by Johan on August 11, 2009

Huawei is ready to launch two new touchscreen phones for the Chinese market. Known as the C7300 and T550+, the former is a CDMA2000 phone meanwhile the latter supports both GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity. Measuring 109.4mm x 57.6mm x 14.2mm and weighing at 110grams, the C7300 features a 2.5 inch QVGA touchscreen display with 65k colors, a GPS, a handwriting recognition, a 2MP camera, an MP3 player and a MicroSD card support. The Huawei T550+ features a touchscreen display and a 2MP camera. No info on pricing or availability of these handsets. More

Pantech has finally unveiled a new touchscreen phone for the Korean market. Known as the IM-U460K, the handset will be sold under the name of Pantech Love Actually. Measuring 104.9mm x 54.6mm x 12mm, the Pantech Love Actually comes jam packed with a 3-inch WQVGA display, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), a media player, a 3MP camera, a video-call camera, a 255MB of internal memory, and a MicroSDHC card support. Pantech Love Actually IM-U460K will be available via KTF. Video after the jump. More

Czech firm Mivvy has launched three cell phone that supports dual SIM cards, the mivvy dual TV touch, mivvy dual nio and mivvy dual slide. The handsets come only with tri-band GSM/GPRS connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) and all of them can use a secondary SIM card on the 900 / 1800 MHz GSM frequencies. Measuring 107.4mm x 52.5mm x 14.5mm and weights 90grams, the mivvy dual TV touch comes equipped with an analog TV tuner, a 2.6-inch QVGA touchscreen display, Bluetooth, an MP3 player, an FM radio, and a 1.3MP camera. Meanwhile, the mivvy dual slide comes with a 2-inch, 176 x 220 pixels display, Bluetooth, MP3 player, FM radio and a photo camera. Its features are similar to the ones of the mivvy dual slide, the main difference being the QVGA display. The mivvy dual nio has a similar design with Nokia Supernova. The mivvy dual TV touch, mivvy dual slide, and mivvy dual nio are priced at $215, $202, and $162, respectively. More

MetroPCS is ready to release the spanking new Samsung SCH-r810 a.k.a Finesse, a touchscreen handset by Samsung which has the popular TouchWiz user interface. The phone also features a full web browser, 2MP shooter, 3.7-inch touchscreen display, 150MB internal storage memory, microSD card expansion and GPS. Sadly, there is no word on pricing at this time. [Samsung]