Display is one of the most important parts of most mobile devices, because the readability of information and multimedia depends on it. LCD, AMOLED and SuperAMOLED are the most commonly used technologies on the market. Each of these technologies has its pluses and minuses. Good people from Techblog have done a comparison sunlight test and we can now see the results and choose a winner. All displays have been tested in one of the most severe tests – direct sunlight.
Verizon and Motorola have teamed up yesterday to announce the new Android smartphone – Motorola Droid X. Main features of the handset include:
At the recent Computex trade show Acer announced a number of new Android smartphones. The announcement included company’s new flagship model called Stream, and a number of inexpensive phones. There was not much information available about these new models, but yesterday Acer sent out an official press release about the new products. Let’s look at them.
In this post I will review the low-cost Android smartphone from HTC that was announced few weeks ago. The name for this phone was selected via a poll on Facebook, and it might sound a bit funny for a phone – HTC Wildfire. The phone might have an unusual name, but it offers a good set of features and specifications for a small (that is small for a HTC product) price. I will start with the market positioning and will continue with the description of the device. Read the rest of this entry »
Similarly to its Australian representative, Boost US is one of the cheapest mobile providers on the market, offering unlimited texts, calls, and data for only US$50 per month. The major problem for the company so far has been a small selection of subsidised phones along with the lack of high quality phones. This is about to change with the addition of the Motorola i1. This is definitely a high quality smartphone. It comes with a 5 mp camera, a 3.1 inch HVGA display, Android 1.5 with the pre-installed Opera 5 Mini Web Browser. The camera has an autofocus, flash, and is capable of taking small videos – all of the features of many of the top-of-the-range phones. The phone has Wi-Fi capabilities along with SWYPE integration for even faster texting than ever before. This new smartphone also comes with a 2 GB microSD card, but supports up to a 32 GB card if required.
So, a lot of you are most likely wondering just how good the upcoming HTC Evo 4G is? Does it live up to it’s hype, or does it leave a lot to be desired? These days, you are probably wondering how it could be bad after all, these phones are usually pretty good, right? Well, here is the quick lowdown on the new Evo. The upsides, the downsides, and all of the information you need to know before you make a decision to buy.
HTC Desire and Nexus One are ‘brother’ devices. They both run on Android 2.1 (some users have already upgraded their N1′s to Android 2.2, but for the purpose of this test both devices are running on version 2.1) , both have 1Ghz Snapdragon processors and 3.7-inch screen, etc. I’m not going to list all of their similarities in this post. But there are some differences: dimensions, design, control buttons, and 64MB more RAM in Desire. Can this extra memory help Desire beat Nexus One in 3D-games?
Few hours ago Google officially announced Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo at Google I/O conference. The new version offers a lot of improvements – speed, full Flash support, more enterprise features, new SDK, Cloud to Device Messaging, backup and other minor improvements!
Yesterday HTC announced their new Android smartphone – Wildfire. This phone is likely to have the best price / features ratio among other solutions for the next 3 or so months. Price-wise it will probably be positioned between HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero. Its technical characteristics are better than both Tattoo and Hero, and are similar to HTC Legend.
HTC Evo 4G – a new Android flagship phone from the Taiwanese manufacturer was released last week. Some good people from pocketnow have compared the phone with HD2 and released the below video. HTC Evo 4G has AMOLED display, support for WiMAX, better battery and of course Android operating system.
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