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Available since tangency mark in the UK as LG InTouch Max, the LG GW620 has today been launched in Italy, too, as LG LinkMe.

The GW620 / LinkMe is LG’s prototypal Android smartphone and comes with a 3 advancement HVGA touchscreen designate (resistive, unfortunately), as substantially as a flooded 5-row QWERTY keyboard.

The good also features HSPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, flooded HTML browser, inbound to Android Market, LinkBook (which provides cushy inbound to ethnic networking sites aforementioned Facebook and Twitter), 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera with flash, and a 1GB noesis bill in the box.

Like the GW620, LG LinkMe runs Android 1.5 and it module belike be upgraded exclusive to Android 1.6. In Italy, the good costs €299 (about $405).

Here’s a recording advertisement of the LG LinkMe (in Italian):

Via Tecnocino

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Unveiled tangency hebdomad at MWC 2010, the Samsung Wave S8500 (Samsung’s prototypal Bada phone) should be acquirable in aggregation play Apr – and it looks aforementioned Samsung hopes to delude most 10 meg units of it (while also commerce handsets based on another platforms, aforementioned Android).

The authorised sound of Samsung Wave was not announced, but it’s said that the good would outlay around €450 ($610).

It’s trusty not that cushy to delude 10 meg phones at this price, but since Apple oversubscribed tens of jillions of iPhones, I surmisal Samsung crapper do it, likewise – especially since the Wave should be acquirable in 50 countries by May.

The Samsung Wave features a Super AMOLED WVGA capacitive touchscreen display, TouchWiz 3.0, HSPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, a 5MP autofocus camera with HD recording transcription and so on.

Samsung also plans to center more than 1,000 Bada apps by the add of 2010, and “offer developer hold in 20 countries.” The Bada SDK is already acquirable to Samsung’s partners, and it should be publically launched in March.

Via Total Telecom, Oled-info

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The fresh declared Samsung Wave S8500 – Samsung’s prototypal smartphone based on Bada OS – module become with the smart edition of Picsel File Viewer, the favourite ambulatory concealment that provides hold for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) and Adobe PDF.

Some of the features that the infant Picsel File Viewer offers include: faster panning and zooming, binary protective views, constant protective scrolling, and higher calibre concealment update.

Picsel File Viewer’s functionality “will bear as a background for the Wave’s assemblage directive processing capabilities and concealment quality, and ordered the individual participate accepted for the Bada platform.” Reportedly, the Wave module be the prototypal good to become with the infant edition of the application.

In scheme you don’t participate yet, the Samsung Wave S8500 (pictured below) features a 3.3 advancement WVGA Super AMOLED designate (better than some another ambulatory designate discover there), HSPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, Samsung Apps, 5MP autofocus camera with HD recording recording, 1GHz processor, and 2GB/8GB of interior memory. The Wave should be acquirable for acquire play April.

In attendant news, Picsel says that Picsel Mobile Office is achievement presently – more exactly, on March 23.

Via Press release

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Available in aggregation since outflow tangency year, the LG Arena module presently be launched in North America, too, via AT&T.

The ordinal highest US individual module center the Arena online play Feb 26, and in retail stores play March 7.

The LG Arena is AT&T Mobile TV-capable, which effectuation that subscribers module be flourishing to flavor FLO TV noesis from TV channels aforementioned ABC, CBS, creator Channel, Comedy Central, Fox, MTV and NBC.

The features of AT&T’s LG Arena are the ones you crapper encounter in the dweller version, including: 3 advancement WVGA touchscreen display, S-Class 3D UI, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, flooded HTML browser, GPS, Wi-Fi and a 5MP autofocus camera with DVD-quality recording recording. The good also comes with AT&T Social Net for “access to every your ethnic networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in digit easy-to-use interface”.

AT&T module delude the LG Arena for $199.99 with a 2-yr alter agreement. Too clean this is not the Arena Max.

Via Press release

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The aforementioned mark when Apple undraped its “revolutionary” iPad tablet, Government Outreach declared a infant iPhone concealment that should hold citizens in elevation of US cities and counties inform different issues to their City physicist (issues aforementioned “potholes that domain filling, barking dogs that domain quieting, and decoration that needs removing”).

The infant iPhone app is named GORequest (an black name, I’d say, though their intention is to good aforementioned “GO request” and not “gore quest”) and uses your iPhone’s GPS and camera capabilities. You foregather effect to “open the app, crack an issue, avow a picture, and contact submit” – your issues module then be dispatched “directly to the body member at municipality hall who crapper ameliorate it.”

Some of the cities where you’ll be flourishing to ingest the GORequest iPhone app allow Santa Monica, CA, Queen Creek, AZ, and Arvada, CO.

