Here we have another rugged phone from a relatively new cell phone maker, Sonim. The phone is named Sonim XP1300 Core, an IP68 certified phone that is built to withstand dust, and can be submerged in water at depths greater than 1 meter. Besides having tough body, the XP1300 Core phone also features a media player, Bluetooth, web browser, and slower GPRS/EDGE connectivity. The phone will be launched at the beginning of October this year, but there are no words about its pricing.

MasterCard today announced that its MoneySend App, which is first available on iPhone, is now also available for BlackBerry smartphones. MoneySend App allows users in US to send or request money via BlackBerry phone through participating banks and credit unions or when they create a virtual prepaid account through Bancorp Bank. According to MasterCard, personal and financial information will not be stored on BlackBerry phone, so user don’t have to worry about phone being stolen. This service is not free, certain Bancorp Bank fees apply.

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MetroPCS today launched a candy-bar shaped phone – ZTE Agent from ZTE, one of the largest cell phone makers in China. The ZTE Agent is pretty basic phone. It comes equipped with a 2.4-inch LCD display (320 x 240 resolution), 1.3-megapixel digital camera, Mp3 player with dedicated music buttons, and a 900mAh battery that provides up to 6 hours of talk time. Its selling price is pretty reasonable – $69.99 with MetroPCS unlimited plans.

If your cell phone battery is dead, and you are thinking of borrowing a cell phone from someone to make a quick call, don’t do that! This is because you could potentially get disease by using somebody else’s phone. According to Scotland’s Herald, cell phones could be spreading potentially killer diseases because people do not wash their hands.

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Vonage, a US-based VoIP company, today announced a free app for Apple iOS and Android, for marking free VoIP calls between Facebook friends. The Vonage app will be available at iPhone App Store and Android Market. By installing this app, users could make free VoIP calls via 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi to Facebook contacts who also have the app installed on their phones. The application also supports IM chat, and it will also show friends who have installed the application. If you are interested in downloading this Vonage app, try search for “Vonage” in iPhone App Store or Android Market.

Fly, a not too well known cell phone maker, today announced a new touch screen phone called E160 in Russia. The E160 has sleek rounded corner and nice features and specifications. It comes equipped with a 2-megapixel digital camera, dual SIM card slots, a microSD card slot (supports up to 16GB), MP3 player, video player, 3.5mm headphone jack. Application wise, it comes pre-loaded with Nimbuzz, iDeaWidgets, and Opera Minibrowser. The best thing about this phone is it is cheap – 4,190 Rubles (about $139).

When a phone is out of battery, it takes long time to get the phone fully charged. The new kind of battery – Graphene Battries is developed to solve this problem by cutting down charging time from 2 hours to about 10 minutes.

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Features wise, BlackBerry phones are excellent, but you got to admit that BlackBerry is no way as sexy looking as iPhone. It looks like RIM is trying to change people’s perspective towards BlackBerry. That’s why they hired designer Abhay Vir to comes out this BlackBerry Curve 9999 concept phone that looks a lot sexier. The concept phone features a full QWERTY keyboard, a 5-megepixel digital camera, and a touch screen display. Please share your opinions about this concept phone below.

Taiwan-based cell phone manufacturer, Altek, is set to launch a new smartphone with a whopping 14-megapixel digital camera in June. The LEO phone is probably the world’s first cell phone with a 14-megapixel digital camera. Featuring a big touch screen, 3X optical zoom, 720P high-definition video recording, and LED Xenon flash, the Altek LEO is phone to watch in this summer. According to Altek spokesmen, the phone will be shown in CommunicAsia show in Singapore in June.

KDDI today unearthed 10 new cell phones in Japan for summer 2010. The new phones are Hitachi beskey, Casio Exilim CA005, Sony Ericsson Cybershot S003, Sony Ericsson BRAVIA S004, Sharp AQUOS Shot SH008, Sharp Solar Phone SH007, Toshiba Regza Phone T004, Sanyo SA002, Kyocera K005, Pantech S PT001. Believe it or not, all these phones are waterproof!

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HANMAC, a relatively unknown luxury phone maker, officially enters China. HANMAC set up a booth at Beijing Auto Expo 2010 to display its luxury phone and target China’s super-rich. The phone that is in the display booth is a quad-band GSM phone with a Sharp’s 3-inch 26-million color LCD screen, Yahama sound decoder, WiFi, 3-megapixel digital camera, and GPS. It also has some features that you won’t find in other regular phones – compass, themoeter, altimeter, and hygrometer.

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Intel today unearthed the interfaces of MeeGo, a new device operating system that is developed by Nokia and Intel. From the images that Intel showed to the world, the MeeGo OS looks pretty promising. It will come loaded with Google Chrome, Firefox, WiFi, WiMax, VPN, 3G, and other wireless connectivity. Nokia N900 will be the first mobile phone to runs on MeeGo operating system. Intel planned to release the version 1 of MeeGo OS sometimes in May. We estimate the Nokia N900 will be launched at the same time.

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