The Galaxy Nexus, which blew our socks off, is officially going on sale – as predicted – on November 17. Samsung has confirmed it as the day the country gets its first AndroidIce Cream Sandwich device, and this buttonless wonder is a good’un.
From the combined forces of Samsung and Google comes a device sporting an eye-watering 4.65in display that crams in a staggering 320ppi of Super AMOLED beauty. And with a 1.2GHz dual-core and 1GB RAM everything on the Galaxy Nexus’ screen is smoother than a whale’s silk scarf, even while multitasking with Ice Cream Sandwich’s beautiful visualisations. And the facial recognition that unlocks the device will earn you many mates down the local
Deep breath, Motorola fans: the snappy Motorola RAZR handset looks all set for a UK release delay.
That's the word coming in from online retailer Clove, who are stating that the RAZR will now touch down a week later.
"Unfortunately we have just heard that the RAZR release will be delayed until next week," reads a posting on from the site.
"No reason given for the delay at the moment, we did think the 1 [November] and then the 2 [November] were pretty solid, especially as the 2nd was reconfirmed last Friday."
It's a shame: we got to go hands on with the device last week and came away suitably impressed with its 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen,1.2GHz dual core processor and raft of MotoCast features. We can totally feel the pain of smartphone fans waiting, despite the act Motorola never actually gave a confirmed release date themselves/.
Android fans have only three weeks to wait until the first phone running Ice Cream Sandwich touches down. Amazon is listing the Samsung Galaxy Nexus as due to be released on 17 November, Engadget reports, and it'll cost £550 SIM-free.
That's the same day initially announced for the Samsung Galaxy Note, though since then an online retailer popped up to say it'll actually be shipping as early as Tuesday next week. So many new phones, so little time.
Previously all we knew was the Galaxy Nexus would be coming to O2 "in November," but this date, confirmed by Samsung, means we can put the day in the diary. You can pre-order it now from the Amazon page, contract free. As well as O2, it'll also be coming to Vodafone and Three.
The Galaxy Nexus packs a mammoth 4.65-inch Super AMOLED screen, dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 32GB of storage, and a 1,750mAh battery. NFC tech also lets you communicate wirelessly with other handsets. Plug in a USB controller, hook the phone up to the TV via an HDMI cable, and it doubles as a games console, letting you play games on the big screen. Ice Cream Sandwich brings a bundle of new features to Android handsets, including the ability to unlock your phone using face recognition, resize widgets on the homescreens, and file apps in folders, just like the iPhone. Also like the iPhone, you can take screengrabs from the handset.
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The Samsung Transform Ultra (model SPH-M930) smartphone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with a 1GHz processor, 3-megapixel rear-facing camera and VGA front-facing camera for video chat while on the go. Equipped with Sprint ID users can also completely customize their experience based on their needs and interests. Users can automatically get ringers, wallpapers, apps and widgets downloaded to your phone in one click.
The new Samsung Transform Ultra replaces the Samsung Transform from last year.
Specifications
Processor: 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM8655
Dimensions: 4.57 x 2.40 x 0.55 inches; 4.9 ounces
Display: HVGA 480 x 320 pixels
RAM/ROM: 512MB/2GB
1500 mAh Li-ION inner cell battery with up to 7 hours continuous talk time
Motorola announced last Wednesday that the new Motorola Razr is indeed coming to the UK, and its coming really soon. November 1 will see the Motorola Razr in stores, leaving us just a little time to wonder if it will be following the footsteps of the original Razr in terms of uptake, or if the cuththroat competitive world of mobile phones today will leave Motorola disappointed.
The new Motorola Razr looks really sharp, still holding the world’s thinnest phone title at a mere 7.1mm thick, and looking as sleek and stylish as ever with its sculpted glass and diamond accents. Despite being thin, it boasts of sturdiness and power at the same time, with a Kevlar fibre case (Yes that’s the stuff bullet-proof vests are made of!) and a Corning Gorilla glass covering the 4.3in Super AMOLED qHD touchscreen display to keep the pretty phone scratch-free all over, and a fast dual-core 1.2 GHz processor partnered with 1GB of RAM. The Motorola Razr will also tote an 8MP rear camera and a front-facing HD video camera that can record 1080p HD videos.
