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The fabricant Research in Motion announced the launch of a new Blackberry, the Pearl 3G, the smallest mobile sold by the brand.

2 models will be available, the Pearl 9100 and the Pearl 9105. The major difference comes from the keyboard. One is  a 20-key condensed QWERTY keyboard and the other is more traditional, alphanumeric.  This mobile is very elegant and fonctional. It has 3G, GPS and a 3.2 mega pixels camera.

The Pearl 3G will be available in many  colors. The price and the date of distribution are not communicated yet.

Source: LesMobiles

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According to the Chinese version of the site Engadget, LG’s officials in Hong Kong have confirmed the launch of a mobile Windows Phone 7 between September and November.

LG announced at CES in Las Vegas that he wanted to be the first manufacturer to launch smartphones under Windows Phone 7 Series. A wish that should be fulfilled as at the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft introduced its future operating system.

Last week, the Chinese version of the site Engaget reported having met officials from LG Hong Kong who discussed the launch of a smartphone Windows Phone 7 Series between September and November. On the other hand, Microsoft has always placed the arrival of the first products for the holiday season, without elaborating.

Finally, an update from Windows 6.5 to Windows Mobile Phone 7 Series will be possible insisted Engadget.com. However, Alex Reeve, director of the Mobile division of Microsoft UK, said on Twitter that it will depend on the willingness of manufacturers.

Source: businessmobile.fr

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The Taïwanese mobile giant, HTC introduced yeasterday two smartphones, HTC Legend and HTC Desire under Android 2.1. The model Desire, formerly known as Bravo when it was discovered in December 2009.

HTC Desire, the most comprehensive model, it is equipped with:

- Qualcomm Snapdragon chip QSD 8250 to 1 GHz

- 576 MB of RAM

- Dimensions: 11.9 x 6 x 1.2 cm

- a weight of 135 grams

- compatible with GSM / GPRS / EDGE

- Quad 850/ 900/ 1 800/ 1 900 Mhz

- UMTS / HSDPA dual-band 900 / 1 200 Mhz

- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

- a great interface AMOLED capacitive touch 3.7 inches

- 16.7 million colors

- Resolution 480 x 800 pixels with proximity sensor to turn off the touchscreen interface

- an accelerometer for rotating the display

About the equipment, it has:

- GPS navigation

- Digital Camera 5 Megapixels with autofocus, flash, face detection and geotagging function

- FM radio

- Digital compass

- an internal memory of 512 MB

- a slot micro SD/ micro SDHC card accepted 32 GB

- Micro USB 2.0 port

- Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity

- a Lithium-Ion mAh providing 1 to 6 hours and 40 minutes in communications and up to 340 hours standby

HTC Legend, the simplified model, it is equipped with:

- Processor Qualcomm MSM 7227 to 600 MHz along with

- 384 MB RAM

- Dimensions: 11.2 x 5.6 x 1.2 cm high

- weight: 126 grams

- compatible with 2G mobile networks, 3G and Wi-Fi

- an AMOLED capacitive touch 3.2 inches

- 16.7 million colors

- Resolution 320 x 480 pixels with function of proximity to disable the touch interface and accelerometer for rotating the display

Regarding equipment, we can find:

- GPS

- AFN 5 megapixels

- the audio-video player with audio output 3.5mm

- FM radio

- digital compass

- the memory of 512MB

- Location micro SD / micro SDHC up to 32 GB

- micro USB 2.0 port

- Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity

- the battery is a model 1 300 Mah providing up to 7 hours and 50 minutes of talk time and calls to 440 hours standby

Both smartphones will be sold in Europe in April, at prices unknown yet.

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This year, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona opens in a crisis situation: although smartphones sales are growing: global sales of mobile phones fell for the first time in 2009.

The major trends of the show will be smartphones but also the mobile operating systems.

First, there is the up coming Windows Mobile 7, that should be submitted today and should reach the market later this year.

Windows Mobile 6.5 has disappointed many users and Microsofr should improve. Last year, the U.S publisher mocked Android, the Google OS. He believed that Goggle would never take market share. But in 2010, the Microsoft mobile’s OS has stalled despite that it’s still the first; Android advance rapidly. So, Microsoft has to make an offensive-cons…

This appears to be a challenge for Microsoft, because Android will be present in Barcelona. In spite of the fact that in 2009 there was only one Android smartphone, today all manufacturers developed a range of smartphones under Android, like HTC and LG.

On the other hand, Samsung Bada will be presented. It’s an operating system by the iPhone, now the smartphone Samsung Wave will be under this OS.

Finally, rumors are circulating around the fact that Nokia hasn’t any booth at the 3GSM. However, the Finnish mobile phone giant has built its meeting booth outside the show.

Source: businessmobile.fr

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As the Taiwanese mobile giant HTC is preparing to present new smartphones at the Mobile World Congress, its new Android smartphone: the HTC Incredible has been unveiled on Internet on Sunday 7th.

Indeed, the Pocketnow site has posted a video showing the upcoming smartphome Android 2.1 HTC Incredible. A video shows the features of this new mobile phone.

It is equipped with:

- Snapdragon processonr 1GHz

- 256 MB  RAM

- a screen 3.5 or 3.7 inch AMOLED

- Interface Sense IU

- a camera with two LED flash, but the resolution was not disclosed

However, according to other sites which are specialized in mobile telephony refers to the fact that the “HTC Incredible” might be the “HTC Bravo”, a model that was mentionned last December.

