The new mobile phones patent trends are slowly shifting to hand-recognition . We saw first Nokia’s hand-recognition patent, and Now Samsung has patented a New hand-gesture recognition control .Was the minority report an accurate prediction for our future? Nowadays, you will look insane waving around your phone, but would it be a normal gesture in the new future?

Samsung has released the SCH-470, a high-speed Windows Mobile slider handset that sports High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), 2 Megapixel Camera, Bluetooth, and Wifi.

Price Range: 600,000 and 700,000 won (about $616 to $718).

While many pundits have labeled the new stock on offer at CTIA as disappointing, there are still a few new models bound to generate excitement - here’s our top 10 new devices from CTIA 2008.

1.The Samsung Instinct is a touch-screen device with more than a passing resemblance to the you-know-what with ultra-fast Internet speeds and a lower price tag - say it in a whisper “iPhone killer?”
2. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the smallest BlackBerry smartphone to offer a full QWERTY keyboard oh me oh my. Coming with Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV and a range of corporate features such as email, contacts, calendar, tasks as well as GPS navigation.
3. The Pro-700 is a rugged device certified to military standards for dust, shock and vibration which should get a few of the rabble smearing mud across their cheeks in readieness for the forthcoming assault. For the rest of us it offers a single-number option and the ability to black or allow incoming one-to-one push-to-talk calls. With Sprint Mobile Sync, an online tool that lets users manage all of their contact information online, including setting up groups for PTT and text/voice messaging the Pro-700 is a formidable package.
4. Like the 700 model, the Pro-200 offers push-to-talk missed call notification, meaning when on a Nextel Direct Connect call users will be notified if they miss a push-to-talk call, call alert or group call and does all this with a more refined form-factor that its stable-mate.
5. The LG LX 400 clamshell operates on the digital dual-band 1900 MHz and 800 MHz network and weighs in at 3.17 ounces. It also features direct connect push-to-talk, Bluetooth wireless connectivity, a digital camera with Picture Mail and GPS navigation. It also supports mobile email, SMS and MMS messaging, instant messaging and speakerphone.

6. Just when you think you have had enough of push-to-talk functionality the Samsung Z700 is another push-to-talk clamshell and features a 2.0 megapixel camera, a microSD memory card slot and offers access to Sprint TV and Sprint’s music services.
7. Geared toward the multimedia-hungry crowd, the Moto V950 features access to Sprint TV, the Sprint Music Store, Sprint PCS Picture Mail and Sprint Navigation.
8. Nokia’s first ever WiMax device, an upgraded version to its N810 Internet tablet. was also displayed.
The N810 Internet Tablet WiMax Edition is a pocket-sized device that brings the Internet to the palm of your hand. The latest in Nokia’s tablet lineup, the WiMax Edition should be available this summer in areas where WiMax is available.
9. Motorola launched the new Moto Z9 slider phone with AT&T Navigator, a feature phone with GPS navigation. Along with being the first AT&T Navigator-enabled device, the Z9 also features Opera 8 browser, 2.0 megapixel camera and Motorola’s CrystalTalk technology that enables users to be heard even in noise environments.
10.The ZTE C78 are among the first in the U.S. to operate on AWS frequency bands in addition to PCS and cellular bands. Carriers who operate on these frequencies can now offer users access to next generation voice, data and multimedia applications.

Samsung miCoach Video:

The Unlocked Samsung F110 miCoach acts as ‘virtual personal trainer’. It is quad-band GSM slider from the middle class, with 2″ display and 2-megapixel camera.

• Dedicated sports features
• On-board miCoach application measuring sports progress and giving voice feedback
• Synchronization with miCoach web-based coaching system
• Built-in accelerometer with step counter
• Stride sensor and heart rate sensor in the extended package
• Comes with sports headset, 3.5mm audio jack remote and an armband
• 2 megapixel camera
• 1GB of onboard storage
• FM radio
• Stereo Bluetooth
• Works without a SIM card inserted

Hands on Samsung Instinct from PhoneArena. The Instinct’s feature a host of goodies that should make any media phone fan proud. Inside the 3G handset you’ll find a 2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, audible caller ID, voice dialing and commands, a full HTML browser, a digital music player that shows album art, phone as modem capability, Microsoft Live Search, and integrated GPS with Sprint navigation.

While claiming to be an iPhone killer is nothing new, the Samsung Instinct 3.1 ” screen, haptic feedback and three navigation keys rings a few bells.

Samsung has denied that the Instinct was developed in response to the iPhone but in reality all we really care about is the usability and feature mix - which the Instinct claims to have just so.

Featuring EV-DO Rev A and GPS and with Sprint throwing in Sprint Music Store, Navigation, TV, Visual Voicemail and a full HTML web browser as well as having a customizable home-screen…so it just comes down to the browser now.

We’ll keep you posted.

Samsung’s Anycall Haptic looks like a thinner version of Apple’s iPhone, but adds a new dimension to the touch interface.
The phone has a 3.2-inch widescreen display, a 2-megapixel digital camera, full Internet browser, Bluetooth 2.0 and terrestrial digital TV reception.The UI looks pretty similar to the Croix style handsets, but clearly has a totally different UI.Even better yet is the fact that you can drag and drop icons to customize certain areas of the UI for easy use and access to the things that you use most often on the phone.

The touch screen provides haptic feedback as well, information transmitted via the sense of touch, when using certain functions on the device. It means, for example, that when the volume of the radio is changed, the phone simulates both the sound and feel of the “clicks” on an old-style volume knob on a real radio, said Samsung.

It will cost between 700,000 won and 800,000 won (US$700 to $800) in South Korea. There’s no word from Samsung on when it might be available elsewhere.

Enjoy the commercial…

What has become of our audacious hero from season 1 you may well ask as Samsung has followed up its SCH-C220 ” Miniskirt” phone with the intriguingly titled Miniskirt Season 2.

Fear not concerned viewers the carrier dependently titled SCH-C225/SPH-C2205/SPH-C2255 updates its predecessor with an embarassment of riches including new colors, smile shot face tracking functionality and haptic feedback.

The Miniskirt Season 2 also features 2 megapixel camera, GPS navigation Bluetooth connectivity and is only 10.9mm thick.

Who said sequels suck?

We’ve seen our fair share of Robots and Transforming phones, even still though there have been rumors of gremlins in the Samsung Ultra series, nothing prepared us for this video of the U700.

Makes your U600 look a tad predestrian eh?

The Samsung P960 Tv phone made a splash at MWC 2008 at Barcelona and is likely to do the same when in launches in Taiwan around Q3 2008.

Suspected to be a mid-high range device, the P360 sports 2.6 inch TFT display, MP3, AAC and AAC+ player, FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth 2.0 and of course the celebrated built-in DVB-H TV broadcast receiver.

Other TV related features include a TV-out and a retractable TV antenna, making the P960 a great mobile television alternative.