Before Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 (Windows Mobile) can generate wave in the market, there are certainly people interested in the rumoured Xperia X3 which will be based on Android OS.  The recent leaked images shows it is still a work-in-progress and the interface is rather “raw” withoutany  SE skin. As usual, the “spied” photos are very blurry. More images after the break.

The XPERIA line of products from Sony Ericsson started as Windows Mobile devices.  However, the coming X3 will be a Android-based device.  When it was first leak not long ago, the X3 looks to be strongly focusing on multimedia capability. And now it is rumoured that the X3 will be launched in January, about the same time Sony Ericsson will launch X2 (the successor of X1, Windows Mobile device).  X3 will become a strong competitor [...]

With the new management and the new WebOS, Palm will be stopping the relationship with Microsoft soon.  Focusing only on one single platform – WebOS, the future devices by Palm will only support WebOS. Jon Rubinstein just made it official during their financial results conference call: Due to importance of webOS to our overall strategy, we’ve made the decision to dedicate all future develoment resources to the evolution of webOS. Which means that going forward, [...]

Since I have pre-ordered the HTC Hero from Starhub, Singapore, I’ve just got a call from them that I can pick up the phone on 19 Sep, the coming Saturday.  They will be doing a roadshow at Marina Square starting 12PM. Here are the different prices for the HTC Hero with different price paln: SGD598 for low plan SGD498 for middle plan SGD398 for high plan Quite a dissapointment as many of the operators in [...]

Many of the devices in the market have been using this Java based variance of mini browser.  The coolest feature about Opera mini is that the browser uses a special proxy server from Opera where web traffics get compressed upto 90% before they come to your device.  It generally speeds up the access of web sites by a large margin.  With the new version, which is currently still in beta phase, we will see a [...]

There have been quite a number of news regarding HTC‘s upcoming Windows Mobile phone, Leo.  If those news doesn’t excite you, make sure you check out this one — multiple touch is coming with HTC Leo.  Make sure you check the video below.  With the 1 GHz snapdrogan CPU, you can see how smooth the photo album and even video during the zooming actions.  Way to go, HTC.  Next thing I expect from HTC will [...]

Novell, the owner of mono project, has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft’s .Net Framework.  At the moment, developers who wish to develop applications for iPhone has to use the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The MonoTouch SDK uses Novell’s Mono runtime, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#. “What’s important here is that C# and .Net [...]

We have just see Windows Mobile 6.5 build 23047 last week.  But XDA-Developers continue to bring us newer version of the build.  And now, it is build 23049. It doesn’t seem to have much difference with build 23047.  From the screenshots, we can only see the edge of the buttons are now harder.

Google has just announced the availability of Android 1.6 SDK.  As soon as October, we will see devices running Android 1.6, according to the developer blog. Some highlighted features: Quick search box – a.k.a. the universal search. L2TP, IPSec, PPTP VPN support. Android market update, with screen shots and a brigther colour theme. Text-to-Speech engine. Support for CDMA network. New gestures framework. Read the announcement from google developer blog. See the complete new feature list [...]

INQ Mini 3G is here in Singapore. It was launched yesterday (14 September) at Singtel Supperclub.  It will be available from 19th September 2009, exclusive to Singtel. The INQ Mini 3G is the first social mobile phone to be fully integrated with Facebook, offering ‘always on’, one-click access to this popular social networking application, as well as Twitter. It also merges contacts on the mobile phone and Facebook to create the world’s first ‘live’ address [...]