Do you willing to carry this jumbo-size touch screen phone with 5-inch Touch-sensitive LCD display? This gigantic Windows-powered phone is manufactured by QiGi, a China-based cell phone maker. Named QiGi SMARTBOOK U1000, this touch phone is bigger than HTC HD2 or any Windows phone in the market, weights 187g, and has measurement of 142.2 × 85.2 × 11.8mm. The QiGi U1000 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and is powered Marvell Monahans PXA310 624MHz processor with 128MB RAM and 256MB ROM. It is lack of 3G connectivity, which makes it less useful.

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Previously, we had reported about this mini touch screen phone from China, manufactured by K-Touch. Now, we have clear slots of this pretty sleek looking phone. We also get the details specs of this phone this time. The phone has 2.4-inch QVGA touch screen at 240×320 resolution, 2-megapixel digital camera, FM radio, dual-SIM, Analog TV antenna, and MP3 player.

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We have clear shots of Puma phone, a solar-powered touch screen phone made by Sagem. The Puma phone was unearthed in the WMC 2010 last month, and the people attending the event instantly fall in love to this phone that “not like all those other phones”. Let’s take a close look of this sporty phone.

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China’s “ShanZai” cell phone factories release a quite innovative mini touch screen phone with dual SIM, MP3 player, Analog TV receiver, FM tuner, and dual cameras. The model name of the phone is K-Touch X90+. Too bad the phone won’t run in US even though if you are brave enough to try out this phone. This is because the K-Touch only supports dual GSM frequency.

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National Football League (NFL) and Verizon Wireless announced a new partnership to show live games and the NFL popular RedZone channels on Verizon Wireless mobile phones starting next league season. This is a 4-year contract agreement, worth estimated $720 million, that Verizon Wireless signed with NFL.

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PocketGear today announced that they had bought Handango, creating the world’s largest cross-platform mobile app store. The new app store will have 140,000 free and paid apps for Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Palm, Linux and Java phones.

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Engadget.com had some close shots of Sagem Puma phone, which is the first Puma Phone. As far as we know, the name of the phone is Puma M1. It is a full touch screen phone with a large solar panel on its rear side. The phone hasn’t been officially launched yet, but it will be unearthed at WMC sometimes today or tomorrow. Please check back for more official launch picture. What we have right now are sneak peak pictures of the phone.

Here are so close shots of Samsung Armani II, also known as Samsung B7620U, a touch screen phone powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. This phone was just launched in China a couple of days ago, and it was customized to support Chinese language display and input. The Armani II runs on a 800MHz processor. It has Wi-Fi / WAPI, 3G, and Windows Mobile Apps. Selling price in China is about 10,000 RMB, roughly $1450 USD.

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China Mobile, the world largest mobile network, today announced that its upcoming OMS 2.0 (open mobile system) will support Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, and also Android. OMS is China Mobile’s own browser-based application engine (BAE) that allows the carrier to have its own online mobile application store just like Apple’s iTune.

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A couple of weeks of ago, Dell said that the Mini 5 was just a prototype. Now, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, said the Mini 5 will be launched “in a couple of months” in the Techcrunch interview. Video interview after jump.

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Two research firms, Strategy Analytics and IDC, today reported that the global mobile phone sales increases more than 10 percent in 2009 and 11.3 percent in the last quarter of 2009. The market leaders of mobile phone are Nokia, Samsung, and LG, with Samsung is trying hard to get bigger market share from Nokia, whose has about 40 percent market share. In the last quarter of 2009, Samsung sold 69 million phones, up 31 percent over the last quarter of 2008. Apple, at the meanwhile, shipped a record 8.7 million iPhones and reached 2.7 percent market share in the fourth quarter of 2009. The market shares of Samsung, LG, and Motorola are 17.1 percent, 8.8 percent, and 3.7 percent respectively.

While the world is waiting for the official release of iSlate, Apple’s first tablet pc, Steve Jobs might have something to surprise the iPhone users – iPhone OS 4.0 with real multitasking capabilities. Besides having better multitasking technology, the iPhone OS 4.0 will get “many” graphical and interface changes. Please stay tuned for more updates.

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