KDDI is set to launch a solar-powered cellular phone in Japan sometimes in the summer. The picture shown above is the solar-powered concept phone that will be developed by Sharp. According to KDDI, the phone will feature a big solar panel, which could provide up to 1 minute of talk time or 2 hours of standby time for 10 minutes of sunlight. KDDI is confident that this still unnamed solar-powered phone will on sales by June of 2009.

Do you still remember the ancient coin-operated telephone that charges dimes per call? Now, we have cell phone that is operated by coins too. Picture shown above is a real coin operated cell phone, named 100-F and manufactured by a new Latvian manufacturer called Lirpa (like me, you probably think it is manufactured by a Chinese company). If you don’t have coins, no problem, the phone takes credit cards too. The phone will be available in UK pretty soon, and the UK-version of 100-F is going to have £1 coin slot for calls and a 10p slot for texts.

U.S. Cellular officially announces LG Banter phone today. The LG Banter is a sibling of LG Rumor 2, offered by Sprint Nextel. Like the Rumor 2, LG Banter also has a full QWERTY keyboard that slide out from the side. The phone features a 1.3-megapixel digital camera, MP3 music player, Video Player, and Stereo Bluetooth connectivity.

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Korean cell phone maker, SK, announced a brand new slider phone, Ufit WG-S608, in Taiwan yesterday. The Ufit WG-S608 phone has two SIM card slots, supports 3G + GSM network. Features of the phone include a built-in 3.0-megapixel digital camera, MP3 music player, microSD memory expansion slot that supports up to 4GB, USB connector, FM Radio, and 128MB of internal memory. Thanks to 3G capability, the S608 allows users to make video conferencing calls, and browse Internet at close-to-broadband speed.

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Car makers have pioneered pink slip protection, and now, cell phone carrier, Virgin Mobile USA is going to offer similar protection for its subscribers. Today, Virgin Mobile USA announced a new unemployment assistance program and new national prepaid plans.

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RIM is ready to launch the 2nd generation of the not-so-loved BlackBerry Storm phone. Since the launch of the RIM’s first touchscreen phone, users have been writing their disappointments of the 1st generation of BlackBerry Storm at HandCellPhone.com. (Read users’ reviews of BlackBerry Storm here). It looks like RIM is determined to repair the images of BlackBerry Storm by adding features that are lacked in the 1st generation.

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US are ready to make SMS SPAM history. Two senators, Olympia Snowe and Bill Nelson, introduced the m-SPAM Act last week, which give FCC (Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission) more authority to regular SMS SPAM, and prohibit sending commercial text messages to wireless number listed on the Do Not Call registry.

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Neutrano officially launched Neutrano Wristfone at CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas, US. The Wristfone runs on GSM network, which means you could get it to run on GSM carriers, such as AT&T and T-Mobile. The Wristfone has an array of quite impressive features, including a small touch-sensitive screen, a 2.0-megapixel digital camera, a MP3 music player, Bluetooth connectivity, USB port, and a microSD memory expansion slot. It has 512 MB internal memory, 3 days standby time, and up to 4 hours of talk time.

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This rumor starts from a analyst from Lazard Capital Markets said that Apple has planned for the production of 32GB iPhone. The analyst got the conclusion referring to the company’s source from NAND memory industries. Besides that, the analyst also mentioned about the possibility of having two versions of iPhone 2009 – low end version and high end version. The low end version of iPhone will be selling in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, India, and Russia.

According to the leaked source, the Sony Ericsson IIDA G9 will be announced in Japan pretty soon. You might be wondering what the heck is “IIDA”. In fact, IIDA name is pretty meaningful, it means Innovation, Imagination, Design, and Art. The IIDA G9 phone features a 3.0-inch FWVGA (480×854 resolution) TFT screen, a 3.2-megapixel digital camera, 1Seg digital TV support, Walkman Premier 3 MP3 music player, 3.5mm headset jack, and 700MB memory space.

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Previously we had seen the solar-powered phones from Samsung (Samsung Blue Earth) and ZTE (ZTE Coral-200), now we have Scosche Bluetooth speakerphone powered by an integrated solar panel and lithium ion rechargeable. Scosche named the speakerphone solChat. solChat has very simple design, featuring only three buttons – volume up, volume down and the answer/hang-up multifunction button. solChat comes shipped with a USB charging cable and a car adaptor that could be used to charge the solChat if the speakerphone doesn’t get enough sunlight.

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Our friends at FCC accidentally leaked several photos of Motorola MOTO QA4. According to the leaked source, the MOTO QA4 has a built-in 5.0-megapixel digital camera, and a 2.8-inch TFT touchscreen. The QA4 phone is equipped with Stereo Bluetooth, A-GPS (GPS receiver), MP3 music player, Widget, Google Search, and YouTube player. The phone supports CDMA2000 1X/CDMA2000 1X EV-D version of 3G network.

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