Motorola Rapture VU30 for Verizon Wireless is a clamshell phone with 2.2″ 262k TFT display, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and USB 2.0, and microSD support up to 8GB. It supports CDMA 800/1900, CDMA Ev-Do data.

source Phone Arena

According to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Director Scott Rockfeld, Microsoft is partnering up with China Mobile to deliver Internet Explorer on Samsung Omnia phones. China Mobile was chosen as the first operator to get mobile IE6 because the software giant hopes to tap the vast growth in the number of new mobile users in the country.

Microsoft actually aims towards a faster growth than the market by aiming to strategically invest in new users rather than converting existing users of the competing phones like the iPhone or Google’s Android.

Last week Microsoft released its emulator images for IE6 for Windows Mobile touting its browser as first “full-fledged” mobile browser which is capable of rendering richer content. Omnia runs a customized version of the Windows Mobile. Microsoft announced its China Mobile partnership at Mobile Asia Congress which was held in Macau.

NOTE: I created a picture of Samsung Omnia with Internet Explorer Mobile shown below for imagination.

Samsung Omnia

source ZDNet Asia

Nokia is out with its aggressive launch strategy for its music service in European countries. The latest is the  launch of Nokia Music Store in Italy with its new digital music site. We know that of all the music that is downloaded in Italy, a major 54% of that music accounts to local music.

So strategically Nokia Music store has a huge number of local tracks available for Italian users. Interestingly Nokia has put up a team in each country to accquire its music according to relevant region. Nokia search engine enables the differentiation between genres such as Italian music, pop, hip hop and rock.

Nokia currently holds more than 4 million songs including records from Universal Music Group, SONY BMG ENTERTAINMENT, Warner Music Group and EMI Group, independent record labels, and new national talent.

Italian music lovers can go to http://music.nokia.it to downlaod music of all types and users with Nokia N85, Nokia N78, Nokia N95 8GB or Nokia N95, Nokia N96, can directly access the store by selecting Nokia Music Store icon on their mobile device.

Nokia Music Store in Italy

Are you looking for a new handset for your children? Here you are one by Samsung. In various colored designs, the Tobi has a 1.9 inch QCIF color screen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, USB 2.0 and microSD support up to 8 GB.

Interesting on this phone is the material used in the production – biodegradable plastic, non-toxic and non-allergenic materials. So the Tobi is completely safe to using for your children. In addition, the phone is equipped with SOS call, SOS message and fake call functions.

Samsung will be launching the new Tobi S3030 in the following weeks/months in the UK, Italy and other European countries as well as in China. The pricing has not been unveiled yet.

Samsung Tobi S3030