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Engadget realy does have a good set of mobile tidbit from around the world including some interesting trends:

Innovations

The big ones appear to be making things slimmer and slimmer and also having a real music phone plus an onslaught of Windows Mobile devices:

Motorola Canary, this is the RAZR follow-on codenamed the Canary basically thinner. Technically it will be called teh KRZR and comes out this fall with EDGE.

LG KG800 Chocolate. These things are being advertised everywhere in China which folks love because of the size and the way that it works as a iPod and then slides up to be a phone, it will be the VX8500 over here. LG has another KG99 which is a candy bar version with the checkerboard keys as well.

And HTC is running away with lots of wins for Windows Mobile 5 devices including the Hermes, a Danger like opener, Star Trek, a smart phone that Vodafone Germany, Orange and Cingular will all carry, while Palm tries to stay ahead with the Lennon and Nitro and RIM looks to finally offer consumer services like Wifi, MP3 and Cameras (yeah!) to compete with Windows Mobile.

Segmenting

SCP-2400 for kids features like parental controls on the who they call and restrictions on usage.

Philips 588 is a nice ladies phone that is small as another segment.

Cloning As another SLVR clone example, we have the Toshiba TS30 from Vodafone .

Sanyo Katana is one of zillions of RAZR knockoffs and Samsung D830 is just 9.9mm thick but has EDGE, QVGA, MicroSD and 2mp camera.

Techfaith has what Engadget calls ripoffs that improve things that look like the i320, SLVR and Universal. Techfaith gets a negative score, but they do point out that they are improving on these

UTStarcom does the same thing with their SLVR clone.

And at the low-end, there are dozens of flip phones like the LG CG225. These are low profit but very high volume.

New Services

MobiTV gets $70M from Oak. Congrats to the boys at Redpoint

Helio is an MVNO that rumors say have a 100 subscribers. Wow, that’s low!