We’ve been teased by a video clip of Dell boss Michael Dell strutting around with a pre-production Dell Mini 5 tablet, but with the release date looming, the company are prepping their promotional material for what seems set to be called the ‘Dell Streak’.
App store analytics firm Distimo has been rummaging through every major app store in town, producing an interesting set of comparison figures.
Want to know which store has the highest percentage of freebies? Read on…
Accompanied by a flurry of flapping flipcharts and clicking ballpoint pens, tech stat fiends Gartner have just unleashed their annual figures for worldwide mobile phone sales to end users.
T-Mobile UK has unveiled its latest Android handset – the teensy weensy T-Mobile Pulse Mini, running the latest Android 2.1 software.
Offered contract-free for just £99.99, the Pay-As-You-Go Pulse Mini is a slimmed-down version of the T-Mobile Pulse, with the Huawei-manufactured device boasting a 2.8” QVGA touch screen, 3.2 Mega pixel camera with LED Flash and 3.5mm headphone jack.
Tech university ETH University of Zurich, have released AppAware, an interesting new app for the Android platform which tracks downloading trends in the Android Market.
Once installed, the program lets you see what’s hot and what’s not in the Market, displaying the latest stats for apps being installed, updated and removed from users’ handsets.
It’s proved a hit on the iPhone (mainly in the States), and now the doodz at Gowalla are hurling their popular location-based social networking game in the direction of the Android community.
Joining Google Buzz, Foursquare and all the other location based services hustlin’ and a-bustlin’ to grab the biggest slice of this growing, err, pie, Gowalla’s new beta Android-optimised site can be found at m.gowalla.com.
Coming hot on the heels of today’s announcement of no less than three new handsets from HTC is the glossy promo videos.
They’re all short and snappy (we’re talking a mere 45 seconds a piece) and they all come accompanied by the usual shuffly funky backbeat, so kick off your shoes and soak ‘em in…
Taiwanese handset maker HTC has unveiled no less than three brand spanking new smartphones.
Be prepared to doff your cap in the direction of the HTC Legend and Desire (both running Google’s Android operating system), and the HTC HD Mini, which opts to embrace the wonderful world of Windows Mobile.
So cute and tiddly you just might want to give them a lickle hug are the new Sony Ericsson ‘Xperia X10 mini’ and ‘Xperia X10 mini pro’ pint-sized handsets.
Both phones are just about identical apart from the pro version packing a QWERTY keyboard and there being a different selection of colours available at launch.
HP have hooked up with Telefonica to create the Android-powered Airlife 100.
Touted as a ’smartbook’ – that’s a hybrid of a smart phone and a netbook to you – the 10.1-inch touchscreen Airlife will be offered in Europe and Latin America with a carrier subsidy as part of as Telefonica’s mobile broadband service (so it’ll be on o2 in the UK).
The videos detailing the development of Google’s Nexus One Android-handset handset are are coming in thick and fast, with the penultimate part for the five part series being slapped up on the web over the weekend.
This time, Google is showing off the high-tech manufacturing plant used by the handset makers HTC, following the various stages of manufacture right up to the part where the handset gets lovingly boxed up and ready to be mailed off.
Google is apparently so chuffed with its new Nexus One phone that it is releasing a short series of films documenting its creation
First off is an interesting four minute insight into the concept and design of the device.
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They’re keeping schtum on the dates and specific dates, but Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 Android handset will be lapping up on the shores of Vodafone UK April.
Packing an almighty 8MP camera and coming in (ooo-err) ‘Sensuous Black’ and ‘Luster White’, the 3G handset packs a 4″ 480 x 854 pixels 65k colour TFT touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi, aGPS and 1 GB internal storage (384 MB RAM) and a microSD slot supporting cards up to 16GB.
Mobile bloggers toting Android phones should be chuffed to discover that WordPress is now available in the Android Market.
The new app has been based on the popular wpToGo app, which has been used as the foundation for the WordPress app.
The old wpToGo app will now be unceremoniously shunted off into a disused branch line and left to rust away, while all the development efforts will focus on the the Open Source WordPress for Android app project.
Michael Dell, Lord King Emperor of all things Dell, was hunted down by the TechCrunch team who persuaded him to slip them a glimpse of the eagerly awaited Dell Mini 5 tablet.
Looking well chuffed and cheery as he scuttled en route to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Supreme Being Dell gave the camera crew a quick peek of the Android-powered device, swishing through four home screens with gay abandon.
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