There are times when a press release makes you do a double-take, and MetroPCS‘ this morning has prompted just that momentary disbelief. You’re looking at the Samsung Code SCH-i220, the first Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone on the MetroPCS network; yes, while everyone else is getting up to speed with Windows Mobile 6.5, MetroPCS are taking time out to celebrate their first device running the superseded OS.
With Verizon’s ad campaign for the Motorola Droid kicking off in earnest over the weekend, and a launch date of October 30th tipped, it comes as little surprise to see a pre-production handset arrive over at the BGR. They’re mightily impressed, too, calling the Droid “the fastest Android device we’ve ever used” courtesy of its TI OMAP3430 chipset, branding its capacitive display “awesome” and “huge”, and concluding that it’s “the Android device to beat”.
Logitech have announced their latest QWERTY ‘board, the Logitech Gaming Keyboard G110, complete with custom key backlighting and an integrated USB soundcard for directly connecting a headset and microphone. The Gaming Keyboard G110 has both blue and red LEDs, which can also be mixed together for purple shades, as well as a cluster of gaming shortcuts and macro buttons.
If there’s one thing we like, it’s leaky phone companies and their prematurely-exposed wares. The Boy Genius Report seem to have had their fair share of Motorola Sholes images lately, and there’s another three new images – including the crisp shot you see here – to tempt us. According to the phone’s “About” screen, the handset will have official name Motorola Droid.
The Nokia N900 was the stand-out device from Nokia World back in September, and we’ve been tracking the Maemo 5 smartphone ever since. Imagine our surprise, then, when a pre-release N900 dropped onto the SlashGear test bench today; the hardware is final, so the 5-megapixel autofocus Carl Zeiss camera is onboard, together with HSPA, WiFi b/g, a 3.5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and you can check out our video unboxing and gallery after the cut.
It’s hard to imagine fashionistas being sucked into buying a Windows Phone, but if the iPhone doesn’t appeal and you’re a real Giorgio Armani addict then Samsung’s latest device could be the answer. The smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.5 with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, together with a 5-megapixel camera for snapping shots of the catwalk.
Samsung only made the Android-based Moment official a few hours ago, but we’ve already been playing with it today. Sprint’s first Android device certainly makes a good first impression, with an eye-catching, color-popping AMOLED touchscreen that’s certainly on a par with its rivals for capacitive touch-sensitivity, though we wish Samsung could’ve put the Moment on a diet before it launched as it’s not the smallest of handsets.
Samsung have announced their first US Android smartphone, the Samsung Moment, and it’s headed exclusively to Sprint. The Moment has a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 AMOLED touchscreen together with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, optical joystick, EVDO Rev.A and WiFi b/g; as a “with Google” device, it has the usual Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube and other software.
We already knew that the Nokia E72 was coming this month – it’s been listed on Vodafone UK’s site since early September – but the Finns themselves have now got into the action with a SIM-free price. The E72 has been added to Nokia UK’s online store for preorder, priced at £359 ($572), though there’s no telling when they’ll actually begin shipping.
For European consumers, the Palm Pre has been a long time coming. Announced – in CDMA form – back in January 2009, with Palm coyly dancing around the matter of a GSM version until its Sprint launch took place in June, the smartphone has even gained a sibling (in the shape of the Palm Pixi) before those across the Atlantic have had a chance to play with the original. That’s all finally changing this month, with carrier O2 exclusively offering the Pre in the UK and Ireland from October 16th and Germany from October 13th. Has time dulled the Pre’s appeal? SlashGear have been testing out the GSM Palm Pre; check out our full review after the cut.
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