The Nokia E7 is finally shipping, the Symbian QWERTY business phone making its retail debut in several markets this week. Announced all the way back at Nokia World 2010 in September, until the first MeeGo devices arrive the E7 will be the de-facto flagship of Nokia’s range, with its 4-inch Clear Black display and 8-megapixel camera. One of a few rare review units dropped onto the SlashGear test bench last week; check out our first impressions after the cut
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The T-Mobile Sidekick 4G has been caught in the wild, complete with Samsung branding that seemingly confirms exactly who will be producing the newly-revived range. TmoNews' tipster sent them shots of the Android 2.2.1 Froyo based smartphone, and it's clear that the traditional Sidekick style hasn't been forgotten despite the gap in sales.
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First announced back in late 2009, the Motorola CLIQ was not only the company’s first attempt at an affordable Android QWERTY phone but the debut for MOTOBLUR. It’s taken over a year for the true successor to emerge, the Motorola CLIQ 2, and Android, MOTOBLUR and the smartphone segment in general have undergone some significant changes in the meantime. Has Motorola done enough with the CLIQ 2 to stay competitive? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
T-Mobile's Sidekick range met its end back in July 2010, with the carrier promising it was would "work on the next chapter of our storied Sidekick franchise." According to TmoNews, that chapter will involve Android 2.3 Gingerbread; their source claims to have been briefed this week on a new T-Mobile Sidekick 4G running Google's open-source platform and packing both a physical QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen display.
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The HTC 7 Pro has gone on sale in Germany, both on carrier O2 and as an unlocked, SIM-free device. According to HTC Germany, the Windows Phone 7 smartphone will be priced at €29 ($39) on a new, €22.50 ($30) per month, two-year agreement, or alternatively €599 ($796) contract-free.
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Vodafone UK has announced that it will be exclusively offering the white BlackBerry Torch 9800 in the UK. Listed as "coming soon" on Vodafone's site, the handset will have the same functionality as the original black version - a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard - but come in a new, white casing.
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ASUS wasn’t taking any chances with its tablet options at CES 2011: the company had two full-size Android models, the Eee Pad Slider and the Eee Pad Transform, to cater to those wanting to do content-creation on their tablets rather than just consumption. We grabbed some last-minute hands-on time with the pair ahead of their return to Taipei; check out our impressions after the cut.
OCOSMOS has officially announced its two mobile PCs, the OCOSMOS OSC1 Tiny Computer (TC) and OCOSMOS OSC9 Tablet PC. The OSC1 TC runs an Oak Trail Intel Atom processor with a 5-inch 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, on-screen QWERTY keyboard and twin cameras, while the OSC9 has a 9-inch 1024 x 768 multitouch capacitive touchscreen, detachable QWERTY controller with virtual keyboard, and a companion pouch with space for a spare battery.
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Nokia's nHD 640 x 360 displays have been looking all the more outmoded compared to the WVGA and higher panels rivals offer, and so rumors that the upcoming Nokia E6-00 will up the pixels on offer is a good sign that the trend is changing. According to a Nokia user agent file, the E6-00 will have a 640 x 480 VGA display together with Symbian^3 OS, WCDMA/HSPA, WiFi and a QWERTY keyboard.
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The Sony Ericsson Hallon isn't the only leaked handset out of the company; a new, compact Android smartphone has been spotted at IT168, presumed to be the successor to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini pro. The new phone has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3-inch, 320 x 480 multitouch display; it also boosts the processor over the original X10 mini pro, to a 1GHz chip paired with an Adreno 205 GPU.
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From one HTC "leak" to another; this time it's a mercifully full-fascia shot of the HTC EVO 4G Shift expected to frolic on Sprint's WiMAX network sometime in the near future. As we can see from PhoneArena's photo smaller-screen version of the original HTC EVO 4G, making up for that with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it's also the first time we've seen the phone without its protective cover .
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Samsung's plans to broaden the Galaxy Tab range in 2011 aren't new, but the company's supposed intentions for a Windows 7 tablet with a physical keyboard are. According to Blogeee's sources, the Samsung Gloria will have a 10-inch touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY 'board, as well as a custom UI layer developed by Samsung themselves (the image below is just a mock-up, of course).
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