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Thinking of customizing the color of your new BlackBerry Bold 9700? Well, now you could over at ColorWare. They’re offering you two different options, you can either send yours in for $159 or buy one from them for $849. Interested?

Starting December 3rd, 2009, NTT DoCoMo will launch the white version of the popular BlackBerry Bold handset in Japan. The smartphone adopts a 65,536-color TFT LCD display with 480 x 320 pixels, a QWERTY keyboard and a 2MP camera.

KT Korea has unveiled two new iPhone 3GS commercials. Each video shows Cut, Copy & Paste functions of the handset. The new iPhone 3GS lets you cut, copy, and paste text and photos across multiple applications without using complicated keyboard shortcuts. Video after the jump.

Here’s a sweet seamless pebble phone by Samsung, the Samsung L400V. It’s a subtly stylish handset available in tender white, pink and black. However, it maintains a pretty low-key technical features. Besides, basic applications of portable music player and FM radio, it has a below average 2 megapix camera, external monochrome dual screen and a 176×220 pixels resolution with 262K colors. Nevertheless, it’s an affordable phone, which has been unlocked at $179.9, and quite a decent pick for this reason.

Wanna try some adventurous underwater talk? The Alpha UWCP Underwater Cell Phone System will allow you to do just that. You can make and receive phone calls under water using the system. The complete equipment comprises of a Neptune Space full face mask, a 1st stage underwater communication unit, a 40m long cable with a quick release waterproof connector, a waterproof interface box to hold the handset with bluetooth connectivity. You may be some 15,000 miles away from land on a tropical reef, the Alpha UWCP will allow you to share your thrill with friends directly live over phone. The thrilling device works with a 9v alkaline battery and retails for $1,790.00 at SkyMall.

Cricket Wireless will soon add another messaging phone to its range in the form of MSGM8. This new candybar phone features a 2.2-inch 240 x 320 display, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a full-QWERTY keyboard, dedicated keys for messaging and social networking applications, speech recognition for hands free calling, Bluetooth and supports tri-band CDMA connectivity. The MSGM8 will be available at Cricket stores starting on November 27th for an introductory price of $99.99 until November 30th.

Still remember the Samsung C5130 that we posted back in September? Samsung has recently launched this slider handset in India for Rs. 6200 or around $134. The entry-level phone has a homescreen that includes shortcuts to 8 popular social networking services such as Facebook, YouTube, Orkut and Picassa. As a reminder, the C5130 sports Bluetooth, an FM radio, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and a microSD card slot. The battery of Samsung C5130 provides up to 13-hours of talk time.

Folks in the US will receive the Nokia N900 starting next week. It is the first Nokia device based upon the TI OMAP3 microprocessor with ARM Cortex-A8 core. The Maemo 5-powered smartphone supports Quad-band GSM and 3G UMTS connectivity and features a 5MP camera, a portable media player, and a mobile Internet device with email and web browsing. The unlocked version of Nokia N900 is still listed for $649 from Nokia direct.

Heavy texters will find the keyboard of the iPhone little hard to use. For iPhone users who have been getting little frustration typing on the iPhone, can now make use of the 4iThumbs Keyboard Overlay, which is a little hardware add-on that eases your typing on your iPhone and improves your productivity.The 4iThumbs Keyboard Overlay is just a clear plastic overly to add on to your iPhone screen, with raised bumps over the keyboard positions. And you’ll find yourself with much faster in response and speed while texting on the iPhone with the help of the 4iThumbs Keyboard.

The plastic overly can be removed as required and informatively stored at the back of your iPhone for later use. Two models are available, one for portrait typers, costs $14.95 and the other for landscape typers, costs $16.95. And you can get both for only $19.95. All prices include shipping. Watch the clip below on how it works.

Here comes the First ELSE smart phone which claims to center around the user’s experience rather than the phone itself. By that it means the first ELSE phone can let you interact with the phone’s features such as phone, GPS, camera etc in the same way you interact with those standalone devices alone.The First ELSE phone will feature UMTS/HSDPA, 3.5-inch 854 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display with tactile feedback, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, 5 megapixel camera, GPS and aGPS as well as proximity, ambient light and tilt sensors.

It runs Linux-based “ELSE Intuition” OS and is powered by the TI OMAP 3430 mobile processor that allows it to run multiple applications simultaneously providing good interactions to the users.

This smartphone will be launched in Q2 next year. No words on operators but Orange reps were spotted at the event that showcased this phone. And it’s been confirmed that the targeted markets will be USA, Western Europe and Russia.

LG today introduced the brand new LG BL40 Chocolate Christmas Edition that will be launched in the South Korea market on December 10th, 2009. The phone features a black color case with golden accents and an 8-megapixel digicam with Autofocus, instead of the 5-megapixel camera featured in the original BL40. In addition, customers will also receive a voucher for a prize of up to 5 million KRW (more than $4,000). There is no info on the availability of LG BL40 Chocolate Christmas Edition in other countries.

Nokia today introduced a new slider handset that is available in six fresh and vivid colors including pink, red, petrol blue, aluminum, lime and purple. Made for design-conscious consumers, the Nokia 6700 Slide features a 2.2-inch QVGA display with a resolution of 320 x 240, a 5-megapixel camera with a built-in dual LED flash, a 860 mAh battery, and a microSD card slot that supports up to 16GB. Additionally, its camera can record video in MPEG-4 VGA up to 15fps. The Nokia 6700 Slide will be available in Europe for 160 Euros or approx. $240.

Give your iPhone 3G an elegant safe heaven with the Incase Chrome Slider Case. Incase is known for premium quality iPhone cases, and the Chrome Slider is even one step ahead. Made of hardshell plastic and rubber guardrails in the interiors, the case sports rich aesthetics with fine mirror finish. It’s also probably the sleekest, as it’s merely 1mm thick. The case will provide shock protection and will significantly save your handset from scratches. The Chrome Slider Case is available online for $34.95.

The Smule Ocarina application turns the iPhone into an Ocarina, a musical instrument which you can blow on it and with the help of some finger actions, to produce nice music. Now with three iPhones loaded with the Ocarina apps, they have been combined into a single Ocarina device that offers more finger controls.Apparently as shown in the picture, the three iPhones are held by a plastic frame, and all the fingers of your two hands can now play at the same time on all the three iPhones’ Ocarina interfaces to create a mix of nice tunes out of them. The third iPhone is facing downwards, beneath the two iPhones, which only allows your two thumbs to press the Ocarina interface.

This iPhone-made Ocarina device is indeed cool, it’s the world’s most expensive Ocarina and the first device that’s been made using iPhones.