New slim Siemens mobile phone launched

Camera Phones, Radio phones, MP3 phones and now it's the era of slider phones With CF110, the youth can slide away from the crowd and be on the top with a new mobile experience. With a placid touch, the end user shall enjoy in the smooth functioning of the phone. A winner of iF product design Award 2006 the CF110, Siemens Phone has made a alluring launch.
An innovation, CF110 personifies style, design and remarkable functionality. The smooth sliding movement is almost automatic, a feature that will not only fascinate users' interest but will easily satisfy the desire of the trendy youth to stay ahead of the latest trends. The slider phone comes with a clear design language for the youth who consider a mobile as a fashion accessory. The nonchalant design of the slider phone is a cynosure and is a perfect accessory for an evening or a morning power.
The era of slide phones have dawned. The vibrant youngsters of the current generation aspire not just a phone but a phone which personifies their lifestyle and the style quotient With the Slider phone, they shall revel on top of the world across the latitude and longitude.
Weighing 76.5 gms, CF110 is a trendy slider phone equipped with a high color 65K TFT display screen enabling a better viewing angle. The nonchalant designed phone is a real attention grabber and is the perfect accessory, whether for evening wear or business outfits.
Priced at Rs5690, the CF-110 has glittering metal effects of the mere 18-mm flat, silver-colored housing augment its noble appearance The elegant slider phone is GPRS enabled and is equipped with speaker and voice recorder. By concentrating on the essentials in technical terms, the CF110 has everything needed for mobile communication. It comes in beautiful colors like Moonlight Silver and Midnight Blue.

Micron to buy vacant facility for $5M

Boise-based Micron Technology will buy a vacant computer-component manufacturing facility in Nampa, reported the Idaho Statesman newspaper. Micron, Idaho's largest private employer, said the former Zilog plant, which it will purchase for $5 million, will be used by the computer semiconductor producer to manufacture memory chips and image sensors in camera cell phones and digital cameras. ''The acquisition will free up space in our existing facilities and allow us to continue to meet expanding demand for our products,'' said Micron President Steve Appleton in a prepared statement. Last week Appleton said the company needs more space to keep up with growth in flash memory and image sensor markets. He said Micron's business is expanding with growth in the digital camera and cell phone industries, using Micron's image sensor products. The company also is growing with investments in flash memory production, used in iPods and other MP3 players in addition to their primary production, memory for personal computers.

Samsung to use Varioptic’s liquid lens?

Two big trends these days are the inclusion of “no moving parts” and megapixel cameras built into cell phones. Varioptic, basing their work on that of a couple of French universities in Lyon and Grenoble, are working on a liquid lens for some awesome auto-focus goodness. The lens is composed of a bead of oil suspended in a water solution. When voltage is applied to the edges of this “lens”, the bead of oil changes shape, and in effect, brings the picture into focus.In this way, this system has absolutely no moving parts. Amazing! It will only take up 5-15% of the power traditionally needed for an equivalent device, and what’s more, it does it at one-third the cost. The developers are saying that the Varioptic liquid lens can focus on objects as close as 5 centimeters. Demonstrations of the solution have shown that this system is capable of taking excellent resolution pics of business cards.Samsung has expressed some serious interest in this technology, and they “might issue” a commercially available camera phone equipped with the Varioptic liquid lens as early as Q3 of this year.

T-Mobile tickled pink with LG C3300 and Nokia 6111

Seems like you have more options than the Motorola RAZR if you’re looking for a pink phone. T-Mobile is on the cusp of carrying a pair of phones in the favourite colour of every valley girl – the LG C3300 and Nokia 6111.The pink LG C3300 clamshell is currently available at your local T-Mobile retailer, and it features a less than fantastic VGA camera with 4x digital zoom. You’ll be able to play some pretty fun games thanks to the built-in Java, and check who’s calling on the external display. Of course, the inner screen is a colour LCD. This phone isn’t much, but it’ll make a statement without breaking the bank. You can grab one for Pay as you go for about $100.The pink Nokia 6111 slider phone comes with a 1.0 megapixel camera, complete with 6x digital zoom and video recording functionality. Take pictures in the dark, even, because this phone comes with a flash. Connectivity is easy, because the tri-band Nokia 6111 (also available in black) supports Bluetooth, Infrared and USB. This handset will be hitting T-Mobile kiosks starting the first of next month, and will be available for a limited time only. Look for prices as low as $120 with a contract, and as high as $300 for Pay as you go.

