Dell hasn’t as yet announced a follow up to the Dell Streak, although it looks like they have a new device in the works, as a new ‘mobile Internet device’ from Dell has just received WiFi certification (PDF).
The WiFi Certification describes the new device from Dell as a ‘Category: Smartphone, dual-mode (Wi-Fi and cellular)’, and it is given the model number M01M.
This could possibly be the new Dell Streak 2, all we know about it so far is that it comes with support for 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, unfortunately there aren’t many other details as yet.
Hopefully we will get some more information on the new Dell Streak 2 at CES 2011 in January.
If your thinking of taking it easy over the holiday period and considering watching a few YouTube movies. You might be please to know you can now download a new “YouTube Remote” application from the Android Marketplace, just in time for the holidays.
Simply install and login to either control YouTube on your desktop PC or play videos within a slick interface on your Android phone.
To set up YouTube Remote on your desktop PC just log in to your account on the app, log into the same account on your computer, point your browser to http://www.youtube.com/leanback and start viewing, Enjoy!
Google's impressive Nexus S Android smartphone is now available to buy in the UK from select Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse stores.
A top-notch phone that polishes many of the problems found with the original Nexus One handset, the Nexus S has a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, NFC and a 5-megapixel camera, all sitting on top of the sleek Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.
SIM-free prices weigh in at £429.99, while contracts with Carphone Warehouse see you bag the handset for free on a £30 a month tariff.
Remember to ring ahead if you're planning on picking up the handset in person though; only "key" stores have on-site stock, so you may have to wait for a home-delivery otherwise.
Sony Ericsson is getting ready to introduce its new Xperia on February 13th on the annual Mobile World Congress show. Many are hoping the new member of Xperia will be the rumored PSP phone but there’s always disappointment along all expectations.
The pictures above is what most of us hoping the gaming device that many has been waiting for. However, we can’t be sure since Sony Ericsson has not mention anything. It could any other Xperia devices out there to be stock. During CES 2011, we really expecting for Sony Ericsson to finally introduced the world first PSP phone.
Samsung has had great success with the Galaxy S smartphone and also the Galaxy Tab tablet, they also launched another new Galaxy device which they were hoping would take on the iPod Touch, the Samsung Galaxy Player.
One of the reasons that Apple has been so successful with the iPad Touch, is that it has all the features of the iPhone, excluding the phone part, while Samsung’s first Galaxy Player featured lower specifications than the Galaxy S smartphone.
Samsung will be showing off a new Galaxy Player at CES 2011, and it looks like this new version has much more in common with the Galaxy S smartphone, it will come with Android 2.2 Froyo and will feature a 1GHz processor.
There is no AMOLED display though, instead it will come with a 4 inch Super Clear LCD display, plus a 3.2 megapixel camera and a front facing vga camera for video chat.
It will be interesting to see what the new Samsung Galaxy player is like, and whether it is able to compete against the massively popular iPod Touch.
Cricket is going to release the Samsung Suede SCH-r710 music phone, along with its new Muve Music service in January 2011. The Suede is a stylish full-featured messaging phone with a 3-inch touchscreen display, a 3 Megapixel camera with camcorder, 135MB internal memory and a microSD memory card.
The Samsung Suede SCH-r710 has a dedicated Muve Music button, which provides Cricket customers with one-touch access to download music instantly over Cricket’s 3G network. The phone’s UI also features with customizable widgets, for instant access to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
The Samsung Suede is priced at $199 and the Cricket unlimited plan including Muve Music is $55 per month.
The dual-core Tegra 2 LG Optimus 2X smartphone powerhouse has just been given a January release date, ending speculation that the phone would only be a treat for those living in the Korean manufacturers homeland.
"The exclusive music will be preloaded on LG smartphones starting with the LG Optimus 2X set to debut next month in Europe," said LG's official press release.
With an estimated selling price of around £470, it's a pricey but powerful handset, running Android 2.2 on a 4 inch touchscreen.
It may also be the most tuneful smartphone out next year too, as LG have bizarrely bagged lengendary spaghetti western composer Ennio Morricone to write some ringtones for the phone.
"LG smartphone users will be able to enjoy a total of 25 of Morricone's creations -- 15 ringtones composed specifically for LG and 10 of his best-known tunes from the world of cinema," explained LG.
"Signore Morricone is one of the best-loved soundtrack composers of all time," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "Reproducing his work with such amazing clarity on the Optimus 2X, gives smartphones a whole new level of respect as the primary device for on-the-go music."
aigo launches the aiPower i616 that claimes to be the best iPhone 4 battery case ever. The aiPower i616 is a lightweight protective and ultra-thin case with built-in rechargeable battery pack. One of the main features of the case is its integrated mini USB cable so you no longer need a separate cable for charging and sync.
The aiPower i616 packs a 1500mAh battery providing additional 300 hours of standby time, 7 hours of talk time, 10 hours of Internet, 10 hours of video and 40 hours of audio playback time.
