Samsung today announced its new Shark series, including the candy bar Shark (S5350), Shark 2 (S5550) slider and Shark 3 (S3550) slider. All three sharks pre-installed with Social Networking Services (SNS), enable users to upload and share photos and personal videos to global SNS or photo sharing sites quickly and easily. The Shark series provide peace-of-mind for busy users through security features, including Mobile Tracker, which helps to trace a lost or stolen mobile by alerting the user whenever the SIM card is changed. In addition, an SOS Message can be programmed to send a distress alert to a pre-selected emergency contact, enabling quick and discreet requests for assistance. All of them will be available from January.

SDG has a Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000 handheld computer that has a Marvell PXA320 at 806MHz with GSM/HSDPA voice and data. It also has a 3 megapixel camera, a barcode scanner, 3.5 inch VGA display, and full QWERTY keyboard.

Samsung today announced two high-density memory solutions for mobile devices. The new storage solutions – a 64-gigabyte (GB) moviNAND memory device and a 32GB micro secure digital (microSD) memory card – satisfy mobile handset designers’ requirements for advanced compact high-density memory.

There is a rumor floating around that there will be a Sirius XM App for the BlackBerry. It sounds like the BlackBerry App will work like the iPhone app, but for an online subscription fee, you will have access to a total of 120 channels. The App is rumored to work on the Storm 2, Storm 1, 9000 Bold, 9700 Bold, 9630 Tour, as well as the 8900 and 8520 Curve models.

Samsung has announced its collaboration with Jitterbug to create the Jitterbug J in Red mobile phone in support of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement. The Jitterbug J in Red mobile phone is one part of a major health and wellness initiative from Jitterbug and Samsung Mobile encouraging women to “speak up” against heart disease.

T-Mobile has followed in the footsteps of many others (like HTC) and have released updates of Windows Mobile, version 6.5 to the Dash 3G and Touch Pro2 smartphones. The new updates will be released on January 20, and will update to the latest version of Windows Mobile 6, which is 6.5.3.

The LG GW880 is perhaps best known for its 3G mobile platform. To make sure that it delivers the best possible performance, LG has partnered with Dialog Semiconductor for a special IC (DA9035) to help improve its power management and audio. This design-in is the latest in a series of LG 3G mobile platforms to benefit from Dialog ICs over the past 12 months.