Japanese web and telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp. has teamed up with Apple Computer Inc. to create new mobile phones that will have built-in iPod digital music players, another child born in the era of technological blending.

Softbank and Apple are set to launch this third-generation phone as early as this year first in Japan. Users will be able to download music from iTunes Music Store online when connected to personal computers. The novelty is aimed at young people who enjoy listening music perpetually on the go.

Sceptics do not put much credit in the hopes that the service will become popular enough and stay here for long. Who is going to use cellphones to download music, they ask. However, music downloads have been quite a business lately and as of today you can download songs and tunes from the music service offered by your mobile operator.

However, Apple is already stirring some discontent among the labels, who complain that Apple’s policies are insensitive to the goals that music companies pursue and limit their business.

Apple plans to sell any download for 99 cents each, while labels want to diversify sales and offer less popular CDs that are on sales across the country for 9.99 American dollars. They are also eager to set a higher price for more popular releases to satisfy the market demand.

Mobiles have already made watches and notebooks redundant, now it is time for digital music players. The number of gadgets is getting smaller, while gadgets themselves become more of an all-in-one device. How successful the attempt will be, we will be able see later this year. At least it will be possible to listen to a nice tune instead of hearing out somebody teaching you lessons.

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Samsung today has officially unveiled that it is about to launch the skinniest mobile phone ever made. The device is 6.9mm thin, which means that it has surpassed Motorola’s SLVR of 11.5mm in its thinness. Its advertisement pictures flashed the websites around the world. The shot features two Russian ladies holding the new Samsung and demonstrating how wafer-thin it is from Red Square.

The razor-thin mobile is a bit thicker at the top of the handset where a two-megapixel camera is installed. The device is packed in with Bluetooth, boasts an 80MB of built-in memory, USB port and a media player that supports various formats, including MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and WMA.

The SGH-X820 is as light as a feather and weighs 66g. With such dimensions it can easily fit even the smallest of clutches. The other parameters of the device are 113mm x 50mm.

It is understood that mobile phones, unlike humans, are still either slim or smart. Producers and developers are striving for perfection and to attain the best combination. With the SGH-X820, its design and style are rather traditional; the keypad is conventional Samsung, while the keys are separate.

The Samsung model in question supports GPRS/EDGE data on 900MHz, 1800MHz, and 1900MHz GSM bands. It has a 1.9″, 176×220 pixel display rich with 262k colors. It can be viewed in landscape mode for some functions.

The mobile is targeted mainly at boasters, who want to slip the device into their wallets. The price of the novelty is still unknown, but the sources say it might be rather “hefty.”

Samsung is one of the leaders on the present-day market of mobile devices. Their devices are often characterized as of a “higher-price” range. They are reliable and packed in with the most advanced applications and functions. Samsung also produces various electronics and is “a proud sponsor of numerous sports events.”

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Two French companies Alcatel and Elle have launched a glamphone called Elle. For some people fashionable phones like any other fashionable things do not necessarily mean functionality. Actually, in most glamphones fucntionality comes the second.

It is a trendy thing, this phone. It has a touch of seduction, style and elegance. It has a mirrored screen that can also be used for refreshing your make-up. The phone comes in two colours: red and black and its target audience is city women that exude success and femininity.

The phone is designed to be worn on the neck, its weight is 90 g, which is good by modern standards. But it is can be uncomfortable to wear it on the neck because of its bulkiness.

What other functions and features does it have? You can definitely use it for calling your friends and relatives and a sweet stranger, who left you his phone number and asked to give him a ring, because you said that you are not in the habit of giving your number to sweet strangers.

It has two screens, eternal and external. The external one has 65,000 colors. The phone book can house 500 names. SMS, MMS, E-mail client for readig and sending e-mails, internal memory of 3 MB, downloadable ringtones, games, Java applications and screensavers - everything that a modern woman needs urgently.

Unfortunately, there is no MP3 function in the phone. Unfortunately, the manual is in French. Luckily, there are downloadable manuals available in English, Spanish, Italian and again French. The phone offers the following language options: French, English, German and Italian. Sorry, Spanish lady.

The Elle phone included accessories are car kit, cigarette charger, travel charger and a battery. Video recording 10 to 30 s, but no zoom and no flash.

Well, it sounds like this handset is really more of an accessory in itself rather than a phoning tool. Though it can be helpful for communication.

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