It’s not like we haven’t been teased here at Engadget Mobile with all the spy pics taken of the LG VX9900 lately. And with release dates coming and going, it’s begun to wear a bit on our patience.

LG’s VX9800 multimedia/communicator cellphone just got one of the highest forms of praise possible by a reviewer. Not much of a surprise, then, that MTR gives the VX9800 five out of five stars and their Editor’s Choice designation; the only real fault they can find with the phone itself is that the speakerphone doesn’t work with the clamshell closed.

This handset goes a long way to addressing a serious issue with Nokia’s lineup of phones – they have no mainstream 3G clamshell devices. Oh yes, they have the Nokia N90, N92 and N93 phones but these are completely over-the-top for most customers.

The Nokia 7390 on the other hand is a very promising looking 3G handset, except that it’s a fashion phone so it won’t appeal to business. The only other phone in that category is the Nokia N75, but that’s aimed at the US market only.

The Nokia 6300 is an elegant “monoblock” handset with distinctive styling and a stainless steel chassis that also manages to deliver in terms of features.

At 91 grams, the Nokia 6300 is pretty lightweight. There’s a little confusion over the size. Nokia’s press release say that the 6300 is “less than 13.1mm thick”, however the technical specifications for the 6300 say that it’s 11.7mm thick (admittedly, that is less than 13.1mm thick, but it’s kind of an odd thing to say).

Sony Ericsson today announced special silver versions of the K800 and K790 Cyber-shot camera phones as used by James Bond in the awaited new Bond movie, Casino Royale.

The silver K800 / K790 phones are a natural fit with the cool, sophisticated style of James Bond. Both are capable mobile phones that also provide cutting edge camera features, a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus, Xenon flash for lowlight conditions and BestPic, which allows the user to take nine pictures of a moving object simultaneously and choose to keep the best shot. The phones also offer Picture Blogging for uploading photos to a personal online blogsite & PictBridge for printing direct to a printer, without the need for a PC or laptop.

Nokia announced four new phones this week at Capital Market Days at Amsterdam, held annually. The Nokia 6300, Nokia 6290 and the Nokia 6086 — as well as the Nokia 2626 targeted to consumers in entry markets. All four models are expected to begin shipping in the first quarter of 2007.

The Sony Ericsson W810 is a fairly minor upgrade, featuring an improved keypad layout for playing back multimedia, and it’s now a quad band GSM handset, rather than tri-band. Sony Ericsson have also added EDGE high speed data, allowing quicker access to the internet for those who have a compatible carrier – and the W810 also supports over-the-air music downloads, so EDGE will be a real advantage for those who have it.

The M240 / X7 is very similar to the Samsung E800. The similarities are more than skin deep though, the weight, screen size and feature set are almost identical to the E800, plus the camera is hidden by the sliding mechanism when closed, in a similar way to the Samsung. The major difference is that the O2 X7 / Grundig M240 comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera and the Grundig is a little smaller and lighter all around than the Samsung.

The Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox T810 is an advanced 3G phone running Windows Mobile 5.0, complete with WiFi and GPS navigation. The T830 model adds a 2.0 megapixel main camera plus VGA sub camera. It also features a QWERTY keyboard and a large 2.4″ 240×240 pixel transflective touch-sensitive display.