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Goldstriker International has won the questionable first prize in managing to produce the most expensive mobile phone in human history this week, The modified iPhone 3GS Supreme worth a reported £1.92 million.


GoldStriker International is known for the manufacturer of highly expensive handsets.The iPhone 3GS SUPREME designed by Stuart Hughes features a 22ct gold case weighing in at 271g with 136 flawless diamonds, totaling 68cts, embedded in the front bezel, a further 53 diamonds (totalling 1ct) serving to make up the read logo and a single cut 7.1ct serving to adorn the navigation button – making a total of 190 diamonds.

And it doesn't stop there, as the 'chest' that housed the iPhone 3GS SUPREME is, according the product page, 'made from a single block of Granite, in Kashmir gold with the inner lined with Nubuck top grain leather , which weight is a massive 7kg.'

The Stuart Hughes are presently listing the price of the unlocked iPhone 3GS SUPREME as 'to be announced' though they have confirmed that it's been valued at a cool £1.92 million (so we'll expect it to retail for more, possibly).

If you are one of the rare specimens who can actually afford to "order" one custom made for you, let us remind you that it will come in a chest made of granite and decked with Gold with a leather interior lining. This is one box you won't be sending for recycling! Head to the GoldStriker website if you want to know more or even if you wish to order one!

LG brings in the World's first transparent design handset with new Gesture Command touch navigation feature. Riding high on its classy designs, innovative aesthetics and excellent user interface, LG Electronics India Limited launched a completely new design concept of transparency with its LG GD900 Crystal. Rich on its arty appeal, the world's first transparent phone, LG GD900 with its drop-down touchpad is extremely beautiful, stylish and remarkably usable.

Ready to make a fashion statement, this new chic handset will make a perfect arm-candy and make you stand out from the crowd. Along with its appealing look, the LG-GD 900 has a heart of a winner. It is the first phone to feature LG's next generation touch technology and Gesture Command, which complements the much-praised 3D S-Class User Interface.

The handset features an 8 megapixel autofocus camera that displays photos on a high resolution 3-inch WVGA LCD touchscreen and with the auto-rotating display, photos look great every time. The handset also has a MP3 player and can hold up to 32GB of music, photos or data using the expandable memory card slot. The phone is Wi-Fi enabled, allowing user to connect to the internet via wireless hotspots and it also supports Bluetooth 2.1 for secure, high-speed connectivity to other devices.

The LG-GD900 Crystal's slide-down Crystal Touchpad first appears to just be an alphanumeric keypad, but it actually doubles as a touchpad for controlling the phone. It can be used like the trackpad on a laptop computer but also recognizes handwriting, responds to multi-touch commands and enables a new way of navigation called Gesture Command.

The crystal touchpad is completely transparent and illuminated with a soft glow. This scratch resistant design made from tempered glass and reinforced by a band of Liquid metal ensuring extended use.

"We wanted to give our consumers a super luxury experience and therefore, developed a handset that touts a gorgeous sliding keypad - the LG GD900 Crystal. The phone's transparent touchpad feature adds to the personality of our consumers and gives gizmo geeks a wonderful reason to possess it. Not only this, we have made a creative use of hardware through Gesture Command that provides control via simple, on-screen finger movements. We are positive that our new handset will become a winning model of the year," says Mr. Anil Arora, Business Group Marketing Head, Mobile Communications, LGEIL.

The LG GD900 Crystal Priced at Rs. 26,000 /- , the mobile phone is available in Chrome and Titen color choices at all retail outlets across the country.

Courtesy: LG Mobile India

Samsung Electronics Hong Kong today announced the launch of the Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C, a colorful and curvy designed full-touch phone with Handwriting, Cartoon User Interface (UI) and Upgraded Facebook Widget.

"Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is the most stylish communicator and is a must-have for trendsetters," said Billy Chen, director of the Telecommunications Team, Samsung Electronics Hong Kong. "The eye-catching colors and sensual design of Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C bring fun, vitality and excitement to users. This phone is designed to complement a dynamic lifestyle with the combination of Social Networking Services, usability and design. Customers can express their own style with pop colors and design, while staying connected with Social Network Widget access to Social Networks."

The Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is compact in a curved body design with pop-style contours making it easy to grip. This phone has four vivid color options -- Pudding Yellow, Citrus Orange, Cherry Pink and Whipped Cream White -- enabling customers to express their individual tastes. It also comes with two additional changeable covers – patterned "Fashion Jackets" and a black cover. In addition to the versatile exterior, the Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C has multiple options for colorful UI themes; it is fun and entertaining to operate the mobile phone in the exclusive Cartoon UI.

With the combination of Social Networking Widgets and Communities features, the Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C offers simple one-click uploads of favorite photos or video to popular Social Networking sites, including Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket and Friendster. This Samsung Anycall first-ever Twitter Widget and Upgraded Facebook Widget provides automatic notifications of news feeds, comments, and status updates. It also allows full browsing of inbox, profile, and friend status that allows users to stay connected with their friends.

