Motorola Devour - Verizon’s First Android Phone With Motoblur
March 2nd, 2010 by admin
Verizon ireless announced the Motorola Devour (aka Calgary A555), the latest addition to the cellphone maker’s MOTOBLUR lineup. The Devour is first Verizon phone to include the MOTOBLUR. It is a mid-range Android phone with a 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, a side-slide QWERTY keyboard and a touch-sensitive navigation pad.
The Devour features a 3 Megapixel camera, dual microphone for noise cancellation, integrated AGPS support, and support for Bluetooth and WiFi 802.11b/g. It runs Android 1.6 OS and is pre-loaded with Google apps. It supports Verizon’s dual-band CDMA EVDO Rev A 3G network.
The Motorola Devour will be available in March. Other MOTOBLUR phones include the Backflip, the MOTOROI and the CLIQ/DEXT.
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Garmin-Asus nuvifone M10 Smartphone
February 16th, 2010 by admin
ASUS has announced their latest gadget, the new Garmin ASUS Nuvifone M10 Series. This new handset from ASUS adopts a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display with a resolution of 800×480 pixels, a 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, WI-FI, 512MB RAM/ROM, a 1500mAh battery, 4GB memory, microSDHC card, Garmin GPS software, a 600MHz Qualcomm processor, and runs under Windows Mobile 6.5.3. It will be released on February 6th with a retail price of $450.
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Nokia X6 16GB announced, Comes Without Music
February 14th, 2010 by admin
Nokia launches the new X6 16GB version touchscreen phone. As the little brother of the original 32GB X6, the 16GB version doesn’t Come with Music. It is compatible with the all-new Ovi Maps, offering free walk and drive navigation and tons of extras including Michelin and Lonely Planet guides. The 16GB X6 also comes pre-loaded with Spore by EA, Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft.
The Nokia X6 features a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, A-GPS support, WiFi, Bluetooth and TV out. The phone runs latest version of Symbian.It works with HSDPA, WCDMA 3G, GPRS/EDGE networks.
Nokia’s X6 16GB is available in four new finishes, all black, all white, white with pink highlights and white with yellow highlights.
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Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus for Verizon
February 12th, 2010 by admin
Palm announced the Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus webOS smartphones for Verizon Wireless, which are based on the original Pre and Pixi respectively. Both phones have a QWERTY keyboard and a gesture area.
Compare to the original Pre, Palm’s new Pre Plus gets more RAM, from 256MB to 512MB, and more internal capacity, from 8GB to 16GB. It also replaces the physical buttons with touch-sensitive button. The Pixi Plus, on the other hand, gets additional WiFi support. The Pre Plus has a 3.1-inch 320×480 multitouch display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3 Megapixel camera with LED flash while the Pixi Plus comes with a 2.63-inch multitouch screen, a QWERTY keyboard and a 2 Megapixel camera with LED flash.
Palm’s new phones both feature built-in GPS with support for geotagging, WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, Proximity sensor, light sensor, accelerometer and support for CDMA EVDO Rev.A 3G network. They run the webOS and support Palm Synergy. Mobile Hotspot function has also been added to them.
The Pre Plus is priced at $149.99 and the Pixi Plus costs $99.99.
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Sony Ericsson Vivaz Symbian Phone with 8Mpix Camera
February 9th, 2010 by admin
Sony Ericsson announced Vivaz (aka Kurara) touchscreen smartphone with Symbian OS. The Vivaz is actually the second phone in the company of a new family-entertainment mobile communications, with the first Xperia X10. Sony Ericsson Vivaz has a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, an 8-megapixel camera with face and smile detection, Bluetooth.
Also has WiFi, FM tuner, A-GPS with Google Maps, built in media player, DLNA support, microSD card slot and a 3.5 mm audio jack. The communication device provides easy access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. He is 720p HD video.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz supports tri-band UMTS / HSDPA and 3.5G quad-band GSM / EDGE networks. It is in the 1st Quarter of 2010 available Silver Moon, Cosmic Black, Galaxy Blue Ruby, Venus and colors.
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Nokia 5530 Xpress Music Games Edition
February 5th, 2010 by admin
Nokia rolls out the 5530 XpressMusic Games edition in the USA. This Games edition comes pre-loaded with 20 full games from gameloft and EA Mobile and is priced at $299.
To recall, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic features a 2.9-inch touchscreen, a 3.1 Megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, WiFi, and a microSD slot.
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Dell Mini 3 Android Smartphone via AT&T
January 23rd, 2010 by admin
Dell announced its Dell Mini 3 Android smartphone will also be available in the US via AT&T. The specs of the US version should probably be the same as the original one, getting a 3.5-inch multitouch display, 3 Megapixel auto focus camera, GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi.
AT&T is expected to release the Mini 3 during the first half of 2010.
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Motorola Backflip with MOTOBLUR Android Phone
January 22nd, 2010 by admin
Motorola has launched a second Motoblur Android powered handset on Wednesday at CES in Las Vegas and with it a new control mechanism for navigating around the screen.
Where the phone differs from the average touchscreen device is a second touchscreen panel behind the screen that means you can navigate around the screen without your fingers getting in the way.
The second screen, which works like a trackpad on a laptop, is revealed only when you backflip the QWERTY keyboard into place.
Tech specs include a 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM, a 3.1-inch display with 320 x 480 (HVGA) resolution, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS and OS Android 1.5 with Motoblur.
The phone, which is expected out shortly, is likely to make it to the UK Motorola has confirmed.
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General Mobile COSMOS Google Android 2.0 Smartphone
January 19th, 2010 by admin
General Mobile, after the DSTL1 Imaginary, is going to release another Android smartphone called the Cosmos. As the company’s second Android device, the Cosmos runs the Android 2.0 Eclair OS. The phone features a 3.2-inch 320×480 capacitive touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera, support for Bluetooth and WifI 802.11b/g and GPS.
The Cosmos is boosted by a Marvell PXA935 processor, 256MB flash memory and 128MB RAM. It comes with acceleromter, digital compass, FM tuner and a microSD card slot. The bar-type touchscreen phone has a trackball but lacks QWERTY keyboard.
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Motorola Milestone Launched in Hong Kong for US$602
January 6th, 2010 by admin
After European market, Motorola launches its Milestone smartphone in Hong Kong, the first in Asia region to get the Android 2.0 device. The version Motorola sells in Hong Kong is English version with MOTO Chinese input methods (but no Chinese UI), including Chinese handwriting recognition and Pinyin.
According MOTO’s product manager, the cellphone maker will release later in Hong Kong a Chinese version with native Chinese UI and more Chinese input methods. The Chinese version may be released with Android 2.1 OS, and current devices will receive updates.
The Motorola Milestone is selling in Hong Kong at HK$4680 (US$602), unlocked and no contract needed.
Motorola Milestone Specs:
•WCDMA/900/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSPA, GPRS Class 12
•Android 2.0
•3.7-inch 480×854 Touchscreen Display
•5 Megapixel Auto Focus Camera with Dual LED Flash, 4X Digital Zoom
•QWERTY keyboard
•Bluetooth
•WiFi 802.11b/g
•aGPS
•CrystalTalk
•3.5mm Headset Jack
•MicroUSB port
•microSD slot (up to 32GB)
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