The Motorola Razr coming out this November is built on the Gingerbread, but will be upgraded to the Android 4.0 by 2012. The Razr will also come with apps like the Motocast and Smart Actions.
UK pricing is said to be anywhere from £400 to £454.80.
So, Google has "unleashed Ice Cream Sandwich" – or Android 4.0 – and it's ready to take on iOS5 in the battle for smartphone supremecy. But how do they fare in the ring? Ding ding… Round one. Android Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5 –User Interface Ice Cream Sandwich: ICS plays nice with both smartphones and tablets, combining the very best of Gingerbread and Honeycomb.
Its comically-named Roboto typeface keeps it fresh, while Apple-inspired UI tweaks like app folders, instant photo uploads to the cloud and an action bar to replace the physical keys keep everything flowing smoothly. Then there's the webOS-inspired flick-to-dismiss gesture while multitasking. Gingerbread icons have also been swapped for resizable Honeycomb-style widgets and notifications are accessible from the lock screen.
Multitasking is the real improvement, though, utilising the Recent Apps button in Honeycomb to pull up a list of open apps used in thumbnail form. iOS 5: Unlike ICS, iOS 5 hasn't been overhauled, and on face value it appears almost identical to previous versions. Start prodding and sliding your way around, though, and you'll find new icons and apps for Videos, Music, Newsstand, iMessage and Reminders, a customisable Android-style Notifications Centre feature and integrated Twitter functionality. Notifications and camera can now be accessed from the lock screen, too, but multitasking remains exactly the same as before.
It appears that there’s a rat in the house at Verizon, vermin just loving the idea of letting loose some key information on future products via a MAP which includes not only the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but a device by the name of HTC Rezound as well. These two devices will be released on the 10th of November if this little chart is to be believed, and both of them will be priced at $299.99 right out of the gate. Judging by the rest of the items on the chart, it appears that this price may well be the price ON a 2-year contract – but of course it’s the name that counts the most, isn’t it – Galaxy Nexus. Sounds kinda tasty, doesn’t it?
The HTC Rezound has also been called the HTC Vigor in the past, a device that comes with Beats enhancements and official earbuds to bring you the hottest sounds on the block – but we’ve yet to confirm that they’re one in the same. Meanwhile go ahead and have yourself a look at the HTC Sensation XL while you’re waiting on the rest of the states-bound Beats devices from HTC. And send a note to whoever you can asking when Detox is coming out, while you’re at it.
Then there’s that Galaxy Nexus. Oh how we’ve waited for thee. This is the device, if our suspicions are correct, that’ll usher in the Ice Cream Sandwich of the Android world. Chances are that this is the device we’ll be seeing LIVE IN HONG KONG next week at the Samsung / Google event. This event will be taking place at 10AM October 19th in China, this also corresponding with 10PM Eastern time in the states on October 18th. China is in the future, and we’ll be there to bring you to lowdown from start to finish, including some hands-on time with the newest Android on the block. Head to our Android portal to catch the whole sweet mess!
[via DroidLife]
We briefly met up with Samsung in San Diego to check out the new Samsung Stratosphere, Verizon Wireless’ first 4G LTE device with a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard was comfortable to type on without adding too much bulk to the device. The back of the phone looks a bit plain — it is just matte plastic, and we think there’s definitely room for improvement in the style department. Samsung equipped the device with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen that displays beautiful colors and very deep blacks. It is equipped with a feature set that is a bit below that of the current Galaxy S II devices, such as a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, a 5-megapixel camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. We’ll reserve our final judgement for the review but we’re already fawning over the 4G LTE capability, sturdy hardware and solid keyboard. Be sure to check out the gallery below.
At CTIA last March, AT&T stole the show by announcing its intent to purchase T-Mobile US. This time around, the news is a bit more modest in comparison but the company's still hoping to give us a bit of a shock nonetheless, introducing a litany of new handsets right on time for the holiday season. The carrier promised the release of 12 Android devices throughout the course of the year, and this week's announcement pushes the 2011 running count to 19. Not too shabby. But we're looking for quality more than quantity, so what exactly are these new devices coming out? There's five to show off after the break.
