All efforts are being made by many research organizations to try and reduce power consumption, be they digital or electronic consumer devices. Digicel Group has now launched the Coral-200-Solar, the world’s very first solar-powered mobile phone. The Coral-200-Solar is manufactured by ZTE and uses proprietary technology from the Dutch-based innovator, Intivation.

Digicel is known to provide low-cost and free portable solar chargers in many markets. Now, Digicel’s new concept of launching the Coral-200-Solar with an integrated, built-in solar charger, is expected to lap up most of the market sales. There are an estimated two billion people worldwide, who have little or no access to electricity. In such markets, the idea of a mobile handset powered by solar energy will be greatly appreciated.

Digicel, Intivation and ZTE have pooled in their experience and expertise to bring this novel idea to the mobile market. The Coral-200-Solar ‘sun-powered’ handset will be available in select markets from June 2009.

Digicel ZTE Coral-200-Solar

Cricket Communications Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary company of Leap Wireless International and one of the premier unlimited wireless providers over its high-quality 3G network, and Kyocera Wireless Corporation, one of the global leaders of wireless phone and device manufacturers, have jointly made an important announcement of the immediate availability of the latest Kyocera S1300 mobile phone. This cell phone will be available at all the Cricket retail stores in Chicago and will also soon expand services nationwide.

The Kyocera S1300 has an elegant, bar-style phone streamlined design that provides the user with an array of functionalities, such as Mobile Web, SMS, voice memos, large display and keypad TTY/TDD support for the hearing impaired and support for HAC-compliant, all at affordable rates. This is true value for money for customers who want to take advantage of Cricket’s wide variety of unlimited plans.

The Kyocera S1300 retails at $89.99. You can visit www.mycricket.com or www.kyocera-wireless.com for more information.

Kyocera S1300

RIM and DOCOMO recently announced that the BlackBerry Bold smartphone is now available with DOCOMO corporate and other retail outlets, all across the nation, in Japan. The BlackBerry Bold smartphone has been designed especially for business professionals and other power users. It gives users a combination of both functionality and performance, thanks to the high-speed 3G network. It also offers the user a fantastic mobile experience, along with support for global roaming.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone also offers industry-leading messaging and email capabilities, full-fledged organizer, powerful multimedia functionalities, fast Web browsing and full access to a wide variety of mobile business and lifestyle applications as well. This handheld from DOCOMO features a novel QWERTY keyboard with Japanese text input support, GPS, Wi-Fi and optional 2MP camera with video recording. Additionally, the new device also offers the BlackBerry Media Sync application, which allows users to synchronize iTunes with the smartphone.

BlackBerry Bold

The HTC Corporation, at the 2009 MWC at Barcelona, announced two new flagship devices, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and the HTC Touch Pro2, both of which integrate innovative technology with a highly intuitive user interface. The devices combine efficient functioning, personalized communication experience and mobile Internet experience with great ease, to form an impressive handheld device.

Both the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 use HTC’s unique TouchFLO 3D technology, integrated into a customized version of Windows Mobile 6.1. This ‘user-centric’ mobile phone aim at giving the customer maximum ease of use and customization. These new HTC devices also uses HTC’s Push Internet technology, which gives good Internet downloading speeds and easy access to Websites. The HTC Touch Pro2 also uses HTC Straight Talk, which uses voice technology to the maximum and enables any location to be transformed into a virtual conference room.

The HTC Touch Diamond2 will be open to Europe and Asia in Q2 2009 and the HTC Touch Pro2 will be available internationally from early summer.

HTC Touch Diamond2

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