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One of ZTE’s Android smartphones presented at MWC 2010 is the ZTE Smooth – which, aforementioned the Alcatel OT-980, has a methodicalness that reminds me of the Palm Pre.

I’m not trusty if this is a beatific or a clean thing, but, hey, at diminutive the ZTE Smooth looks evenhandedly meliorate than Alcatel’s handset.

Feature-wise, the ZTE Smooth offers Android 1.6, 2.8 advancement QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, and add UMTS connectivity.

The ZTE Smooth should be acquirable “outside China” play August this year, and it module be rattling affordable – most $150.

Via 163.com

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AdMob (which today belongs to Google) has issued its Jan 2010 Mobile Metrics report, which contains lots of engrossing content most the current ambulatory trends.

For example, 16% of iPhone users impart to acquire an iPad in the future, patch exclusive 11% of WebOS users and 6% of Android users are fascinated in Apple’s infant paper (which should be acquirable play March).

Furthermore, 91% of iPhone users are plausible to propose their smartphone to friends or colleagues. 84% of Android users would propose their handset, patch exclusive 69% of WebOS users feature their Palm smartphone crapper be recommended.

Moving on, 50% of iPhone owners purchased at diminutive digit justice application, patch exclusive 21% of Android users did the same.

57% of iPhone users and 58% of WebOS users are males. On the another hand, Android users are mostly males (73%) – yeah, exclusive 27% of Android good owners are females (I astonishment ground that is).

You crapper feature the flooded inform at AdMob here.

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It looks aforementioned RIM is effort primed to move a BlackBerry smartphone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard in the varicosity of the Palm Pre.

There aren’t some authorised content most this at the moment, but BGR says the infant BlackBerry person module feature Wi-Fi 802.11n, and a 360 x 480 pixels display, most belike touch-sensitive. It module removed BlackBery 6.0 OS – which seems to be that infant contact and Web-friendly OS that we’ve heard most not daylong ago.

Reportedly, the unexpected RIM smartphone is a GSM/HSDPA device, so AT&T or T-Mobile could move it in the US.

The ikon beneath belike doesn’t exhibit the actual BlackBerry slider, but it’s the exclusive digit available:

RIM has patented some engrossing add factors in the tangency some years, so the cosmos of a Palm Pre-like BlackBerry is trusty possible. After all, if the interact has a clamshell smartphone, ground not a slider, too?

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Like most of the field and not so field ambulatory good makers, Alcatel has embraced Android, too, and its prototypal amount to removed Google’s OS is the Alcatel OT-980.

Design-wise, the Alcatel OT-980 borrows a aggregation from the Palm Pre, though the current methodicalness haw be changed, since this is exclusive a image – the effort edition of the good should be undraped at MWC 2010.

The OT-980 module be an inexpensive good (its sound should be add than the digit of HTC Tattoo), and that’s because its features are not foregather on the high-end side: QVGA resistive touchscreen display, Android 1.6, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, accelerometer, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera, MicroSD bill support, 600MHz processor and 192MB of RAM.

FrAndroid has some hands-on photos, as substantially as a recording of the Alcatel OT-980:

Alcatel OT-980 should be launched before mid-2010 via Orange France, in individual activity versions. No articulate still most the phone’s promulgation in another markets.

Via IntoMobile

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It’s quite hard to prognosticate what the ambulatory activity module countenance aforementioned in a some years, but this doesn’t kibosh different analysts and companies to attain forecasts.

For example, IDC believes that smartphone income module outgo 390 meg units by 2013.

Symbian module ease be the activity leader, thanks to Nokia’s capableness around the concern (well, pay for the US, where Nokia’s far from cosmos a crowning brand).

IDC expects Android to meliorate the difference 2 ambulatory OS by 2013, with most 68 meg smartphones sold. iPhone OS, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile module apparently dawdle both Symbian and Android.

Linux ambulatory shipments “will artefact down”, patch Palm’s WebOS module “capture limited activity share” (despite a stabilize growth), because of “limited deployment and availability of devices crossways binary carriers.”

These forecasts seem commonsensible enough, and I’m nearly trusty that Symbian and Google’s Android module indeed be activity body in 2013, despite earnest rivalry achievement from Apple and BlackBerry.

Via Press release

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Verizon has foregather declared the prices of Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus – its prototypal WebOS smartphones, officially undraped digit weeks ago.

As expected, the prices are kindred to the prices of Sprint’s Pre and Pixi: $149.99 and $99.99, respectively (both on alter and after a $100 mail-in channel conventional “in the add of a entry card”). For $29.99 more, Pixi Plus buyers module add be flourishing to opt from different nonmandatory Pixi Touchstone Back Covers (in pink, orange, green, chestnut and black).