Regional carrier MetroPCS is ticking three more checkboxes today as it keeps pushing its ongoing LTE network rollout, and they're big ones: on top of Sacramento, they've added Boston and none other than New York City. That makes the carrier second to launch LTE in the Big Apple -- Verizon's already there -- but you can't take away from the fact that MetroPCS beat the big guys with their first live commercial markets by several months. As for hardware, it's the same as usual: the Samsung Craft dumbphone is your only option, which means that if you're looking to blaze on your notebook with a next-gen USB stick, you're still going to have to head to Verizon anyway. Follow the break for the full press release.
Meizu CEO Jack Wong has been teasing the M9 handset for some time now, and if we're not mistaken, the official site just went live with a full list of specs to boot. As promised, there's a 3.5-inch 960 x 640 resolution screen (reportedly the Sharp ASV display), and we're also apparently looking at a 1GHz S5PC110 processor (just like the Samsung Galaxy S), Android 2.2, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, A-GPS, 802.11b/g/n, microSDHC, a removable 1370mAH lithium-polymer battery, and support for (drumroll, please) GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA,and HSUPA. Too good to be true? Word on the street is this very phone will be available December 25th in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and will expand to the rest of China days later. We'll believe it when we see it.
iGrill is the first grilling/cooking thermometer device plus app for use with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Not to be confused with George Foreman’s own iGrill from 2007, this iGrill lets you keep an eye on your grill while you entertain guests. The way it works is that its app communicates with the iGrill via bluetooth to make sure that your food stays perfectly cooked at the right temperature. This way you can rely on your iOS device to make sure you don’t ruin whatever it is that you’re cooking. iGrill retails for $99.99 and it is actually the third “hardware app” we’ve seen in the past couple of days that will be shown off at CES 2011 next month.
Remember the Windows Phone 7 ads, the ones that promised to "save us from our phones" by giving us more "glance and go" information? For the most part, these phones haven't delivered on that promise due to the relative dearth of apps taking advantage of Microsoft's live tile concept. That changes a bit today thanks to an update to the HTC Hub app that ships with every Windows Phone 7 device manufactured by HTC. Now, instead of a generic double-wide icon, the HTC Hub presents you with the current weather condition and temperature and the forecasted highs and lows. As such, you'll never have to click through and be subjected to HTC's overwrought animations that feel so out of place on Microsoft's more demure user interface. More please.
MetroPCS launches a new affordable Android smartphone, the Huawei Ascend (U8230). The phone runs Android 2.1 Eclair OS. It features a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, a 3.2 Megapixel camera with video recording, WiFi connectivity and a microSD card slot for expansion.
The Huawei Ascend is priced at $179, with no contract needed.
Discounts are raining down from the heavens these days as retailers try to offload old stock and do a bit of tidying up before rolling in the fresh batch of 2011 smartphones. Best Buy is keeping with this trend by treating its customers to a nice big saving on the AT&T-attached Dell Streak, offering it up for a mere $100 in upfront costs. The typical two-year commitment will be required from you, but that might just be worth it for this 5-inch Android slate, particularly if you load it up with the latest firmware. Pricing is the same for both the black and white versions, so if you're keen to swap a small bulge in your wallet for a large protruding tabletphone in your pocket, you know where to look.
The white iPhone 4 may have become vaporware, but that doesn’t mean you cant stick one under (or on) the tree this Christmas. One innovative seller over at Etsy has concocted white iPhone 4 Christmas tree ornaments. The ornament measures 3″ x 1.5″ and comes ready for rehanging. It also sports magnets on its backside so that it can still be useful as a fridge magnet after the holidays. Overall, this gimmick isn’t bad for $10 and might help sooth over the pain of not actually getting a real white iPhone 4 for Christmas.
Gear4 has releases a series of iPhone cases featuring the popular portable game, Angry Birds. Three colors are available and each of them features different characters from the game. The hard plastic iPhone 4 case has a super slim design and offers total access to controls and buttons of the phone.
Each Angry Birds iPhone 4 case is priced at $24.99.
Let the iPhone 4 Keyboard case wars begin! We just reviewed ThinkGeek’s TK-421 Flipout Keyboard Case for the iPhone 4 and recently covered two other new iPhone 4 keyboards – the Nuu Keyboard and an iPhone 4 keyboard from Thanko. Now the TypeTop Bluetooth Mini Keyboard Case for iPhone 4 has showed up. It also sports a similar keyboard to the TK-421 but comes in a leather case with a flip-out stand for your iPhone, dedicated multimedia hotkeys and a 100 hour battery life. You can pick it up now for £29.95 in the U.K. and Europe. A French keyboard and German keyboard version are also available.
