I think this guy must be going crazy! No one will be willing to take Nexus One apart as the phone costs $530 USD! If you are going to get a Nexus One, these images will help you learn more about Nexus One, without having to taking it apart yourself.

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Everybody knows that mobile services industry is a fast growing money making industry. The recent research from Informa Telecoms & Media estimated that the total revenues of mobile services would hit $1 trillion dollars mark by 2013. Yes, that is a lot of money, and that’s every single tech company that you know are jumping into this mobile industry.

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To all HandCellPhone.com readers and users, we would to wish you all happy new year. 2009 had been a wonderful year, and HandCellPhone.com had developed many features to help users get the information that you all want. We have some plans for 2010, but we would like to know what features you guys would like to have. Please feel free to post your opinions here. Again, Happy New Year! Thanks for your support!

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India, the world 2nd largest population country, has more than 500 million wireless phone users in 2009. As of November of 2009, the total number of wireless and mobile (GSM, CDMA, fixed wireless phone) stood at 506.04 million, 3.61 percent increase from 488.40 million in the previous month. China is still the country that has the largest mobile users, has more than 700 million users in 2009. For sure there is still room for growth in India and China as their populations are 1.14 billion and 1.3 billion respectively.

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As it is approaching to the year end, it is time to look at how the Great Reccession has affected the sales of mobile phones. Surprisingly, the sales don’t decline as much as projected, thanks to the strong sales from Asia and Western Europe. The sales of mobile phones was 1.214 billion units, a 0.67% decline from 2008. Gartner now predicts sales in 2010 will show a 9% increase from 2009.

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eprice.com.tw has leaked information about the new phones that HTC will launch in 2010. According to the leaked source, there will be 8 new full touch screen phones released or planned to be released in the first half of 2010. The phones are HTC Legend, HTC Salsa, HTC Tide, HTC Buzz, HTC Performance, HTC Bravo, HTC Photon, HTC Trophy, and HTC Tera. Out of the 8 phones, only 3 phones run on Windows Mobile OS, the rest run on Android OS! We are not sure how Steve Ballmer could have a stress less Christmas holidays after seeing the loyal Windows mobile OS supporter, HTC, is aligning themselves more with Google’s Android.

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Believe it or not, this is a real iPhone that has been transformed into a luxurious phone with gold and diamonds. According to GoldStriker, the maker of this crazy phone, the housing of the phone is made of 271 grams of 22K gold, and 136 diamonds weighting 68 carats. The craziest part is if you look at the back of the phone, the diamond Apple logo is made of 53 diamonds. I believe this might be what Steve Jobs want for his Christmas.

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Do you still remember the Bada mobile operating system that was announced in less than 1 month ago? This time we have the first Samsung phone that runs on its own Bada operating system. According to the leaked source, the phone features a whopping 4.2-inch LCD touch screen and amazingly 12-megapixel digital camera with features such as smile detection, geo-tagging, auto-focus, and ISO 3200, easily surpassing any camera phone in the market. Users could also use the same camera lens to record high-definition 1080P videos with this Bada phone.

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China’s underground cell phone maker released a special Michael Jackson phone. Well, we are not encouraging you to buy China’s “Shanzai” (black market) phones, you got to love the design of this Michael Jackson phone that is so cool. I bet the world’s largest cell phone makers, such as Nokia and Samsung have never ever released a phone that is as cool as this Michael Jackson phone. Maybe, it is the time for Nokia to hire the designers behind this phone.

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ZTE, one of the largest telecommunication equipment makers in China, together with Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais (TMN) launched the Bluebelt II and SilverBelt phones in Portugal. The Bluebelt II is a candy-bar shaped smartphone powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest Windows Mobile OS that was recently announced by Microsoft. This 3G phone features a touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, and a 5.-megapixel digital camera. It supports UMTS, GSM, EDGE, and GPRS network.

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Nokia Booklet will be available at BestBuy stores nationwide in November, right before ThanksGiving holidays. As the first netbook of Nokia, the Nokia Booklet is a rare product from the Finland-based cell phone maker. The Nokia Booklet features a 10.1 inch HD LCD screen, A-GPS with Ovi Maps, Ovi Suite for data synchronization, SD card reader, 3G, and Wi-Fi connectivity. It weighs less than 2.76 pounds, measures slightly more than two centimeters thin. The selling price is going to be $299.99 with an AT&T Data Connect plan two-year activation. While made-in-Asia netbooks, such as Acer and Asus, are sold for less than the price of Booklet, it is hard to say whether the Nokia Booklet is going to be big success.

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NTT DoCoMo, the giant mobile phone operator in Japan, today announced a green prototype phone called Touch Wood phone, which is made with surplus wood of trees culled during thinning operations to maintain healthy forests. Usually, natural wood casing isn’t suitable for a mobile as they don’t last long. However, because of the special three-dimensional compression molding developed by Olympus Corporation, the Touch Wood wood casing is resistant to water, insects, and mildew.

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