-- Motorola has released a couple of handsets, its big hope for regaining marketshare. Motorola’s latest version of its Rokr handset, Rokr E8, takes a page out of Apple’s book. The combination phone and MP3 player has a touch screen and a “FastScroll” navigation wheel. It also has “haptics” technology built in, which means that the smooth touch-screen keys vibrate when pressed. The 2GB of internal memory means the phone can store up to 1,500 songs. The Moto Z10 has been built to appeal to younger consumers. The kick-slide handset includes a video camera and video editing capability and can take up to 24 hours of video footage and add a soundtrack to their clip. Consumers can also watch high quality video on their phone, with the handset displaying video at 30 frames per second. The Z10 also includes a standard camera.

-- Samsung has released a bunch of handsets: The SGH-i450 is a dual slider device, a combination music and smart phone. When the i450 slides up it’s a smartphone that runs on Symbian’s S60 operating system. When it slides down, it’s a music player with touch wheel navigation and speakers from Bang & Olufsen. The SGH-G800 has a 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom, and has been designed to look like a digital camera on one side and a mobile phone on the other. It’s loaded with a video editing function and a mobile bloging feature helps users quickly upload their clips to UCC sites. The SGH-i620 is a dual smartphone music player which slides open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The i620 is a Windows Mobile 6.0 smart device that also offers podcasting, RSS reader capabilities , and a 2-megapixel camera. The SGH-i780 has a full QWERTY keyboard and full touch screen. The Windows Mobile 6.0 device includes push email, GPS capabilities, an optical mouse, 2-megapixel camera and HSDPA technology.

-- Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson has launched three new handsets at CES. We’ve already covered the Z555: The W350 is a flip phone—the first flip phone launched from SE, apparently—and the W760 has GPS and tri-band HSDPA, shake control, and the ability to play games in landscape mode (it comes preloaded with Need For Speed Prostreet).