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Opera Mini 4.1 is now available as a full release, having previously been available only as a beta product.

Opera Mini 4.1 can now guess the URL you want when you enter a search term in the address bar, and it can also highlight terms on a Web page to let you zero in on most-wanted data bites.

Other features:

• It's able to save Web pages for later offline viewing
• It gives quick access to the word or phrase you're looking for in the Web page
• It allows downloading images, ring tones, and other content without having to leave it
• It is up to 50 percent faster than Opera Mini 4.0

BenQ announces the launch of its latest mobile phone - the super-slim BenQ T60, targeted at the sophisticated, style-conscious consumers.

It comes with 24 MB of internal memory, integrated stereo FM radio with schedule recording function, and a micro SD card slot. it supports reproduction of MPEG4, MP3, AMR, MIDI and SP-MIDI music files, and it also features Bluetooth with stereo sound (A2DP), remote control (AVRCP) support, and USB connectivity. It's standby and talking time are 200 hours and 3 hours, respectively.

Measuring a mere 8.9mm thin, the T60 sports a spacious 2.2-inch QVGA TFT LCD display, a rarity for a phone this slim, a built-in camera with 3.2 megapixel photo output, and a high-quality multimedia player.

The sleek T60 recently received the internationally-renowned red dot Design Award, a highly coveted accolade vied for by the world's top companies, for its innovative design, exceptional quality and high functionality.

BenQ aims for the T60 to be a fashion handset, which makes perfect sense for its software to include a caller black list function

Sprint announced today the upcoming launch of the Sanyo Pro-200 and Pro-700, two new devices integrating Nextel Direct Connect push-to-talk (PTT) service. Powered by Qualcomm's QChat, the Pro-200 and Pro-700 operate on Sprint's Mobile Broadband EV-DO Rev. A network instead of the common iDEN network for faster data speeds.

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The Sanyo Pro-200 sports an attractive, slim clamshell form factor. Delivering push-to-talk services, key functionalities including Bluetooth, messaging capabilities and mobile email. The Pro-700 is designed for harsh environments, providing a rugged exterior certified to military standards for dust, shock and vibration.

Toshiba has launched the newest handset aimed at the luxury market (otherwise known as the more-money-than-we-know-what-to-do-with crowd). The Toshiba Cosmic Shiner is basically a Toshiba 815T adorned with a smattering of diamonds and commands a healthy $4000 price tag. Toshiba is really milking their Toshiba 815T or all it's worth. Last we saw, the Tosh 815T donned some transformer gear for the mid-range market, and now we see the 815T pulling duty in the uber-lux market.

General Mobile's Windows Mobile 6 Professional-powered DSTW1 sports a large 2.8" QVGA touchscreen, capable of 65k colors. The handset also features a dual-SIM slot, with one supporting quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and the other tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900MHz). This 144g (5oz) heavy hitter measures in at 117mm x 61mm x 18mm (4.6" x 2.4" x .7") and also features Bluetooth 2.0.

The DSTW1's 2 megapixel camera offers the ability to snap pictures on the go, while the microSD card slot allows for plenty of storage. 256MB of internal memory provides plenty of room for adding applications and the phone's 64MB of RAM should keep things snappy when moving through the menus.

The General Mobile DSTW1 smartphone should go on sale in select European markets in March. There is no word yet on pricing.

Asus has quietly unveiled the M930, a laptop-style smartphone based on Windows Mobile 6 Standard. The front of the device features a standard numeric keypad and 2.0" QVGA display, but upon opening the handset, users are greeted by a large 2.6" WQVGA display (400x240 pixel resolution) and full QWERTY keyboard. The M930 also features a 2 megapixel camera and a secondary VGA-quality camera for video calling, where supported.

The Asus M930 connects via the tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900MHz) and WCDMA (2100MHz), with high speed data thanks to HSDPA and WiFi support. Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR is also present, alongside a microSD card slot for expanded memory. Pricing and availability for the Asus M930 have not yet been announced. 

In France, the health minister recently issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use by young children.

The objections are driven in part by a lack of knowledge over the long-term health effects of mobile phone use. But they also appear to reflect an instinctive worry about whether parents should be giving young children cellphones at all. Jóvenes Verdes, an environmental advocacy group for young people in Spain, argues that "the mobile telephone industry is acting like the tobacco industry by designing products that addict the very young."

While there is no specific evidence that mobile telephones pose a health threat to young users, researchers worry that there is still only scanty scientific information about the long-term impact of radio frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile telephones on the developing brains and tissues of children.

Swedish Neonode announces at the CES 2008 that they will launch their Neonode N2 mobile phone to the U.S. market in 2008.

The Neonode N2 is an ultra compact touchscreen phone. The cutting-edge phone utilizes exclusive neno user interface and zForce optical touch screen technology, offering users an intuitive and easy to navigate experience. It measures 77 x 47 x 14.7mm and weighs only 70 grams. The N2 can play music as well as video files. The Neonode N2 will include a 2.0 megapixel camera, MiniSD card slot, Bluetooth and GSM Quad band connectivity among its features and will set you back around $609.

The N2 phone has launched in Europe and will be in the US early 2008.

Today Motorola unveiled the MOTOPURE H15 and the H780 headsets. The The 14g H15 features an active flip microphone boom that lets users power up the headset and answer a call in one quick flip, high quality wind suppression technology and Motorola's industry topping noise suppression technology named CrystalTalk.

The H780 features the same basic technology as the H15, but in a slightly larger package that lacks the wind noise prevention system. The H780's extra bulk allows it to contain a battery that is good for a solid 7 hours of talk time rather than the 4.5 hours that the H15 is capable of. Even with that extra size, though, the H780 is still lighter than its brother, coming in at a feathery 11g. And while it lacks the folding boom of the H15, the H780 has a very easy to use sliding power switch that lets you see at a glance whether the device is powered up or not.

The first Nokia 'Comes With Music' phone will go on sale on October 17th. The Comes With Music package lets users download as much music as they care to from the Nokia Music Store during the course of a year. After the year ends, the users still get to keep and use all of the music they had downloaded previously.

Nokia currently has deals inked with Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner Music Group - three of the largest music publishing houses in the world.