Boost Mobile is set to sell the new Motorola i465 Clutch, a rugged smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and a push-to-talk technology, very soon. Having passed the military standards, the Moto Clutch can go against low pressure, high and low temperatures, dust, shock, vibration, and solar radiation.

The Motorola i465 Clutch will be available to customers for US$39.99 with a 2 year agreement, after $70 worth of instant and mail-in rebates. Customers can sign up to be notified when the Clutch is available at www.sprint.com/clutch.

China Telecom confirmed that it will offer BlackBerry. In fact, an insider said that the two companies have just started preliminary contacts. Goldman Sachs analyst Helen Zhu said, “We view a potential tie-up of China Telecom and BlackBerry as a positive but not a game changer.”

China Mobile has already offered BlackBerry handsets in China for two years but has not been heavily promoting the device. Meanwhile, its competitor, China Unicom is already discussing with Apple regarding iPhone.

Vodafone UK and Samsung Mobile joined hands in launching the Samsung C6625 smartphone. The handset carries a QWERTY keyboard and is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1. It comes in compact and stylish and is ideal both for personal and office use. The Samsung C6625 provides hassle-free access to the users’ e-mail, calendars and address books. It also supports instant messages and document editing Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. A 2.6-inch 262k colors TFT (320 x 240 pixels) display is also on board.

Best Buy is eyeing for a new business venture that will be called the Best Buy Mobile. With this, the company will start by opening 40 standalone mobile phone stores within 2009. Brian Dunn, Best Buy’s new CEO mentioned that the mobile phones will be contributory to the company’s gadgets-with-connectivity campaign.

Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is obviously on the race track with Best Buy. In fact, the former is currently trying its best to get a bigger share of the electronics market. Amazon.com can also be considered as Best Buy’s rival as online shopping is becoming popular nowadays.

The first ever unequivocal content labeled as “Hottest Girls” has been approved in the Apple App Store for iPhone. The content contains images of half naked women and is only restricted to 17 years old and below. The content was tagged under “frequent/intense sexual content or nudity” and “frequent/intense mature/suggestive themes.”

So far, this is the first incident wherein Apple approved an explicit content ever since the company further parental controls to the latest edition of its mobile operating system, iPhone OS 3.0.