Class is what this phone is all about and should not be mistaken for a Motorola V3 type phone, the Motorola RAZR 2 V8 is in a world of its own and part of the RAZR series this 11.9mm mobile has many smarter features than any other Motorola handset on the market, for example the ARM II processor.

The RAZR2 V8 has a stainless steel frame and a very large external display and to help you out even more the phone features a colour screen so that you can control your music with touch input controlling plus texts and more. For music it has Windows Media 11 and you can get more storage with the help of 2GB which in out terms is about 1,000 songs which oh yeah you can download at a fast rate via micro USB 2.01.

Motorola RAZR 2 V8 Specifications –
• GSM Quad, EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12
• Display: 2.2” 320×240 TMR 262K/2.0” 320×240 TFT 262K
• Stainless steel frame
• 2.0 megapixel camera
• Speech recognition
• Touch music keys on the front
• Windows Media® 11
• 420MB of end user on-board user memory5 or 2GB memory
• HTML Opera browser
• Pre-loaded games
• MotoSync™ – Synchronization of your corporate Email, Calendar or Contacts
• Micro USB 2.0
• Talk Time: up to approx 500 minutes
• Standby Time: up to approx 280 hours
• 103 x 53 x 11.9mm
• 117grams

Sony Ericsson Shows W300i Walkman Cellphone

Sony Ericsson sees an opening in the cellphone market, pushing hard on its Walkman phones with the W300i, a quad-band EDGE cellphone with dedicated music buttons and the ability to play 30 hours of music on a single charge. It's compatible with Memory Stick Micro cards, and has a still camera onboard that's unfortunately just 640x480. The 3.2-ounce phone is nice and compact at 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.9 inches and will be available in black or white in Q2.

Sony Ericsson PSP Phone Concept

Sony Ericsson patented a PSP phone concept a while back, proving that Sony had some interest in developing a PSP phone model. At the time, it was more than likely not a priority, but that’s starting to change.

Consumer interest in the idea has really increased lately and could force Sony to at least take a look at the idea again. The above image is a PSP phone concept created by a random internet user. Although Sony would probably never go with a design idea from someone random, if the idea catches on, they will have no choice but to consider the ideas flying around the internet.

Yesterday at the Old Billingsgate Market in London, Nokia unveiled two new music phones, the Nokia 5310 (pictured) and 5610 XpressMusic, a new multimedia phone called the Nokia N81 and an updated Nokia N95 that comes with 8GB of onboard memory.

Interestingly, the event wasn't just about new handsets -- Nokia also announced the start of a new music store, a content site called Ovi, which apparently means 'door' in Finnish, and showed off the new and improved N-Gage platform that will run on N-Series handsets. For a quick look at what Ovi offers, click play on the video below.

t seems that Motorola (MOT) comes out with a good handset that everybody wants every five years or so. Considering that, we have a couple more years to go until the company will have another blockbuster handset again. This failure by Motorola is a big positive for Nokia (NOK) on many fronts.

Or to piggyback on a well-known Motorola advertising tagline: Goodbye, Moto — and hello, Nokia.

First, it shows that Nokia’s management can execute despite not having the “hottest” phone on the market (i.e. Motorola’s Razr). Also, it will be further taking market share from Motorola; I estimate its margins will further improve, driving its earnings north of $2 a share over the next couple of years. After seeing Nokia’s second-quarter results, that estimate could come sooner rather than later.

The best part is Nokia doesn’t have to do anything heroic to achieve that goal. Operational leverage (higher volumes spread over fixed costs) and a shift to a higher margin (more feature-rich phones) will do the work. This was the driver of the company’s truly incredible operating performance in the second quarter.

The second quarter was simply spectacular: operating profit in every segment with the exception of its networks division grew in the high double digits, and sales climbed a whopping 28%.

At the current share price, you are not really paying for the network segment, in fact, since it loses money it detracts from the company’s valuation. But at some point its profitability will turn positive and the division will become a contributor to Nokia’s bottom line.

Samsung is a conglomerate, and although it’s a good one, it still lacks Nokia’s focus. Despite being located in a lower labor-cost part of the world, South Korea-based Samsung doesn’t have a cost advantage against Nokia, as Finland-based Nokia manufactures its phones all over the world, including in China. Nokia has proved to be the Dell of cell phones from a cost-structure and manufacturing-efficiency perspective and Apple-like when it comes to innovation — it comes out with several dozen phones year after year.

There is still upside in Nokia’s global market share, because Nokia has just a small market share in the U.S., accounting for only 4% of its volume. It is only a matter of time before Nokia starts taking market share in the U.S.; it has already started to design U.S.-centric phones. As Nokia regains market share in the U.S., this will drive its global market share. Despite not having the phones in the U.S. that consumers seemed to want, Nokia still has an excellent brand reputation in the U.S., so it just needs to fix relationships with U.S. carriers (AT&T (T) , Verizon (VZ) and T-Mobile) and start selling phones that the rest of the world is so crazy about.