Lazy Thumb Concept Phone
Designer Koo Ho Shin has devised a entry level concept voice-activated phone Lazy Thumb that brings just three buttons with least functionalities, sending and receiving calls and text messaging. Messaging is done with the help of Speech to Text Transcription system.
The phone has three sliding buttons with OLED screens along with a display that shows the messages and the directions. Well, the external screen is meant for user-to-user communication while the internal one is meant to communicate between user and the phone system.
Crystral encrusted cellphones are not a novelty anymore. Now, Ericsson has rolled out a shiny line of SO703i Beauty Renaissance Collection in Tokyo. The $25,000 Sony Ericsson SO703i handset is festooned with 6 diamonds, 1 emerald, 1 sapphire, and 1 ruby. Well, this one is not for sale. The lavish handsets that will go on sale are the one having same design with $112’s worth of Swarovski crystals. The sale begins on March 23 in Japan only.
Samsung's SPH-V8400 is only 15.9mm thin. The slim and light new slider phone comes with a MP3 player, a 1.3 megapixel camera, an electronic dictionary, photo-editing functions, a USB disk, file viewer, and voice-dialing. Slim and functional, ideal for those who look for simplicity instead of gazillion options.
Vertu is not the usual cell phone manufacturer on the mass sale business... This company aims to a very select group of customers, who are willing to spend some serious money on a cell phone - slash - piece of art, creating their designs in partnership with the most prestigious jewelers and craftsmen. The Signature 2006 is a great example of this company's idea of luxury communication, oriented to customers that don't look for gazillion options menu or cell phones that are cameras and MP3 players too, but just to communicate with elegance and distinction.
Samsung has stepped up quality and style with the new Samsung Trace, which features a sleeker style and improved features, being the thinnest phone around. It comes with impressive multimedia options including a 262K-color LCD wide screen, external microSD memory slot, MP3 player, 1.3-megapixel camera, video capabilities, and Bluetooth wireless capability.
With an ultra thin clamshell design and smartphone technology, the Cingular 3125 operates under Windows Mobile 5.0 and features lots of applications and Microsoft programs access, like Outlook and MSN Messenger. Comes with PDA system, GPRS / EDGE internet capabilities and 1.3 megapixel camera. 
The Signature Cobra was designed by the French jeweler Boucheron and features a cobra motif that displays one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies. And, the cobra Vertu will be available in limited edition of just 8 pieces for a price tag of $310,000. There is even a less pricier version called Signature Python that sells for $115,000 and will be available in limited edition of 26 sets, If you ask me it can ve very expensive but the design it's awfull, tacky and tasteless. If I were rich I certanly will pass this ugly cell by... 
