Katana Eclipse by Sanyo exclusively for Sprint, comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera with 12x zoom, 8GB microSDHC card support, 2.0” 65K color TFT LCD (176×220) display and external one 1.0”, lithium ion (LiIon) battery, GPS navigation, a web browser, and up to 4.6 hours of talk time.

sources Phone Arena , Phone Scoop

HTC Touch Viva was introduced a month ago together with the Touch 3G smartphone but their availability and pricing were unknown. Today we can report that the Touch Viva will be available this month in Hong Kong at price HKD 2,880.

Customers who purchase this handset will get a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone with 2.8” TFT-LCD QVGA touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera, 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM, Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz support, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, Wi-Fi and microSD memory card support.

HTC Touch Viva

After the official introduction of the new BlackBerry Storm, Canadian Telus has already announced that will bring RIM’s first touchscreen smartphone to its customers. The highly anticipated Storm will carry 3.25” display with 480 x 360 pixels, 3.2 megapixel camera, a HTML browser, and microSD card support. Telus has not announced the pricing and availability but you can stay informed through their site here.

BlackBerry Storm 9530

source Boy Genius Report

Verizon Wireless has move a step forward to charge for even carrots. Verizon Wireless has informed its partners that it will charge a 3-cent fee for every mobile terminated message processed on its network. Verizon Wireless will start charging from 1st November. MT messages typically include text alerts, interactive voting notifications and SMS search responses. This charge is additional to current MT-messaging fees.

This new fee structure will effect services like Twitter, GOOG411, 4INFO, Google Inc. and ChaCha and maybe to the political leaders. Barack Obama is also using text messaging to keep his supporters with him. To be honest most of these services will stop offering  their service on Verizon as they can not waste their hard earned investment on the charges.  According to Verizon these new charges will apply to only standard-rate and premium programs and will not effect text-giving or free-to-end-user campaigns.

source RCR Wireless News