HTC Smart lands in India for $222
HTC Smart

HTC and Bharti Airtel have officially announced the HTC Smart, which reportedly “marks HTC’s strategic focus on India.” Based on Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile platform, the HTC Smart is a really affordable handset. The handset will become available in 30 major cities across India for a suggested retail price of Rs. 9,990 (about $222).
The HTC Smart offers a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Sense UI, a microSD card slot, HTC Friendstream (integrating Facebook, Twitter and Flickr), an HTML browser, push email, an FM radio, a 3.5mm headset jack, 3G and runs on Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile platform.

The HTC Smart is reportedly “marks HTC’s strategic focus on India.” It is concerning with HTC’s plans to launch the HTC Smart in India with a $1 million marketing budget.

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iPhone HD Coming Soon?
iPhone HD

Apple could be set to release the iPhone HD later this year, according to a new video ‘uncovered’ by a tech fan. John Gruber from Daring Fireball went on to dispense some information he has heard about the next iPhone.
He informed that It will be based on the A4-family CPU system (meaning it would be part of the same CPU family as the iPad). The resolution would be doubled to 960×640. Also, it would sport a second front-facing camera and support third-party multitasking

So far, all of Apple’s smartphones and handhelds have have had a 3.5-inch display, but the next-generation will supposedly have one that is about 3.7 inches.
Engadget also reports that the iPhone HD (or whatever it ends up being called), will be announced on Tuesday, June 22. Historically, this date falls in line with past iPhone release dates.

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SlingPlayer Mobile for iPad and Windows Phone 7 coming soon
SlingPlayer

SlingPlayer marketing manager Dave Eyler today confirmed that his company is working on a version of SlingPlayer for the iPad. Sling Media had previously committed on a native app for several platforms and said that on other platforms–mobile included–that a Flash app would be used.

The party under the radar says that “they are actively moving towards the H.264” which points to none other than Windows Phone 7 Series. Sling Media wants to make sure that the iPad gets the best of what SlingPlayer has to offer. Sling is working on some interesting developments such as “actively moving towards H.264?, Silverlight support, in addition to the streaming with resolutions beyond the current output of 320 x 240. No timetable or any WP7-specific features were revealed in the early tease.

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KDDI au Toshiba IS02 QWERTY Phone


Japanese carrier AU/KDDI just announced that the Toshiba IS02 (aka Toshiba K01) will launch in June. The phone is one of the thinnest Windows Mobile handsets available at the moment.

First launched at Mobile World Congress last month, the phone is powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 4.1-inch OLED touchscreen, followed by 3G connectivity, 384MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and a business card reader. Unfortunately, no idea on how much it costs. The K01 also passed the FCC certification yesterday which means that it will probably be globally available this summer.



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Samsung Galaxy S Pro with QWERTY Keyboard
Samsung Galaxy S Pro

Samsung’s Galaxy S, an Android 2.1 smartphone first unveiled at CTIA 2010. The Galaxy S getting the Pro version and it will sport a QWERTY keyboard. The keypad shown in the picture actually looks pretty good, but renders tell us nothing about how comfortable it is to use. Eldar Murtazin also manages to give us a June launch date, but pictures of this device are predictably not yet available.

According to the rumors on the matter, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S Pro will include about the same specifications as the already unveiled Android-based handset. The Samsung Galaxy S Pro should bring a 4 inch WVGA Super AMOLED touchscreen display, 1 GHz Cortex A8 processor. As the Samsung Galaxy S, it will have a 5-megapixel photo snapper with auto focus and video recording capabilities, as well as with Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n capabilities, USB v2.0, built-in A-GPS receiver, great multimedia features, 16GB / 8GB of internal memory, coupled with a memory card slot that supports memory cards of up to 32GB, a 1500 mAh battery, and the full range of sensors.

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Nexus One Success Could Threaten Verizon
Nexus One

An interesting article over at feelandroid.com gives us something to think about in relation to the Nexus One and possible threat to Verizon.

We now all know that the Google Nexus One will not debut directly with Verizon and so therefore will not be available through the largest US carrier.

The question being asked though is will the Nexus One pose a threat to Verizon if it is successful, bearing in mind that is pretty much what the model is all about.

It is about liberating customers from the 2 year standard carrier contracts and give the option to pay upfront and be able to walk away at any point, so far Nokia have failed with the unsubsidised model and we are all used to paying a little up front for Smartphones and that is what Google is attempting to change.

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HTC Hero Android 2.1 due Feb/March with Sense update
Great news recently reported over at 3g.co.uk in relation to the HTC Hero Smartphone.

HTC Hero

It seems that HTC have now confirmed that the HTC Hero will be upgraded to the latest Android version which is 2.1, currently the device runs on version 1.6 of the Android OS but the upgrade will bring it right up to date.

What is surprising is that with the upgrade there is very little difference between the HTC Hero and the HTC Legend which is about to launch later on this month. When you take into consideration that the Hero has be3en available for a much longer period and is available on multiple networks it may well offer users better value than the Legend.

Those of you that are currently on Orange or T Mobile will be able to upgrade your Hero to Android 2.1 from April 16th those on 3 will need to wait until 22nd April. Android 2.1 will give the ability to have 5 different home screens and a quick contact which makes things easier t switch between contacts and social network contacts.


HTC and Bharti Airtel have officially announced the HTC Smart, which reportedly “marks HTC’s strategic focus on India.” Based on Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile platform, the HTC Smart is a really affordable handset. The handset will become available in 30 major cities across India for a suggested retail price of Rs. 9,990 (about $222).
The HTC Smart offers a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Sense UI, a microSD card slot, HTC Friendstream (integrating Facebook, Twitter and Flickr), an HTML browser, push email, an FM radio, a 3.5mm headset jack, 3G and runs on Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile platform.

The HTC Smart is reportedly “marks HTC’s strategic focus on India.” It is concerning with HTC’s plans to launch the HTC Smart in India with a $1 million marketing budget.