The “Bravo” includes:

- a 5 megapixel APN

- it supports 720p HD video capture,

- playback of DiviX & Dolby sound

If it’s indeed the “Incredible”, it’s possible that this is a high-end model that prepares HTC. Professionnals hope it will be presented at the Mobile World Congress.

Source: mobinaute.com

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The South Korean mobile phones giant, Samsung has just presented its new Android smartphone 2.1: SHW-M100. This is the first Samsung mobile phone that itegrates an Android 2.1 system. It goes on sale next month exclusively in Korea.

This smartphone is equiped with:

- a touchscreen AMOLED WVGA 3.7 inch,

- a processor clocked at 800 MHz,

- Digital Camera 5 megapixels that can  record video in HD 720p quality,

- Wifi 802.11n,

- GPS,

- Tv tuner compatible with standard T-DMB,

- an audio jack of 3.5mm,

- an interface touch Touch Wiz

However, Samsung has provided no information concerning the launch of its smartphone in Europe.

The Italian subsiday of Samsung “RAS” has announced that the Galaxy, a smartphone that is currently in Android 1.5, should have an update to Android 1.6 Donut in several weeks.

Source: businessmobile.fr

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It’s official, next February during the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Samsung will present the Galaxy 2, a smartphone Android 2.1

This new phone looks like a future best-seller, it is equipped with:

- Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at 1 GHz QSD8250

- Compatibility 2G / 3G / Wi-Fi

- An interface AMOLED capacitive touch (fingers only) 3.7-inch 16.7 million colors based accelerometer for rotating the display

- GPS

- Multimedia equipment including a digital camera 5 megapixels with autofocus, LED flash, geotarging and smile detection

- an audio-video player with 3.5mm audio output for headphones

- an internal memory of 32GB

- a possibility to extend momory equivalent through a slot that accepts micro SD/micro SDHC

- data synchrionization through a microphone port or USB 2.0 connectivity Bluetooth 2.0

The mobile should be marketed early in the second quarter of 2010 at a price that is yet unknown.

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The Finnish mobile phone giant, Nokia, has just reported its finnancial results for the fourth quarter of 2009.

Results above expectations

Despite the economic crisis that also affects the area of mobile telephony, it appears that these results are promising, with profits soaring (948 million euro, +64 a year) on the last three quarters of 2009. The world’s leading mobile also manages to win market share, it had increased 37% in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 39% in 2009. The firm has no plan to keep it in the coming months and wants to increase the number of terminals of the brand placed on the market this year by 10%.

Smartphones have contributed to this success

Indeed, the last quarter of 2009, Nokia sold 20.8 million smartphones compared to 15.1 million in the 4th quarter of 2008. This allows the firm to have a market share in this sector which has increased from 35% to 40%.

In sum, Nokia sold 126.9 million mobiles in 2009, representing an increase of 12% a year. However, it is not that easy for the company, whose quarterly revenue was down 5% to 11.99 billion Euros.

It is a satisfying result for the shareholders who benefit from their profits due largely to the success of smartphones.

Note

Nokia also announced the creation of a smartphone division to develop and improve its offering in this segment.

Source: zdnet.fr

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Since the launch of Google’s first smartphone in the U.S., the Nexus One, users have found that the voice recognition function is stabilized.

This service only works in English, Chinese or Japanese (it doesn’t take French into account for the moment). Moreover, it has an integrated module of censorship. Thus, if the user wants to dictate a sentence with an expletive, the world in question will become “#”.

The Reuters news agency has inerviewed a representative of Google who said that it’s due to a determination of the search engine to avoid confusiion, displaying by error aan oath that would have been poorly recognized by voice. He noted that the goal of this function is to filter out inappropriate content or offensive because the company wants to avoid situations where the mobile could recognize words innocently but which become curses.

Users of the Nexus One should therefore remain polite until the voice recognition technology is perfected!

Source: businessmobile.fr

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This is a subject of controversy in the world for 6 months. Nevertheless, Benson Lin, the president of Asustek’s mobile division has confirmed this news: an Android smartphone Garmin-Asus will be presented at the 3GSM World Mobile Congress in Barcelona next February.

Since the pooling of resources of the specialist of GPS equipment Garmin and the electronics group Asustek, many projects have been materialized.  First, in early 2009 they sold the Garmin-Asus G60 subsystem Lynux. Then, shortly after the Garmin-Asus M20 subsystem Windows Mobile.

Garmin-Asus has to make some announcements during the Congress in Barcelona, including the launch of 4 or 5 smartphones in the year 2010.

We have no details about the characteristics of this new Android smartphone, it’s a great moment of suspence and expectation for professional in mobile phone industry.

In addition, the 3GSM Congress will be a very god opportunity to introduce a new smartphone running Windows Mobile 6.5.3: the Garmin-Asus M10.

Accessories for the Garmin-Asus M10 are convenient and very effective, this mobile phone is equipped with:

- display 3.5 WVGA (800 x 480 pixels)

- a 5 megapixels AFN

- a qualcomm 600 MHz processor

- a GPS module

It should be sold very soon for the equivalent of $430.

Source: digitimes.com