Another great thing about knowing where mobile phone shops are is the ability to know that you can have your phone repaired. These people actually know one hundred percent what they are doing as well as are trust worthy when left with your phone and often more inexpensive especially when finding mobile phone shops London style. With so many mobile phone shops London located, there is a great deal of benefit that comes along with knowing where and what they are.

Motorola A1600 touchscreen phone has now a Gold edition in partnership with the French jeweler and watch maker Cartier. The design is identical with the other Motorola MING devices, while the item wearing the Cartier name is the business card holder from the sales package. Lately several cell phones gold editions are spawning, some of them acceptable while other are very kitschy looking dues to the crocodile skin or the jewelery. Is there a heard of cell phone addict millionaires on the loose?

The Motorola A1600 Gold looks have not suffered any major changes, other than the new shiny colors. On the specs side, nothing is added to the 2.4-inch 262K color QVGA touchscreen display, the same Linux based OS, 3 megapixel camera and the built-in GPS receiver which allows both real-time GPS navigation and geotagging of the photos taken with the built-in camera. Curiously, Motorola phone division seems to be getting out of the financial crisis. If Gold editions might save Motorola, then good luck Motorola! If you are interested in Motorola A1600, the device is already available for purchase, costing about 685 euro (865 US dollars), unfortunately only on the Chinese site of the company and not featuring 3G capabilities.

LG KF900, branded PRADA II is the fashionable phone officially announced more than one month ago and only now is available in European stores. LG has launched a customized site for the Prada II, where users can not only see the accessories the handset comes with, but they can also download a wide range of wallpapers.

Unboxing the device, the surprise are the accessories it is being offered together with: the Prada Link – a stylish Bluetooth watch – a pair of headsets and a leather pouch. These three may add a bit of elegance to the handset, but the price stays the same, 600 EUR. The features of LG Prada II KF900 are the ones announced some time ago: a 400 x 240 pixels touchscreen display, a full QWERTY keyboard, a 5MP autofocus camera, Wi-Fi, TV-out.

The Chinese clones strike again. A phone available now at Chinagrabber is a Sony Ericsson Xperia replica. The matching name (Sany Ericssan ) is no coincidence either though we think they could be guilty of misspelling.

The A8000i model has a 2.9-inch regular screen (non-touch) and a regular numeric keypad slides out from the side. Curiously there’s an 8 MP camera at the back with some sort of zooming capability. You know the Sany Ericssan A8000i is a Smartphone because of the VAIO branding at the back so perhaps it could be smarter than most Smartphones.

Strategic advantages Sany Ericssan holds over Sony Ericsson:

* A quarterly sales volume measured in the hundreds is considered a rousing success.
* Neither Sany nor Ericssan have any intention of pulling out of the joint venture.
* “Outsourcing” of industrial design saves time, money, and staff.
* None of those pesky Windows Mobile licensing fees to worry about.
* GPRS data speed isn’t a problem — it’s a way of life.

The Nokia press release on Friday shows a grim prediction: the world’s mobile phone market would fall in the fourth quarter and next year as an economic slowdown crimps consumer demand around the world. Nokia now expects fourth-quarter industry volumes to be around 330 million mobile devices, down from a year ago, and well below the 346 million average forecast in a Reuters poll earlier this month.

1.24 billion phones would be sold worldwide this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.26 billion, and handset market volumes and the overall telecommunications equipment market was expected to fall next year. The worst financial crisis in 80 years has weakened economies around the world and official data on Friday showed the economy of the 15-nation euro zone shrank for the second quarter in a row.

The Taiwanese cell phone manufacturer High Tech Computer (HTC) and the Rusian carrier Scartel (the Yota Mobile WiMAX network carrier) recently announced the first cell phone to integrate the GSM standard and the WiMAX support. As a reminder, the WiMax technology is a the Wi-Fi upgrade, for high speed wireless internet over large areas, considered to be a 3G data transfer improvement (or pre 4G).

