You all like to keep on top of the latest trends in mobile technology and have come across some pretty fascinating and bizarre concept phones. Read on to get a glimpse of what you might be using (or wearing) in the next few years as phones become more a part of fashion than efficiency.

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We found this interesting story on Technology.guardian.co.uk
Sure, if you believe a vociferous crowd who are ready to ascribe those ills to the new twin modern evils - mobile phones (and their masts) and Wi-Fi. They reckon the world's crops are going to fail because, allegedly, mobiles kill bees, and Wi-Fi will make teachers, pupils and […]

The new Samsung SGH-a717 is the GSM equivalent of the SPH-M610 that is currently available from Sprint, sharing a very similar design. This very thin and attractive device shares the same feature set as the M610, but the SGH-a717 adds a couple of millimeters width and height.
For a 12.9mm thick folder style handset, Samsung's SGH-a717 […]

Based closely on the BlackBerry 8800, the RIM BlackBerry 8830 World Edition (or alternatively the BlackBerry 8830v) is a dual-mode CDMA/GSM version of this popular messaging device.
Dual-mode GSM/CDMA handsets are very rare, one notable one being the Motorola A840, but the this approach allows subscribers to US CDMA networks (such as Verizon) access to more […]

Fresh from showing off its Mobile WiMax wares at the recent 3GSM conference, Samsung's now providing some of its gear to the U.S. Army, who's apparently considering the speedy wireless technology for possible military use. Unsurprisingly, neither party is spilling a whole lot of details on the arrangement, with Samsung only saying that the Army's […]

File this under “Rumor” for now, but the folks at Clipset are reporting that Sony is looking for some cellphone gaming action via their Sony Ericsson line of mobiles. Like the high-end Cybershot and Walkman phones, Sony Ericsson's new “gaming” phones would pack a lot of media muscle and have an interface like the […]

How much would you pay for “the Bentley of cellphones”? $1,000? $10,000? Try a cool million bucks. This one-of-a-kind quad-band handset by Goldvish sports a blinding 120 carats worth of VVS-1 grade diamonds, according to designer Emmanuel Gueit, and as you'd expect from a seven-figure phone, features such amenities as Bluetooth, a camera with 8x […]

Hard to believe the day's finally come, but that thing you're looking at is actually Nokia's long, long, freaking long-delayed N75 3G Symbian smartphone. Here. As in, here in America, on AT&T. You don't really need us to tell you what it is (ok, well, if you do: it's got a 2 megapixel camera, PlaysForSure […]