According to Gizmodo, Apple is set to unveil the 3G Apple iphone on June 9 at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.  In Spain, the 3G iPhone will be available for sale at the June 18th grand opening of Telefonica’s megastore—an Apple Store-like shop located in the company’s historical building in Madrid’s Gran Vía— with nationwide availability the next day or after a few hours. The other European countries with iPhone availability are also expected to have similar launch schedules.

The promise of a larger storage space and smaller bodies are some of the prospective changes one can expect to see in comparison to the Previous Iphone Apple iphone 16GB.  Other features rumoured to be offered are a keyboard, GPS, 5-megapixel camera, making out the 3G iPhone to be a dramatically different piece of package that may come in multiple colours.

Big changes have also been hinted at the capability to the iPhone’s next generation, which some think may be nothing more than UMTS / HSDPA 3G connectivity, and the ability to switch it on and off as desired.  It will also supposedly do away with fixed-price iPhones as Apple will be adopting a more traditional subsidized pricing model. This can mean many things - certain carriers offering discounts and subsidies on the Apple handset, large companies probably being able to purchase iPhones in bulk and offering them as part of their companies internal wireless plans etc etc

Well we can wait and watch for more news (or rumours) on the 3G Apple iphone, until the final release.

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The thinnest luxury phone has been unveiled by Mobiado, the Mobiado Professional 105 ZAF, at a thickness of only 10.6mm.  Its full dimensions are 109.3 x 47.5 x 10.6 mm, and has a weight of 162 grams owing to the heavy materials used to craft the beauty.

Its not just a luxury mobile phone but also an engineering masterpiece, utilizing large pieces of sapphire crystal to craft the entire front and back of the phone giving it a modern minimalist look but with a wear resistance second only to diamond. The battery cover has been made entirely from one piece of sapphire crystal, with a unique and hidden sliding battery cover mechanism. CNC machined from aircraft aluminum has been incorporated, polished and anodized to create a strong yet light body with a ceramic surface for the toughest of uses. Beautifully machines, polished stainless steel has been used to create the buttons and screws. The new release will be available unlocked and in six designer colors namely black, black satin, blue, grey, red, and silver..

The Mobiado Professional 105 ZAF has a 2 inch TFT display with 16.7 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels, quad-band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) and dual-band WCDMA (850 / 2100 MHz) connectivity, Symbian S40 5th Edition OS, Music player that supports AAC, eAAC+, and MP3 audio formats, Video players, a 2 Megapixel camera with video recording (without flash and auto focus), WAP 2.0 and xHTML browsers, email capabilities, Bluetooth with EDR, miniUSB, 1GB of internal memory and a battery capable of providing up to 3.5 hours of talk-time and up to 9 days of stand-by time.

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RIM has confirmed that the Blackberry 9000 Bold shall be a totally new entity, one which has also been arrived at after necessary upgrade to the already well-known BlackBerry platform and hardware.  What makes the new line from Blackberry an exciting product to look forward to?   With a 128MB Flash memory plus 1GB of on-board storage memory as well as a microSD memory slot supporting up to 16GB cards and a slightly enhanced media player, the BlackBerry 9000  will provide an enhanced out-of-box music experience. The mobile phone will come with an incorporated 3.5mm headphone jack.

Blackberry 9000 comes with an excellent productivity tool, the DataViz’ Documents To Go, using which the user can receive, edit, and send documents at impressive speeds.  Greater battery life performance has also been promised form the manufacturers.

The BlackBerry Bold will have 480 by 320 half VGA resolution, the same resolution found in Apple’s iPhone that will enhance the usability of DataViz’ Documents To Go and give stunning clarity to pictures, webpages, videos, documents, presentations and messages. Expect superior performance with its support for tri-band HSDPA and enterprise-grade Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) networks and its next-generation 624MHz mobile processor that downloads email attachments, streams video or renders web pages at amazing speeds. Other features include phone, email, messaging, organiser and browser, and features that work with thousands of mobile business and lifestyle applications. Users can even talk on the phone while sending and receiving email or accessing the web.
It features a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capability, built-in flash and 5x digital zoom, integrated GPS to pinpoint its exact location and supporting applications like BlackBerry Maps and other location-based applications or services, Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), Bluetooth 2.0, with support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits (including car kits that adhere to the Bluetooth Remote SIM Access Profile) and other Bluetooth peripherals. Register your interest in the Blackberry 9000

