It’s official. Over the coming weeks, the Android based Motorola DROID will be geting an OS update to version 2.2 aka Froyo via OTA. The update will be coming in two drizzles. The first one will upgrade the Motorola Droid Verizon connected phone’s firmware to Android version 2.2 also known as Froyo.
Samsung’s current Android super phone, the Samsung Galaxy S, has been more or less selling like hotcakes. SK Telecom in South Korea has already sold over 500,000 units of the Galaxy S in one month. The Galay S offers a big 800×480 pixel 4.0 inch display that uses Samsung’s Super AMOLED technology. It also uses Samsung’s fast ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor.
Samsung’s popular Galaxy S Android phone has just reached a great milestone. After only 1 month in the South Korean market, SK Telecom which is the exclusive seller of Samsung’s Galaxy S mobile phone has announced that unit sales is now over 500,000.
One of the mobile phone hardware design that I love is the Sidekick LX 2009. I’m a fan of it’s sleek design. I was sad when Danger got acquired by Microsoft and the platform just sort of slowly started it’s demise. Today T-Mobile announced that it is pulling the Sidekick from it’s list of mobile phone offerings starting July 2 according to the Phonescoop site.
The loooong wait is over. Today, I received a trial unit of the Nokia N900 from WomWorld/Nokia. I am going to have the chance to use and try out the Maemo based Nokia N900 for 4 short weeks. After receiving the package, I quickly took the N900 out of the DHL packaging. I took some pics of it just to remind me that today I am actually going to have some hands-on with the N900.
Today the speculation stops. Google has finally unveiled its own Android based mobile phone called Nexus One. The mobile phone looks pretty sleek and the specs are awesome. Display is OLED at 800×480, 1Ghz CPU, HSPA, bluetooth+EDR … These specs are fast becoming the standard these days.
With the Nexus One launch, Google is bringing Google Earth on the mobile phone — this just shows how much 3D power the 1Ghz Snapdragon has. The Android 2.1 Eclair update available on the Nexus One will also bring Google’s turn-by-turn Navigation plus other voice features like being able to say your tweets. One sorely missed feature though is multi-touch capabilities like pinch and zoom — which has been available on the Motorola Milestone’s launch in Europe.
Some see a Google phone as putting the other Android players at a disadvantage. I believe otherwise. I think that Google is simply accelerating the Android mobile field to raise the bar seeing that the Apple iPhone is on nitro and seems unstoppable. Think of the Android players as a flock of long distance flying birds in triangular formation — birds taking turns to take the front so that others can take a breather. This is going the distance and what is definitely needed if Android wants to overtake the iPhone in the near future.
Another highly anticipated Android phone, this time from Acer, is the Acer Liquid A1. The Acer Liquid A1 joins the ranks of the new breed of Android smartphones that sports a high resolution 800×480 3.5inch screen and the fast Snapdragon processor. Unlike the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 which seem to be expected next year, the Acer Liquid A1 will start shipping this November.
Well for those of us who have been waiting fervently for the Nokia N900. I am excited to tell you that the shipment of the Nokia N900 has started. After an initial target month of October, Nokia decided to postpone the delivery date to run more tests and get feedback from the users that were given pre-production units of the Nokia N900 at the Maemo summit.
Sony Ericsson has finally announced the Android based Xperia X10 mobile phone. The Xperia X10 boasts of an 854 x 480 pixel display, a phone memory of 1GB and supports up to 16GB external storage with an 8GB microSD included in the package. What’s alarming to me is that from the official Sony Ericsson page, it says that the screeen is only capable of displaying 16,536 colors — IS THIS REALLY TRUE, I hope its an error ‘coz I can just imagine trying to watch movies using a screen that can only display 16000 colors. Checkout the screen capture from the Sony Ericsson web page below: Continue reading …
Nokia has announced the new line of XpressMusic mobile phones called the X series. Introducing the new X series are the Nokia X6 and X3 cell phones expected to be released on the fourth quarter of 2009. The X6 is really looking sleek at 111mm x 51mm x 13.8mm with a 3.2 inch screen.
