Pantech has just unveiled a Sky phone, the stylish IM-S380K. The handset is designed to work only with Korea’s KTF.

Coming in a slider form factor, the IM-S380K brings the following features: a 7:3 aspect ratio, a display with a 240 x 400 resolution, high-speed data transmission HSDPA, Bluetooth connectivity, music player and FM radio, microSD memory card slot, front-facing video-call camera, email, Sky Studio (a photo editing application), subway map and electronic dictionary.

Pantech IM-S380K comes in three color versions: white, black and pink. It costs 400,000 KRW (around 355 US dollars) without a contract.

Sony Ericsson G705 was officially presented on September 9.

The G705 good-looking slider phone brings a set of attractive mid-end features: a 2.4 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels, 262K colors and automatic rotation, a 3.2 Megapixel camera with fixed focus, flash, geotagging and video recording, quad-band GSM and HSDPA connectivity, A-GPS, Wi-Fi and DLNA, full HTML browser, email with Exchange ActiveSync, Google Maps, Google shortcut key, YouTube access, Music and Video players, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 120MB of internal memory and a 1GB M2 card and a battery should be able to provide up to 10 hours of talk-time or up to 400 hours of stand-by time.

The new G705 weighs 98 grams and, when not slid, it measures 95 x 47 x 14.3 millimeters.

Sony Ericsson G705 will also be available in an Orange-exclusive edition, under the name of G705u, dressed in Luminous Black and coming as the first UMA-enabled Sony Ericsson phone.

The handset will be available in Europe and Asia starting October 2008, and it will hit the American market in the first months of 2009.

Sony Ericsson G705’s price is not known yet.

Nokia N85, a new Nseries smartphone, has been presented by the Finnish company.

Coming in a slider form factor, the new N85 packs lots of high-end features: a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus, 20x digital zoom, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens, dual LED flash, geotagging and VGA video recording, secondary camera for video calls, a 2.6 inch TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels, 16.7 million colors, Symbian 9.3 S60 3rd Edition (with Feature Pack 2), brightness control and ambient light detector, accelerometer for automatic image rotation, Wi-Fi, GPS, A-GPS, Nokia Maps,Nokia Web browser, Adobe Flash Lite 3.0, Adobe Reader, Nokia Nseries music player (supporting MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC and WMA), 3D stereo speakers, dedicated music keys, UPnP music streaming, FM radio with RDS, a 3.5 mm headset jack, FM transmitter, digital stereo microphone, N-gage gaming controls, text-to-speech, 74MB of internal memory and an 8GB microSD card.

Nokia N85 packs more than 10 N-Gage free-to-try games: Asphalt 3, Hooked On: FIFA 08, Bounce, Creatures of the Deep, Worlds Series of Poker, System Rush, Reset Generation, Midnight Pool, Tetris, Snakes Subsonic, Space Impact, Sims 2: Pets, Brain Challenge, Mile High Pinball and Block Breaker Deluxe.

Nokia N85 brings a 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery that can offer:

- up to 6.9 hours of GSM talk-time / 4.5 hours of 3G talk-time;

- up to 363 hours of talk-time (either on 2G or on 3G networks);

- up to 30 hours of music playback;

- up to 172 hours of Wi-Fi usage;

- up to 7 hours of gameplay;

- or up to 6 hours of VoIP usage.

The new N85 smartphone measures 103 x 50x 16 millimeters when closed, and weighs 128 grams.

According to Nokia, the new Nseries handset will be commercially available starting October, for a retail price of about 450 Euros (660 USD).

Nokia 2680 Slide, a new pretty basic handset, will soon be available via AT&T.

Coming in a slider form factor, the 2680 Slide brings the following features: dual-band GSM connectivity (850 / 1900 MHz for the US) with GRPS, a TFT display with 128 x 160 pixels and 65K colors, a VGA photo camera, MP3 player, FM radio with recorder, Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, WAP browser, email, handsfree, “advanced calculator”, organizer, 32MB of built-in memory and an 860 mAh said to provide up to 3.5 hours of talk-time or up to about 400 hours of stand-by time.

Nokia 2680 Slide weighs 97 grams (3.42 ounces), measures 99 x 47 x 14.8 millimeters (3.9 x 1.85 x 0.58 inches).

Back in April, Nokia said that the suggested retail price of the new handset is of 75 Euros (about 110 USD). This means that, AT&T will probably offer the 2680 Slide for free with a contract agreement.

Samsung Innov8 will be released in the UK via Carphone Warehouse, starting early September, under the name of Samsung i8510.

