Here’s another leaked phone out there. Engadget has what seemed to be a Dell Thunder, Dell’s Android phone running on Éclair. Spec wise, this Thunder has an 8-Megapixel camera with LED flash on the back, capable of recording 720p videos, along with a removable 1,400mAh battery at the back. Dell’s miniature tablet Streak is now in retails, so it’s no surprise that Dell’s gearing up for their ‘real’ Android-smartphone. The phone itself looks rather smart too, with chrome-like side strips, and the back looks like an XPS notebook design.
The prototype that Engadget’s tipster has on hand runs on vanilla Android 2.1, though the final product should wear Dell’s custom skin on top. Screen resolution is purportedly 800 x 480, though judging by that 7 x 4 icon grid up there and the tipster’s own experience, it could be even higher; the 4.1-inch display looks to indeed be of the OLED variety. Well, all that we can say is, yet another oversized supercar smartphone coming right up in this soon-to-be crowded market.
Traditions are traditions and we as believers should act up and follow the traditions in order to keep it alive. The folks over at iFixit have done it again, this time to the newly launched Motorola Droid 2 which got teardown. Here’s 24 pieces of ‘exciting’ chips and circuit boards for your viewing pleasure. Amazingly enough, the internal construction is almost exactly the same as the Droid, despite Motorola’s near-doubling of the nuclear reactor inside, and also the Wi-Fi N. You’ll find a nigh-identical logic board, speaker, camera and LCD screen – not to mention the exact same battery, which means original Droid owners will have a handy swap. Not that you’d necessarily want to do the same to your new handset – its days like this we’re glad iFixit is here to take that bullet for us, just in case.
Head over to iFixit for the full glamor of the teardown.
There hasn’t been a big participation when it comes to Android’s gaming platform. Most apps that show up in the app store are daily-use or work-related, which lacks the fun-factor. The number of games for Android has been small when compared to the iOS platform. Bu that’s about to change, as Sony gets its ‘1337 skillz’ onto the green monsters’ home. Engadget has news that says that ‘the company is actively and heavily developing a brand new gaming platform, ecosystem, and device which are already in the late stages of planning’. Perhaps this is where those game developing companies bought by Google steps in. What’s more, it’s going to be Android 3.0! Read more…
More and more Windows Phone 7s are surfacing as of now. HTC has announced that theirs would be uniquely called the ‘Schubert’. This is rumoured to be ‘day one’ device from HTC. The uniqueness of this Schubert in order to stand out from the upcoming crowded market is that it is built using a single piece of aluminium, unibody style like the HTC Legend.
Shall I blame the Americans for this? They love everything that’s big, and now smartphone manufacturers are getting crazy over oversize phone fetish. We have the HTC Evo 4G, the Droid X; and now HTC is getting ready to throw in yet another oversize smartphone, the HTC Desire HD aka HTC Ace. Read more…
The Xperia 10 was rumoured back as far as November, and can you imagine it only emerge right about now? What gruesome tests were running in the certification process for the carriers? The Android-powered X10 will be ready for consumers’ purchase on 15th August.
Sony has put up a countdown on their Sony Style website, which hints on a new release sometime tomorrow. What we (and many others) are guessing is the Sony Xperia with Android. Apparently the four-inch Android smartphone is finally ready for its debut, though whether it’s “smarter” or no will perhaps hinge on which version of the OS it ships with.
The Finnish company is well aware of the importance of apps when it comes to smartphones. That’s how Apple does it, that’s how Google does it, and basically everyone loves. Therefore, they’ve told some bunch of developers how sorry they are for screwing up last time, and promise a brighter future for Nokia’s app developers. It’s all about Qt now, no matter if you’re on Symbian or MeeGo. Check out how Nokia convince `em up.
MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. Its aim is to merge the efforts of Intel on Moblin and of Nokia on Maemo into one project. It is hosted by the Linux Foundation. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor. Read more…
Apple had spit quite a lot of fire when handling their infamous iPhone 4 “antennagate” issue. Not only did they not admit of their design flaw, they’ve also pulled other smartphone manufacturers into the drench mud. Surely, who’d be happy to be blankly shot at? Motorola’s new ad of their gigantic Droid X surely takes some salt at Apple.
Recent Comments