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SanDisk Corporation has announced a 4-gigabyte (GB)1 miniSD High Capacity flash card at the CTIA Wireless Show.

The 4GB SanDisk miniSDHC card will be able to provide the fast speed and large capacity required to support increasingly popular but storage-intensive applications such as digital imaging, music and video record/playback functions as well as mobile television and videogames. The 4GB capacity can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures, more than 1,000 digital songs or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video2.

Source: http://www.slashgear.com/sandisk-introduces-4gb-minisdhc-flash-card-for-mobile-phones-121578.php#more-1578

Norway's Trolltech AS has demonstrated the first fully reprogrammable mobile handset to help phone designers innovate as fast as their counterparts in the personal computer industry have done.

A major divide that separates PCs from mobile telephones is that while designers can freely reprogram a computer's software, most of a phone's functions are fixed at the factory. Trolltech's phone comes with all the software and source code necessary to develop a complete mobile phone model, including core Linux operating system controls, a phone dialler, address book and camera application.

The phone is not aimed at consumers, but would allow a wide audience of designers to create new features for future mobile phones.

Source: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa001&articleID=9A86D531E19EC6F5937AD1373BB118BD

Does Motorola's success with its Linux-based "Ming" phones in China indicate that the open-source platform is now a serious contender against Symbian and Windows Mobile in the handheld-device software platform arena?

The phone maker, which debuted the Ming smart phone in March in China, shipped more than 1 million Linux-based units in China alone last quarter, according to research firm Canalys.

The Ming smart phone will be launched in other "high-growth markets" in the second half of this year, according to Alan Nicklos, vice president of mobile devices at Motorola Asia. High-growth markets for the company are Africa, Southwest Asia, North Asia and Southeast Asia.

Source: http://news.com.com/Linux+gets+its+Moto+running/2100-1041_3-6099688.html?tag=cd.top

NEC has announced a new credit card size N908 in Hong Kong. The N908 is as small as a credit card, furthermore it is only 12.8 mm, you can put in your pocket easily. The phone does not have a keypad, instead it has a touch screen for you to do all the input.

Source: http://www.slashphone.com/121/4662.html

Chip-maker Micron Technology is to unveil a thumbnail-sized digital sensor that enables pocket-sized cameras and cell phones to capture bursts of 10 high-quality photos in a single second or even high-definition video.

Production of the new 8-megapixel digital image sensor is expected to begin early next year at Micron's fabrication plants in Idaho and Italy, the Boise-based company said Thursday.
Devices using the new chip should reach consumers by late 2007 and will feature high-speed, high-megapixel digital photography capabilities normally found in more expensive, single-lens reflex cameras.

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/micron-to-unveil-8megapixel-image-chip/2006/05/18/1147545441072.html