With an expected rise of mobile bills being sold to reach 2009 by the year 2009, the need to find the best use for the unused and discarded mobiles piling up each year has become an important concern.  Mobile phone recycling has become the call of the day for more than one reason.  Not only does recycling mobile phones reduce the potential negative effects on the environment as a result of the contamination caused by the composing substances but it also helps to generate money and recover valuable parts for future use from the mobiles.  Why recycle?

• Mobile phones contain numerous substances which need to be disposed of in safe and efficient manner such as

Cadmium - The Cadmium in the battery from a single old phone could seriously contaminate 600,000 litres of water, which is why it is being phased out of new batteries.

Lead - used to solder components to the printed wiring boards; lead affects the immune, endocrine and central nervous systems, and causes serious damage to children’s brains

Brominated flame retardants - used in wiring boards and plastic cases; these have been associated with cancer, liver damage and problems with the neurological, immune and endocrine systems.

Beryllium – is used in contacts and springs; causes serious lung damage, and emits highly toxic dioxins when the phones are incinerated in waste plants.

• Helps to extract and reuse valuable materials and parts of the phone

Recovery of precious and semiprecious metals - by extracting metals from ground up mobile parts and batteries
Recovery of plastic – using energy-from-incineration plastic is recovered from components while outer body plastic may be granulated and reformulated for use in mouldings

Recovery and downgrading of valuable components- flash memory devices.

Reuse parts- such as aerials, battery connectors, PCBs (printed circuit boards), connectors including gold-coated edge contacts on PCBs, ICs (integrated circuits), keyboards, LCD screens, lenses, microphones, phone housings, screws, SIM card assemblies and speakers.

  There are several companies within the UK, which contribute towards these noble causes by helping to recycle mobile phones that have been discarded.  Envirofone.com is the UK’s number 1 online mobile phone recycling site that is free to use, and which pays you cash for your old mobile and helps the environment and charities through the process.  In the last year they have paid out over £1.5 million to users, £300,000 in donations made to charities and thousands of pounds more are paid out every week. They accept both Working and non-working phones. According to a report, there are over 80 million old mobile phones lying around in the UK alone having a value of £1.6 Billion. Want to know what you could buy with that kind of money.

·        3.5 billion chocolate bars

·        3 new NHS hospital developments

·        1 Royal Navy Aircraft carrier

·        4.8 million pairs of shoes

·        800 million pints of beer

Recycle old mobile phones today and make a difference in yours and others lives.

Get the full BlackBerry experience — email, browser, text messaging (SMS and MMS), instant messaging, organizer applications and more with the Blackberry 8120 Titanium, designed to help you do everything you want with your life. Packaged completely with advanced phone features, multimedia, digital camera, video recording, Wi-Fi capabilities* and expandable memory, the Blackberry 8120 is a great smartphone to have.

The sleek-looking BlackBerry comes with better WiFi capabilities and a range of colours to choose from. It forms a perfect combination of business communication functions with multimedia features With a 2 mega pixel camera with 5x digital zoom and built-in flash and video capture offering a choice of two resolutions and a Qwerty keyboard with SureType software, Organiser, Media Player, Document Viewer, Blackberry Email Client, Web Browser, USB Connectivity and 64MB of expandable memory features, the Blackberry Pearl 8120.

The Blackberry 8120 is enabled with Quad Band GSM d with GPRS and EDGE Technology, Advanced Phone features such as Speaker Independent Voice Recognition, Voice Activated Dialing plus Bluetooth Wireless v2.0 with A2DP Stereo support. The smart phone is compact in size weighing just 91 grams and measuring 107 x 55 x 14 mm.

The Blackberry 8120 Titanium can be centrally managed and supported by IT departments using BlackBerry Enterprise Server.  Additional supportive features include wireless push delivery of email and data, remote address book look-up and single mailbox integration.

The Blackberry 8120 Titanium is available now