Our first contestant is the long-awaited Motorola Atrix 2, the follow-up to the original smash hit of the same name. Everything appears to be exactly what we expected, such as the inclusion of HSPA+ 21Mbps, 4.3-inch qHD 960 x 540 display, 8MP camera with front-facing cam and 1080p HD video capture. AT&T also announced the Samsung Captivate Glide, which looks to be a decently-spec'd QWERTY-packing device that comes complete with 4-inch Super AMOLED display, Android 2.3, a 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU, 21Mbps HSPA+, an 8MP rear camera with 1.3MP front-facing cam, 1080p HD video capture and HDMI playback.
Let's check out the two new members of the Android family that offer a... well, different form factor. The Samsung DoubleTime is a clamshell QWERTY device with two capacitive touch screens -- an external and an internal. We give applause all around to attempting a new form factor, though the internals are a bit on the low-end; the new handset sports a 600MHz Qualcomm CPU and comes with Android 2.2. Yes, Froyo. To be fair, we imagine the DoubleTime will sell at a rather inexpensive price point, since it seems to be aimed at first-time smartphone buyers who want a crazy new phone design. Oh, and it comes in white and pink.
Next up is the Pantech Pocket, which offers a candybar Android 2.3 experience with a unique aspect ratio. How does a 4-inch SVGA (800 x 600) display sound? All in all, the Pocket sits squarely on the mid-end, with a 1GHz CPU, 5MP rear camera with flash and HD video capture (we're assuming 720p here, though it doesn't specify). Pricing hasn't been announced yet, but we've been told to expect the Pocket showing up on November 6th. Last but not least is the AT&T Avail, a ZTE device that's tailored specifically to the carrier's prepaid lineup. This one appears to hold up its end of the no-contract bargain pretty well, using a 3.5-inch display, running Gingerbread, and offering a 5MP rear camera with 512MB of RAM.
Get all that? It's certainly a mouthful, and the full listing of specs for each of the five devices can be found in the press release below -- as well as a gallery showing. We weren't told pricing for any of the phones, and the Pantech Pocket was the only one to receive a tentative release date. We're hoping to get the skinny on the missing details as we continue through CTIA. After all, we're just getting started.
KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung has launched its 5in Galaxy WiFi device with the 3.6in model still to come. Samsung announced its 3.6in WiFi phone last month at the IFA conference in Germany. It didn't mention the 5in model that is available now and the 3.6in model has been delayed until next month.
Simon Stanford, MD of mobile at Samsung said, "With the Galaxy Wi-Fi we have created a device that allows consumers all the fun and freedom of our other Android Galaxy devices. Consumers can choose from thousands of exciting apps and communicate with friends using the Social Hub or even services such as Skype. The different size options mean there is something for everyone."
The device looks like a Galaxy smartphone but doesn't have a SIM card slot so can't be used to make calls, for example. We guess that it's similar to how the Ipod Touch is basically an Iphone without the phone.
Both versions come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 1GHz processor and the option of 8GB or 16GB of internal storage. This can be expanded thanks to the inclusion of a microSD card slot.
The larger size will have a better camera and battery, though, at 3.2MP compared to 2MP and a 2500mAh against 1500mAh battery. Both have Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and, of course, WiFi.
The 3.6in WiFi will retail at £146 and £169 for the 8GB and 16GB models whilst the 5in is available for £199 and £219 for the same capacities, respectively. µ
Ever chucked a hundred out of a cab window by mistake, thinking it was a kebab wrapper? Or lost it in a bet because you couldn’t quite squeeze into the freezer? Well, you could have been rolling in budget Android tablets by now – the Aakash tablet has just been launched in India for US$35. Aimed at school kids, the tablet supports web browsing, video calls, has a three-hour battery life and was made by UK based DataWind and the Indian Institute of Technology.
DataWind is charging slightly more for its commercial version of the tablet, the Ubislate 7, but the price is still only US$60. The 350g Ubislate 7 is powered by a 366Mhz procesor and runs on the out-of-date Android 2.2 (Froyo) OS but does feature a 7in capacitive touch-screen, Wi-Fi and USB port. And from the looks of it, there’s access to Android Market too. The Ubislate 7 is being released in a matter of weeks at the end of October – the only question is, will it take the same amount of time to boot up?
