I have to admit that I am a fan of those types of phones like the Sidekick which can flip out their screens for a horizontal read. So I was naturally attracted to the 923SH, one of ten new phones to come out from Softbank.

The first question I had to ask was how does the phone on the left fold up to the phone on the right? Clearly, Softbank has some folding technology that I do not know about.

The display on the 923SH is something that we do know about. It uses Sharp’s unique AQUOS LCD panel, technology that we reported about with the SE94 Series. Clearly, this HDTV technology has somehow been miniaturized, and this display is capable of many, many colors.

This phone is capable of recording video content. It features a 29mm wide-angle lens, and can record at 15 fps (Frame per second) and 30 fps.

I’m quite sure that there are many of you out there who grew up on a diet of Batman while you were kids, which probably means you would have fond memories of Police Commissioner Gordon calling everyone’s favorite caped crusader, Batman, on this flashing red Batphone that Alfred the butler will pick up. Subsequently, millionaire playboy Wayne and his your partner Dick Grayson will don their respective winged animal-inspired costumes to go out and combat whatever evil the night brings. Ever wished you could have a similar phone like Batman, minus those calls that interrupt your sleep during the wee hours of the morning? That dream can finally come true thanks to this bright red flashing Batphone.

Fresh off the .1 update which made 3rd party applications disappear and also bricked unlocked iPhones, could Apple be gearing up to offer 3rd party application support as an olive branch in the war against unlocking the iPhone? 9-5 Mac seems to think so. As does Engadget . The popular tech blog is reporting on the Apple Rumor site’s speculation that what Cupertino actually sees is a revenue stream and that certified thirty party applications will be sold via iTunes much like popular music, video, and games.

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T-Mobile has just introduced a couple more communication devices to their stable of products that target the high end market, and they are the Sidekick LX and Sidekick Slide. The former is a cellphone cum messaging device that has its roots firmly laid in the Sidekick 3 model, boasting updated features to further help increase your efficiency when it comes to firing away text messages and composing emails on the go. One of the Sidekick LX’s strong points would be the highly crisp 32- x 240 QVGA widescreen anti-reflective display technology that was the result of taking a leaf out of Sharp’s book when it came to the Aquos line of LCD displays. Since Sharp manufactures the LX model, it makes perfect sense to throw in this useful addition into the final product - after all, it is a no brainer of a decision to do so. I can’t recall the number of times I had to find cover while walking under the sun, trying to make out what the text message was trying to convey.

There are many handheld communication devices blowing our minds at the moment, for example the Sidekick. But IXI Mobile, the makers of Ogo products and services have just given us another.

This new handheld device called the Ogo2.0 has a QVGA screen resolution with built in speakers, which are not ear blowing but still reasonable, and are in stereo of course. You can expand the memory because it has a microSD expansion memory slot that is superb if you want to watch video clips and want to store masses of music.