The unique design by Tom Kenworthy has recently won the RSA Royal Society of Art Design Directions 2007-08 contest. No keys, no complications. A touchpad allows you to draw letters on it for input. This is how you input text: draw a letter using a finger or thumb, press either the left or right colored side button to confirm, the device will recognize the letter and display it on the screen.

As a person accustomed to typing, I find this technique slower than the regular keypads. However, this device might be a success to grand ma and grand pa who have always been familiar with hand-writting over QWERTY typing.

Yahoo has unveiled a new search service that utilizes auto-completion, voice search and integrated content giving more meaningful mobile results - quicker.

The combination of search features on Yahoo’s oneSearch promises to provide customers with better results more quickly:

• With Search Assist as you type real-time predictive searches appear of the most common queries avoiding the need to complete the entire phrase.

• Publisher’s integrated content results in more meaningful responses to queries that are more useful to that specific search, such as restaurant booking numbers when searching for restaurants.

• Voice-enabled search allows customers to search for anything simply by speaking.

These new developments are expected to launch with initial partners in Q2 2008.

TAG Heuer jumps into the mobile market to launch their own branded mobile phone named Meridiist , priced somewhere around $5,338.00 to $6,123.00USD . With this price you will get a 2 megapixel cam, 1.9 inch QVGA display , Bluetooth, and the full array of “luxury” materials….. A smart way of spending your money

The ModeLabs Group is announcing the all new HT2 HUMMER mobile phone. The product is being launched as part of the exclusive licensing contract concluded in February 2007 with HUMMER, a division of the General Motors Corporation.Main features:

• Quad-band
• Dual-SIM
• Built-in modem
• E-mail client.
• 256k colors, 176 x 220 pixel TFT display screen
• 2 megapixel camera
• Media player (mp3)
• 11 MB built in memory
• MicroSD card slot
• GPRS
• Bluetooth
• 103 x 51 x 12 mm

The HUMMER HT2 will be launched in Russia in the 1Q of 2008 . I hope the battery lasts on this phone…

LG announced a new slim member of its Black Label Series. We don’t have much details about the specs, but LG prepared us for the “slimmest” 5 megapixel camera :