Motorola is cranking up releases of high end phones, including the Moto Q9 3G HSDPA SmartPhone, which is debuting in Italy this week. The company announced the following:

We have introduced two new MOTO Q products: the MOTO Q 8, the GSM version of the original award-winning CDMA-based MOTO Q, as well as the flagship, lightening-fast global quad-band 3G QWERTY, MOTO Q 9, which is available in Italy this week.

The MOTO Q 9, based on the Windows Mobile 6™ operating system, couples a new sleek form factor with a dual-processor HSDPA/UMTS engine, enabling broadband-like over-the-air downloads at up to 3.6Mbps1. Consumers will be able to download their favorite music tracks directly onto the Q 9 in approximately six seconds without having to touch a computer2.

“The MOTO Q 9 was developed as a multi-purpose communication device that is easy to use and doesn’t compromise on experiences,” said Bruce Hawver, corporate vice president of Enterprise Devices, Motorola. “This smartphone offers state-of-the art voice quality technology, messaging1, speed, processing power, keyboard and display packaged within a sleek design for the modern consumer.”

The phones are being releases all over Italy in the coming weeks and globally in the next few months.

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Sharp is upgrading Will COM W-ZERO3 smartphone with W-ZERO3 Advance. The smartphone is now slimmer and equiped with a stunning 3 inch 480 x 800 LCD screen.

With a 17.9 mm thickness, the new W-Zero3 Advance has a similar form factor as HTC Vox. The phone is powered by Windows Mobile Classic, has a numeric keypad and also a sliding QWERTY keyboard.

The nagivation pad, which they call it Xcrawl, will let you scroll through the web page, documents easily. The W-Zero3 Advance does not have a bluetooth module, but through the mini USB port, you can either connect an external bluetooth module or GPS module directly.

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A friendly message to our friends out there in the iPod accessory and software development communities: you might not want to put those “Made For iPhone” claims on your packages, press releases, and advertisements just yet. And readers, you might want to hold off on placing your orders for iPhone accessories until, well, at least June 29th. Maybe a little later.

This is the advice we’d offer based on well-informed chatter we’ve been hearing over the past few months. Developers have been making lots of assumptions about the iPhone, some of them unwarranted, and some of the negative consequences of those assumptions are now only a few weeks away from becoming widely known. Since several companies have claimed to be shipping “iPhone accessories” over the past few weeks, we wanted to share some truth about a couple of major misconceptions that are currently out there.

(1) The iPhone is a “widescreen iPod,” and thus, will electronically behave exactly like a fifth-generation iPod with a widescreen: Wrong. If you’ve released an accessory that promises to work with the iPhone just as it works with the iPod, you might be in for a surprise. There were significant differences between the fourth- and fifth-generation iPods, just as there were with iPod minis and nanos. Contrary to popular belief, iPods can and do differ electronically despite the presence of that Dock Connector on the bottom of all non-shuffle models. iPhones are likely to differ even more. According to just one recent report, the iPhone may only communicate with your computer using iTunes, just like Apple TV, but unlike all iPods. This means that everything from third-party applications to certain types of accessories might not work the way you’d expect, or at all.

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