Sony Ericsson and Dolce&Gabbana have launched the Jalou "design" handset in the U.K. Here's the official video teaser (1mn28s). The phone has gold accents plated in 24 carat gold and will go for $800, but expect street prices to be lower. What kind of phone is it? For a luxury phone, it has quite a few features: camera, 3.5G, FM Radio, pedometer, mirror, Exchange sync... what? Exchange support? Yes, but we don't know if contacts and calendars are synchronized too. Hopefully they are. Conclusion: shiny doesn't mean dumb. Video in the

The Urbano Barone handset was specially manufactured for folks who fall under the 40 to 50 age range, although we think that the design is way too modern for the more senior among us to use. Being an extremely basic handset in Japan, it just goes to show how advanced the country is with features that include a 5-megapixel AF camera, a microSDHC memory card slot, Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS support and a 3" WVGA LCD display. Neat, eh?

MetroPCS launches the new Samsung Code SCH-i220 Windows Mobile phone, which has been released by US Cellular in June. The Code features a color display, a QWERTY keyboard, a 2 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot. It supports 3G and runs Windows Mobile 6.1 OS.[businesswire]

Here are some leaked photos of HTC’s Dragon Android smartphone. It is believed that the Dragon is the Android version of the HTC HD2, which is released recently. They have the same hardware but different OS.[theunlockr]

Samsung officially announced the commercial launch of its Blue Earth solar-power mobile phone. Samsung’s eco-friendly phone comes with solar charging panel is made from Post Consumer Material (PCM), which is extracted from water bottles.Samsung’s Blue Earth features a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen display and a 3.2 Megapixel camera with face detection and smile shot. FM radio with RDS and Bluetooth are included. The solar handset supports quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual band HSDPA networks.Samsung Blue Earth is launching in Sweden in October and will soon launch in

Acer looks like they mean business in the cell phone market, having officially announced the Acer Liquid, Acer’s first Android-powered smartphone. This is truly something to drool over, as it will be powered by Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It will be the first Android-device to use the processor. Liquid=drool.This one features a high-definition WVGA capacitive touchscreen, and will be powered by Android 1.6. We don’t have an official release date or pricing info yet, but that info should drop soon. We’ll let you know.[Ubergizmo]

Acer certainly looks like it’s going to heat up the cell phone wars, and to emphasize that, it has officially announced the Acer Liquid, Acer’s first Android-powered smartphone. To give you something to drool over, the phone will be powered by Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor, making it the first Android-device to use that chip. Aside from that, it will also have a high-definition WVGA capacitive touchscreen, and will be powered by Android 1.6 (a.k.a. Donut). There isn’t an official release date or price tag

Michael Dell himself has confirmed that his company was going to launch an Android phone in the USA in early 2010. He said that AT&T would be the carrier of choice, but stopped short of providing the details on the phone itself. At the moment, Dell's only Android product is the Dell mini 3i, sold in China.

Acer looks like they mean business in the cell phone market, having officially announced the Acer Liquid, Acer’s first Android-powered smartphone. This is truly something to drool over, as it will be powered by Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It will be the first Android-device to use the processor. Liquid=drool.This one features a high-definition WVGA capacitive touchscreen, and will be powered by Android 1.6. We don’t have an official release date or pricing info yet, but that info should drop soon. We’ll let you know.[Ubergizmo]

LG announced the GD510 Pop, which is the “most compact 3-inch full touchscreen phone ever made”. The GD510 is a simple touchscreen phone that was designed to include the key features these users craved, without the overhead of features they didn’t use, according to LG.The GD510 Pop features a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, a 3 Megapixel camera, 8GB internal memory, built-in media player and support for GPRS/EDGE network. It is crafted from brushed aluminum which gives it a high-end look and feels solid in the hand even when squeezed. The Pop can also be equipped with