version of its popular HTC Touch Cruise smartphone - (same name) new HTC Touch Cruise, which boasts a new, more compact and sophisticated design, featuring a bundle of new capabilities, and revolutionary HTC Footprints geo-tagging application that allows users to permanently chronicle their special precious moments by capturing a digital postcard on their smartphone.

According to HTC, “Once captured, Footprints provides the ability to take notes and an audio clip of that favourite restaurant or special place while identifying its specific geographical location. In addition to identifying each postcard with its specific GPS co-ordinates, Footprints also auto-names each postcard with its general location or area.”

Key Specifications Of New HTC Touch Cruise:

• 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 chipset
• 512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM
• 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
• 3.2 megapixel camera with geotagging and fixed focus
• HTC TouchFLO, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter and HTC Footprints buttons
• GPS/A-GPS
• Included car cradle transforms your smartphone into a simple to use turn-by-turn navigator
• Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for stereo wireless headsets
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps connectivity
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS
• microSD memory expansion slot
• HTC ExtUSB interface
• Talk time (GSM): up to 400 minutes ; Standby time (GSM): up to 2 weeks

“Just as we have seen GPS technology transform how people navigate to new places, we are now seeing location-based applications like HTC Footprints changing how we interact and carry our memories,” said Peter Chou, President and CEO, HTC Corporation.

The new HTC Touch Cruise personal navigation handset which measures 102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm and weights just 103 grams is expected to be available in spring 2009.

The world’s leader in mobile communication, Sony Ericsson recently has announced a special Butterfly edition T303 handset for the upcoming Valentine’s Day. T303 Butterfly offers a pink chrome casing with butterfly and flower design on the rear, a reflective mirror glass display as well as a matching charm and carrier pouch.

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The specification of T303 Butterfly is same as the original T303 with 14.7 mm thickness, weight 93 grams, 1.8 inch TFT screen with 56K colors and battery life up to 9 hours talk-time as well as 400 hours of standby time.

Beside that, it also built in with other features includes GPRS, Bluetooth 2.0 USB, Java MIDP 2.0, 1.3 mega pixel camera, MP3 player, FM radio with RDS, TrackID along with games plus downloadable games, calculator, calendar, stopwatch, tasks, voice memo, SMS, T9, MMS and built in hands-free.

The T303 Butterfly is design exclusively for Orange shop users and will be available at Orange shop starting at the end of January for the price of $39.99.

The Korean electronic giant, Samsung has announced its latest entry level phone which known as Samsung S3500. Samsung S3500 is a slider phone with measurement of 99.9 x 48.0 x 13.9mm and features with QVGA display screen that comprises of 262 K colors. Beside that, it also integrated with a 2 mega pixel camera which able to allow users to capture images and stores the pictures into their phone.

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The Samsung S3500 also features with FM radio and music player. Additionally, it also allows users to shares their music or images through Bluetooth or USB ports. Other features of the phone like able to access emails, WAP browser, organizer, 35MB of internal memory and external memory card slot. Currently, the availability and the price not yet release.