Coming in a slider form factor, the high-end Samsung smartphone brings the following features: an 8 Megapixel camera with dual LED flash, auto focus, image stabilizer, geotagging and video recording, a “crystal clear” 2.8 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, GPS, Wi-Fi, full HTML browser, email, Music / Video players (DivX support included), pre-installed 3D games (Asphalt 4 3D and EA Mobile’s FIFA 08), quad-band GSM connectivity and dual-band HSDPA connectivity.

Samsung i8510 will come in two versions: 8GB and 16GB. The retail price has not been announced.

Samsung S7330 is a Soul-Like handset. It comes in a slider form factor.

According to Czech website Mobil.iDNES, the S7330 brings the following features: Magical Touch navigation pad, a 2.2 inch TFT display with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels, quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, HSDPA connectivity (2100 MHz), a 3.2 Megapixel camera with auto focus, LED flash and video recording, Music player, Video player, FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Web and email capabilities, 30MB of built-in memory, microSD card slot and an 880 mAh battery that should be able to provide up to seven hours of talk-time or up to 14 days of stand-by time.

No news yet about the commercial availability of Samsung S7330, but the slider will probably hit the market sometime during the upcoming autumn.

Motorola Z6w has been released in Canada by Fido.

First unveiled back in February, the Z6w is part of the UNO-compatible family of handsets that Fido is offering to its customers.

Coming in a slider form factor, Motorola Z6w brings the following features: quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, a 2-inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 256K colors, a 2 Megapixel camera with flash and video recording, Windows Media Player, Wi-Fi home network, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, speakerphone, Picture Caller ID, SMS and MMS capabilities, PC synchronization, USB 2.0, 64MB of expandable memory, alarm clock, calendar, calculator, To Do list and a 970 mAh battery that should last up to 6.5 hours in talk-time mode or up to 8 days in stand-by mode.

Moto Z6w measures 105 x 45 x 17 millimeters, when closed, weighs 110 grams.

The new Motorola Z6w is available both online, via Fido’s official website, and through Fido’s retail stores from across Canada.

The Z6w costs $350, free of contract or on prepay. Rogers’ subsidiary is also selling the new phone on contract, for lower prices: with a two-year contract, the Z6w can be bought for $160, while those who opt for a three-year agreement can get the handset for only 60 Canadian dollars.

A new Olympic Special Edition of the highly popular Samsung U900 Soul handset has been announced. The Olympic U900 is created to celebrate the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

There will be three model names for the new U900: SPH-W5900IL, SPH-W5950IL and CH-W590IL. All of them have the 2008 Olympic logo on the back of their cases and are pre-loaded with Olympic screensavers, wallpapers and so on.

Coming with an attractive slider design, Samsung U900 Soul brings the following features: 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus, flash, image stabilizer and video recording, a 2.2 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors, a touch-sensitive navigation panel, GSM and HSDPA connectivity (for data transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps), Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 128 MB of internal memory that can be expanded with a microSD or microSDHC card, Music player, FM radio with RDS, HTML browser, email and so on.

For the moment, Samsung Soul Olympic Edition is available only in South Korea, for a retail price of 699,600 won (about 690 USD or 445 Euros). Most probably, the handset will also be on sale across China and on other Asian markets.

Motorola EM25 has just been announced. The new ROKR handset targets young consumers who want their handsets to pack lots of music related features.

Coming in a slider form factor, the EM25 brings about the same features as the two new ROKR handsets: EM30 and EM28, save for the fact that this one only packs dual-band GSM technology (850 / 1900 MHz or 900 / 1800 MHz) with GPRS.

Relying on Moto’s ModeShift technology, the EM25 comes with a keypad that can change its look and functionality in order to offer users a good control over its functions.

Motorola said that the new ROKR handset would be commercially available starting this quarter, in most of the countries around the world.

The retail price of Motorola EM25 has not been announced yet.

Sony Ericsson G705 leaked images recently appeared on the Web.

This new G-series handset is a slider with a nicer alphanumeric keypad.

There aren’t too many details about the features of Sony Ericsson G705, but from these leaked images we can see that the handset will packs a 3.2 Megapixel camera with fixed focus, LED flash and video recording, as well as a front-facing camera for video calls. It will probably bring the following features: a 2.4 inch display with 262K colors and 240 x 320 pixels, A2 platform, built-in GPS.

There are no official details about the Sony Ericsson G705. However, it could be fully unveiled in mid-August, according to the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog.