Photos: New phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson
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Sony Ericsson introduces an iPhone competitor, Nokia unveils updates to two top-range models and two midrange phones at GSMA in Barcelona.
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The world's largest cellphone maker  Nokia  unveiled two new handsets on Tuesday, the 2600  classic and the 1209, it said.
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Nokia , the world's top mobile  phone maker, unveiled on Wednesday a new online music store,  new top-end handsets and a global gaming service as it takes on  recent rival U.S. rival Apple .
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The world's top cellphone maker,  Nokia , unveiled on Tuesday several new mid-range  phones at an analysts' meeting in Amsterdam.
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Sony Ericsson, LG, and Samsung have all caught &quot;iPhoneitis,&quot; joining in on one of the hottest trends at the Mobile World Congress -- touch-based user interfaces.All three launched mobile phones at the show in Barcelona, and they all use touch in different ways -- from LG&#39;s icons that change function depending on what part of the phone is being used to Sony Ericsson&#39;s ability to focus where a user touches while taking a picture.Sony Ericsson likes to point out that it has supported touch since the birth of the company. But it also gives Apple some credit.&quot;They are a source of inspiration,&quot; said Rikard Skogberg, category manager at Sony Ericsson.The point is to make mobile phones easier to use and to open the door for more features, such as mobile Internet.&quot;Sony Ericsson&#39;s goal is to make our phones as easy as possible to use, and touch is a big part of that. If people are going to buy more advanced phones, they must be able to use all the features -- and for that to happen, they must be intuitive,&quot; Skogberg said.LG&#39;s Channel Marketing Manager Heather Seabrooke agrees.&quot;It&#39;s all about usability. With touch, you don&#39;t need a million different buttons. Instead, you can use the same ones for different things,&quot; she said.But not all phone vendors seem to be convinced. Nokia was expected to show a new version of its S60 operating system with an integrated touch-based user interface, but it was nowhere to be seen.Nokia says it will use touch starting sometime during the second half of this year but not in a gimmicky way. And there must be a clear migration path for users.Several analysts are also skeptical.&quot;We believe that a good user interface must also support buttons to be effective and fast. And we will see a lot more innovation before this market becomes mature,&quot; said Leif-Olof Wallin, research vice president at Gartner.But at the same time he thinks that Nokia&#39;s lack of support for touch may hurt its sales in the short term.&quot;Nokia&#39;s new flagship phone, the N96, has an impressive spec, but it doesn&#39;t support touch. And that makes it a bit handicapped,&quot; said Wallin.Ben Wood, director of research at CCS Insight, has this warning for users: &quot;We think 2008 will be the year of crap touch phones.&quot;
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Blog: Sony Ericsson releases a new Walkman phone that may just challenge the iPhone.
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InfoWorld - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will launch late Thursday in Berlin six new phones, including a high-end Walkman-branded handset with around 9G bytes of internal Flash memory, according to a company spokeswoman.
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The world's largest cell phone maker  Nokia  unveiled two new handsets on Tuesday, the 2600  classic and the 1209, it said.
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The world's top cellphone maker,  Nokia (NOK1V.HE), unveiled on Tuesday several new mid-range  phones at an analysts' meeting in Amsterdam.
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Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world&#39;s top  cellphone maker, unveiled on Thursday its new phone model 6301,  which features unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology.
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Sony Ericsson unveiled eight phones Tuesday aimed at helping the world's fourth-biggest mobile phone maker boost its market share in emerging and developed markets.
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We didn't see a ton of new cell phones at CES--vendors mostly showed off their holiday-season products--but here are the best of the new and upcoming arrivals.
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Nokia showed off three new phone models it will introduce over the next four months, including a candy bar and slide model, as well as a new phone that incorporates smoked glass into its design.
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[Monaco | ITWeb, 3 November 2004] - Nokia unveiled several new products, including a Web-browsing, image-oriented wide-screen handset, at its mobility conference in Monaco, where the emphasis has been on smartphones and supporting technology.
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World number four mobile producer  Sony Ericsson   said on Tuesday it would  launch eight new phones, four of which would be at the low end  of the price-scale.
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The worldâs largest mobile phone maker Nokia presented three new camera phones on Tuesday, including the 7710 media device, which it said would hit Asian stores in the last quarter of this year.
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The world's fourth largest mobile  phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled seven new mobile phone  models on Sunday, including one high-end cellphone using  Microsoft's Windows Mobile software.