LG unveiled its touchscreen bar smartphone dedicated for providing a seamless navigation experience, the LG GT505. It comes with a 3-inch 256-color WQVGA (400×240 pixels resolution) display. The LG GT505 will come with WisePilot navigation preinstalled and quite naturally a built-in GPS receiver. Unfortunately the navigation license will be free only for the first month with a purchase necessary if you are to use it after that point. It seems LG GT505 will be using some new user interface, called A-class instead of the highly appreciated S-class one found in LG KM900 Arena and LG GC900 Viewty Smart. It also packs Wi-Fi, quad-band GSM and 3G with HSDPA connectivity and a 5 megapixel camera.
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During the Samsung Mobile UNPACKED event in London, Dubai and Singapore, Samsung unveiled the latest in mobile handset innovation, Samsung Jet. Samsung Jet is not a simply another full touch mobile phone; it brings a brand new concept of mobile phone to today’s consumers. ‘Smarter than a smartphone,’ Samsung Jet supports the latest smartphone features which include multi-task manager and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, bringing user-friendly menu navigations in a sleek and compact design. Samsung Jet boasts world firsts in both display technology and speed of performance. Its pioneering 3.1-inch 16M WVGA AMOLED display offers the most vivid and colorful full touch mobile experience available; the WVGA AMOLED screen provides a resolution that is four times higher than a WQVGA screen. Its 800MHz application processor delivers breathtaking speed and stunning performance, making Jet the fastest full touch handset on the market today.
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iPhone, an innovative product from Apple, has been voted by Time magazine as “invention of the year” citing is design, innovative touch screen, and potential for changing the tech industry’s approach to mobile computing. The five elements Time listed as making the device special:

• Design. The iPhone and its software let someone discover, understand and use its features without having to read a manual. “All the cool features in the world won’t do you any good unless you can figure out how to use said features, and feel smart and attractive while doing it,” Lev Grossman, Time book and technology writer, said in an article announcing the magazine’s choice.
• Touch screen, which offers a new kind of interface that gives people the illusion of physically manipulating data with their fingers. People can use their digits, for example, to flip through album covers, click links, and resize photos. “This is, as engineers say, nontrivial,” Grossman said. “It’s part of a new way of relating to computers.“
• Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple. In negotiating the deal with AT&T to carry the iPhone, Jobs made sure that Apple held the right to build the device anyway it saw fit. This was unprecedented in an industry where carriers often have a hand in the development of mobile phones. Now that Apple has shown that manufacturers know more about design than carriers, other cellular phone makers are expected to demand more freedom, which should lead to more innovation, according to Time.
• A genuine handheld computer.

The device runs on a mobile version of Mac OS X, the iPhone is truly a platform on which we can take Web applications, such as Google Maps.

• Best selling,

by selling 1.4 million units since the iPhone’s release June 29.

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