[Source Stuff UK]
Last week we met ZTE’s upcoming Tegra 3/Kal-El tablet, the ZTE T98 and who would’ve thought that the penta-core (or quad, depending how you look at it) device would have a bigger brother. Well, the folks over at PocketDroid have managed to score some exclusive screen shots of the tablet called the ZTE US 10.1″ tablet PC.
The tablet will sport a 10.1″ display (no surprise there) with a likely resolution of 1280 x 800, a 1GHz quad-core processor (chipset unknown at the moment), a 5-megapixel rear camera, NFC support and 32GB of internal storage. The tablet was spotted running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but it is expected to be upgraded to Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich when launched (though no dates were mentioned).
It looks like Chinese manufacturers are really stepping up their game with these new Android devices but one must wonder how these devices will do in such a crowded market. After all there are already hundreds of Android tablets out there to choose from – it’s going to take more than impressive specs to stand out from the crowd. Check out more pictures of the ZTE US 10.1″ at the source link.
The BlackBerry Torch 9860 is a 3.7-inch touchscreen smartphone, sweeping aside the Storm name to give RIM another crack at a keyboardless device. It arrives with BlackBerry OS7, the same as the BlackBerry Bold 9900 which we reviewed recently, but offering a large screen BlackBerry experience.
Touchscreen devices are the most competitive category of smartphones. With big players producing increasingly sophisticated devices and refining the user experience at such a pace the BlackBerry Torch 9860 faces a huge challenge. Can BlackBerry still make an impact on the consumer space, or does forgoing a keyboard leave the handset toothless?
Design and controls
BlackBerry devices have been consistent in their design over the past few generations. One glance and you know the Torch 9860 is a BlackBerry. The framing of the two halves of the device with the silver band reflects a design highlight BlackBerry have been using for a couple of years. The soft curve at the top of the phone means you don't get a hard edge against your ear when you make a call.
By contrast, there is a sharp, hard, edge at the back of the phone and given the location of the lock/unlock on the top of the device, it's almost impossible to unlock the display comfortably using one hand. It's a small point and one of the first things we noticed. Even so, after about a week of use it stopped bothering us.
Running across the bottom of the display are a familiar selection of controls and all are physical buttons that stand proud of the body of the phone, unlike the flattened controls of the Bold 9900 or Torch 9810. Having pronounced controls might seem a little retro but at least you don't knock them as you use the device, so accidental presses are almost non-existent.
The screen tapers off to the left and right too, which makes it nice to swipe across the entire width of the phone, something that BB7 will let you do, thumbing through the menus or your messages.
The delicate contouring of the body of the phone around the 3.5mm headphone jack and the Micro-USB look great. It's nice to see attention to detail, especially design detail, but it does makes the BlackBerry Torch 9810 look a little unloved.
Measuring 120 x 62 x 11.5mm it's a good size too, although we feel the 120mm height is perhaps a little larger than it needs to be - we don't know how many extra millimetres went into those ends that feel just a bit too sharp.
We've mentioned main controls running across the bottom of the screen. These give you proper calling buttons, although BlackBerry now doesn't colour the call accept and reject buttons in green and red respectively, instead they are all white. Then there are menu button, the clickable, optical, navigation key and finally the back button.
Running down the side of the handset you'll find the usual arrangement of volume controls, in the centre of which is an additional button which will act as play/pause for your music, although, annoyingly, it won't launch the music player if it isn’t already open. Finally there is the convenience key that can be programmed to launch an app of your choosing.
Screen and hardware
Being a touch model and offering a large 3.7-inch display mean that the screen has to be good. It offers you resolution of 800 x 400 pixels, making it comparable to a number of Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. One thing is clear here: BlackBerry has figured out that people do care about specs.
What we find interesting, however, is that this gives you a different aspect to the BlackBerry Torch 9810, so across all the current devices you have different screen ratios. In the Torch 9860's favour, this is at least fairly conventional, so when you pair it up against something like the HTC Desire S your screen real estate is effectively the same.
It is a bright and vibrant screen. In direct sunlight we had no problem making out the details, with colours staying authentic, which is great. At the other end of the scale, however, it doesn't seem to want to dim to save the strain on your eyes - and battery - as the light drops, so you'll find that at night it can be a little dazzling.
