Vodafone UK launches its Vodafone 555 Facebook mobile phone with a bar-type form factor and QWERTY keyboard. Like HTC’s ChaCha and Salsa, the 555 has a dedicated Facebook button that lets you access Facebook directly and it streams news feeds directly to your homescreen.

Vodafone is launching its second own-branded Android smartphone, the 945 which is the follow-up to the 845. Running Android 2.1, the Huawei-made Vodafone 945 has a 3.2-inch 240×400 capacitive touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel camera with flash, and 300MB internal memory. There is a microSD/SDHC slot as well. The Vodafone 945 supports Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi and HSDPA connectivity. It comes in black and silver.

Vodafone launches in the UK the Sure Signal cellphone signal booster (femtocell) using your home broadband. The device is able to boost the signal throughout your …

Vodafone UK introduces the Vodafone Access Gateway that is the first femtocell cellular extender introduced in Europe. The Access Gateway is a compact box designed to improve customers’ mobile phone signal in …

Nokia announced the new 6730 classic candy-bar mobile phone that will be available exclusively across Vodafone’s global footprint. The 6730 classic features a 2.2-inch LCD display, a 3.2 Megapixel …

Sony Ericsson announced that Vodafone is going to launch the new W715 Walkman music phone in the UK. Like most Walkman phones, the W715 comes with built-in Walkman player, music recognition application TrackID, SensMe as well …

ZTE will offer the E810 entry-level smartphone for mobile carrier Movistar and Vodafone. The ZTE E810 features a 2.5-inch 320×240 LCD display, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, and support for tri-band GSM/EDGE networks.

The phone has 64MB …

Aigo (means Patriot in Chinese) introduces the MP5-MK3510 that is a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes-themed portable media player. This McLaren Mercedes PMP features a 4.3-inch 480×272 LCD display, and supports playback of 720p media content. Aigo …

Finally, RIM’s BlackBerry Storm, the first touchscreen Blackberry, is now officially announced and will be available from Verizon and Vodafone next month. The Blackberry Storm supports EV-DO Rev.A, HSDPA 2100MHz and quad-band EDGE, which allows users to travel around the world using the same Storm.

The BlackBerry features a 3.26-inch 480×360 glass display that has a clickable surface like real buttons, a 3.2 Megapixel auto focus camera with flash, 1GB internal memory, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Storm is bundled 8GB microSD card slot. It can do also automatic orientation, like the iPhone, and Copy-and-paste that iPhone cannot offer.

Of course the phone comes with a full HTML browser and is able to open and edit Word, Excel, Powerpoint files.

Here are some UI screenshots of RIM’s upcoming full touchscreen BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone, which will be available from Vodafone. These shots show us the interfaces of web browsing, spreadsheet, video playback email, calendar..etc.