Other Phones
LG GW990 – first smartphone to use Moorestown and runs Moblin
Jan 8th
The first Moorestown (Intel’s CPU) based device is unveiled by LG during CES 2010. It is now official, it runs Moblin ( a Linux based mobile platform from Intel), and it’s launching in the second half of this year.
The GW990 will be coming with a 4.8-inch panoramic widescreen display (with a 1020 x 480 resolution), HD Video, 3D gaming, aGPS, WiFi, 1850mAh battery, digital compass, HSPA radio, 5 megapixel camera, 16Gb of built in flash memory and MicroSD expansion slot.
LG is layering their S-Class inteface on top of the Moblin so there is not much of excitement over here. But because of its huge screen, it can show 3 panels in one screen without feeling too many things on the screen (see the image).
This is something to look forward to in the second half of the year.
[via engadget]
Samsung Bada based phone S8200 will have Nexus One matching specs
Jan 8th
There is a leaked information that the upcoming Samsung Bada phone (S8200) will be coming with a very high end specs that will match the just-released Google Nexus One.
According to the information, the S8200 is coming with:
- 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen displays
- 1GHz Snapdragon processors
- HSPA
- Wi-Fi
- GPS
- 5MP autofocus camera
That’s something to look forward to.
[via hdblog.it]
HTC Smart – a new “smartphone” for the masses
Jan 8th
HTC had just announced a new smartphone (or dump phone?) for the masses – the HTC Smart.
This is the first HTC phone that does not use any smartphone OS from the market like Windows Mobile and Android. In fact, it is based on Brew Mobile Platform from Qualcomm.
It has a 300Mhz CPU (huh?!). The specs include a 2.8″ QVGA touch-screen, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and single-band 3G/HSDPA, 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera with flash, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD expansion.
The phone does come with “HTC Scenes” which reflect your mood like mode for relaxing, for work and so on. With Sense, you will get Facebook updates as well. Texts and emails are all brought into the “Scenes” and you can browse the web in both portrait and landscape modes.
This will be a low end entry device from HTC targetting for people who are not comfortable with smartphones that can do so many things (and run other apps) but wish to have a cool and nice looking phone to handle daily tasks.
[via HTC]
Robyn – A mini Xperia X10 from Sony Ericsson?
Jan 8th
A new phone from Sony Ericsson called “Robyn” is coming. It looks like a mini Xperia X10 from outside and it seems to have a same blue colour theme like the Xperia X10.
Not much is known about the ‘Robyn’ but the SE-Blog did say it is to have “a Touchscreen display, 5mp camera (with AF), 3.5 mm audio jack, USB connector, HSPA, WLAN”.
Well I do not what Sony Ericsson is up to now. But I do know the Xperia X2 (WinMo 6.5) is far behind schedule and I am not sure what would happen to the Xperia X10 (Android).
[via SE-Blog]
More screenshots of Samsung Bada
Dec 23rd
Blogger from Samsunghub posted more screenshots of Bada, the upcoming Samsung’s OS for mobile phones.
The screenshots confirms Bada will have a finger friendly UI that is optimized for finger touch. However, the author is saying that the Bada will not support multitasking. That means it will only run one user application at a time. You have the quit the current running application in order to launch another one, just like iPhone.
You can find more images here.
Screenshots of Samsung new mobile platform, Bada, leaked
Dec 18th
Wondering what Bada (the upcoming Samsung mobile platform) will look like? Here are some of the leaked screenshots.
They look like a mixture of WebOS, Android, and iPhone. And it make us wondering why Samsung is interested to develop a whole new platform for their mobile devices. I guess the South Korean giant might want to have full control of their mobile platform and might have some great ideas that are not found in the existing platforms. Well, we will see what are the big ideas behind Bada during the first commercial release of the platform.
Samsung shows some details of Bada in event
Dec 9th
Engadget attended the Bada mobile platform launch event in London and brought back some details of Samsung’s upcoming mobile platform.
The event was mainly targetted at developers and investors. And there is no phone
to show nor direct answer regarding the hardware. It is only mentioned that the Bada phone will be coming during the first half of 2010.
Samsung did bring in representatives of five strong Bada app partners: Twitter, Capcom, EA, Gameloft and Blockbuster. And it seems like mobile gaming is high up on Bada’s agenda. And also the Bada phones will have a strong integration with SNS (social networking services).
If you are interested to know a bit more of Samsung’s future platform, you can find more details here.
