Yesterday Panasonic announced its new smartphone designed for Europe and US – Panasonic ELUGA. In spite of the fact that it is rugged device (its body is water, dust and shock resistant) the smartphone is very thin – 7.8mm and looks very stylish. The device is based on 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP4430 processor and runs on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread that will be soon updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Panasonic ELUGA has 4.3-inch aHD (540x960px) OLED touchscreen, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage, 8MP AF camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC chip, 3.5mm headphones jack, 1150mAh battery. Supported network standards are 3G/WCDMA/HSPA (14.4/5.76 Mbps), HSPA+ (21 Mbps), GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz. The dimensions of the device are 62х123х7.8mm, the weight is 103g. In Europe Panasonic ELUGA will become available in April.

LG’s marketers decided not to wait until Mobile World Congress 2012 exhibition and yesterday LG announced LG Optimus Vu. The device seems to be a rival of Samsung Galaxy Note. This smartphone features 5-inch IPS touchscreen with 1024x768px resolution and 1.5GHz dual-core processor. LG Optimus Vu has 8MP AF camera with LED flash, 32GB internal storage, Wi-Fi, HDMI output, 2080mAh battery. The device supports LTE networks, Wi-Fi Direct and DNLA technologies. The dimensions are 140x90x8.5mm, the weight is 168g. At present moment the device runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread but LG promises to release Android 4.0 ICS update in next few months. LG Optimus Vu will be released in March.

ZTE decided not to wait for Mobile World Congress 2012 and today announced its two new smartphones featuring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and LTE networks support.

ZTE PF200 is based on 1.2GHz dual-core processor and has 4.3-inch touchscreen with 640x960px resolution, 8MP camera supporting Full HD video recording, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, Wi-Fi with DNLA support, A-GPS, NFC chip.

ZTE N910 has 1.5GHz chip, 4-inch 480х800px touchscreen, and 5MP camera. There are also such usual for present-day smartphones modules as GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, MicroSD external memory card slot, 3.5mm headphones jack.

GSMArena has just published a list of specifications and some pictures of coming Sony Ericsson Arc HD smartphone that is also known as Sony Ericsson Nozomi. The device features 4.3-inch touchscreen with 1280x720px resolution and 12MP camera supporting Full HD video recording. Sony Ericsson Arc HD is based on 1.5GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread that will soon be updated to Android 4.0 ICS. The smartphone also has Adreno 220 graphics accelerator, 1GB RAM, 16GB or 32GB internal storage, HDMI output. It is expected that Sony Ericsson will officially announce this smartphone at CES 2012 exhibition.

Together with LePad S2005 Lenovo also announced its new smartphone – Lenovo LePhone S2. It is based on 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 chip and runs on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread operating system. The device is equipped with 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen, 8MP camera with HD video recording support, MicroSD card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3.5mm headphones jack. Lenovo LePhone S2 will be available in two versions – the first one has 512MB RAM and 8GB ROM while the second one has 1GB RAM and 16GB internal storage.

Droid Life source published official photos and a list of specifications of coming Motorola’s flagship device. Motorola Droid 4 is a horizontal slider with five-row QWERTY keyboard.

It is based on 1.2GHz dual-core processor and is equipped with 4-inch 540x960px touchscreen, 1GB RAM, 8MP camera supporting Full HD 1080p video recording, front-facing camera for video calls, 1785mAh battery. There are also such usual modules as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3.5mm headphones jack, light and proximity sensors, accelerometer, MicroSD external memory card slot. At present moment Motorola Droid 4 runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread but soon it will get Android Ice Cream Sandwich Update. It is expected that Motorola will officially introduce this smartphone next week.

Engadget has just published a picture of unannounced HTC’s smartphone. It is code name is HTC Zeta. It is said that the device is based on a 2.5GHz Qualcomm APQ8064 quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC Sense 4.0 user interface. The list of other specifications includes 1GB RAM, 4.5-inch touchscreen with HD resolution, 32GB internal storage, 8MP camera supporting Full HD video recording, front-facing 1.3MP camera for video calls. HTC Zeta also has Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, Wi-Fi, 1830mAh battery. The dimensions are 110х61х9.8mm, the weigh is 146g. Probably HTC will show this smartphone at MWC 2011 exhibition.

Samsung Galaxy Note will become available in next few days. To arouse potential buyers’ enthusiasm Samsung published the first commercial video showing some unique functions of this coming device.

Samsung Galaxy Note is a hybrid of a smartphone and a tablet. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features 5.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen with 1280x800px resolution, 1.4GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 8MP camera supporting Full HD video recording, 2500mAh battery, and stylus. There are also such modules as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, accelerometer, MicroSD card slot, 3.5mm headphones jack.

Today Samsung published official pictures of two coming smartphones – Focus S and Focus Flash. Both mobile devices runs on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system and will become available in AT&T’s shops in the beginning of December.

Samsung Focus S is based on 1.4GHz singled-core processor by Qualcomm and is based on 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen, 512MB RAM, 8MP camera with LED flash, front-facing 1.3MP camera for video calls, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS module, 3.5mm headphones jack. The body of this phone is 8.6mm thick.

Samsung Focus Flash has 3.7-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen and 5MP camera with LED flash. In other respects this smartphone is identical to the Focus S.

Today Nokia announced its new mobile device. Nokia 603 is a simple smartphone described as a combination of good performance and impressive functionality. The device is quite compact and looks very stylish. One of the features of this phone is its 3.5-inch 360x640px ClearBlack IPS touchscreen protected by scratch-resistant glass.

Nokia 603 is based on 1GHz processor and runs on Symbian Belle operating system. Other specifications include 5MP camera with LED flash, 2GB ROM, MicroSD card slot, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC chip, 3.5mm headphones jack, FM radio with RDS, accelerometer, proximity sensor. The body of this phone measures 113.5×57.1×12.7mm and weights 109.6g. Supported network standards are GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz, UMTS/HSPA 850/900/1700-2100/1900/2100MHz. The battery provides 16 hours of talk time in GSM networks or 7 hours of talk time in 3G ones. Nokia 603 will become available in next few months and will cost about EUR200.