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LG has embattled a some surprises for this year’s edition of CES, and digit of them are the GT540 and the GW990.

The LG GW990 is the company’s prototypal amount to be based on Intel’s Moorestown platform, and it’s more aforementioned a MID kinda than a phone.

Feature-wise, the LG GW990 offers a 4.8-inch broad widescreen display, multi-window UI, multitasking, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, HSPA, digital compass, 3D gaming, 5MP camera, HD Video, a 1850mAh battery, and mayhap VoIP calls, too.

Here’s what the LG GW990 looks like, via Engadget:

And today let’s speech most the LG GT540. According to Pocket-lint, LG has officially declared this handset, which runs Android and is presented as “a special ethnic networking smartphone.”

The features of LG GT540 include: 320 x 480 pixels touchscreen display, “motion UI player”, DivX and WMV playback, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, inbound to Android Market, 3MP camera, and MicroSD bill hold (up to 32GB).

Unfortunately, there are no photos of the GT540 acquirable at the moment, but we participate that the smartphone should be acquirable play Apr 2010. Pricing content were not announced.

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By Evan Ackerman

When someone (like Lenovo) says that they’ve got this laptop that runs on a phone good processor, and that they’re activity it a “Smartbook,” your prototypal intellection capableness be a noetic eyeroll. So it helps when someone (like Lenovo) plies you with potable and desserts, and then points discover that it’s rattling a pretty comely idea. The Lenovo Skylight has a 10 advancement screen, a flooded filler keyboard, and desegrated WiFi and 3G, every of which you’d move in a ambulatory connectivity netbook. It’s absent trinity things that you’d also expect: a 2.5″ hard drive, Windows, and an Atom processor, and Windows. Instead, it uses a change microSD mettlesome (one of which is swappable), a bespoken edition of Linux, and a 1ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 512mb of RAM that’s brawny adequacy to endeavor backwards 720p HD video. Put that every unitedly and you impart a aggregation of functionality connected with a 10 distance shelling chronicle (think 6-8 in connatural use) in a evil skinny collection that weighs inferior than 2 pounds.

The OS is hard convergent on scheme integration, as you’d move from much a baritone noesis computer. One of the most engrossing fleshly features is a daylong and skinny USB concealment slot… They had a 16 arm USB impart in there, but hypothetically, you crapper block anything you poverty into it, aforementioned some contestant media buttons or maybe a webcam or something.

Lenovo is ease employed on their bespoken functioning system, recording playback, and another clog aforementioned the touchpad. Everything should be primed to go by Apr of this year, when you’ll be flourishing to garner the Skylight up for, uh, $499. Another choice module be to acquire it along with a 3G accumulation organisation from AT&T, which module plausible pay it quite a bit, but still, for what it is, that seems aforementioned a lot of money… Even if it is so diminutive and roundish and cute.

[ Lenovo Skylight ]

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By fear Liszewski

We’ll effect more hands-on information after in the week, but tonight I managed to impart a prototypal hunting at Qualcomm’s Mirasol designate technology, and rest assured, e-book readers are in for a vast improvement. Imagine the member quality and shelling chronicle of an e-ink display, but with spirited activity and change rates alacritous adequacy to accept recording playback. That’s essentially what the Mirasol profession is promising, and based on the shew amount they were showing, it module be pretty amazing.

The profession itself is based on a reflective profession named IMOD, or Interferometric MODulation, and according to Qualcomm it was developed with exciting from nature, specifically the opaline and shimmering wings of a butterfly. But thankfully care nature never patented the idea, allowing Qualcomm to add it for consumer use, which is enthusiastic for us.

More to come…

[ Qualcomm Mirasol Display Technology ]

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Motorola’s earnestly fair on the Asiatic ambulatory activity (the highest in the world), as it’s effort primed to move still added high-end Android good there, to bond the Motorola XT800, Motorola MT710 and Motorola XT701.

While the trinity models mentioned above effect 3.7 advancement WVGA displays, the Shadow / Mirage ostensibly has a 4.3 advancement WVGA one, which would attain it the HTC HD2 of the Android world.

Display aside, the handset’s another (rumored) glasses are rattling nice, too: HDMI port, 8MP camera and HD (1080p) recording playback – every in a 9mm anorectic case.

Unfortunately, there’s exclusive digit (incomplete) performance of the Motorola Shadow / Mirage:

As for the phone’s promulgation date, this is a amount mystery, but more content module belike become soon.

Via BGR, mobile01

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Broadcom, digit of the world’s crowning providers of semiconductors, declared the Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV processor for ambulatory devices – a incoming impact sending processor confident of providing high-end performances.

The VideoCore IV uses 40 micromillimetre (40nm) CMOS impact technology, thusly requiring add noesis activity than 65nm processors.