But we're impressed with the performance. It is sharp, video playback looks good and the colour is impressive - a little on the warm side of the colour scale, but that brings a nice vibrancy to reds.
Elsewhere on the hardware front you'll find a 1.2GHz processor under the hood, along with 768MB RAM and 4GB of internal memory. This internal memory can be further boosted by microSD card. Hardware specs aren't the measure of a mobile phone, but with more and more people seeking out these sorts of numbers, at least the Torch 9860 comes to the track with the right kit.
Software and keyboard
Hardware can only get you so far however, if your software isn't optimised then the user experience will suffer. Refining software is something that RIM has been doing for a number of years, resulting in the most recent iteration of the operating system BB7. It isn't significantly different from BB6 visually, more of a refinement of the changes ushered in with the last generation.
There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but a doubt hangs over these new BlackBerry devices with ongoing discussion of a move to the QNX platform next year. As it is, the user experience on the Torch 9860 is somewhat marred by the software: at times it will drag its heels or stop responding for reasons you can't quite determine.
Some things obviously do have an impact on it: installing apps seems to tax the phone, locking you out of pretty much everything else and we've found that the homescreen and the browser would both regularly hang. We would often have to pull the battery to get it going again.
Of course the feature that BlackBerry owners get excited about is email, and you'll find everything present and correct. Setup out of the box is a breeze and within a few minutes you'll find yourself connected, receiving email and logged into your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Giving the nod to Google users, you can set up syncing to pull over your contacts and calendar too, which were swiftly handled. Unfortunately, as we've seen before, if you have more than one calendar associated with a Google account then you can't access them all: so we had to resort to Google Sync (the app) to bring the other calendar into line.
Take this step with caution, however, as we subsequently found that our PC calendar then had the appointments in triplicate, with no logical discernable method of easily tidying things back up again.
BlackBerry 7 offers up a respectable user experience and is more adept at touch control than in the past. A long press often brings up the pertinent menu controls, but you'll still find yourself needing the full menu to really get things going.
On other BlackBerry devices you have the advantage that you can easily get things going with the keyboard by using universal search. That advantage has now gone because you have to use the on-screen keyboard, although universal search is still in place, along with voice search.
Voice searching did a good job of picking out for contacts, but once you get into more difficult language, like the name of our local vet for example, the success ratio drops off rapidly. At least you get the run of universal search applications to choose from, be it BlackBerry Maps, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
The default keyboard itself isn't especially good. We're spoilt from using great third-party Android keyboards, which make BB7's keyboard look rather prehistoric. But with some tinkering you can probably find the right settings for you, the first port of call for us was speeding up the response from the keyboard as the default is rather sluggish.
Of course the keyboard opens whenever you enter a text field and can be closed with a quick swipe down the middle. After that you'll either have to find another text field to open it, or you'll have to open the menu and hit the "Show Keyboard" option. You might want to do this to take advantage of some of the BB shortcuts, like "T" for "top", for example.
In portrait we found the full keyboard was just too cramped and too inaccurate, meaning text entry slowed right down. Fortunately the reduced keyboard is also an option, the same as appears on the likes of the Pearl 8100 series, with two characters on each key. The phone can then sensibly pick out the words you're trying to write and the whole experience gets much better, as long as you don't need too many special characters. Some of the traditional BB shortcuts still work too, like a double space for full stop, or a space for inserting the @ into an email in an address field.
The core BlackBerry applications work well enough: universal inbox pulling in messages from all sources, including apps, and in many cases we've found the BlackBerry Facebook app to be much faster than the equivalent on Android. Being able to compose a message and get an option of just about all message types to send to is useful too.
We're not huge fans of BlackBerry Maps, which looks a little dated compared to most other mapping services like Google or Bing Maps on Windows Phone 7, but will just about do the job and Google Maps can be installed if you prefer. We found that there was no link from the calendar locations through to maps, leaving us to copy and paste. At least copy and paste is relatively simple to control, but can be a little too eager, for example selecting text in the Twitter app, when all you really want to do is scroll.
Browser and apps
The biggest change, however, is the browser. BlackBerry knew they had to improve it, and it really has done. It is now much faster than previously, so straight website browsing is a pleasure, with pages quick to load.
However, it isn't without problems. We've already mentioned that we experienced a lot of lock-ups when using the browser and this is a problem compounded by one of the other issues that faces the Torch 9860 and BB7 devices: apps.
