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Its on news again that Lenovo lunched its new Mobile Phone named Ophone. Is it true? or a hoax again? A small search in Google and Lenovo’s official site doesn’t return any result which we can trust.At engadgetmobile, they showed us some pics of that piece of really cool looking mobile, but they can be easily faked. As long as we don’t get any official statement, we can not be 100% sure.

Lenovo OPhone

This mobile is expecting to run on Google’s Android Operating System which infact is a good OS for Mobiles and PDA's and can compete with Symbian Series OS.

It is powered by a good speedy 624MHz CPU and 3.5″ OLED display. The touchscreen navigation interface putting it closer to Apples’s iPhone, though we learn that its longer, wider and thicker then iPhone.

Its also has 3.5mm headphone socket, mini USB Interface, bluetooth and WiFi for connectivity and a powerful 5 Megapixel camera.

The Cookie is a clean looking phone at first glance. Its got a really uncluttered front facial with just three, small well beveled buttons. The phone itself is finished in matte black and has a Steel-Grey ring running right around the sides that adds a classy look.

LG KP500 Cookie

The camera and phone screen lock buttons are no one side and very easy to use despite their small size owing to great feedback, the volume up/down buttons aren’t as good. LG has added the ability to finger swipe through albums and this is called “Free Touch”, an obvious ripoff from Apple’s Multi Touch; but it doesn’t work anywhere at all as well which is why there’s a stylus provided. Its light years away from the flawless fluidity of Apple’s touch interface. Add to that a vary slow processor which becomes amply evident as you use the touch feature when browsing albums and such.

We were a bit disappointed with the touch sensitivity. On a more positive note touch accuracy is a bit better and acceptable for a phone in this bracket.
the screen itself is quite large and clear although we’ve seen bettr screens in the Xperia and the iPhone. The Cookie does make a strong point for itself by having a well laid out menu system with pretty good icons-not like some of the cartoonish icons we’ve seen from LG in the past.

LG provides a neat bunch of games and quite frankly we had a bit of fun playing these. This not camera phone and we’ve seen much better 3-megapixel units and there’s no flash. MP3 playback quality is strictly so-so and another pain is LGs continued use of a proprietary connect for the same rather than a 3.5mm jack. Call quality and signal reception strength on the Cookie isn’t all that great and nowhere close to Nokia phones. Priced at $300 it’s a mixed bundle.

Although not many phones can offer such a large touchscreen for the price there are other problems that prevent us from recommending you swallow this Cookie for one, it’s a mediocre phone, MP3 playback quality and the camera could be better. There are other alternatives for this price range that do far more as a phone and as multimedia devices.

Slider Phones are hot, in more ways than one. They have also become associated (sometimes falsely) with higher prices than other phones, thanks to flagship devices like Nokia’s N95.

The 6210 Navigator is part of Nokia’s new series of phones where GPS is the selling feature. A lot of other phones has GPS, this phone is just blatant with the handle Navigator. Its a good looking phone that looks better in black than mocha red, which are the two colors available.

Nokia 6210 Navigator

The built and the working of the slider is excellent, a very smooth and positive action. The back of the phone has a cheap and tacky feeling - a pity since the rest of the phone is quite well built. The front has this shiny plastic coating that we feel is overdone. this makes the Nokia 6210 look a little too loud. The Navigator monogram, a blue fore cornered star, on the front of the phone looks overdone too. Call Accept, Reject and Menu buttons are large, well laidout and very easy to use. The Number keypad, although flat, is large and well spaced - a boon for SMS junkies. All the button on the body feel solid and work well.

The screen is crisp and can display upto 16 million colors. The 6210 Navigator has a 3.15 MegaPixel camera that is good for taking the odd image, but falls short of some of the other 3.2 MegaPixel rated cellphone cameras we already seen. Music quality is decent, but not as good as some of the other Nokia’s. A 3.5 mm jack means you can use your own headphones.