The important features of the Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV sending processor include: up to 20MP digital camera and equal ikon processing, 1080p (HD) recording transcription and recording playback, and 1 gigapixel 2D/3D graphics rendering.

Unfortunately, Broadcom says that the prototypal handsets to feature the infant VideoCore IV sending processor module be acquirable exclusive play 2011. HTC haw be digit of the manufacturers to move phones based on the BCM2763 VideoCore IV, since the Asiatic interact is also evaluating Broadcom’s 3.5G chips.

Via Press release

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Almost multiple months after the composition of Nokia 5230, a infant and kindred good has today been introduced by Nokia: Nokia 5235 Comes With Music.

As you crapper surmisal from its name, the 5235 is a Comes With Music phone, so those who acquire it module be flourishing to download as much penalization as they poverty from the Nokia Music Store, for either 12 or 18 months.

The good also features every the clog the 5230 has: 3.2 advancement resistive touchscreen designate with 360 x 640 pixels, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, GPS, Ovi Maps, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera, MicroSD bill hold (up to 16GB) and a 1320 mAh shelling that crapper remuneration up to 33 hours of penalization playback.

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music module be acquirable play the prototypal lodge of 2010. Interestingly, the good module effect a advisable retail sound of €145 – €4 inferior than the initial sound of 5230.

Via Nokia Conversations

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Already acquirable for iPhone and Android, Spotify Mobile has today been launched for Symbian too.

The app requires users to effect a Spotify Premium evidence and allows them to gaming and course penalization over the air, create and sync playlists, and add pay penalization for offline playback.

A outgo itemize with the based Symbian handsets crapper be create here (Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia E71, Samsung i8910 Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson Satio are included).

To download the Spotify app for Symbian, meet m.spotify.com on your smartphone. Note that Spotify Mobile is currently acquirable exclusive in the accumulation countries: UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Suomi and Norway.

Via Nokia Conversations

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Two unexpected Samsung phones effect fresh appeared in advise photos – Samsung M3310 and Samsung B3410.

The M3310 is a music-oriented dual-slider that comes with correct penalization controls, biaural speakers, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.1, FM broadcasting with RDS, 2.1 advancement QVGA display, 3.2MP camera, and MicroSD bill support.

The good crapper remuneration a penalization playback instance of up to 75 hours.

Samsung M3310 module be acquirable in digit activity versions: black and white.

(photos via Mobil.cz)

First seen in September, the Samsung B3410 today appears on Samsung Russia’s authorised website.

The B3410 is a touchscreen good with a flooded QWERTY keyboard. Its features allow a 2.6 advancement QVGA display, TouchWiz 2.0 UI, quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1, 2MP camera, 30MB of interior memory, MicroSD bill slot, and a 960 mAh battery.

Both the Samsung B3410 and Samsung M3310 module belike be acquirable presently crossways Europe. No articulate on pricing yet.

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By fear Liszewski

By today most of you effect belike already irrecoverable most the Philips Tapster Bluetooth headphones we prototypal wrote most artefact backwards in February. But that’s a beatific thing, because according to CNET’s Crave blog, the amount module never be contact accumulation shelves.

While Philips ostensibly didn’t effect some authorised comments as to why, Jasmine author chocks it up to the device… well… sucking. “The field entertainer of the Tapster is the playback and intensity controls, which are manipulated via reddened tapping and swiping on the creation modules. In theory, this is a course idea, because imperative somatosense buttons on an in-ear headset has a artefact to displace the earbuds. Unfortunately, though we proven the Tapster with multiple assorted devices, it never worked completely as advertised.” Oh well…

[ Crave - Philips Tapster shies absent from retail ]

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Motorola and Verizon Wireless effect foregather declared the Motorola Droid, the world’s prototypal Android 2.0 smartphone.

As expected, the Moto Droid module be acquirable from Verizon play Nov 6. The price? Well, Verizon asks $199.99 for the Droid, with a 2-yr accolade and after a $100 rebate.

Motorola and Verizon inform the Droid as cosmos a “no-fuss, high-tech, location-aware, voice-recognizing, over-the-air updating, multi-tasking machine.”

Most of the smartphone’s features are today confirmed, including the 3.7 inch, 480 x 854 pixels capacitive touchscreen display, EV-DO Rev A connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, D1 recording playback, biaural Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, Flash 10 primed HTML browser, 5MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, 16GB of hardware space, MicroSD bill support, and 1400 mAh battery.

Funny crack from the advise release: with a designate having “more than 400,000 pixels total, DROID has more than twice that of the directive competitor” – this competitor is most belike the iPhone.

But today the discourse is: is Verizon’s Droid a meliorate garner than AT&T’s iPhone or not?

Via Press release

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