China’s leading mobile maker Lenovo has just launched its new P960, which is the first phone model carrying a fingerprint biometrics technology. Lenovo P960 features a 1.3 megapixel camera, dual-band GSM network and GPRS, a 2.8″ LCD display, and best of all an integrated music player, and a microSD card slot.

This device is actually making waves because of its recording option and biometric fingerprint scanner. Lenovo P960 has an automatic recording feature that automatically records calls from designated numbers. P960 mobile comes with a built in Biometric fingerprint scanner which offers protection from theft. It actually uses Atrua’s popular fingerprint touch control system, a technology which accurately recognizes fingerprints while consuming only a fraction of the power to image a fingerprint.

Lenovo P960

SEOUL, KOREA – April 30, 2008 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading mobile phone and No. 1 TV maker, announced today P960, the world’s first slider type Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld (DVB-H) mobile TV phone P960. As a pioneer of slider mobile phones and TV, it was only a matter of course for Samsung to develop (more…)

MobileBurn reports: “The new 16.5mm thick handset is decked out in silver and black accents and sports a large 2.6″ QVGA (240×320 pixel) TFT LCD display, which should should come in handy since the P960 has full DVB-H TV and other audio/video capabilities.” (more…)