The phone interface is fast, thanks to an ARM 11, 369MHz processor, and signal quality is good. We feel a larger battery should have been present.

At $459, the 6210 Navigator is expenssive for what it offers.

Specifications at a Glance:
1. CPU : ARM 11, 369 MHz
2. 64MB SDRAM
3. Screen Size : 2.4″ with 16 million colors.
4. Resolution : 240×320 pixels
5. Camera Lense Sensor : 3.15 Camera
6. GPS : Inbuilt GPS Navigation

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. yesterday reported a narrower loss than expected for its third quarter on increased sales of its microprocessors and graphics chips, the company said.

It was AMD's eighth consecutive quarterly loss but a much smaller one than the year before. The loss was $67 million, or 11 cents per share, compared with a loss of $396 million, or 71 cents per share, in the third quarter of 2007. Revenue climbed 14% to $1.78 billion, from $1.56 billion a year earlier.

The net loss is based on generally accepted accounting principles. On a non-GAAP basis, excluding a loss of $108 million from discontinued operations, as well as other charges, AMD said it would have reported a profit for the quarter of $80 million.

The revenue and profit figures both came in ahead of analyst forecasts, according to Thomson Reuters.

"AMD had a well-executed third quarter in the context of a challenging environment," Chief Financial Officer Bob Rivet said on a conference call. "We reached our goal of achieving operating profitability."

Revenue from AMD's microprocessor unit climbed 8% year over year to to $1.39 billion, while revenue from its graphics business climbed 40% to $385 million. The growth came from AMD's quad-core Barcelona server processor, which had its first full quarter of shipments following delays, and from new Radeon 4000 graphics chips that shipped during the quarter.

The graphics business, which AMD acquired when it bought ATI Technologies Inc. two years ago, turned an operating profit for the first time, Rivet said.

AMD expects servers based on its new Shanghai processor, which uses a more advanced 45-nanometer manufacturing process, to be available in a few weeks, said President and CEO Dirk Meyer. Desktop PCs based on 45-nanometer processors will be available early in the first quarter of next year, he said. The number refers to the dimension of circuits etched on the chips, and the more advanced process should mean faster, less power-hungry products.

AMD announced a plan last week to stem its losses by spinning off its chip-manufacturing business into a separate company. Analysts said the move could help AMD return to profitability by freeing it of the costly burden of building and maintaining its own manufacturing plants. AMD would continue to design and sell its chips but have them manufactured by a third party.

AMD's shares were up 5% ahead of the financial report, closing at $4.12 per share. The stock moved 9% higher after the report was issued, climbing to $4.50 per share in after-hours trading.

Financial results are being closely watched this quarter as the industry tries to weigh the impact of the emerging financial crisis in the U.S. on customers' IT spending. The news so far has been mixed.

T-Mobile USA will become the first company in the world to announce a mobile phone based on Google's Android OS at a New York press conference Sept. 23, the New York Times reports, citing T-Mobile.

The handset was manufactured by Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC), the Times said. HTC representatives in Taipei declined to comment on the report.

Several other Web sites are also reporting the Sept. 23 event, including Gizmodo, which is displaying what appears to be an announcement from T-Mobile.

HTC has already said it is developing a mobile phone developed around Android and plans to call the handset "Dream."

The handset maker may end up being first in the world to put out an Android-based mobile phone, but other companies are also developing handsets around Android, including Samsung Electronics.

HTC's Google handset is just over 5-inches long and 3-inches wide, with a keypad underneath the screen that either slides out or swivels out. The aim of the keypad is for easy e-mail, note-taking and writing Web addresses.

Internet navigational controls are situated below the screen on the handset.

Android is an open source software platform that includes an OS and is designed to take advantage of Internet services for mobility. The software could become a potent new rival to Windows Mobile and other handset operating systems. At the launch ceremony early this year, Google announced that over 30 companies had joined the Open Handset Alliance