Samsung officially announces the Soul handset, but do we still care, two months later?

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We may’ve first heard about this phone in early February, however it’s taken Samsung until today to officially announce it for their European market.

Hopefully you can remember the specs, but admittedly there has been an awful lot of releases since then, so here’s a quick round-down. The HSDPA GPRS/EDGE Tri-Band handset features a 5.0-megapixel camera with LED flash…

Make some phat drum 'n bass mixes with the BeatEd app for Nokia S60 phones

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Those Nokia handsets that run on the S60 OS can do anything, I’m now convinced.

The latest addition to the ‘but wait, there’s more!’ list is the rock’n’roll drum machine freeware application BeatEd, which was created by a musician so as he could play his guitar with a backing track on his mobile.

The app has 16 different drum tracks, plus 16-channel….

Perfect present for your boozy mother, the LG 'Wine' phone

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Over in Korea, LG has shown off their ‘Wine’ phone, which unfortunately doesn’t bar you from dialing your ex’s number, offer a drunk-to-sober SMS translation service, nor cure you of your Merlot-induced hangovers the next day.

No doubt named in homage to the red wine-coloured model, it features a 2.4″ external display and 1.8″ internal one according to AVING, however by the looks of the photo above, I’d say it’s actually in reverse. Aimed at 30-40 year olds supposedly, the phone is near-on featureless, with ‘enhanced voice calling’, ‘SMS sending and receiving functionality’ listed….

Will the Nokia Tube handset be the saviour of mobile TV?

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Over at the Nokia-obsessed blog NokNok, a very valid point has been raised. We’ve all been banging on about the recently-announced-but-still-unannounced Tube handset, but have never once pondered on the significance of the name.

At a recent press conference in Helsinki, their Head of Internet Services, Niklas Savander, spoke about mobile TV, claiming “it’s all a bit in turmoil”, and that Nokia “have seen that there are multiple segments who are not interested in the broadcasting, but rather…