“The first phone with social skills” – Motorola just announced its first Adroid phone, the CLIQ, during the Mobilize conference.  It is based around a skin called Blur (or MOTOBLUR) created by Motorala.  CLIQ is built around social networking, witk live widgets that integrate Twitterm Facebook, Gmail, MySpace, Yahoo, Last.fm and more.  It also comes with a Palm Synergy like engine that will aggregate all your contacts into a single address book.  And it will [...]

I just came back from Comex 2009 at Suntec City. I visited the booth of Starhub and found out they are taking pre-order of HTC Hero during the show. Unfortunately, the lady manning the booth was not able to tell me much, like the price of the phone and when it is going to a available. All she could tell me was the phone will be definitely on the shell in September. What a disappointment [...]

HTC has just announced the Tattoo, the little brother of HTC Hero.  It will run Android and Sense.  It comes with a Qualcomm MSM7225, 528MHz processor, 512Mb Rom and 256Mb RAM.  It has a smaller 2.8 inches QVGA (240×320)resistive touch screen, not capacitive.  According to HTC, resistive screen is used because the screen is too small to be accurate for a capacitive touch screen (hah?)  And also the camera will be at 3.2 megapixel and it is [...]

HTC is planning on making a major change to its high-res handset for the sequel: it’s switching to Android.  The upcoming Touch HD2 is rumoured to be running Android instead of Windows Mobile 6.5.  The CPU is reportedly a 628MHz Qualcomm chip, just slightly faster than its predecessor, Touch HD.  If this is true, it will become the fastest Android handset to date.  Of course we don’t forget the the rumoured Sony Ericsson’s Rachael, which [...]

Google has made this official: In Android next update, 1.6 Donut, Android Market will get a facelift that brings a better design with a fresh look and add a very important feature that has been missing — screenshots of applications. The new design looks a lot more modern and usable. No timeline was provided on when we’ll be able to use the new Android Market and when Android 1.6 will be released to the public. [...]

After months of waiting, wait no more.  It is official now.  HTC Hero was launched in Singapore on 4th September.  See the press. HTC Hero is the world’s first Android-based phone with a customized user interface – Sense.  It is the third Android phone from HTC. I was in the launch event held in Suntec Conventional Centre, Level 2, room 208 and 209 on 4th September.  The launch was brief and short.  It was hosted [...]