Without dedicated apps, you'll spend more time using the browser to access those services, or that information, to get what you need. Although BlackBerry has BBC iPlayer, Spotify, eBay, Skype apps, for example, they aren't available for the Torch 9860. Head to the BBC iPlayer website and you'll get the standard "Your phone isn't supported" message.
What this points to is the immediate need for apps to be updated to give the Torch 9860 the best fighting chance as a competitive handset. Of course we found the same position with the Bold 9900 when we reviewed it in August and we're no better off. With the spectre of QNX hanging over this generation of devices, we can't be entirely confident it'll get the attention it needs to shine.
Camera and multimedia
With 3.7-inches of screen on offer video certainly comes to the fore. Despite the very obvious omission of Flash video support limiting your consumption of common online video, we found that local content was handled nicely. HD media from the memory card was delivered smoothly, so if you happen to have a stack of MPEG4 movies, then you'll be able to easily enjoy them on your phone. There is no sign of DLNA support however.
The 5-megapixel camera on the rear of the device is supported by an LED flash, suffering from the usual shortcomings you'd expect from a phone. Low light shots aren't great, but in good light, the Torch 9860 will give you reasonable results. Being an autofocus camera, you'll get nice sharp images.
It does lack some excitement though, not offering anything by the way of effects. Video is also impressive, churning out good quality 720p footage at 30fps. Again, during video filming you'll find that you get continuous autofocus, so we don't have much to complain about.
Plug in a set of reasonable third-party headphones and you'll find that the BB Torch 9860 sounds sweet. The external speaker also provides good quality and volume, be that for sharing your tunes at the bus stop or that ad hoc conference call in your hotel room.
Finally, we never had a problem getting through a day on the battery. We did come close to emptying it during a normal working day, but we never felt that we needed to leave the house on a full charge in the same way we often to with similar spec Android devices.
Verdict
Some areas of the BlackBerry Torch 9860 feel a little antiquated as a consumer device. Diving into the menus you still need to "save" as you make changes. We also can't help feeling that, although the sliding app tray, and the choice of homescreen menus is useful, it isn't as dynamic as other operating systems. Without the app tray up, you're looking at a simple wallpaper, so you don't get the same sense of immediate control as you might from widgets, notification bar controls or lockscreen controls.
But some aspects of BB7 shine on the Torch 9860. Messaging, be it SMS, email, BBM, Facebook or Twitter, continue to be strong and integrated. We've also found that those essential apps work well. Sharing (or sending as it's referred to) works as well as it does anywhere else. So barring a few exceptions, the Torch 9860 is every bit as effective a social communicator as any other device.
Pair that with strong camera performance, great video, and good screen and speedy browser, all packed into a phone that's actually rather attractive to look at and there is something going for the 9860. It's a shame then that minor software details are what really let the package down: the lack of app support for BB7 and tendency to become unresponsive are challenging, but not insurmountable, problems.
The Samsung Galaxy Note is set to launch on 17 November, bringing with it a 5.3 inch screened beast of an Android handset.
Looking like a Galaxy S II after too many pies, the Galaxy Note features a 1.4 GHz dual-core processor, Android 2.3.5, 8 megapixel camera and 16 or 32 GB of internal memory.
The Super AMOLED display slapped on the front of the Galaxy Note is one of the most impressive that Pocket-lint has ever come across, with colours as vibrant as the Galaxy S II's. The tablet/phone is designed to act like a digital notepad, similar to the HTC Flyer and comes with a stylus and note taking apps included.
The Galaxy Note comes as part of Samsung's increasing efforts to expand the Galaxy family. The Galaxy range has been renamed, minus the Note, to help explain to potential customers exactly what they are buying. In a slightly cringe inducing piece of advertising, the S in Galaxy S for example stands for Super Smart.
The handset is also listed as having optional NFC connectivity and includes new Samsung Note Apps. The newly launched iMessage style Samsung ChatOn makes an appearance on the Note as well.
Expect more on the Galaxy Note as it gets closer to its 17 November launch date. In the meantime why not take a peek at our hands-on. Excited about the Samsung Galaxy Note? Let us know in the comments below ...
