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“There is an old saying ‘better late than never’, but in the case of the LG GW620 that doesn;t seem to hold up. The GW620 is LG’s first entry into the UK Android amrket and to be frank it’s unlikely to wow many people. The handset runs Android 1.5, has a resistive touchscreen and seems about a year behind the curve. Given how fast Android has been progressing and the current range of Android handsets, not to say anything of the upcoming range like Sony Ericsson’s X10, the GW620, or InTouch Max to use its market name, is unliekly to be seen as anything other than an ‘also ran’. Of course it’s good to see LG releasing Android handsets, but apart from those who haven’t got a clue about Android it’s hard to see who this particular handset will appeal to. At any rate it should be available on T-Mobile and a contract of around £20/month will probably get you the device free.” via mobile-review.com

“Motorola today announced its new MOTOROI, an Android smartphone running with Android 2.0 and would be available in Korea. Designed to take full advantage of the power of Android 2.0, MotoROI gives you a full touch screen with a huge 3.7 inch, high-definition WVGA (480X854) display, making it easier than ever to view full page websites, videos, games, or photos. The display uses a powerful combination of Motorola’s touch user interface (UI) and a capacitive touch sensor for smooth screen flipping and scrolling, and five main displays let you customize your MotoROI with various widgets. The MotoROI also includes an 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash. The camera model is able to do 720p HD video recording and includes easy panorama, face detection, multi-shot (6 shots in a row), face filter, red eye reduction and camera shake prevention. Other than a built in Terrestrial DMB receiver to watch digital TV channel, the smartphone’s HDMI connector will allow you to play your media content with your TV for better viewing.” Read more inside..

“In the world of Nokia it’s all about evolution, rather than revolution. So don’t expect the specs on the X6 to blow your mind. The handset is the next logical step for the market leader scrambling to make up for a late start in touchscreens. To be honest, the Symbian touchscreen OS has been struggling to catch up with the standard setters in terms of user experience. And the X6 claims to have the answer: the responsiveness only a capacitive screen can bring. The Nokia X6 is also the first XpressMusic handset to head straight for the high-end. Midrange is the highest the music Finns have gone so we are interested to see how this change of approach works. Nokia have always had a strong appeal to the masses, but pleasing the selected few is undoubtedly harder.” Read more here:

“When launched in early 2009, the Samsung i8910 HD (a.k.a. Omnia HD in some markets) had eye-watering specifications, certainly ahead of anything else in the Symbian world and, arguably, ahead of anything in the world in general. Bit by bit the wider market is embracing the same technology though, with Google’s new Nexus One offering an almost identical specification and form factor. Which can only mean one thing: - time to get them both in-house, photographed and tested, head to head.” Read more here:

“HTC’s HD2 is probably one of the few, if any, Windows Mobile 6.5 devices sporting a capacitive touchscreen. So what does that mean for the stylus fans? Generally it means you’re out of luck, since taking a toothpick or pen and poking your screen isn’t going to work, and touching the screen while using normal mittens are out of the picture too. Now it seems that there is a solution, which is the official HTC capacitive stylus for the HTC HD2. Such an item was previously mentioned, but was out of stock for the longest time. Now, as long as you’re willing to part with a whole £17 ($28) for a capacitive stylus, you’re good to go! The only downside is that you don’t have any space to store this item in the HTC HD2 itself, so you’ll need to take extra care of your expensive stylus.” via ubergizmo.com

“You’ve got to love whenever an update is made available to your handset – whether it’s a minor or major one; just the comfort of doing from home is convenient for you. Actually, an update for the Samsung Moment for Sprint is ready for installation – but it’s going to require more than you clicking on a couple of windows on your computer to get it. Sprint has just announced a “maintenance update” for the Moment – although it doesn’t bring it up to the level of the Nexus One, it does provide some much needed tweaks to improve the handset. Unfortunately, you’ll have to take a stroll to your local Sprint stores in order to get the update. Sure it’ll require you to do some traveling, but the update will improve battery life, provide new updates to several third-party apps, and other fixes. If traveling isn’t your kind of thing, you may be waiting an unspecified amount of time before it’ll be available from home. Sprint says “The ability to download the update directly on your Moment will be available in the near future.” via phonearena.com

