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The new device has received name Voxtel W520, and it is officially confirmed by the representatives of the same company. However, there isn’t much information about new communicator yet. It is known, that the device is based on Texas Instruments OMAP730platform, has 2,4 inch display and, as the manufacturer assures, the size is less than of ordinary communicator. Unfortunately, operational system on Voxtel W520 is Windows Mobile 5.0 , not Windows Mobile 6.0, but with an update package AKU 3.
There are also 2,0 Mpixel camera, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module, and also 64 Mb RAM and 128 Mb ROM. According to some information, communicator has memory card slot for microSD. And the last, but not confirmed with official sources: the price, as well as much of this device while remains under question. On preliminary estimations, it should not rise too high, having left Voxtel W520 in class of “budgetary” communicators.

LG has received awards in 29 nominations, including the award “ Best of the best ” for phone PRADA by LG whose complete touch-sensitive control has already been actively discussed all over the world. LG achievements have eclipsed even last year’s success of the company at the contest when the company has received 20 awards and also had won two awards “Best of the best”.
Phone PRADA by LG (LG-KE850), first-ever phone with complete touch-sensitive control and the winner in a nomination “ Best of the best ” Red Dot, has been developed by LG Electronics and well-known PRADA design house. Unique phone combines LG high technologies with unsurpassed design from PRADA.
Among other products - winners from LG - phone SHINE made in two variants: as a slider, and in the classical form; popular microwave SolarDOM, two-door refrigerator ” Art DIOS “, the LCD-TV, the plasma TV, all three models of Fantasy monitors, MP3-player with the touch screen and many other products.
Red dot Design Awards, alongside with iF Design Award, is one of the most prestigious design competitions of the consumer goods in Europe. Solemn ceremony of rewarding will take place on June, 25, 2007 in theatre Aalto, Essen (Germany).

Fujitsu has produced two laptops with the flash-memory instead of a hard disk. Ultracompact laptops with touchscreen LifeBook P1610 and B6210 are intended for use in spheres of public health services and aircraft. The reliable flash-drive without moving parts will help to keep the data in different adverse conditions.
Laptops LifeBook P1610 and B6210 already exist in modification with a hard disk from 30 up to 80 GB. The flash-drive, in spite of its smaller volume (from 16 up to 32 GB), will help to reduce noise, weight, power consumption, time of loading and access to the data, has declared Paul Moore, Fujitsu mobile production manager.
Novelties from Fujitsu are made, first of all, for corporate customers whom data safety and other advantages of flash-drives are important. 16 GB flash-memory will add to the laptop’s cost 700 US dollars, and 32 GB will cost 1200 dollars. Fujitsu does not parade full cost as they are made only on demand.
“It is cheaper to buy Mercedes SL, than 200 GB a flash-disk today. But we expect fast landslide of prices for flash-disks as it was with USB-drives” - told Paul Moore.

Eighty-year professor Ludzhi Kolani invented the charger AnyFix, compatible with 80% of existing mobile telephones. This novelty will be presented on the informative-technical industry achievements exhibition, CeBIT in Hanover.
Generality of AnyFix is reached due to the combination in one device of slots for all popular models of mobile phones. At the same time wires are absent in this device, and switching of charging type is made by the only button.
The creator of a novelty is the German professor, laureate of numerous prizes in the area of industrial design. The prototype of the designer’s decision for a universal charge device was Dytiscus Marginalis, an aquatic beetle, which is able to make speed up to four meters in a second.

At Hanover exhibition CeBIT well-known Chinese company HTW Electronics has presented the project of the cellular telephone S116, which works from a solar energy.
The manufacturer assures that if to keep the phone on the direct sunlight for 40 minutes, charging of a battery will be enough for 20-25 minutes of conversation. Also the manufacturer informs that the light of five candles will be enough for the work of a novelty.
HTW S116 will be equipped with 1,3-Mpixel camera, a slot for memory cards and the QVGA-screen with the resolution 320х240. The upper panel of the Chinese phone is covered with a thin layer of solar elements which charge the internal lithium - ionic battery.
The phone will appear on sale on territory of China in April, 2007. About the cost of a novelty nothing is known yet.

There are a lot of differences between two versions of Windows operational system. Their full list was published by one of the Microsoft company workers Jason Langridge. The PDF-document with the most detailed characteristics of Windows Mobile 6.0 is available at http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/attachment/1904298.ashx
The list of the innovations concerning email and communion is submitted below:
- service Windows Live;
- work with the IRM-protected electronic letters;
- reception, sending and viewing of electronic letters in HTML format;
- loading of the separate message entirely, including images / attachments, without need to complete the process of sending / reception of email;
- an opportunity to cancel or clear items of the list of entering and read electronic letters;
- restriction of the amount of messages which will be displayed in the e-mail list by filter set by the user;
- search of the Microsoft Exchange mail box, meeting the certain criteria;
- opening of links to the documents, kept on SharePoint servers specified in HTML e-mail.

TV programs with the participation of world famous R’n'B singer will appear on air of the European TV channels in the current month. Campaign on CIS territory is also included into Samsung plans. Model SGH-F300 has two color displays: one, TFT with the resolution 176×220 pixels, displays up to 262144 colors, the second, additional, 176×65 pixels, displays up to 262144 colors. Besides that, the device is very functional: 2,0 Mpixel camera, 128 Mb of the built - in memory, and slot for its expansion by microSD, and also FM-receiver. Also there is Bluetooth 2.0, GPRSEDGE and the POP/SMTP-client.
The main thing that it is necessary to note about SGH-F300 - MP3-player with support of WMA and function of tags recognition, and also an unusual design of the model in which both forward, and back sides of phone are involved in work. In addition to all Samsung promises to make happy all buyers of phone with the newest musical hit of Beyonce.

The next novelty of ASUS company submitted on CeBIT 2007 - mobile phone Z802i. Branding phone draws attention by trimmings of the body (metal and leather) and the strong sapphire glass protecting the screen from scratches. It is already the second generation of branding phones from ASUS after Z801. The keyboard attracts attention too: metal buttons with a notch visually creating effect of volume. The main display of the phone - 2,2-inch QVGA with resolution 240х320 pixels. The model is equipped with 2-Mpixel camera with the flash and an auto focus. Media functions of the device are also up to the mark - the player supports such files as MP3, AAC, MPEG4 and 3GP. There are naturally Bluetooth 1.2 with structure A2DP and USB-port. Memory extends by flash-cards microSD. The sizes of model - 100,5х54х17,5 mm.

Apparently, following a slogan, that «everything can be built wherever one likes », - Japanese company Wing Inter created an unusual pen. Externally it is just a kind of common office accessories, but the «insides» are filled with hi-tech.
A novelty named N007PEN is equipped with MP3-player, dictaphone and can serve as a flash-card. It supports such musical formats as MP3, WAV and WMA, new songs can downloaded through the interface of USB 2.0. As a dictaphone a pen can work during 5-6 hours, after which the recharge is required.
A device is available in a few variants: with 128 Mb, 256 Mb, 512 Mb, 1 Gb or 2 Gb, and the price is varied from $104 to $208 – depending on the memory size.

The mobile phones of the future will be able to combine in itself much more functions, what their present “colleagues”.
Specialists consider, that next generation cell phone will be able not only show video, play music, give access to the e-mail and internet pages, but to manage media-centers.
Such resources, as they forecast, will appear in a future Zune-phone from Microsoft and, as it seems, will be integrated in some gadget from Sony Ericsson.
It came to light, when the Japanese-Swedish business concern register officially patent on original device, which combine functions of mobile phone and remote control, 3DNews reports.
The owners of gadget will enjoy for sure, but for now it is unknown what phone will provide such function.