Cellphones Get Smarter

Cell phones in Japan can now gather company information for users simply by being pointed at a building, retailer, hotel, or billboard advertisement. The phones, currently produced by Sony Ericsson, include GPS technology and a compass, along with GeoVector's Gvid spacial search-engine platform. NEC Magnus Communications will implement the Japanese version of GeoVector's search platform, and is marketing GeoVector's enabling service to Japanese content providers.
Through a partnership with NEC, GeoVector offers service and support to both enterprise and consumer mobile phone application providers. GeoVector introduced the technology in 1998, but had to wait for a telephone manufacturer to make a device with the GPS and compass capabilities and a telecom provider to include the application among the optional services subscribers could buy, according to Peter Ellenby, GeoVector's director of new media.
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KDDI, Japan's second-largest carrier, started offering the service on the phones earlier this month. Four other cell phone manufacturers, Kyocera, LG, Pantec, and Sharp also manufacture phones with the GPS and compass capabilities. Users pay about $3 per month for the service. KDDI, like other Japanese carriers, has an unlimited minutes plan, so it doesn't make any additional money from additional usage of the application.
The service is different from location-based services that enable a user to ask for nearby businesses and narrow them down by type, like restaurants. "Those are opt-out applications, this is opt-in," Ellenby says. "With the location-based services [consumers] can get hundreds of hits."
That's more than a typical cell phone user will want to scroll through, according to Ellenby. By contrast, Real World application users can set the desired distance of the information gathering for anywhere from 10 meters to a mile and also determine the radius for the search, so the user can point at a single business or at an entire block of stores to get information.
Ellenby predicts the technology getting more play in the Asia-Pacific market before coming to the United States. He foresees further expansion into Japan, Korea, and China, followed by Europe, and then the states. "The Japanese are quicker to adopt new [telecommunications] technology. They were the first to adopt the camera phones when they were first introduced in 2001. Within nine months, the Japanese market was saturated. They like to have the latest technology."

Cell Phones For The People

In mobile phones, the stars of the moment are multimedia wonders like the new Razr V3x from Motorola Inc. (MOT ) and Nokia Corp.'s (NOK ) top-of-the-line N-90 camera phone with Carl Zeiss optics. Yet for all the attention they grab, these pricey gizmos are a sliver of the 800 million unit-per-year mobile-phone business.
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Increasingly, the real action is at the unglamorous end of the scale, among bare-bones Nokia and Motorola models priced under $50. Sales of such phones, which often handle just voice and text messaging, could grow 100% annually for the next five years.There are now about 2 billion mobile-phone users in the world, and market penetration is above 50% in advanced countries. But as prices for phones and service drop, another billion customers could sign up by 2010 from places such as China, India, Brazil, and Russia. "All the growth in subscribers is coming from emerging markets," says David Taylor, Motorola's director of strategy and operations for high-growth markets.For now, the only serious contenders in this segment are Nokia and Motorola. As the world's No. 1 and No. 2 makers, respectively, they're the only companies able to churn out ultracheap phones with the features, quality, and brand names customers want. "This market is suited to mega-vendors with economies of scale," says senior analyst Neil Mawston with researcher Strategy Analytics, near London. Samsung Group, LG Electronics, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications haven't yet announced plans to sell sub-$50 handsets, preferring to rake in rich profits at the high end. That strategy could backfire, though, as the market shifts.Emerging low-cost Chinese makers have a different problem: Their volumes aren't high enough to match the efficiencies enjoyed by Nokia and Motorola, so they lose money on rock-bottom handsets. Also, they're not as adept at shrinking electronics and producing durable packages. Plus, status-conscious buyers in the Third World turn up their noses at unknown marques. "Brazilians want brand names and are willing to pay a bit more for Nokia and Motorola," says Sérgio Pelegrino, director of GSM for Brasil Telecom.Of course, moving downscale also poses risks. On Oct. 20, Nokia reported it sold 15 million entry-level 1100 series handsets in the third quarter alone. But despite an overall 29% jump in net profits, Wall Street was spooked by a 5.6% year-over-year decline in Nokia's average selling price, to $122.40, and drove shares down 4.5%. Analyst Albert Lin with American Technology Research Inc. in San Francisco thinks investors underestimate Nokia's ability to prosper in the low-price segment: "These phones can actually have higher margins than high-end models."