New phones, anybody?

Towards the end of 2007, we would not have blamed you for thinking that it was raining new phones in India. Rarely a week went by without a major phone being released. If that sounds difficult, just take a look at the phones that came out in November and December of the recently passed year – the Nokia N82, the Nokia 6110, the LG Viewty, the Samsung G600, the Moto Q9h, the Sony Ericsson k850i, the Sony Ericsson T650i, the HTC Touch Dual and so many others.

Well, 2008 seems to be different. Call it the New Year hangover, or maybe the companies being too busy with the forthcoming 3GSM event in Barcelona, but this year has been remarkably quiet on the cellphone front – we are well into the third week of 2008 and so far have seen neither hide nor hair (or should that be screen or keypad) of a major new phone. In fact, there are not even the usual rumours about new phones in the market. No one is even talking about the iPhone!

Hey fellas, come out with some new stuff, will you? We are getting bored out here!