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Vodafone have announced their new music shop exclusively for their customers, the Vodafone Music Store. The Vodafone Music Store has over 700,000 tracks available from the newest songs and albums, to classic tracks and also has access to exclusive Vodafone performances, which you can download to your PC or phone.

Music purchased through the site will either be added to your monthly bill if you’re on a contract or be deducted from your pay as you go credit. Downloads cost from 99p for individual tracks and £5.99 for full albums, and music bundles are available from Vodafone including 15 songs for £7.50 or 7 songs for £5 a month.

Music can be downloaded onto your PC, phone or both, but to download directly to your phone you will need a 3G connection. The downloaded tracks can also be burned onto a CD up to 10 times before it is locked.

For more information or to check out the music visit the Vodafone Music Store website.

LG are hailing their new KC550 phone as the cheapest 5 megapixel camera phone to hit the market. The KC550 is aimed at the mid-range market so there are a few features that have been omitted, such as 3G and Wi-Fi which are not featured.

However, you do get stylish looking slider phone reminiscent of the LG KG800 Chocolate, a large 2.4 inch widescreen display, a microSD card slot for up to 4GB of storage, USB and Bluetooth connectivity and of course, a 5 megapixel camera.

The KC550’s camera is certified by Schneider-Kreuznach and has an LED flash for low light situations and can capture video up to a resolution of 720×480 at 30 frames per second. The device also features an accelerometer so you can play motion- sensitive games, of which there are six to choose from. A multimedia player is also included, but you will have to use the LG headphones as there is no 3.5mm headphone socket.

The LG KC550 is available for free on contract or a very attractive £160 for the sim free version. The LG KC550 is ideal for anyone who wants high quality pictures without the need for all of the fancy extras (and of course the price) of high-end devices.

HTC’s new Smartphone device, the Touch Pro has similar specifications to the hugely popular Touch Diamond, but boasts a full QWERTY slider keyboard tucked away underneath. The HTC Touch Pro features a 2.8 inch touch sensitive screen, TouchFlo 3D navigation system and is 3G, HSDPA and Wi-Fi enabled.

Like the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro has the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system controlling it, for easy access to the internet, emails and applications and a 3.2 megapixel camera for capturing photos on the move. The Touch Pro is 6mm thicker and 50 grams heavier than the Touch Diamond, but it’s a small price to pay for a practical and responsive QWERTY keyboard.

The Touch Pro also features Bluetooth and USB connections, GPS and A-GPS, TV out, Multimedia player, 4GB of internal storage and a front mounted VGA camera for video calling. The Only question now is which one do you want, the Touch Diamond or Touch Pro?

The HTC Touch Pro will be available in the next couple of months; contracts and price are to be announced soon.

Research In Motion (RIM) are to release their new Blackberry Bold 9000 Smartphone next month in the UK. Vodafone and 3 have already announced they will be carrying the phone, which the first Blackberry device to be released on the 3 network.

The new elegant and sleek design is reminiscent of other Blackberry devices, and features a full QWERTY keyboard, Trackball navigation and widescreen display. The Blackberry Bold is a quad-band phone as you would expect from the markets leading business phone and features tri-band 3G HSDPA network and Wi-Fi connectivity.

The Blackberry Bold comes with 1GB of internal storage as standard and has a microSD card slot for up to 8GB extra. Due to the upgraded processor (624 MHz compared to older models 312 MHz), the Bold is capable of running all of the applications and multimedia programs effortlessly.

Other features include Bluetooth and USB synchronisation, 2 megapixel camera, built in GPS and comprehensive multimedia player. The Blackberry Bold is due out in September and will be released on Vodafone first, followed by 3 soon after, prices and contracts are to be confirmed.

Due to the release of Sony Ericsson’s new Cyber-shot phone the C902, Sony have teamed up with Academy Award nominated director Mike Figgis (director of Leaving Las Vegas starring Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue) for a unique film making project called Life Captured.

The competition gives you a chance to produce a day-in-your-life film from your mobile phones pictures. Entrants must use their phones to capture five pictures of their day and choose from four categories; morning, afternoon, evening or 24 hours. The pictures will then be uploaded to the website, where you can see the other entrants’ pictures as well.

The competition is open to 21 countries including Romania, Russia and South Africa and lucky winners will receive the new Sony Ericsson C902 Cyber-shot phone, with five of the best entrants being invited to London to see their film premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in October. The overall winner at the festival will receive a grand prize that is to be announced at the films premier.

Closing date for the competition is the 10th August. For more information and to enter visit the Sony Ericsson Life Captured website.