It seems that iPhone’s success and N96 buzz has triggered the telecom giant Samsung to come up with a high end smartphone targeted mainly for the young professionals who always strive for having extra memory.

Well Samsung Haptic 2 – the follower to the popular Anycall Haptic phone is a perfect alternative to the iPhone as it features an impressive display of a 3.2 inch touchscreen and a lively user interface. The smartphone features only three buttons at the bottom allowing its users to take maximum advantage of the sleek customizable touch interface.

Other features include feedback option with a vocabulary of 22 different vibrations; a high quality 5 megapixel camera; an option of 8/16GB internal memory with a microSD card slot; Bluetooth and HTML browser. Not to forget that it is also fitted with a broadcast TV receiver and adopts an upgraded UI with 50 widgets. The Samsung Anycall Haptic 2 is all set to retail for $690 for the 8GB version and around $775 for the 16GB version.

Finally SanDisk, the global leader in flash memory cards has announced world’s largest mobile phone memory card namely 16GB micro SD HC and M2 memory cards. Sources claim that Best Buy Mobile and Verizon Wireless Stores are the retail outlets to carry new 16GB Capacity cards.

We all know that more than eighty percentages of mobile users perform functions other than communicating through calling. With this high capacity fingernail-sized 16GB memory cards, consumers can enjoy high end functions such as music and video playback, digital camera functions, gaming and GPS applications on their handsets. In addition to mobile phones, 16GB MicroSD and M2 cards can be used with video cameras, GPS receivers or MP3 players also with a microSD slots such as SanDisk’s Sansa players.

Last but not the least SanDisk’s 16GB microSDHC card has an MSRP of $99.99 and the 16GB M2 card has an MSRP of $129.99.

Kudos to Retro game lovers cause you no more will be ignored by Nintendo.  Here is complete package of games designed especially to appease you. After the news heralded that Wii's Virtual Console would be getting Sega Master System and Commodore 64 games, SuperGrafx titled game made its way in just a month and is expected to hit the market soon.

For a time being the Ghouls 'n Ghosts (or Daimakaimura, as it were) port is only slated to release in Japan. But we are optimistically hoping that it'll hit other parts of the world very soon. Lot more titles may be lined up in pipeline of the wii console's library although no official confirmation about it. But what we can say confidently is that chances are decently high.

Well Abarth – the famous Italian sports car is back with a new GPS navigation system specially meant for racing tracks.

Named as Blue&Me Nav it is customized specifically for racing tracks including a navigator interfaced with the through Blue&Me system. With a 2GB memory card it can store the Italian maps and other useful nuggets of information that come along with it.

What’s more the drivers will be able to access details such as the position of the car over the track and lap times making you conversant everything you have covered till now. Not to forget that drivers can also store other details on the card by creating a personal profile. Being a smart device it can easily collect and display information about the engine such as RPM, gear, speed and much more.

Yet another innovative mobile concept and this time around it’s none other than the Korean behemoth Sony Ericsson. In the context of eco-friendly environment the giant has come up with the GreenHeart Concept phone. Unfortunately this one is not designed for production atleast in the near future.

The bio-plastic housings, recycled plastic keypads, a zero charger with 3.5mW standby power, HTML based e-manuals makes it a perfect environmental sustainable concept throughout its life cycle. What’s more in addition it also comes with a green packaging.

Well the idea is indeed commendable given the fact that cell phone these days have a huge negative impact on the environment. Interesting to watch out if the concept gets a backing from the other industry partners and manufacturers!

Good news for the people who are into waterskiing and windsurfing! Overboard has recently unveiled waterproof pro-sports headphones that too up to 100 %. These head phones have been especially designed for waterskiiers, surfers, dinghyists, windsurfers and fishermen who strive with water very often, almost daily.

The headphones are exclusively designed to eliminate tangles while you are on your stint. The neckband and reactive coiled cable needs to be thanked for this utility.
So now winter sports enthusiasts and water-babies have full chance to realise pleasure.

The headphones are designed to work with OverBoard’s pro-sports iPod case too and come in three different ear bud sizes, small, medium and large. Now the coalition of the case and headphones means you can listen to your 'pod underwater to a depth of 19ft - or 6 metres.

The black coloured headphones is available in two variant

1.     The headphones are available for £25,

Griffin has been in the news for a while unveiling the latest iphone and ipod accessories and this time around too it has come back once again with yet another iPod dock called Simplifi to make our lives less complicated.

Simplifi ipod dock will retail for $70 and the price tag is worth as it actually performs more than a regular iPod dock. It has a memory card reader and a USB hub as well. What’s more it also includes an AC adapter so that you can power up your iPod without the computer or plug in some other USB devices.

So get ready to de-clutter your desk with Simplifi-the compact ipod dock with a slew of other useful features.

Features in a nutshell

• Charge/sync hub for iPhone and iPod.
• Reads and writes the most popular digital media cards, including Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, SD, SDHC, xD and CF (CompactFlash).
• 2-port powered USB hub, using included AC adapter.
• A simple, versatile way to de-clutter your desktop.

Nintendo is leaping for social cause along with its time-honoured gadget tradition. To support an organisation named Susan G. Komen for breast cancer treatment, Nintendo is coming up with DS Lite: the Limited Edition Pink Ribbon. That not only girls who are affected by this brutal disease but also the whole society.

The white polar console comes sans games or carrying case and is ready for retailing for £72 out of which £ 2.73 is promised to be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Nintendo has set the target of donating £55422 for this noble cause.

Dutch navigation specialist and French carmaker Renault have announced a strategic partnership to offer Renault customers an in-dash navigation system for around 500 Euros. That price seems to be very reasonable given the fact that most of the fully integrated GPS systems today cost in the range of $1,500 to $2,000.

Expecting to pioneer in providing low cost integrated navigation solutions in the automotive industry, this navigation solution will be available to Renault customers on various models with added advantage of maps being provided by Tele Atlas.

The integrated navigation solutions won’t be available this year as they will make their way anywhere around first half of 2009.

Sources confirmed the first shipment of Sandisk 16GB micro SD HC memory begins on 23 September. So it is will be arriving shortly with the retailers. This is absolutely fabulous news for the users of Nseries or other Nokia devices having compatibility with microSDHC, however users of Nokia N95 8GB and N81 8GB out of luck this time because of compatibility issues.

It has already speckled at a few UK on-line shops selling at approximately £45 with VAT (about $70 pre-tax in the US). So, friends its time to upgrade your smartphones and PDAs from 4GB and 8GB capacitites limit to 16GB.