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Spotted while grocery shopping:

That (above) is the Nokia 3610. It has a 2 inch QVGA screen that shows 262,144 colors, 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 and is quadband so it works all over the world. For 125 Euros in the 3rd quarter of this year, you can have it, and that is one damn cheap price for that much kit.

99.6 x 44.3 x 19.6 mm, so it’s a little bit fat.

97 g, so it’s light.

850 mAh battery, should be enough to last you until the end of the day … unless you’re a 13 year old girl who has ADHD and loves to hang out at the local Starbucks.

[More specs]

[Press pictures]

[Via: Nokia Press Bulletin]

Palm, and every other company that is publicly traded, has to file a document called the “10-K” which goes to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Palm’s 2007 10-K was recently published and it looks like they purchased 3 companies.

None of them were named, 2 were purchased in February 2007, one handles user interface development, the other is a developer who specializes in email applications; $19.2 million was spent. The third was purchased in October 2007, a company that develops “solutions to enhance the performance of web applications;” purchased for $500,000.

Come on Palm, what is taking so long, I still believe in you!

[Via: mocoNews]

The W302, W902 and W595 were launched today in conjunction with the third anniversary of the Walkman brand being slapped onto a mobile phone. Ironically none of these devices have a 3,5 mm headphone jack like other Walkman branded devices, including the first one that went on sale on the first of July in 1979.

Nitpicking aside, both the 302 has a 2 megapixel camera, W595 has a 3,2, W902 has 5 and also interestingly enough comes with an 8 GB memory card. They’re all quadband and are all coming out in Q4 of this year. The W595 and W902 have 2100 MHz HSDPA.

Full press releases: [DOC file for the W302] and [DOC file for the W595 and W902]

[Image via Gizmodo]

[Sony Ericsson’s website dedicated to these three devices plus a few accessories also announced today]

Live in Chicago or just driving through? Well if you’re interested in the Nokia E71 that has been getting stellar reviews, check out this one from The Register, then you can go in to the Nokia Flagship Store on 543 North Michigan Avenue, basically the corner of Michigan and Grand, and pick one up for $473. This is the North American version meaning you have support for AT&T’s 3G network and Nokia USA will service your product unlike the EU models you’ve probably been importing from the grey market.

Chances are the E71 NAM is also in the NYC flagship store, but no conformation on that.

[Via: Howard Forums]

[Photo from Darla Mack]

LG sold 27.7 million mobile phones during the second quarter of this year, breaking the record of 24.4 million it set only a quarter ago. The company plans to sell over 100 million devices this year, but warns that sales of higher end devices might drop due to the current state of the global economy.

[Via: Reuters]

You know what a regular HTC Touch Diamond looks like right? I’m sure you’ve seen it, we’ve covered it several times, it’s in shops, the picture above should ring a bell.

Check out Victor below. It’s softer, rounder and less edgy.

What do you think? Same Windows Mobile device with 3.2 megapixel camera, VGA screen, WiFi, GPS.

[More pictures at this Chinese blog via: Boy Genius Report]

SyncML, the syncing technology that almost all mobile phones have support for, yet very few people know about and use, will be coming to Google contacts within a month. Google Calender support is questionable at this point in time. Supposedly this is for Google to offer MobileMe like services for the iPhone, but I’m thinking this is more about Google trying to get the rest of their body through the door that leads to the mobile industry. All those J2ME applications, Android and now this? Something is brewing in California and it isn’t the premium coffee Googlers get for free.

[Source: Google Operating System via MobHappy]

Nokia’s Q2 2007 results are out in this PDF for you to comb over, here are some highlights:

• “Our mobile device average selling price (ASP) in the second quarter 2008 was EUR 74, down from EUR 90 in the second quarter 2007 and down from EUR 79 in the first quarter 2008. The lower year on year and sequential ASP was primarily due to a higher proportion of lower priced products and the negative impact of the weaker US dollar. Approximately 30% of the year on year decline and approximately 40% of the sequential decline in ASP was caused by the impact of changes in exchange rates.”
• “In the second quarter 2008, the total mobile device volume of our Devices & Services group reached 122 million units, representing 21% year on year growth and a 6% sequential [read: quarter on quarter] increase.”
• “Our own converged mobile device [read: smartphone] volumes rose to 15.3 million units in the second quarter 2008, compared with 13.9 million units in the second quarter 2007. We shipped over 10 million Nokia Nseries and almost 2 million Nokia Eseries devices during the second quarter 2008.”
• “Services and software net sales of EUR 119 million, up 42% sequentially.”
• “Nokia’s second quarter 2008 reported operating profit decreased 38% to EUR 1.5 billion (including the EUR 460 million negative impact of special items), compared with EUR 2.4 billion in the second quarter 2007 (including the EUR 966 million net positive impact of special items).”

As usual expect a lot more information in the conference call, which will take place in a little under 2 hours here and will be achieved for those who can not listen to it live.

UPDATE: Huge mistake, I’m living in the stone age, yes I meant 2008, not 2007 in the title of this post. Whoops!

Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs, I’m not debating that. The question is did they sell 1 million to customers or 1 million to operators (carriers as they’re known in the states) who then sold 450,000 to customers according to Piper Jaffray Analyst Gene Munster.

The world may never know, but in my eyes 1 million sold is 1 million sold. Profit = profit. Way to go Apple.

[Via: CNN Money]