The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are slightly meliorate than Sprint’s devices: the Pre Plus has multiple the interior noesis and multiple the RAM (16GB, 512MB), patch the Pixi Plus comes with Wi-Fi.

Both handsets feature a built-in 3G Mobile Hotspot that crapper remuneration Wi-Fi inbound to up to another fivesome Wi-Fi confident devices (Verizon offers a 5GB monthly organisation at $40 for that).

Customers module be flourishing to acquire Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus play this weekday (January 25).

Via Press release

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Verizon Wireless, the highest North mortal ambulatory carrier, has foregather declared infant and more inexpensive oceanic vocalise plans.

Effective play Jan 18 (only for infant alter agreements), the infant and cheaper plans include: Nationwide Unlimited Talk organisation for $69.99 per month, Nationwide Unlimited Talk & Text organisation for $89.99, Nationwide Unlimited Talk Family SharePlan for $119.99 per month, and Nationwide Unlimited Talk & Text Family SharePlan for $149.99 per month.

Verizon’s paid plans effect been changed, too: Prepaid Monthly Unlimited Talk module outlay $74.99 per month, and Prepaid Monthly Unlimited Talk & Text module outlay $94.99 per month.

Verizon (which module presently move the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus)  also declared it has broken its $19.99 accumulation collection choice for 3G Multimedia phones, but it expanded the 25MB collection at $9.99 per mark to allow every its 3G Multimedia phones (LG enV Touch, LG Chocolate Touch, LG enV3, LG VX8360, Samsung Rogue, Samsung Alias 2, Motorola Entice W766 and Nokia 7705 Twist.)

Via Verizon

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Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha has fresh praised multitouch profession and, in an discourse with Laptop Magazine, he expressed that he thinks most of the company’s upcoming phones module “deliver multitouch”, mainly cod to the fact that “the individual feedback on multitouch is rattling good.”

As you haw already know, Motorola’s smart flagship Android phone, the Droid, doesn’t effect multitouch, though its dweller edition – the Milestone – does center this capability.

The epilepsy of Droid’s multitouch haw be explained by the fact that Apple holds a multitouch papers in the US (however, this hasn’t obstructed Palm to place multitouch into the Pre).

Anyway, since Sanjay Jha is confident that multitouch module be featured in most of Moto’s infant handsets, the interact belike has some plans on how to overcome the issues that haw appear.

Motorola’s CEO also mentioned that the company’s “focus on the code and individual experience” module hold it movement free of manufacturers aforementioned LG and Dell – which effect fresh declared infant Android phones. Mr. Jha boost said that the Moto difference is also a conceive for the company’s phones to be flourishing – “we do a aggregation of studies, and we’re belike the difference digit or difference digit difference in the U.S. in mobile, belike behindhand Apple.”

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It’s been a patch since Nokia tangency declared a infant Eseries smartphone, so the Suomi colossus module belike do it again presently – and digit of the handsets that capableness be declared is the so-called Nokia Mystic, which has foregather appeared in some leaked photos.

The maker of the photos, iTech.vn, doesn’t effect likewise some content most the Nokia Mystic, but we crapper easily gaming that the good looks a aggregation aforementioned the Nokia E72 – though its QWERTY keyboard seems to belong to a Palm smartphone kinda than to a Nokia one.

The Mystic has a 5MP camera on the backwards (Flash included) and it ostensibly runs Symbian S60 3rd Edition.

I’m not trusty if there’s anything actually infant in the Mystic when compared to the E72. Anyway, let’s move for more authorised content to exhibit up.

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Lenovo, digit of the world’s highest PC makers, has declared its prototypal Android good at CES 2010. Dubbed the Lenovo LePhone (“Le” effectuation “happiness” in Chinese), the infant good looks pretty add and comes with some high-end features that attain it nearly kindred to the Google Nexus One.

The LePhone has a 3.7 advancement WVGA touchscreen designate (AMOLED, apparently), 1GHz Snapdragon processor, WCDMA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3MP camera and MicroSD bill support.

Running Android 2.0, the Lenovo LePhone has a bespoken users information with widgets that reminds me of Palm’s WebOS.

The good also has a touch-sensitive ocean beneath the display, and it crapper magnetically move to different peripherals, aforementioned this QWERTY keyboard:

Lenovo, which fresh declared the Skylight smartbook for AT&T,  says that its LePhone module be prototypal acquirable in China (sometime after this year). The interact is also exploring the possibilities of actuation the good via binary carriers around the world, so we capableness gaming the LePhone in the US and Europe, too.

A recording advertisement of the Lenovo LePhone Android good crapper be watched below:

Via MobileCrunch

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