We can not help but Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone (also known as Zeus Z1), and we're guessing neither you. We just made a new video of the device in action, it is now running Qualcomm Neocore reference app. As you can see, the device managed 24.4 frames per second on average. This does not seem much - our S Nexus, for example, just 55.6fps removed - but keep in mind, this is not the software (or hardware without doubt), there is therefore no conclusions can reference all this right now. Suffice it to say that this is another beautiful view over the phone as we inch closer to the finish line we are not yet in sight. Sorry, slide-out handle, but we saw that last week - do not be greedy. Video after the break.
Google and Samsung officially announce the Nexus S, their Android collaboration, which is the second Android phone released by Google, following the Nexus One by HTC. The Nexus S, as its name suggests, is pretty much based on Samsung’s own Galaxy S smartphone. Most notable new features include a 4-inch Contour display with curved glass screen, capacitive touch sensor and anti-fingerprint display coating; built-in Near Field Communication (NFC) connectivity and the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.
The Nexus S, like other Galaxy S phones, is powered by a 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8 processor. It has 16GB internal storage capacity but lack microSD card slot for expansion. The “curved” smartphone has a 5 Megapixel camera and a front VGA camera. However, its 5Mpix cam records only 720×480 video, lacking 720p HD video capability found on all Galaxy S models.
The Nexus S supports GPS/A-GPS, Bluetooth WiFi 802.11b/g/n connectivity, quad-band GSM/EDGE, tri-band HSPA networks, and microUSB connection. Other features include haptic feedback vibration, three-axis gyroscope, accelerometer, digital compass, proximity sensor, light sensor and software noise-cancellation. The Android 2.3 handset comes with a 1500 mAH Lithum Ion battery that allows for talk time up to 6.7 hours on 3G and standby time up to 17.8 days on 3G.
As for availabity, Nexus S will be sold unlocked and carrier-independent initially through Best Buy stores in the U.S. and after December 20 at Carphone Warehouse stores in the UK.
You might remember yesterday's brouhaha over LG's seemingly false claim that Android 2.3 Gingerbread requires a 1GHz processor or better, using it as a justification for keeping an official upgrade out of the hopes and dreams of Optimus One owners around the globe
So they're taking responsibility for jumping the gun and have committed to "evaluating the upgradability" of the Optimus line once Google's published Gingerbread's official requirements and turned loose the source code. Of course, it's possible they'll ultimately find another reason for keeping the phones stuck on Froyo -- but for now, we've got a sliver of hope.
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Samsung is proudly present their debut flip android smartphone to the world. Its the W899, a clamshell phone which has two 3.3 inch WVGA Super AMOLED touchscreen displays, a 5MP still camera with capability to record HD video, and also a front-facing VGA camera for video calling. Samsung W899 has supported by Wi-Fi, WAPI, GPS, Bluetooth, and runs Android 2.2 Froyo OS.
This flip android smartphone has officially announced in China several days ago and there still no sign, when will Samsung launch or release the handset. But there is an issue about a similar android smartphone like the W899 has scheduled to launch in Europe or North America this early 2011.
Step aside, Sony Ericsson Xperia your Pureness was beaten at its own game by a combined showed more enigmatic new Lenovo in China. The above pictures are from a fashion event in Beijing, where Lenovo has chosen for his debut S800 FeaturePhone translucent with a color screen. It seems to be still in the concept, not many of these luxury items seem to never get out, but because we think that this is not real, the models show exhibition were photographed backstage with glass lustworthy part to do what the models do with their phones. Visit the link below for more information.
TerreStar launches its Genus, the world’s first integrated cellular-satellite smartphone running WIndows Mobile 6.5 OS. Aim to bring satellite phone to the mainstream market the Genus is priced at $1,149.99. Looks just like an ordinary bar-type QWERTY smartphone, the Genus connects to both AT&T’s GSM / HSPA cellular network and TerreStar-1 satellite access.
The TerreStar Genus features a touchscreen, a QWERTY keyboard, and a 2 Megapixel caera with video recording. It supports Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi connectivity also. The Genus measures 4.7 inch x 2.5 inch x 0.8/0.6 inch and weighs 4.6oz.
The MID, most recently personified by the Archos devices and OQO is very close to being a class of off. I do not see that sad fact - that we just spent the best features. But I feel a pang of pity for the latest generation of this form factor, once loved. The OCS7 looks like a slick little device - or would be a year or two, when such devices were still considered practical.
I mean, look at him. It 's like a hyper-tension PSP with Windows 7, or at least a personal taste. For some it is a gadget of your dreams, but for the most part is too complicated a device with the worst of both worlds.
It has some pretty specific and Windows 7 will probably be quite good, and the case seems pretty sweet, but at this stage, it's like a coach calls. I think it'll actually sell quite a few fans in Korea and in other areas where MID category is still viable (I doubt they would also come to the U.S. anyway), but there is probably one of the last of its kind.
Update: it seems that there is a OCS1 and OCS7. The translations are clear enough, and they seem to be the gaming devices based on ... but in any case, they are still an endangered species.
