We are hoping you have already heard of the Nokia Morph concept by now, if you haven’t you should see the video below. According to the patent application the phone will switch between the leaf-shaped candy bar and the wristband. The patent also talks about remote handling of Data and information feeding.
[USPTO]
Asus hopes its close partnership with Google will lead it to be the first company to offer devices running Android Jelly Bean – version 5.0. Asus prides itself on its Android upgrade efficiency, as it was the first to provide tablets running Honeycomb and the first to push the Ice Cream Sandwich update to its tablets. Based on Google’s update schedule, it’s within reason to expect Android 5.0 to hit within the next year
Asus is very close to Google, so once they have Android 5.0 I think there will be a high possibility that we will be the first wave to offer the Jelly Bean update.
-Asus VP, Benson Lin
Five new games capable of running on Nvidia Tegra 3 chipsets have been released. Tegra 3, with four performance processing cores, in addition to its fifth battery saver core, and a 12-core GeForce GPU, is putting console games on notice.
The following games are now available for download on the platforms
Golden Arrow THD
In its mobile gaming debut, Golden Arrow brings big-action, hack-and-slash gameplay to your Tegra-powered smartphone or tablet. It features higher-resolution textures, high dynamic range [...]
Ah the infamous Asus PadFone, shown off last year to tease us with its dual functionality, the company has finally introduced the device at the MWC 2012. The phone part of this hybrid has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display, Snapdragon’s new dual-core S4 chip, an Adreno 225 GPU, Ice Cream Sandwich and an 8-megapixel rear camera with an LED flash and f/2.2, with autofocus.
The phone has 16-64 Gb capacity options plus MicroSD (32 GB) , Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI, GPS, A-GPS, a gyroscope, 1,520mAh battery and a compass. The phone has a thin profile with only 9.2mm thickness.
But the best [...]
Mobile network carrier Orange will be the first to offer an Intel Medfield powered Android phone to Europe. Codenamed Santa Clara, the 4-inch 600 x 1024 display device will release this summer. The device has an impressive 8-megapixel camera capable of 1080p video and burst capture of up to 10 shots within a second.
The “Santa Clara” (not final name) runs on Intel’s Atom Z2460 processor, clocked at 1.6GHz. Running on Android 2.3 with a promised ICS update, from Orange. HSPA speeds of 21.1Mbps down and 5.6Mbps up, and an MHL port that also has HDMI out.
Other [...]
Samsung has added yet another device to their Android lineup this year, the 4.2-inch WVGA (480 x 800) screen touting Galaxy S Player , runs Gingerbread 2.3 and has dual cameras 2Mp + VGA. It also has Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 and WiFI 802.11 b/g/n along with a 1,500mAh battery. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit comes free with the device and is pre-installed.
Two Variants of 8GB and 16GB wifi only along with 32GB MicroSD expandability, priced under the 250$ mark for the basic version, expect it to become available starting next months.
Wow, Sammy has just announced a new Tablet at MWC 2012, and its a large size Galaxy Note. The Galaxy Note 10.1 is an S-Pen equipped version of the similar Galaxy Tab announced earlier. The Tablet will run on TouchWiz customized version of Android Ice Cream Sandwich and has a 1.4GHz dual-core CPU with 1GB of RAM. Unfortunately you cannot use the phone features on the Note 10.1, but it does have a sim card slot capable of HSPA+. Standard WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0 are also in the mix, with the cameras from the original Tab, 3-megapixel rear and 2 Mp front. The Tab also has the newer higher res display – 1280 x 800px WXGA.
Sony Mobile Communications is aiming high to get back into the Mobile business, with the new Xperia P, this new device from Sony’s arsenal is the second phone to be announced after the SE breakup. The Xperia P will join the Xperia U in Q2 2012 release cycle for Sony’s Debut handsets.
The new Xperia P features a sleek aluminum unibody shell with a beautiful 4-inch “WhiteMagic” display. The 4-inch “WhiteMagic” display has been engineered to work beautifully outdoors as well as indoors. Other specs include NFC, HDMI and an 8 MP camera with Sony optics and Full HD Video capabilities. The [...]
There we go, just like that Sony Mobile Communications has debuted their first solo smartphone at the MWC 2012. The device has a 3.5-inch bravia engine Reality Display, a 1GHz dual-core processor and five megapixel camera. Sony is claiming a 6.5 hours of talk time on their debutant, which seems like good battery promise. The Xperia U will come with Android 2.3 but will also be upgraded to ICS soon afterwards.
The device is expected to be available in Q2 2012 , no release cycle or price point is available yet. Either way the device is a good looking addition from Sony into the Android world.
HTC has announced their new One Series lineup at the Mobile World Congress 2012 at Barcelona, Spain. To add on to this line up a new smartphone dubbed the One V has also been announced. The One V will feature Sense 4.0 overlaid on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The device is constructed with a titanium flavored aluminum unibody shell and has three hardware buttons. The One V has a 3.7-inch WVGA LCD with Gorilla Glass, 1GHz single-core processor and 512 MB Ram. You also get 4GB of onboard storage, and similiral to the recently announced ONE X, you will also get 25 GB Dropbox cloud storage free for 2 years, the One V also has a 32 GB expansion [...]
HTC has announced a new flagship smartphone for their 2012 line of One Series. The new HTC One X aka “Endeavour” is a unibody device machined from white polycarbonate that uses Gorilla Glass for a 4.7-inch 1280×720 px Super LCD 2 display. The device will use NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor for the Global edition and a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core for the US LTE version.
Memory on the ONE X is 1GB DDR2 and 32GB of storage with about 26GB available to the user. HTC has also tied up with Dropbox to give users an additional 25 GB of cloud storage free for 2 years. The One X will be quad-band GSM [...]
MWC 2012 : HTC Has announced its unified one brand of Smartphones for it next-gen Android lineup. With at least four smartphones already announced for the next quarter HTC expects to regain the high profit streams that t lost out in the previous quarter. The One brand devices will all primarily feature three things excellent imaging, integrated Beats audio and industrial design. HTC has already tied up with 130 carriers worldwide to carry their new lineup of smartphones, as well as over a 1000 distribution partners in countries like India.