Samsung today announced the expansion of its application store, Samsung Apps. From late January 2010 Samsung Apps will be available to Omnia II (I8000) and OmniaLITE (B7300, I329) users in Singapore, Germany, Brazil and China. Users will benefit from immediate one-click access to a huge range of applications from games and social networking apps and even e-books.“Beginning with the global expansion of Samsung Apps, Samsung will make its application store available to owners of its upcoming flagship models. Our goal is to help everyone to enjoy rich, personalized mobile experiences, wherever and whenever they wish,” said Kanghyun Kwon, Vice President of Samsung’s Media Solution Center. “To help customers get the best out of their Omnia devices, we are carefully categorising our applications and services, making them accessible, easily searchable, and always relevant to you.”Applications such as Guitar Hero (Mobile Bus), Spiderman (Gameloft), Need for Speed (EA) and skin (Prompt) will all be available at launch, with more applications from a range of leading third-party publishers added throughout the year.Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Handmark, CrazySoft Limited, Paragon SW, Com2us, and Shazam are among those working with Samsung to develop Samsung Apps. In addition, local language-based applications will be provided to enhance usability.Users in Singapore, Germany, Brazil and China can download the Samsung Apps client from Samsungmobile.com through wap. From mid-February, products in Singapore and Germany will be shipped with the Application Store pre-installed; these customers will also be able to take advantage of Kies – a new software suite that allows users to search and download applications directly from PCs. The applications are then installed onto a mobile device when synced with a PC, providing instant back up and peace of mind for application downloads. The availability and launch-timing of the service may vary depending on service provider and country. via slashphone.com

ACCESS announced NetFront Browser v4.0, the latest version of NetFront Browser for mobile handsets and Internet-enabled devices. The new version has improved the JavaScript executions time, with up to twenty times faster than ACCESS’ NetFront Browser v3.52. The NetFront Browser v4.0 API application and porting layers are compatible with those of NetFront Browser v3.5, so device manufacturers using NetFront Browser v3.5 can easily upgrade to take advantage of super fast JavaScript engine in NetFront Browser v4.0, making it possible to leverage customized applications with minimal additional investment. ACCESS will make a concept version of NetFront Browser v4.0 for Windows Mobile available for free download for a limited time. In addition to the Windows Mobile version, ACCESS also plans to provide NetFront Browser v4.0 for major mobile operating systems and Internet-enabled devices to improve Internet access and use. “The more users and companies come to depend on cloud computing, the more important web application performance and web JavaScript execution become,” said Tomihisa Kamada, president, CEO and co-founder of ACCESS. “NetFront delivers not only an exceptionally fast mobile browsing experience, but also a mobile cloud computing experience that is fluid and truly useful. ACCESS will continue to improve and extend our technologies to bring users around the world a faster, easier and more enjoyable Internet experience.” via slashphone.com

“Today Symbian made available, via its developer website, a number of documents relating to the Orbit and Direct UI proposals that make up a major part of the changes in Symbian^4. These proposals offer a glimpse of what the Symbian^4 UI may look like and explain some of the key UI layout and design changes. Symbian are looking for the community’s feedback, comments and questions about the proposals. Read on for more details and illustrations. The Qt-based Orbit and Direct UI together encompass the major UI changes that are being introduced as part of Symbian^4, which replace AVKON (the current UI libraries and framework). Symbian^4 is currently being feature road-mapped (planned), with an anticipated ‘functionally complete’ date of late summer 2010, hardening in early 2011 and with the first device release likely to be in Q1 2011. Orbit provides UI extensions (essentially UI widgets) for Qt that are optimised for use on mobile devices. Orbit can potentially be used on both touch and non-touch devices.” Read more here: