Galaxy Beam runs Android 2.1 and features 3G support, a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen (WVGA), TouchWiz UI 3.0, Social Hub, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Allshare (DLNA), 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash, front facing VGA camera, GPS and 1800mAh battery. There is no mention of the speed of the processor but we believe it has an 800MHz processor or faster Hummingbird processor like the Galaxy S.

If you are interested to look at the phone, it will be available for viewing in some of the selected shop starting from 10 July.  The price of the phone will be from SGD0 for higher and SGD398 for a lower plan (SGD38/month).

[via starhub]

SingtelShop is selling it online at the moment and for a SGD39 plan, you can get it for free.

The new phone from Sony Ericsson has a small form factor and it is targeted at ladies.  It has a QVGA (240×320 pixels) with a size of 83.0 x 50.0 x 16.0 mm.  It is 88g of weight.  It has a 5MP camera, wifi, FM radio, Bluetooth and aGPS.  Software wise, it is running Android 2.1 and has the Timescape application from Sony Ericsson.

I has attached a pretty impressive video from Sony Ericsson after the break.

Enjoy!

The new Android phone coming from Motorola is an Android 2.1 device with Motorola’s touch ups:

• 3.7”, 16:9 WVGA display
• Dimension: 60.9×115.95×10.9mm/ Weight:139g
• HD video capture at 720p, HDMI to HDTV
• 854 X 480 ultra-large high-resolution with pinch & zoom and double tap
• 8 megapixel digital camera with professional xenon flash and 720 x 240 high-resolution video camera function
• Support for Bluetooth®  stereo headset and data transmission2
• 3.5 mm jack for the widest choices of headsets for music enjoyment
• FM Radio
• 8GB Micro SD expandable to 32GB
• CrystalTalk™ professional noise cancellation technology, recognized throughout the industry for its clear, uninterrupted voice calls in high-noise environments.
• 3.5G HSPA 10.2Mbps/5.2 and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g for high-speed internet access
• Newest Motorola handwriting recognition technology to enable quick input and accurate recognition of cursive styles and simplified forms of Chinese
• Built-in gravity sensor, infrared proximity sensor, and ambient light sensor mode
• Powerful Cortex™ A8 processor with 3D accelerator built in for smooth and easy multitasking
• Concurrent processing of multiple email accounts and separation of work email and personal email inboxes
• Five Chinese input methods including phonetic notation, handwriting, Cangjie, pinyin, and Chinese strokes

Grab yours today!

The translation of the announcement:

“From 4th of June, HTC Hero will start receiving OTA update.  The main new function is Android 2.1 upgrade.”

Wow, a brand new HTC Hero, finally.  However, it is not Froyo

Asia users should been getting the update by now.  Anyone?

An official statement from HTC representative:

“The integration of Eclair on the HTC Hero took longer to develop than anticipated and we apologise for this delay.

We are committed to meeting our customers’ demand for this update.”

Do we need wait till the FroYo is released and have an outdated OS again?

[via techradar]

How about the rest of the world?  From the passed experience,  Asia should get the upgrade shortly after Taiwan’s release.  So we are expecting to get the upgrade in Singapore in May.

[via engadget]

It is a huge application.  The download takes about 5Mb and it will be blown up to about 22Mb after install.  There are a number of layers available for Google Earth, including Places, Businesses, Panoramio, Wikipedia, Roads, Borders and Labels, and Terrain.

If you want this beautiful app that has been available on you desktop to be on your phone, download it from market or scan the QR code here.

The fast port could due to the fact that the hardwares of Nexus One and Desire are very similar.  The moder from Modaco is able to load the ROM extracted from HTC Desire to Nexus One with just a few modifications.  Most of the things work now with some needed more work.

With these moders around, we should be expecting a ROM with HTC Sense to be available soon from the community.

How excited!

[via modaco]

Below is the video demonstrating the new feature.  You may want to skip to 6:60 mark as the front part of the video is showing the long startup and initial setup of the phone.

[via htcsource]

HTC’s Benelux team reports that the Hero will get the update in March.  And not only the Hero will get the Android 2.1 update, the Sense UI will get quite a number of improvements as well.  The update will include a new Friend Stream widget that enables you to keep up with social network, like Facebook or Twitter, and improve Microsoft Exchange support.

Excited?!

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]

Here is the scoop and note that there are some differences compared to the Android 2.1 of Nexus One:

• It looks like it’ll be based off the Android2.1-update1 build that Google put out last week on the Nexus One.
• So do expect multitouch in the browser, to go along with the pinch-to-zoom that was enabled on the Droid for Google Maps just last week.
• Google Goggles will be included in the ROM by default.
• The Droid’s home screen remains as is – it still uses the app drawer
• No live wallpapers.
• The news and weather widget from the Nexus One will be included

I am wondering whether the upgrade will be rolled out to MILESTONE users at the same time.  Nevertheless, DROID users, enjoy the upgrade and join the world of Android 2.1.

[via engadget]