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HTC Touch Diamond2 review

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 1st 2009 No Comments

It’s set to be a tough year for smartphones, and there’s plenty of change afoot as companies battle amid tightening customer purse-strings. The new iPhone is set to arrive over the summer; Palm’s Pre is imminent, and Microsoft have the latest incarnation of Windows Mobile waiting in the wings. Into that fray, HTC launch the Touch Diamond2, likely one of the last smartphones to use WM6.1 and an update to what was considered, when it launched a year ago, one of the game-changing handsets of Microsoft’s platform. Can the HTC Touch Diamond2 maintain that legacy, and will TouchFLO 3D improvements sufficiently mask the aging OS? SlashGear set to finding out.

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HTC Snap “Inner Circle” screenshots

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 1st 2009 No Comments

Screenshots from the HTC Snap, the company’s upcoming non-touchscreen Windows Mobile candybar smartphone, have emerged, showing the new Inner Circle feature. Inner Circle allows messages from key, preset contacts to be filtered out at the touch of a button, allowing mobile users to readily access important information on the relatively small 2.4-inch 320 x 240 display.

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AT&T Palm Eos to be second webOS phone?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 30th 2009 No Comments

Hot on the heels of the tiny, blurred preview shot of the second webOS smartphone comes this, a far more impressive render of what’s said to be the Palm Eos. A quadband GSM/HSDPA candybar headed to AT&T, the Palm Eos has a 2.63-inch 320 x 400 capacitive touchscreen, 2-megapixel camera and measures just 10.6mm thick.

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Samsung I7500 Android phone hits O2 Germany in June

By Chris Davies on Monday, Apr 27th 2009 No Comments

Tipped over the weekend, O2 Germany have officially announced their first Android handset, the Samsung I7500. The I7500 has a 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash, paired with a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 AMOLED touchscreen, HSPA, GPS and WiFi b/g.

There’s also Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.5mm headphone socket and a microUSB port, squeezed into a body that measures just 115 x 56 x 11.9 mm. The usual array of Google applications are present, including GMail and the Chrome Lite browser, together with the Android Market for downloading further titles.

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HTC Touch Diamond2 video unboxing

By Chris Davies on Friday, Apr 24th 2009 No Comments

When HTC launched the Touch Diamond2 at Mobile World Congress back in February, they made no bones about the fact that it incorporated the best of the original Touch Diamond and what lessons they’d learned from the Touch HD. A bigger, 3.2-inch WVGA display than the previous Diamond, plus the latest iteration of TouchFLO 3D, and the HTC Touch Diamond2 will perhaps be the poster-child for Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphones until 6.5 launches. Our Touch Diamond2 arrived today, and before we get to grips with this slick new smartphone we shot an unboxing video.

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HTC Touch Diamond2 unboxing video after the cut

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Acer Aspire One Pro 531 gets official: OS choice & optional SSD

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 23rd 2009 No Comments

The rumored Acer Aspire One Pro 531 netbook has appeared on Acer Germany’s website. First tipped back in March, the Pro 531 has the same 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 display and choice of N270 or N280 Atom processors as the standard Aspire One 531 (aka A531) but adds a choice of OS, larger hard-drives or an optional SSD.

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Samsung Tocco S8300 Ultra Edition review

By Steven Grady on Wednesday, Apr 22nd 2009 No Comments

The Samsung Tocco is a sleek slider/touchscreen combo feature phone that packs a ton of functionality into a small form factor. It’s stylish and nice to use, and the red color will draw attention from those around you (at least it did for me). The phone was enjoyable to use, and Samsung’s TouchWiz UI was implemented nicely. Most noticeable on this phone is AMOLED display, which shines beautifully in any light, even outside.

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Dell Studio 15 with 720p-capable display launches

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Apr 21st 2009 No Comments

Dell have officially launched their latest 15-inch notebook, the Dell Studio 15. Outfitted with a 15.6-inch 720p-capable 1366 x 768 LED backlit display, the Studio 15 has its choice of Core 2 Duo processors, together with ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 graphics and optional Blu-ray.

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Acer Tempo WM6.1 smartphones coming April & May

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 9th 2009 No Comments

Acer’s Tempo series of Windows Mobile smartphones will begin shipping this month and May, according to a company spokesperson cornered at the recent press event. Acer also confirmed that at least one Android handset was in the works, despite their CEO dismissing the immediate possibility of an Android-based netbook.

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LG Viewty II hitting Orange UK in June?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 9th 2009 No Comments

lg viewty ii gc900 1 202x185 custom We’re so used to seeing the spec list, press photos, leaked hands-on videos with pre-production samples and early reviews of new cellphones that it’s something of a surprise that the LG Viewty II has remained so discrete. So far it’s just been a few snaps and a partial spec sheet to whet our anticipation; not bad, since according to Electricpig the touchscreen handset itself is set to hit Orange UK in June.