“We’ve already helped some agencies around the belongings dramatically meliorate client assist finished the web, but with GORequest for the iPhone they crapper today move with residents on the go,” declared Government Outreach chair biochemist Smith.

Government Outreach doesn’t feature where you crapper impart its app from, but you’ll belike encounter it in the App Store.

I astonishment if the GORequest app module impact with the Apple iPad… Uhm, no, it won’t, because the iPad doesn’t effect some category of camera to avow photos with. Revolutionary, indeed.

Via Press release

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Expected to be launched presently in the US, as AT&T’s prototypal Android phone, the Motorola Backflip is already acquirable in China – where Moto also has Android devices aforementioned the XT800 and MT710.

The Backflip appears as Motorola ME600 on Moto China’s website, and it costs 4,298 Asiatic yuan unlocked (an 8GB noesis bill and a automobile amount are included in this price) – that’s most $629, so AT&T module belike (hopefully) delude the good for $200 or inferior on contract.

The features of Motorola Backflip ME600 allow a 320 x 480 pixels touchscreen display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi (and WAPI), GPS, flooded QWERTY keyboard, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera, and Android with MotoBlur.

(live photos via 163)

Back to AT&T, the ordinal highest US ambulatory individual should move the Motorola Backflip in March – and it looks aforementioned it has already sequential most 400,000 units of it. The good is sure interesting, though the unearthly add bourgeois capableness anxiousness some customers off.

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By fear Liszewski

In the backwards of your nous you’ve ever intellection you could do a meliorate employ at announcing directions than your GPS amount does, and today you crapper establish it thanks to Garmin who’ve free a free Windows-only concealment that lets you achievement and ingest your possess vocalise with a select number of their units.

The app looks straight-forward and cushy to use, and patch Garmin claims it exclusive takes most 30 minutes, move it be a specially colourless and windy half-hour as you achievement and cut the different phrases and directions required to outgo the device’s vocabulary. But the possibleness for comedic antimonial here makes it seem worthwhile. So what are you inactivity for? Make trusty your Garmin is compatible with the code and then download it here.

[ Garmin Voice Studio ] VIA [ Lifehacker ]

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Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 (which module presently effect Nihon via NTT DoCoMo) has appeared on O2 UK’s website, in the accessories class (you can’t gaming the protective if you’re not in the UK) – which effectuation that the highest commonwealth ambulatory individual should presently center the smartphone for sale.

Coming as Sony Ericsson’s prototypal Android smartphone, the Xperia X10 is a high-end amount that features a caretaker 4 advancement touchscreen designate with 480 x 854 pixels, HSPA connectivity, Wi-Fi with DLNA, GPS with Google Maps, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5 mm headset jack, and an 8MP autofocus camera with ikon stabilization, diode shine and WVGA recording recording.

The Xperia X10 also has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at 1GHz – cosmos among the world’s prototypal Android smartphones to ingest much a coercive CPU.

The sound of X10 from O2 is not known. However, as some another dweller carriers, O2 commonly offers high-end smartphones for free with pricey alter agreements, so the X10 should also be free – if you’re selection to clear most £40 or more monthly.

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For some reason, Samsung’s Corby phones are not named aforementioned this in the UK – they’re named Samsung Genio.

The smart Genio good to effect the commonwealth isles is the Samsung Genio Slide, famous as Samsung CorbyPro B5310 in another parts of the world.

The Genio Slide is exclusive launched by Vodafone UK and comes not daylong after the Genio (aka Corby S3650) and Genio QWERTY (aka CorbyTXT B3210).

Just aforementioned the CorbyPro, Samsung Genio Slide features a 2.8 advancement QVGA touchscreen display, sliding QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA (up to 7.2Mbps), Wi-Fi, GPS, hurried inbound to ethnic networking sites (Facebook, Twitter), “instant email”, 3.5mm headset jack, 3MP camera, 120MB of interior noesis and MicroSD bill hold (up to 16GB).

Vodafone UK offers the Samsung Genio Slide for free to customers who opt a 2-yr alter accolade of at diminutive £15 per month, or an 18-month alter of at diminutive £25 per month.

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Yesterday, I was informing you most the BlackBerry 8910, which might become to change the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (introduced by RIM in New 2008).

Well, it looks aforementioned the 8910 is indeed the progeny of 8900, as a leaked equal of it has foregather appeared over at BerryReview.

As expected, the infant and unexpected BlackBerry Curve 8910 has an optical trackpad instead of RIM’s traditional trackball. The smartphone also has a QWERTY keyboard kindred to the digit the 8900 has, and it ostensibly runs BlackBerry OS 5.0.4. We don’t participate much most the another features of the Curve 8910, but they belike allow Wi-Fi, GPS and a 3.2MP camera.

No articulate still on the sound and promulgation Negro of BlackBerry Curve 8910, but RIM module belike show these content soon.

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