It's GSM time, and the phone industry is in Barcelona for the annual GSM Conference. There should be lots of new products, but one of the first is the Sony Ericsson K610 range, which brings a two megapixel camera and Bluetooth to a slim candy bar-style 3G phone. Any association with the popular P610 will no doubt help, but Pocket-lint says:
The phone comes with the NetFront browser. HTML pages are presented in full with photos, video, words and graphics adapted to fit the 1.9 inch colour display. New support for RSS Feeds allows users to subscribe to news services to receive updates direct to the phone.
Nokia has launched three new phones including the 6136 clamshell with Wi-Fi as well as quad-band GSM.
Meanwhile, nVidia has announced a graphics processor for phones. It will support H.264, WMV9 and MPEG-4 video up to D1 resolution at 30 frames per second.
nVidia also says it is "collaborating with DiBcom, the leader in semiconductor technology for mobile digital TV, to create a DVB-H reference design for mobile handset TV platforms. By working together, the two companies can offer a solution that will deliver dramatic advancements in the broadcast quality of mobile TV on next-generation mobile handsets.
Finally, Microsoft and Motorola have announced that they are collaborating "to significantly advance the mobile music experience on Motorola handsets using Windows Media technologies. Motorola's next generation music handsets will support key Windows Media technologies including Windows Media DRM 10, Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) on multiple handsets starting in the second half of 2006 and WMA Pro LBR (Low Bit Rate) in 2007."
