Isaiah's Tech

Sprint should be announcing a few handsets at CTIA 2010 which is taking place right now and one of them has just been pictured. This is the LG Optimus S smartphone that will be running Android 2.2. Specs include a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a 3.2MP AF camera, and a 600MHz CPU. It's definitely in the mid-level category and it will be available later this month for $49.99 on a 2-year contract after rebates. This should get official really soon.

[Boy Genius]

Motorola has announced another handset and this is their fifth handset of the day or something like that. What you see above is the Motorola Spice (XT300) and this was just announced at CTIA. This handset is sporting a 3.2-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a slide-up portrait QWERTY keyboard, a 528MHz CPU, a 3.2MP camera, a trackpad on the back, and Android 2.1 with MOTOBLUR. Right now we don't know which carriers will be getting this one but it's definitely a good fit for the many mid-end Motorola Android phones out there. Talk about variety from the Motorola camp.

[Engadget]

Another carrier is going to be launching the Samsung Intercept. It's already available on Sprint - and has been since July - and Virgin Mobile in the US has just announced that they'll be releasing it as well. The official announcement should be coming in the next few weeks which means it could actually be announced at CTIA which takes place next month. Yes, this is an Android-based handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard so maybe you'll be interested in it.

[Engadget]

Another leak of a Nokia phone has just surfaced. Apparently, this is the Nokia N8-00 which will be their new flagship phone and could be running Symbian^3. On the back, there looks to be a 12MP snapper (with a Carl Zeiss lens and a xenon flash), which is truly impressive. There also appears to be a front-facing camera, a microSD card slot, and an HDMI port on this handset so it's packing a pretty good spec sheet so far. The display is rumoured to be WVGA (480 x 800) capacitive and the battery could be 1,200mAh. Let's just hope that this handset is also packing a 1GHz Snapdragon! Maybe Nokia will announce this in the next couple of days.

Update: According to Slash Gear, this handset will be officially announced in April 2010 with a release following later in the year - around September.

Update: According to Engadget, Nokia (here) seems to have unofficially confirmed the existence of this handset. The confirmed specs seem to be that it'll feature Symbian^3 along with a nHD display with a 360 x 640 resolution. There'll also be Bluetooth 2.0, GPRS/EGPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA connectivity, and WiFi on-board.

[Gizmodo, Fone Arena]

In February we heard about this phone. The Alcatel OT-980 looks like it's set to for a launch in August in the UK. I'm pretty sure this is the first Android handset which has a styling similar to the Palm Pre - sporting a touchscreen and has a slide-up QWERTY keypad. In case you forgot (and I did too), this handset sports a 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen display, a 2MP camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, WiFi / GPS support, 3G connectivity, a 600MHz CPU, a microSD card slot, and an 1,150mAh battery.

[Unwired View]

The Qualcomm Gobi chipset is a great thing to have and it's about to get even better. At CTIA, Qualcomm announced that the Gobi chipset of the future, the MDM9600, will support EV-DO Rev. A, Rev. B, HSPA+ (up to 28Mbps), dual-carrier HSPA+ (up to 42Mbps), and LTE (up to a whopping 100Mbps). This chipset will be hitting laptops as well as USB modems, e-book readers, and gaming devices. Hmm, maybe an iPad of the future? We'll just have to see what happens.

[Engadget, Qualcomm]

At CTIA, Nvidia showed off a tablet prototype powered by their Tegra 2 chipset and it was running Android. To make things even better, this prototype had Flash support, which is pretty awesome. Of course, it'll take a bit of your battery life, but it could be worth it, right? Check out the video below, if you want to see it for yourself. If you click the link below there are two more videos demoing what the tablet can do so far.



