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Samsung’s most prominent move into solar-power cell phones to date has been Blue Earth, but now, they are planning to ship another handset first: the E1107 Guru. Samsung India will be selling the solar-powered E1107 for Rs 2799, primarily targeting rural areas where the electricity service isn’t too great. Five to ten minutes of talk time can be squeezed out of an hour’s worth of sunlight, maxing out after 40 hours of sunbathing.

Besides the solar-aided power, there is nothing else special about this phone. There is ther usual FM radio, MP3 ringtones, 1.52″ display, dual-band GSM – all you really need here is something that makes calls. This phone is also expected to enter Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Samsung is touting the Guru as “the world’s first solar phone”, but we all know that ZTE is the premier brand there, with KDDI in the previous spot. Well, that’s what marketing is all about, right, folks?

Samsung E1107 Guru

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The upcoming mobile phones which will be sold by KDDI will include Opera’s Mobile Web browser and Widgets. The handsets will have pre-installed the browser while the Widgets users have to download them. The mobile browser and widgets application platform will include these devices: Hitachi Wooo W63H, Casio EXILIM W63CA, Sharp AQUOS 64SH, and Toshiba W65T.

Kyocera W65K, Sony Ericsson W64S and Panasonic W62P are already running the Opera Mobile. Those four upcoming models will be available in the next month (November 2008) however pricing has not been announced yet.

Opera Mobile

Who was waiting for a platform which allows user to access internet, TV and mobile phone, that’s over. KDDI, Motorola and Opera joined forces and created a device which will bring you this all. But, of course if you are a KDDI’s subscriber.

au BOX by Motorola is able to browse web thanks to Opera Devices 9 SDK on the TV as well as on mobile devices including phones. You may now for example: create and personalize own music and video libraries, transfer multimedia content between the box and your mobile devices.

The box features a CD player with ripping, USB connector, and stereo speakers. It’s also able to play DVD mediums. The platform has KreaTV service supporting MPEG-2 SD to H.264 HD, DVR, and hybrid formats. KDDI will launch this device on November 1st, but we still don’t know the price.

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