The HTC MAX 4G can be classified as the 4`th generation mobile phones (4G) that combines the voice, high speed data transfers and multimedia content support. HTC MAX 4G is custom made for the Rusian network to enable the Yota TV broadcast service ( 14 FREE TV channels and 23 until end of this year) and Yota Music (a catalog with more than 50.000 records).

The device runs on the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform, at the heart of the hardware being a Qualcomm 528 MHz processor. To complete the impressive specs list: a 3.8 inch touchscreen display, 8 GB, Wi-Fi, GPS and 3,2 megapixel camera with autofocus. It seems that iPhone has just opened Pandora`s box, the real question is when/if HTC MAX 4G will arrive in US.

AT&T and Nokia announced the availability of the Nokia 6650, a stylish and innovative mobile device featuring the Symbian-based S60 platform. This small fold device is powered by the nation’s fastest 3G network and is styled to help you navigate where you want to go - with a dedicated menu key for AT&T Navigator. The Nokia 6650 also features a broad range of other AT&T mobile services, including AT&T Video ShareSM and AT&T Mobile Music.

Designed with premium materials and customizable illumination, the stylish Nokia 6650 will be available to AT&T customers beginning Nov. 14 in red and silver, colors fit for the holiday season. The device’s S60 platform enables users to truly personalize their mobile experience, providing access to third-party application downloads, themes and profile settings. The announced price with a two-year service agreement is estimated to be 69.99$.

Nokia 6550 specs

- 2.0 megapixel camera with integrated flash
- main 2.2-inch display with QVGA (16 million colors) resolution
- AT&T Navigator with dedicated key
- AT&T Video Share - sharelive video over wireless devices while participating in a voice call
- AT&T Mobile Music - listen and download the favorite music from Napster, eMusic, XM Radio wireless
- external audio playback keys ( external soft keys)
- 1.36-inch display

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is getting ready to its US launch on Black Friday (November 28th). The new flagship smartphone will be available unlocked for $799.99 without susidies at Sony Style shops. The pricetag shouldn’t be a huge surprise, since European preorders have been available since March. Aside from the executive construction and arc sliding, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1’s panel UI, which allows you to section off particular lifestyle modes, is the X1’s biggest attraction.

With a full QWERTY keypad, a WVGA touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G, this Windows Mobile 6.1 device should be able to handle both business and pleasure with ease. Preorders for US start on November 13th, so in case you haven’t been hit by the recession you’ll give the Windows Mobile 6.1 device a try.

TELUS, one of Canada’s leading telecommunication companies has recently announced the LG Chocolate GiG a.k.a. LG Chocolate 3 or LG 8560. LG and Telus teamed up for this release as the device is included in the special Christmas offer with up to 3 years contracts.

The LG Chocolate 3 is a slim flip phone, measuring 48.5 mm x 98.5 mm x 16.4 mm at only 98 grams. When it comes to features, LG has nothing impressive, other than its overall classy looks: 1GB internal memory ( expandable trough 8GB microSD cards), 3.5mm headset jack, a 2 megapixel camera with video recording support, a 2.2 inches QVGA main display and 1.45 inches external one plus Stereo Bluetooth.

Clearly, the LG Chocolate GiG is targeted at the music focused teenagers that never got a chance to purchase the previous versions of the Chocolate line-up. Coming as a music/fashion phone for the masses, the price for GiG goes up to 99$ with a 3 year subscription and 299$ for a 1 year contract.

The analysis firm found that touch screens, which the iPhone is famous for, proved to be the most popular design feature among users considering their future mobile usage of applications such as playing music, maps and web browsing. Nokia has lost some of its market share because it has been slow in integrating touch screens to its product line.

Apple shipped more than 6.8 million iPhones during the third quarter of 2008 to give it a market share of 17.3 %. RIM shipped just over six million BlackBerry phones in the quarter for a 15.2 % share of a market that saw more than 39 million phones shipped overall.

Apple leapfrogged both RIM and Motorola from a year ago to take the number two spot, behind Nokia Corp. Nokia shipped more than 15.4 million Smartphones in the quarter for a market share of 38.9 %, but saw its leadership position take a big dip from 51.4 % a year ago.