Verizon Wireless today beefed up its line of rugged phones by announcing the cool looking Casio G’zOne Rock. Normally, a rugged phone is super ugly (you could try to view the line-up of Sprint Nextel’s rugged phones and see how ugly there are), but this Casio G’zOne Rock looks quite hot. Designed to resist water, shock, and dust, the Casio G’zOne Rock is perfect for people who love outdoor activities. The phone has advanced G’zGear software that operates in six modes, including Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset and Tides, with the help of its Triple Sensor technology. Whether your lifestyle has the demands of an avid fisher, hunter, hiker or climber, the Rock is prepared to handle life’s most challenging obstacles while providing directional information.

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Pictures of Sony Ericsson Kurara phone are leaked in the Internet. The rumor said that the Kurara is a full touch screen phone that runs on Symbian S60 V5 operating system and a 600 Mhz ARM Cortext A8 processor. It has 3.2-inch TFT touch screen, and an impressive 8-megapixel digital camera, which also could be used as a camcorder to record high-definition 720P video clips with sound.

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Google’s Android OS is by far the closest challenger for Apple’s iPhone OS in this crazy mobile OS market right now. Although Android is the strongest challenger, there is still a huge gap between Android and iPhone, as iPhone has thousands of Apps, and Android only has several hundreds apps, which make users don’t like Motorola Droid as much as they would. To increase the market share of Android, ARM today announced the opening of a new resource called “Solutions Center for Android” to help Android developers. You might be wondering why ARM is doing such a good favor for Google. It is because Android is actually built to run on the ARM architecture. So, the more support ARM gives to Android, the more chips they sell to cell phone makers who manufacture Android-powered phones.

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AT&T Wireless today announced that the new LG Shine II phone with stylish and elegant stainless steel body and polished edges will be available at AT&T stores on November 22, right before Thanksgiving. AT&T spokesman said that the phone has a reflective 2.2-inch LCD screen has wide angle viewing, which AT&T called it “Multi-Angle Vision technology”, allowing users can see content from all different angles.

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Casio today announced the clumsy-looking IT-800 RGC-35, a rugged phone with a big 3.7-inch LCD screen. Believe it or not, this super stupid looking phone is powered by Windows Mobile operating system (possibly Windows 6.5 mobile). As you can see from the picture, the phone doesn’t have QWERTY keyboard. The only piece of information we know is the Casio IT-800 RGC-35 is designed to resist water, dust and shock, which is what a rugged phone is designed for anyhow.

Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, today announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition that supports mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H) for watching live high-definition TV channel on the phone’s 2.4-inch QVGA screen. After marketing MP3 phones, and Camera phones for several years, it is the time for cell phone makers to focus on the rising TV phones and the sell-like-hot-cakes touch phones. “With mobile broadcast TV consumption on the rise – by 2012 there will be over 300 million people worldwide watching TV on their mobile phones – this handset offers easy access to anyone wanting to enjoy an exceptional live, on-the-move TV experience.”

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It looks like Toshiba hired some models from “Victoria Secrets” to help launching the Toshiba TG01 in Taiwan. The sexy models showed off the Toshiba TG01, a full touch screen phone powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 and 1GHz of Qualcomm SnapDragon processor, in the launch event. I am not sure how the attendants could focus on the TG01 phone instead of the upper body of the models.

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Nokia today release three new CDMA phones, which are Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806, and Nokia 1506, in Beijing, the capital city of China. These new Nokia phones are not as sexy looking as China’s Michael Jackson phone; in fact, they look very dull and old. However, Nokia seems like very confident that these new phones will sell in China, the electronics manufacturing hub for the world.

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If you are a mobile software developer, and would like design a program that runs on all the mobile OS in the market, you better kill yourself before you start coding. Today, Samsung announced another new “open-source” mobile platform called “bada”. I personally have lost count how many mobile operating system out there in the market, and this OS release from Samsung doesn’t seem like a big breakthrough, although Samsung promises that the “bada” OS will provide simple and intuitive user experiences with innovative visual design.

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Verizon Wireless saved the best till the last. Out of the four phones (the other three are BlackBerry Curve 8530, Samsung Convoy, and LG Chocolate Touch) that VZ launched today, the best is the HTC Droid Eris full touch screen phone powered by Google’s Android operating system. The Droid Eris runs on HTC Sense user interface that allow users to create customized home screen that suit their needs. Users could customize a seven-panel wide home screen with a wide variety of widgets designed to bring the most important information to the surface.

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Besides launching LG Chocolate Touch, and BlackBerry Curve 8530, Verizon Wireless today also unearthed the Samsung Convoy, a rugged Push-to-Talk phone that is built to meet military specifications to withstand the harshest of elements. The Samsung Convoy looks just like one of those ugly Nextel phones that are designed for on-field workers. The Convoy features a long battery life, Push to Talk capabilities that leverage Verizon Wireless’ Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A), VZ navigator (GPS navigation), 2-MP digital camera, and stereo speaker.

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BlackBerry Curve 8530, the latest Curve-series smartphone from RIM, is now available at Verizon Wireless as well. The Verizon Wireless’s version of Curve 8530 is pretty much just like T-Mobile’s Curve 8520, except the VZ’s Curve 8530 supports its own Verizon Wireless GPS services.

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