New LG Touchscreen Handset's Image Leaked

It seems like the mobile manufacturing communities security is full of leaks, the latest one being from LG and seems to be their latest touchscreen handset - the Arena KM900. While it looks quite like Samsung’s Omnia, reports have said that it’s in actuality a little more compact. LG has gone with a new 3D user interface they're calling S-Class and that looks a bit like the Apple iPhone’s.

The Arena KM900 features also include –

• 5 megapixel camera, with DVD quality video recording
• DivX playback
• Bluetooth,
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Wi-Fi, EDGE/GPRS

No other specs are available just yet including the size of the touchscreen display. Pricing and availability is not yet out either so stay tuned.

Nine-year Old Writes iPhone Application

While most children his age sketch on paper with crayons, nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has a very different canvas - his iPhone.

Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple's popular iPhone. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in two weeks, the New Paper reported on Thursday.

The program lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone's touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone. "I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw," Lim said. His sisters are aged 3 and 5.

Lim, who is fluent in six programming languages, started using the computer at the age of 2. He has since completed about 20 programming projects. His father, Lim Thye Chean, a chief technology officer at a local technology firm, also writes iPhone applications.

"Every evening we check the statistics emailed to us (by iTunes) to see who has more downloads," the older Lim said. The boy, who enjoys reading books on programming, is in the process of writing another iPhone application - a science fiction gam

Toshiba Launches The TG01 i-Killer

Wow! Is the first word that came to me when I heard the news and lay my peepers on the largest screen ever to make it to the mobile phone segment – 4.1-inches with a WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) resolution. I was even more impressed when I saw the company that put this baby out. Toshiba has launched this iKiller, their TG01 PocketPC, that’s running on Qualcomm Snapdragon platform using a Windows Mobile 6.1 OS. Just so you know, there is no other mobile device that runs on this system yet.

Toshiba has also gone with a customized 3D UI to add a little pizzazz to the mix. The Mobile Internet Device is powered by a 1GHz mobile CPU. Aside from its extremely large display and a slim 9.9mm thick body, this GSM handset is quite well equipped too with features that include -

• Internal GPS with A-GPS
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Wi-Fi
• EDGE/GPRS and 3G with HSDPA support
• 512MB internal memory with up to 32GB for external via MicroSD cards
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• Support for DivX video playback.
• Internet Explorer Mobile 6 with full support for Flash and a virtual track pad for web navigation
• Shake control for specific features as well as an accelerometer for screen rotation

Other than that the company and Qualcomm have claimed that the TG01 will actually be able to go for a whole day without recharging thanks to the CPU’s dynamic speed control.

New Dual SIM Android Phone Revealed

Another Android device to-be has begun making waves according to reports. The handset is manufactured by a company called General Mobiles (General Motors affiliated???) that seems to specialize in Dual SIM handsets. The handset called the DSTL 1 is a classy looking touchscreen handset.
Other than just Dual SIM technology it’s also equipped with a Linux 2.6 Kernel, hence the Android assumption. Nothing has been made official yet so we’ll have to wait and see. The DSTL 1 also features–

• a 3-inch touchscreen with a 240 x 400 pixel, 260K color resolution (WQVGA)
• Wi-Fi, EDGE and GPRS support
• 4GB of internal memory with external support form microSD cards (up to 8GB)
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• Media player with DivX playback support, FM radio
• 5 megapixel AF camera with flash
• MS document reader
• Java support

This will be the first Dual SIM Android powered handset of course and it’s possible it’ll be showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Feb this year.