Lenovo (the largest Chinese PC manufacturer who is now in the Mobile market) has announced “Lephone”, a new smartphone with a touch slab form factor and a very rounded design only 12mm thick. Lephone is coming with a 3.7-inch, 480×800-pixel touch display and below it there is a secondary touch area for navigation, no buttons on the front. It is using the 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and it comes equipped with 3.5mm audio jack, [...]

Does the just-released, powered by Android 2.1 Google Nexus One make you jealous? Motorola has just announced a good news to the DROID (a.k.a. MILESTONE) and CKIQ (DEXT) users, the Android 2.1 will be available on these 2 phones as well.  You will be enjoying the goodies that the Android 2.1 has and the fantastic hardware from Motorola. The other good news is that Motorola is working hard to bring the Flash 10.1 to the [...]

Interested in this uniquely designed Android phone with a backflip QWERTY keyboard from Motorola?  Well it has been officially announced by Motorola. Backflip gets its name from a reverse QWERTY keyboard and it is unique on the market. It also comes with MOTO BLUR – Motorola’s custom designed version of Android – and  that means Android 1.5. Fortunately Motorola is updating it to Android 2.X in the near future. The press release is after the [...]

Google owns youtube and they are making use of it to publish a number of video of their newest products – Nexus One.  I have collected a number of them for you to enjoy.  And there are more after the break. Web meets phone

Frankly, I had never expected Singapore to be one of the countries to receive Google Nexus One at launch. If you are in Singapore and want to have the latest Google Nexus One Android phone running Android 2.1, Singapore is one of the three countries outside US (the other two are UK and Hong Kong) that Google will ship the phone to.  For USD529 + shipping (around USD30) and 7% GST (I can’t confirm as [...]

Wait no more (for some countries), the Google Nexus One is officially announced and available for order on Google web site. Peter Chou (HTC CEO), Andy Rubin (Android main man) and Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra hosted a press conference at Mountain View, California. The Nexus One was revealed and yes, Google will be selling it themselves. The Nexus One has already received major coverage and you should have seen it on all major [...]

Before you can find out the details of the support page of Google’s Nexus One, it disappears again. Apparently Google is preparing to launch its support page for the Nexus One.  Someone on the net spotted that the page went live for a few minutes and became unacceesable after that.  However, it is still long enough for him to watch the Term of Service page and the video showing of the 3D photo gallery and [...]

Interested in buying a Google Nexus One but you are staying outside US?  Here is a piece of bad news for you. According to ZDNet, the people outside will need to pay more for the Nexus One.  That is because you have to pay a number of other fees like taxes and and duties.  I don’t know how they got this piece of information but this may be something you should consider.  Anyway, we will [...]

According to a French blog, the first Android effort from Acer, the Liquid A1, will be getting the Android 2.0 (Eclair) update by March this year for free. The Liquid was launched with Android 1.6 and with minimum customization from Acer.  With the upgrade to Android 2.0, the Liquid may get newer service like sync with multiple accounts, multitouch, etc.  However, it is still unclear now what are the new things the Liquid will get. [...]

Here is another video walkthrough of Google’s Nexus One from Engadget.  It shows quite a number of UI details and the “live wall papers” of the phone. And we hope to get more details of the phone by 5th of January when Google announces it.