Customers can zoom-in and out image or web page by simply pressing on the screen with the One Finger Zoom feature. The Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is also the first Samsung Anycall phone with a Chinese English Dictionary function. The innovative Smart Unlock function allows customers to unlock the phone and access functions or perform actions directly by drawing a preset alphabet from A to Z on the locked screen. This combination of speed and convenience is truly unrivalled. Built-in Chinese English Dictionary function makes learning English vocabulary easier and hassle free.

The Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is equipped with rich multimedia features, including a 2.0 Mega-pixel camera with Smile Shot, music player, and FM radio with RDS. With 50 MB of internal memory and microSDHC support (up to 8 GB), users can store favorite songs, photos, and videos. Bluetooth V2.1 and USB 2.0 provide fast connections to mobile peripherals, PCs and other devices for more convenient file transfers.

Courtesy: Samsung Electronics

Fly Mobile, the pioneers in dual SIM phones in Europe and a brand owned by the Meridian Group, headquartered in UK, today announced the launch and availability of two of its dual-SIM touch-screen mobile phone models in India that are high on design and loaded with features.

Targeted primarily at youth who not only love their music but love to flaunt their phones too, the two new dual-SIM touch-screen models- Fly MC160 and Fly E106, available for as low as Rs. 5,300 /- onwards, are all set to break the touch screen phone price barrier.

While touch-screen phones from other brands with similar features are pegged at Rs. 8000 /- onwards, these two mobile phones are poised to take the market by storm. Not to forget the fact that unlike competition, the MC160 and E106 have the dual-SIM capability which allows users to have two GSM connections in one instrument, making them an attractive proposition.

According to Mr. Prem Kumar, Chief Executive Officer (India Operations), Fly Mobile, "It is our constant endeavor to capture not just the requirements but also the aspirations of the users through continuous consumer research. These inputs are then incorporated into our products as features. This is possible only because we have our very own design and development facilities involved in incessant innovation enabling us to come up with superior products at unbelievably affordable prices. Of course, it also sets us apart from brands that are merely traders in cheap imports."

The Fly Mobile MC160 is a dual-SIM touch-screen phone that comes with a Yamaha chipset which produces music quality that touches the heart. What's more, this tri-band bar phone also has motion sensors, 3.2 mega-pixel camera, FM radio with FM recording capability, talk time of 4 hours and standby time of 200 hours, internal memory of 87 MB and expandable memory up to 8 GB, Bluetooth, EDGE and GPRS functionality.

Fly Mobile MC160's touch screen with 240 x 320 pixels resolution and 262K colours display ensures a brilliant representation of multimedia content with sharp and clear image. Additional features include MP3 ring tones, speaker phone, video recording, self-help feature, A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Protocol), card slot, mobile tracker with remote control capabilities, privacy protection feature, and a phonebook that can store up to 2000 records. Last but not the least, using a USB cable and expandable memory of the card inside, the phone can double up as a pen drive for data storage as well. This efficient phone is available at an affordable price of Rs. 6,000 /- only.

The Fly Mobile E106 is a sleek looking dual-SIM full touch-screen phone that's slender enough to slip into your pocket, and budget as well, easily. The main attraction is the crystal clear 2.4" QVGA screen with 262K colours and 240 x 320 resolution that displays images vividly enough. This dual-band phone also sports features like loud FM radio without earphones, FM recording capability, Bluetooth, GPRS, talk time of 4 hours and a standby time of 240 hours, A2DP, live MSN, motion sensors, 2 mega-pixel camera, speaker phone, card slot, MP3 ring tones, video recording, expandable memory up to 4 GB and a phone book that can hold 1000 records. This light weight and slender phone that can be used as a pen drive as well (as and when required using the USB cable and the expandable memory card) is available at an unbelievable price of Rs. 5,300 /- only.

Courtesy: Fly India

Nokia, world leader in manufacturing mobile handsets today announced the latest addition to its Nseries range, Nokia N97 mini in India which is a cheaper alternative to the Nokia N97.

The Nokia N97 mini mobile is equipped with QWERTY keyboard and fully customisable homescreen, stylish stainless steel cues, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, featuring a tilting 3.2" touch display, 3.5 mm headset jack and a powerful camera for experiencing quality photography and it has 8 GB internal memory for addressing storage needs of customers.

The Nokia N97 mini is a smaller mobile computer that has been designed for the style-conscious consumer.

Nokia N97 mini also comes with Lifecasting with Ovi through which users can publish their location and status updates directly to their Facebook account and other features include a digital compass, TV-out, document viewer, Flash Lite 3, video and photo editor, push email and multimedia player.

"More and more people today want to bring their physical and online worlds together via the internet. The Nokia N97 mini is designed for this new social internet and to help navigate people and places. Moreover, it comes in a pocket-friendly size for those out and about. With live feeds, personalized content, Lifecasting with Ovi, Ovi Mail and Ovi Store, the N97 mini provides web centricity to user in a compact case." said V Ramnath, Director-Operator Channels, Nokia India.

