Samsung has launched a new range of mobile phones called the Samsung Shark, which are designed to bring a range of functions to users including social media and multimedia functions. There are three models in the Samsung Shark range, the Samsung Shark S5350, Samsung Shark S5550  and the Samsung Shark S3550.

First up is the Samsung Shark S5350, which is an 11.9 inch thick candybar mobile phone with a QVGA display, HSDPA, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, 100MB of built in memory and a range of instant messenger functions like GTalk and AIM.

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Market analytics firm Flurry have just released details of the Nexus One’s first week sales and its looking a little low compared to its main competition. However Google still haven’t confirmed these numbers as yet.

View the first week statistics compared to its competition below. Which reports the iPhone 3Gs sold 1.6 million in the first week, ouch.

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If you are the sort of person who is always dropping your mobile phone, or need to use it in harsh conditions, then you may want to check out the Motorola Brute i680.

The Motorola Brute i680 features military specifications for dust, shock, vibration, and low and high temperatures, plus salt, fog, humidity and rain.

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A Vendor at CES this week selling a so call unbreakable phone which can be dropped from a  10 storey building and drop into 20 ft of water without breaking the phone.

The CEO of Somin the manufacture of the Sonim XP1 mobile phone. Got a little egg on his face when a report who was asked to try and break it. Broke the mobile device with very little effort. Check out the video.

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If you were thinking about getting yourself  one of Google’s [GOOG] new smartphones, the Google Nexus one, you may want to think again, as ArsTechnica are reporting that early termination fees on the Nexus One are high.

If you purchase a Nexus One on a T-Mobile two year contract, the handset is going to cost you $179, plus your monthly contract fee, but if you decide to cancel your contract early, you will have to pay an early termination feed to Google as well as T-Mobile.

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The latest update to Palm’s webOS for the Palm Pre, webOS 1.3.5.2 has gone live in Europe and it adds a range of new features to Palm’s webOS on the Palm Pre.

Some of the features include the ability to install more third party applications, as Palm have allocated more space for installation, and also the option to tether the Palm Pre via Bluetooth.

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We told you last week about the new Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi, that would be coming to Verizon soon, good news as it looks like both of Palm’s new handsets will be available on Verizon Wireless from the 25th of January.

The major change to the Plam Pre Plus, is that the navigation button that was on the original Pre, which is designed to provide a simplified navigation, and the internal storage has doubled from 8GB to 16GB.

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We have seen a few of Stuart Hughes’s creations before on Geeky Gadgets, like the Gold Nintendo Wii, and the $3.2 Million iPhone 3GS, his latest creation is slightly more affordable than previous models the Nokia Supreme.

Stuart Hughes has taken a Nokia 8800 and covered it in platinum and diamonds, with a total of 1,225 gems on the Nokia Supreme’s case.

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Google [GOOG] has released the latest version of their Android SDK for developers, shortly after the release of the Google Nexus One which comes with Android 2.1.

The Android SDK 2.1 is now available to download from the Android Developers website.

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We first heard about Lenovo’s Google Android powered smartphone, the LePhone last week, Lenovo has released some press photos of this cool looking smartphone.

The Lenovo LePhone will launch inc China initially, and it features a 3.7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 800, other features include a full QWERTY keyboard and dual, three megapixal cameras, check out the photos after the jump.

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Google [GOOG] were off to a great start with the launch of their first smartphone, or all the call it the ’superphone’, the Google Nexus One.

It seems some users of Google Nexus One have been experiencing problems with their handsets fluctuating between 3G and Edge, and Google and T-Mobile have asked customers to report on the exact problems they have been having so they can investigate the issue.

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Intel and LG have teamed up to release a new smartphone which is powered by Intel’s Moorestown processor, and will run Intel’s Moblin 2.1 Linux based OS.

The LG GW990 features a massive 4.8 inch touchscreen display with a huge resolution of 1024 x 480 pixels, on top of that there is 512MB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and it is capable of playing HD video in 720p on your HDTV.

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