The phone is said to have a 4.3-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1280×720 and it includes 1GB of RAM, 4GB of ROM, 32GB of built-in storage, 2GHz processor (possibly a dual-core architect), an 8-megapixel camera with “full” HD video, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi up to N, and an accelerometer accompanied by a gyroscope. And it will will be powered by the next generation Android 3.0 (The Gingerbread).

Sounds like a dream phone to you?

Hah, we will know for sure by the end of the year whether this superphone will be coming.

It is said that the Gingerbread will have a major UI overhaul.  According to the rumour, it will follow the 3D UI design of the current gallery app.  With higher demand of the UI requirement, it is said that Google will put a minimum hardware requirement for Android 3.0 devices:

• It must have a CPU clocked at 1GHz or higher
• It must have 512MB or more of RAM
• It must have a screen sized 3.5-inches or higher

That means some of the devices out in the market now will not be able to get Gingerbread.  For lower specs devices, Android 2.2 will be the highest version of Android they can go.  ”Gingerbreaded” Android devices will be considered as another class of Android devices.

The rumour states that Gingerbread will be released in October and the first handset will be out just before Christmas for celebration.

[via unwiredview]

• the Nexus One running Android 2.1 gets about 6.5-7 MFLOPS
• the HTC Hero averages a measly score of about 2 MFLOPS (the phone is pretty slow indeed)

And Nexus with FroYo is running at 37.5 MFLOPS! That is most likely the effect of the new JIT for FroYo.

That really got me excited and can’t wait for the official release of FroYo from Google.

[via androidpolice]

The latest rumour by Macrumors is the capability of recording video at the resolution of 1280×720.  The new iPhoneOS 4 Beta SDK reveals the ability to capture video at higher resolutions than the current standard 640×480 (“VGA”) resolution. These preset values suggest that a future iPhone will be able to capture at 720p (1280×720) resolution:

AVCaptureSessionPreset640x480
AVCaptureSessionPreset1280x720

The new iPhone could be called iPhone HD when it is released

[via macrumors]

It seems like the pictures and some of the specs of iPhone 4g have been leaked.  Engadget has a series of pictures of this suspected-to-be iPhone 4g.  And it is said to have 80Gb of RAM , higher resolution of camera with flash and a front facing camera.

Well, you you are keen to know more, following the link here.

According to them, the OTA update will include:

• Better memory management with a new version of the Linux kernel to operate in short, all the device memory which is not the case today
• Fixed problem MultiTouch when fingers are too close together
• Activating the FM radio feature of the camera! (I guess it is the FM radio activation)

These are the things among many others that are highly wanted by many of the Nexus One users.

Well, let’s just wait for a few days to see whether this rumour will come true.

And we shall see what’s coming out from Microsoft’s event later today.

Motorola is surely working ahrd to get those handsets out in the market to be upgrades to the latest Android version.  The DROID/MILESTONE owners will be getting the Android 2.1 treatment soon and now the CLIQ/DEXT is following.

This should get a lot of CLIQ/DEXT owners excited if it turns out to be true.

[via BGR]

According to a tipster of AndroidCommunity, the specs of Legend will be:

• 3.2-inch capacitive HVGA AMOLED display
• 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
• WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, microSD card slot and GPS/AGPS
• 1300mAh battery
• Quad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS/HSDPA
• Digital compass, G-Sensor, 3.5mm Audio jacket, microUSB port
• It uses a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor

If you like HTC Hero, this is something you will like too.  It carries the same form factor of HTC Hero and more.  No price and available date for now.

[via androidcommunity]

According to PPCGeeks, Windows Mobile 7 will feature a Zune like interface and there will be no multitasking support for third party apps on the phone!  Microsoft will control the Windows Mobile 7 about the same way Apple controls the iPhoneOS, except that Microsoft will not make the phone.  The manufacturers will build the phone but Microsoft will control the user experience tightly.

Here is the list that PPCGeeks lists:

• The User Interface is based upon codename “METRO”. It will be very similar to the Zune HD User Interface with a complete revamp of the “Start” screen. The UI is “Very Clean”, “Soulful” and “Alive”
• Unfortunately there will be no Flash support at the get go as there was not enough time to implement these features.
• Windows Phone 7 will only support application installation through service based delivery. (i.e Marketplace). Application installation via storage card will not be possible.
• No Multi-Task support. Applications will “Pause” when in the background, however will support notifications via push notifications.
• Marketplace will now support “try before you buy” as well as an API
• No NETCF backwards compatibility. This means the original rumor of no backward compatibility for applications holds to be true. That being said, there are high hopes of porting the NetCF to the newer platform easily.
• Microsoft is confident that devices will be ready by September 2010
• Full Zune Integration
• Windows Mobile Device Center will no longer be used. Zune software to take over syncing via PC.
• OEM Interfaces will not be allowed to run on the device. Say goodbye to Sense UI / SPB Mobile Shell / Point UI / Infinity, etc, etc
• Full XBOX Gaming Integration (Gamer tag, achievements, friends, avatars, merchandising, etc)
• Full support for social networking

Microsoft is clearly learning the experience from its previous Windows Mobile release and obviously also from Apple’s iPhone.  Will this make sense to Microsoft as well as the existing hardware partners like HTC and Samsung?  May be that’s why HTC goes to Android camp and Samsung created a new Bada OS.

Will this be too late for Microsoft?  We will see when Windows Mobile is finally released to market.

[via PPCGeeks]

Samsung will definitely be one of the companies that will announce new phones and the rumoured Galaxy2 could be one of them.  According to the leak, the phone may have the following:

• 1 GHz Snapdragon (this is questionable as Samsung has its own chip)
• 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen
• 5 MP camera
• 32 GB internal memory (Wow, that looks good)
• Android 2.1
• 3.5 mm jack

The phone, according to the leak, should be launching at 2Q of 2010.  If the information is true, it could be a good competitor to the high end Android phones already in the market.

[via androphones]

So the rumour for this Shadow / Nexus Two could be true.  It will work similarly to what HTC has done for Nexus One.  The Google only phone from Motorola could be the next version of Nexus One from Google.

Year 2010 is an Android year.