[Mashable]

Samsung has just announced the Galaxy S smartphone running Android. It'll feature an amazing spec sheet: a 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen (480 x 800 resolution) display, a 5MP AF camera, Bluetooth 3.0, a USB 2.0 port, WiFi b/g/n, 8GB / 16GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, quad-band GSM / tri-band UMTS / HSPA connectivity, WiFi b/g/n, aGPS with 3D maps, and a 1GHz CPU. It'll also have Smart Life integration, whatever that is. Man, this is a flagship at its finest! The body is 9.9mm thin, wow that's thinner than the Nexus One folks. This is a beast. Check out what Samsung had to say below.

Update: Engadget got a hands-on video so check it out below.

Galaxy S brings rich technology and enhanced mobile experience

• All Share: Enables inter-device connectivity via DLNA (Digtal Living Network Alliance) technology.

• Home Cradle: Enables use as a digital photo frame, table clock, calendar, and music station.

• Write and go: Jot down an idea first and later decide on a format such as SMS/ MMS, email, calendar or memo.

• Swype: Provides fast and easy way to input text on screen while on-the-move.

• ThinkFree: Apps to view and edit Microsoft Office 2007 documents.

• Smart Alarm: Wakes up with a natural alarm sound and automatically turned-on display light.

JK Shin, Keynote Speech “Future of the Smartphone is NOW”

[Engadget, Samsung Hub, Slash Gear]

Inbrics has been smart enough to bump up their CPU speed to 1GHz and, no, they're not using the Snapdragon one. They've decided to use the Samsung C110 1GHz CPU that Samsung should also use in their future phones (has this even been officially announced yet?). The Inbrics M1 is an MID though (not a phone) so it doesn't have integrated 3G for calls, but it does have WiFi so you better hope that there's Skype support. It'll do perfectly find as a phone though because it's just slightly larger than the Nexus One.

Update: According to Engadget, this handset will also be getting updated to Android 2.1 for its July launch in Korea. US should be getting it by the end of this year.

[Slash Gear]

Yes, the title says it all. Sprint USA's announcing something extremely big so what else could it really be. It has to be the HTC Supersonic which is essentially what everyone's been waiting for. It's the HTC HD2 with Android, the Sense UI, and WiMAX. Maybe they'll be able to replace the iPhone in their commercials for this handset.

[Engadget]

With CTIA kicking off, some more rumours have started but these one's are likely true. Samsung looks like they're set to announce "Smart Life", a 1GHz CPU which will be their new standard among their high-end smartphones, and more Super AMOLED news. The best part? Samsung will reportedly be announcing the Samsung Galaxy S which will be an Android phone with the Super AMOLED display and Samsung 1GHz ARM Cortex A8-based CPU. Let's hope it looks good as well.

[Engadget]

Two phones were unveiled by LG and the phone on the left is the Remarq LN240. This phone is said to be hitting Sprint in the future but the price and exact release date weren't mentioned. All that we know about it right now is that it sports a slide-up QWERTY keyboard.

Update: According to Engadget Mobile, this handset is eco-friendly and features a 1.3MP camera, Stereo Bluetooth, and a microSD card slot. It'll be available for $19.99 on a 2-year contract starting on May 9th!

[Unwired View]

Since it's a weekend I might as well supply you with another photo of the BlackBerry Pearl 9100. Cleraly, it's sporting the black colour with an optical trackpad. It's running OS 5.0.0.449 and unfortunately it's still got the SureType QWERTY keyboard on there. I wonder if we'll ever see the full QWERTY model. With CTIA Wireless coming up next week, let's hope RIM can make this handset official already.

[CrackBerry]

According to the Wall Street Journal, HTC is going to debut a new phone next week at CTIA Wireless. The handset I'm talking about is the HTC Supersonic that will reportedly be launching on Sprint and will bring WiMAX along with it. This handset will supposedly be available with 4G this Summer.

[Engadget]

The Nexus One just passed the FCC with CDMA connectivity, so the launch should be pretty soon. The latest rumour states that Verizon could be getting the CDMA Nexus One on March 23rd which is the first day of CTIA Wireless. We'll see if the rumoured date turns out to be true.

[Slash Gear]