The Samsung Galaxy S II is now on sale at AT&T, offering dual-core 1.2GHz Android performance and an impressive Super AMOLED Plus display for $199.99. As with the European version, the AT&T GSII has an 8-megapixel autofocus camera supporting Full HD video recording, a front-facing camera for video calls, and HSPA+ 4G support.
There’s also WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS and 16GB of internal memory, with a microSD card slot, microUSB 2.0 connectivity and support for MHL HDMI (with the right adapter) to hook the Galaxy S II up to your HDTV. The 4.3-inch display may run at WVGA 800 x 480 resolution, rather than the qHD or above of other, more recently revealed devices, but Samsung’s Super AMOLED Plus technology makes for bright, vivid colors and outdoor-friendly levels of brightness.
The AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II is available today, priced at $199.99 with a new, two-year agreement including mandatory voice and data. More on the dual-core smartphone in the full SlashGear review. AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II hands-on:
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Tablet ini mempunyai kamera 5 megapixel dan kamera depan 1,3 Megapixel untuk Video chat untuk penyimpanannya tablet ini mempunyai penyimpanan internal 8GB dan built in Bluetooth,GPS,WiFi 802.11/b/g/n serta konektivitas HSPA + 14.4Mbps , untuk Videonya mendukung Full HD 1080p video playback dan menawarkan output HDMI .
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Marathon MagicTile mempunyai kisaran harga 29.990 rupe (US $ 674)
type='html'>Rumor bermunculan bahwa Apple akan berupaya maksimal memenangi kompetisi dengan iPhone generasi mendatang, yakni dengan mengeluarkan 2 versi. Rencananya Apple akan mengeluarkan model yang lebih murah dan hasil desain ulang total dari produk yang lebih mahal. Menurut situs 9to5mac, 2 ponsel itu akan diluncurkan pada September.
Menurut sumber iPhone yang “dapat diandalkan di masa lalu” kepada situs itu, model lebih murah ditujukan untuk pasar Android murah. Model satunya adalah perangkat high-end dan akan menjadi desain yang sama sekali baru. Kedua perangkat itu tampaknya akan terlihat sangat berbeda.
Dijual harga mahal saja antrian pembeli iPhone sebegini, apalagi harganya lebih murah
iPod touch juga diharapkan akan diperbarui pada bulan September. Belum ada pernyataan soal harga kedua iPhone itu. Tapi, melihat histeria dan antrean di luar toko Apple saat peluncuran iPhone 4, model iPhone 5 yang lebih murah itu diyakini akan mengundang antrean lebih besar. Di antara rumor lain adalah bahwa iPhone 5 yang lebih mahal akan memiliki penutup kaca melengkung di layar. Dia juga dikabarkan berukuran lebih besar daripada sebelumnya dan memiliki kamera 8-megapiksel. Msnbc’s Technolog melaporkan bahwa Apple telah membeli 200-300 mesin pemotong kaca untuk digunakan oleh para pembuat kaca. Tampaknya peralatan ini diperlukan untuk menghasilkan kuantitas dan jenis penutup kaca melengkung yang diperlukan untuk produksi iPhone. Sumber
type="html" xml:base="http://infotechnologi.com/google-rubah-tampilan-android-market.html">Google memperbarui tampilan Android market menjadi lebih segar dengan tambahan film dan buku , pengguna lebih mudah menemukan konten yang relevan dengan adanya daftar aplikasi yang lebih banyak .
Google juga telah menambahkan beberapa informasi detail ke halaman aplikasi penjualan dengan nama aplikasi dan harga aplikasinya .
Google mulai memperbarui Android market untuk ponsel yang menjalankan system android 2.2 (froyo) dan system Android terbaru .
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type="html" xml:base="http://infotechnologi.com/cricket-huawei-ascend-ii-android-smartphone.html"> Cricket meluncurkan Wirless Huawei Ascend II , Ponsel yang menjalankan OS Android 2.3 Gingerbread pada prosesor 600MHz dan mempunyai layar touchscreen 3,5 inci HVGA dan mendukung Bluetooth dan konektivitas WiFi , dan sudah dilengkapi slot microSD .source : engadget.com]]>
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Android fans have only three weeks to wait until the first phone running Ice Cream Sandwich touches down. Amazon 
