Archive for the 'Android' Category

According to Chinese business newspaper Commercial Times, the Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek has completed the construction of a system on a chip 3G for Android devices.

MediaTek has already begun sending samples of the chip clients, and expects to begin volume production in the 4th quarter of this year.

The new dedicated MediaTek chip with an integrated 3G baseband and applications processor, may allow the production of Android phones in price range of $ 100.

First devices, mainly for the Chinese market, end users can get this year or in the first half of 2011. It's supposed to be a little more time for $ 100 Android phone in Europe or the U.S.

But the recent launch of Wildfire HTC, Samsung and Android next execution Corby brother shows that the Google mobile OS is now leaving the battlefield and high final smartphone starts getting into the smartphone category final average low- that Nokia is claiming for itself in recent months.

Next MediaTek chip Android based devices havethat low-end smartphone wars more interesting.

Via Commercial Times

Last week, the new T-Mobile 3G myTouch slide was included among the smartphones HTC Android gets an update Frøya 2.2 – and this has just been reconfirmed by AndroidSpin.

According to two separate (and anonymous) sources Android 2.2 updates for myTouch Slide 3G will be launched as early next week (when the smart phone should be available for purchase), but only the staff T-Mo, for testing purposes.

End users, however, has to wait for Android 2.2 myTouch in his slide from the second half of the year (July).

The Slide is the sixth myTouch 3G smartphone Android T-Mobile USA, with a HVGA touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard, gave, Wi-Fi, GPS and a 5MP camera. The phone will sell for $ 179.99 with a 2-year contract agreement.

AT & T has officially announced the Samsung Rugby II, a new phone that is resistant to replace the old rugby, introduced almost two years ago.

Rugby II is "Next Generation Push to Talk device, which comes in a clamshell form factor with HSPA (7.2 Mbps), A-GPS, AT & T Navigator, TeleNav Via, Xora GPS TimeTrack, noise-canceling technology, Bluetooth, music player, web browser, 2MP camera with video recording, large external speakers, and support for microSD cards.

The handset is certified to military standard MIL-STD-810G, so it can withstand dust, shock, vibration, humidity, rain and sunlight.

The Samsung Rugby II should be available to AT & T in June 2006, the same day more than the LG Vu will be released. The Rugby II will cost $ 129.99 with a 2-year contract agreement and after a $ 50 mail in rebate.

In other news, AT & T, the second largest airline in the U.S. could soon launch the HTC Aria, which, according Phonedog is an AndrOID 2.1 smartphone user mode sense. Now, we heard that both the desire and the legend could affect HTC HTC AT & T, so that Aria is probably one of these two devices.

Reportedly, AT & T HTC Aria will be announced on 07 June – but this is quite hard to believe, since this is also the date when Apple presented their new iPhone (which, of course, will be available AT & T first – unless a major surprise Apple is planning some sort).

For almost two months, some details about the Samsung SGH-i897 has appeared on the Web, suggesting that the phone is a version of the Galaxy S i9000 fact AT & T.

The i897 has just appeared in the pictures, and while it looks a little different than the S Galaxy, the folks over at AndroidGuys reports that the characteristics of the two handsets are quite similar: Super 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen, Android 2.1, 3.5 mm jack 5MP camera and headphones.

It is said that the i897 has a Snapdragon processor. However, I do not see why Samsung does not include its own ARM cortex A8 processor 1 GHz processor in the i897 (as it already used to the Galaxy S).

Today, AT & T sells only Android smartphone (the BlackFlip motorola) and is preparing to launch a second, Dell Aero. The Samsung i897 / S Galaxy on a third? We hope you will find out soon.

In arelated note, T-Mobile USA also released a version of the S Galaxy – the Samsung T959 – probably in the coming months.

I really like the interface in the sense of HTC Android devices. It is so well thought out and makes people much better OS Android.

So, when choosing whether to go with a Nexus Google, HTC or want – phone very similar, except for UI Sense – HTC desire gets much better.

On the other hand, am a geek. So I had my hands on the latest Android goodies as soon as they are published. And Google is already Nexus A newly released Android 2.2 Frøya.

Being equipped with Hero HTC, Android running on an aging operating system version 6.1, still waiting for the long promised update to Android 2.1, I am really broke now. I go to the appearance and ease of use, or the latest operating system updates?

Well, if the latest rumor uncovered Phandroid is correct, I opted for HTC Desire soon. Reported that Android 2.2 update comes HTC desire Frøya June 23.

Of course, the sound is pretty shaky so far, and comes from a message that came from a man who took the new HTC customer serviceP., when he complained of lack of space to install new applications. Customer service representative. first told that you can not help much with the problem, and then add voice conspirator:

But you've never heard this from me …. A new update is coming on 23 Juneand you will be able to put some applications on the Micro SD card.

Well, is not the most solid of rumors, but Android get the latest update in a month since its official launch, might be sufficient because I choose more than one Nexus HTC Desire.

Damn, but on the other hand, Android 2.2 is a minor update over 2.1. And what happens when ginger Android, Android 3.0 or exits. How long does it take to change its direction for HTC UI for these versions of Android?

Darn choices …