Verizon will launch the Samsung Omnia II on December 2nd for $519.99 Retail/Month to Month, $369.99 after a 1 year agreement and $299.99 after a 2 year agreement before an additional $100 mail-in rebate.

The Omnia II features a 3.7 inch AMOLED widescreen resistive touch display at WVGA resolution, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSDHC expansion slot, speakerphone and a 5.0 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and video recorder.

Motorola has announced a late 4th quarter launch for the Motorola Crush multimedia oriented touchscreen device on regional carrier USCellular.

The device features a 2.8 inch WQVGA widescreen touch display, 3.5mm headphone jack, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, microSDHC expansion slot and speakerphone.

Verizon has released a firmware update for the BlackBerry Tour. The update addresses issues with email sync on personal accounts and other issues yet to be listed by the changelog.

The update requires BlackBerry Desktop Manager to be installed on the host Windows or Mac computer in order to be completed.

Virtual operator PagePlus has announced the debut of its new international roaming option for customers traveling to Mexico, Canada, the island territories of Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The rate for calls within Mexico and Bermuda is $1.10 per minute and calls within Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are $0.60 per minute. Calls originating in the United States to Puerto Rico will remain at the current $0.12 per minute and U.S. calls to Mexico and Canada will remain at $0.34 per minute.

The text messaging rate within the aforementioned countries/territories is $0.50 per message sent and $0.25 per message received, with the international text messaging rate for messages originating in the United States at the standard $0.20 per message rate.

As expected T-Mobile has launched the Samsung Behold 2 Android device.

The Behold 2 features a 5.0 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, and video recording, a 3.2-inch AMOLED display at HVGA resolution, Wi-Fi radio, Bluetooth 2.1, and microSDHC expansion slot. The Behold II also features a variant of the TouchWiz UI common on its high-end lineup with a 3D cube as its home screen.

Pricing for the Behold 2 is set at $229.99 on Even More plans with new 2 year agreement and data plan, with pricing on Even More Plus set at $449.99 or 20 payments of $22/month.

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Verizon has announced the successor to the G’zOne Boulder in the G’zOne Rock.

The Rock features a mil-spec rugged bodyshell that can withstand water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, high/low temperature storage and six different outdoors- oriented applications which include Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar (astrology/biorhythm readings), Sunrise/Sunset (sun cycle readings) and Tide (tide cycle readings).

The complete feature set of the Rock includes a 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, stereo Bluetooth, touch-sensitive media player controls on the outer display, microSDHC expansion slot and a button that opens the phone. The Rock also offers push-to-talk inline with previous G’zOne models.

Pricing is set at $199.99 after new 2 year agreement and availability is set for Friday.

T-Mobile has announced the debut of T-Mobile Complete, which is a new hybrid monthly prepaid option that is set up to compete with MetroPCS and Cricket with intention to draw the Hispanic market.

The service plans are also similar to the aformentioned carriers and T-Mobile’s own Even More Plus no-contract unlimited plans, but offers the first month of service for free and no credit check in line with regional flat rate carriers such as Cricket.

The plans consist of unlimited talk at $50/month; unlimited talk and text at $60/month or unlimited talk, text and Web access for $80/month with an option for unlimited text messaging bundled with 1,000 minutes, unlimited nights/weekends and unlimited in-network calling also available for $50 per month.

The service will also herald the debut of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 on a prepaid service in the US as the $80 unlimited talk/text/web plan includes BIS access along with the Samsung Gravity, Samsung t239 and the Samsung t229 being the first phones and devices sold under the new offering.

Package prices start at $59.99 for the t229 package and are now available at Best Buy and select Wal-Mart locations.

Nokia has officially launched the long-awaited N900 Maemo Linux based device after missing its original October launch for last-minute refinements.

As previously reported, the N900 features quadband GSM/EDGE, 900/1700/2100MHz UMTS/HSPA support, a 3.5-inch 800×480 pixel widescreen touch display, sliding QWERTY keyboard, 32GB of internal storage expandable to 48GB via microSDHC expansion slot, GPS/A-GPS support via internal transceiver, FM transmitter, TV output, Bluetooth 2.1 with stereo audio support, Wi-Fi radio and 5.0 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash.

The device also features the ARM Cortex-A8 embedded system on a chip which also powers the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS, 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration.

Pricing is set at $649.99 at the Nokia flagship stores in New York and Chicago, with online availability set for the end of the month.

Opera has announced the free Beta version of Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile devices.

The new beta features tabbed browsing support, the Opera Dragonfly page debugging tool and new adaptive zoom feature, kinetic scrolling and visual tab thumbnails for touch display based devices as well as virtual keyboard support.

The beta is now available from Opera Software

Sony Ericsson has confirmed to its employees that it will close its current US headquarters/R&D center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and shut satellite offices in San Diego, California; Chennai, India; Kista, Sweden and Seattle, Washington as a result of its ongoing international restructuring effort which is seeking to cut 2,000 jobs in the latest round.

Ancillary facilities in Miami will also be closed, with the US headquarters moving to Atlanta, Georgia and what is left of the R&D division moving from Research Triangle Park to offices in Redwood Shores, California.

The job cuts are being conducted in several stages with new teams being formed to deal with the new logistics presented by the transition, with Sony Ericsson offering severance packages to qualified employees.

The closure of the Research Triangle Park Facility marks the end of an era for Sony Ericsson in the US, as the facility was home to the joint venture’s US headquarters and the former CDMA R&D team responsible for the T608, the last CDMA handset developed by the company in 2003 before the team was dissolved in the same year by the global office in Sweden to focus exclusively on GSM worldwide and confinining CDMA development to Japan.