Today Motorola officially announced its new communicator. Motorola Milestone 2 is horizontal slider with full QWERTY keyboard. This new mobile device is powered by Google’s Android 2.2 operating system and supports Adobe Flash technology. Another feature of this smartphone is 3G Mobile HotSpot function. That means that the Milestone 2 can be used as hotspot for other Wi-Fi devices. As for technical characteristics it is know that this high-end mobile device supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, HSDPA 900/2100 MHz networks and is equipped with 3.7 inch capacitive multitouch capable screen with 480×854px resolution, 1 GHz TI OMAP3620-1000 processor, 512 Mb RAM, 512 Mb ROM, 8 GB internal storage, MicroSD external memory card slot, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS with A-GPS support, accelerometer, motion sensor, 3.5mm headphones jack. The battery of this smartphone has 1390 mAh capacity and provides about 9 hours of talk time or up to 315 hours of idle. The dimensions are 116.3×60.5×13.7mm, the weight is 169g. Motorola Milestone 2 will become available in the 4th quarter of 2010. No word about price.
Virgin Media officially announced new budget mobile device that will become available in its shops. Alcatel VM202 is nice looking horizontal slider with both alphanumeric and QWERTY keyboard. The list of specifications includes GSM 900/1800 MHz networks, TFT screen with 240×320px resolution, 0.3 Mp camera, Bluetooth, FM radio, 4 Mb internal storage, MicroSD external memory card slot. The battery has 650 mAh capacity and provides about 9 hour of talk time or 450 hours of idle. The dimensions are 109×51x16.5mm, the weight is 109g. The price of Alcatel VM202 is £30.
Samsung launched its new smartphone with built-in pico projector. Users can use this projector to project multimedia content from their phones from 5- to 50-inches in size. Besides Samsung Galaxy Beam runs on Google Android 2.1 operating system and features 3.7 inch Super AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution, 8 Mp camera with LED flash, frontal VGA camera for video calls, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS. It is also notable that this smartphone comes with TouchWiz 3.0 user interface. The battery has 1800 mAh capacity and provides about 7 hour of talk time. Samsung Galaxy Beam measures 123×59.8×14.9mm and weights 155g.
Acer has just officially announced its two coming smartphones that were first shown at Computes 2010 exhibition.
Acer beTouch E120 is powered by Google’s Android 1.6 operating system and supports GSM/UMTS networks. It is equipped with 416 MHz ST Ericsson PNX6715 processor, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 32 GB), 2.8 inch resistive touch screen with 240×320px resolution, 3.2 Mp camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, digital compass, accelerometer, FM radio, 3.5 mm headphones jack, 1500 mAh battery. The dimensions of this smartphone is 104.5×54x13mm, the weight is 105g.
In contrast to the E120 Acer beTouch E130 has QWERTY keyboard. It also runs on Android operating system (but we don’t have information about its version). In other respects the specifications of this smartphone is identical the E120’ one. The only exclsion is a screen of that has 2.6 inch diagonal. Acer beTouch E130 measures 115×62.5×11.5mm and weights 109g. It is expected that both these Android smartphones will become available in August.
AT&T mobile operator has just launched new Pantech P9020 Pursuit. It is compact QWERTY slider designed for chatting and social networks lovers. It is notable that this device supports some kind of multi-tasking – there is special button to minimize running applications. This phone supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/1900 MHz networks and is equipped with 2.8 inch resistive touch screen with 240×320px resolution, 2 Mp camera, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, microSD external memory card slot (up to 32 GB). The battery has 930 mAh capacity and provides about 6 hour of talk time. The dimensions of this mobile device are 93×64x15mm, the weight is 130g. The price of Pantech Pursuit is $50 with two-year contract.
Today LG announced its new communicator. LG Optimus Q is powered by Android 1.6, but it is expected that the version of OS will be updated to 2.2 by the moment of release. It is know that this high-end sliding device is equipped with 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon processor, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, 3.5 inch AMOLED multi-touch display with 480×800px resolution, 5 Mp camera with LED flash and HD video (720p@30fps) recording support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP, GPS module, TV tuner, MicroSD external memory card slot, 1350 mAh battery. Supported network standards are It is also notable that this device supports Air Sync social contacts aggregation service.
HTC has just unveiled its new smartphone running on Google Android 2.1 operating system with HTC Sense user interface. It is positioned as affordable high-end mobile device designed for younger audience. As many other device of such class HTC Wildfire integrates the most popular social networks featuring Friend Stream application that gathers and displays content from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organized stream of updates. As for technical specifications HTC Wildfire has 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor, 384 Mb RAM, MicroSD external memory card slot, 3.2 inch multi-touch capable screen with 320×240px resolution, 5 Mp camera with autofocus and LED flash, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi. HTC Wildfire is expected to be available in the begging of September.
At last LG Electronics together with Verizon Wireless mobile operator officially announced its new affordable smartphone. LG Ally is horizontal slider with full QWERTY keyboard. The main feature of this device is ergonomic design, special screen covering made of tempered glass, tactile feedback support, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n module, advanced media player. It is also know that LG Ally runs on Google Android 2.1 operating system and is equipped with 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7627 processor, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM 3.2 inch capacitive multi-touch screen with 480×800px resolution, 3.2 Mp camera with autofocus and flash, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, GPS, 3.5mm headphones jack. Supported network standards are CDMA/1xEV-DO rev.A 800/1900 MHz. The dimensions are 115.8×56.4×15.7mm, the weight is 157.9g. LG Ally will be released in a week and will cost $100 with two-year contract.
T-Mobile has just unveiled new smartphone that will become available in its shops next month. The producer of this device is Taiwanese HTC. T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide is horizontal QWERTY slider running on Google Android 2.1 operating system with HTC Sense UI. This device features such custom pre-installed apps including the “Faves Gallery” - a social aggregator, “myModes” - a profile manager that can change the phone’s themes and settings depending on current time or location, and the Swype keyboard. There is also “Genius Button” that allows to do just about anything on the phone using voice, hear messages read back to you and etc. The list of technical specification includes 3.4 inch touchscreen with 320×480px resolution and 65K colors, 5 Mp camera with autofocus and flash, 512 Mb internal storage, MicroSD external card slot, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPS, compass, accelerometer, motion sensor. Supported network standards are GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS/HSDPA 1700/2100 MHz. T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide measures 116×60x15mm and weights 164g.