Nokia N97 mini available in three colours, viz, cheery black, garnet and white. The device will start shipping in the last week of November 2009 at Rs. 30,939 /-

Courtesy: Nokia India

Sony Ericsson today unveils the XPERIA X10, the first phone in a family of phones to deliver a consistent user experience where communication truly becomes entertainment. Building on Sony Ericsson's entertainment heritage and combining rich graphics with intelligence capabilities, the XPERIA X10 introduces a new UX platform that will evolve across the product portfolio and expand over time continuously introducing new features and capabilities.

The UX platform builds on top of the Open OS and creates a unique Sony Ericsson user experience by combining best-in-class entertainment features with signature applications, unrivalled integration of social media services and a rich graphical user interface. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is the first mobile phone to truly humanise the way people interact with their phones.

Bert Nordberg, President, Sony Ericsson said, "The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 and the family of phones launching in the first half of 2010 underpin our commitment to an open and multi-platform strategy that maximises choice for the consumer and delivers the best possible consumer experience. The reaction from our global operator partners to the XPERIA X10 has been extremely positive and we will be rolling out across the world including Japan from the first half of 2010."

Rikko Sakaguchi, EVP and Chief Creation Officer, Sony Ericsson said, "The XPERIA X10 is a fantastic example of our make. Believe philosophy because we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible and demonstrating that anything consumers can imagine, we can make possible. With the Sony Ericsson X10, we are raising the bar we have set ourselves with entertainment-rich phones like Aino and Satio by making communication more fun and playful, multiplying and enriching opportunities to connect."

Introducing signature applications like Mediascape and Timescape, the XPERIA X10 lets consumers organise everything in their phone in an intuitive way:
* Sony Ericsson Timescape manages all your communication with one person in one place. Browse through your conversations the bright way to check out your Facebook, Twitter, photos, emails, and texts all in one go
* Sony Ericsson Mediascape is the smart way to get all the music, photos and videos you want from your favourite friends and artists. It accesses content from everywhere – your phone, YouTube, PlayNow – and presents everything for you

Intelligence capabilities, integrated into Mediascape and Timescape, can automatically recognise connections between contacts, content and media. By recommending alternative ways to communicate or guiding to new media experiences, consumers can discover more in a truly open way. For example:
* Pressing the new "infinite button" guides you through the connected world, aggregating all your interactions with one person into one view
* Intelligent face recognition features recognise up to five faces in any picture, automatically connecting them with your social phonebook and all other related communications with that person.

Sony Ericsson's open approach gives consumers maximum choice and with the XPERIA X10, users can download any application that they want direct from a wide variety of stores including Play Now and the Android Market, co-creating an experience that is entirely unique to them.
Sony Ericsson is also introducing the new Wireless Stereo Headset with FM Radio - MW600. Featuring advanced Bluetooth technology and a built-in FM radio, MW600 lets you stream music to your headset in high fidelity through sound-enhancing ear-buds. With a crystal clear OLED display, easy access controls and RDS radio station information; you don't even need to take your phone with you to tune in to your favourite radio station.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 supports GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS HSPA 900/1700/2100 and UMTS HSPA 800/850/1900/2100

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 will be available in selected markets from Q1 in the colours Sensuous Black and Luster White.

Courtesy: Sony Ericsson

With the increase in the competition in the mobile phone companies, all the companies are launching new devices on a day to day basis. With the rise in competition even Motorola is not left behind, it has announced several stylish handsets at affordable rates.

Motorola India Private Limited has launched the multimedia MOTO ZN300, a sleek slider with 3.1megapixel camera and two MOTOYUVA WX candy bar entry-level handsets with FM radio - the MOTOYUVA WX160 and MOTOYUVA WX180. It has also launched the MotoYuva WX280 and MotoYuva WX288 with camera and sharing capabilities, and the MotoYuva WX390 and MotoYuva WX395 which combine all the WX features with added MP3 functionality.

The most stylish and recently launched handsets are Moto ZN300, Motoyuva WX160 and WX180.

The Moto ZN300 slider sports a 3.1 megapixel camera with LED flash and 8x digital zoom. The camera also includes ‘capture’ and ‘review’ modes that present neat and innate imaging experience. It also features Bluetooth, as well as has USB 2.0 high speed connection that transfers fifteen times faster than the conventional USB 2.0 full speed.

Added with Video editing capability and Video Mixer that helps to add customizable or preloaded transitions and sound effects to their videos, the ZN300 targets those who thrive on content consumption and creation.

While the Motoyuva WX180 consists of a .5-inch color display and integrated FM radio with RDS, the WX160 incorporates a 1.3-inch black and white display. Its powerful battery provides around 7 hours of talktime.

The other six offerings in the MOTOYUVA WX range seek to increase features with affordability in the basic phone category. The Moto ZN300 is retailed for Rs. 7,999 /- , the Motoyuva WX160 for Rs. 1,499 /- and WX180 for just Rs. 1,649 /-

Courtesy: Motorola