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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 gets official: Hands-on Video Demo

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 4 Comments

Sony Ericsson have finally come clean on their latest smartphone, and as expected it’s an Android flagship. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 – previously known as the Rachael and the X3 – is a Snapdragon-based touchscreen candybar, with a huge display, 8.1-megapixel camera and some “special sauce” in the shape of two homegrown applications – for communication aggregation and media aggregation – with a custom UI. SlashGear caught up with Sony Ericsson in London yesterday to take a look at the new smartphone, and find out why the company reckons this is the launch not only of the Android X10 but of a new “user experience platform”.

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After the cut: live XPERIA X10 gallery and video

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Nokia and AT&T collaborating on Symbian cellphone?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 30th 2009 No Comments

nokia n900 hands on slashgear 151 540x351 Nokia’s trouble breaking into the US market has become a cliché over the years, so it’s good to hear that the Finnish firm may be turning their fortunes around. According to a VentureBeat report, Nokia and AT&T are working together to launch a Symbian handset that will be based on a Qualcomm chipset; definitive specifications are unknown, as is launch date, but Nokia are reportedly being more accommodating of US carriers’ desire to customize individual devices.

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ASUS Eee Smartbook dropping Q1 2010 for around $180

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 30th 2009 1 Comment

Bargain hunters looking for a new ultraportable this Christmas could do well to hold off until the new year, as ASUS CEO Jerry Shen has announced the company plans to launch an Android-based Smartbook in Q1 2010 that could be priced at around $180. ASUS were among the companies demonstrating Smartbook prototypes – based on Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor – back in June, but since then have downplayed their involvement with the format.

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Mystery phone ID’d as HTC Passion, hitting Verizon within months?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 26th 2009 1 Comment

htc dragon live mystery android smartphone 3 375x500 Remember the mysterious HTC smartphone that showed up this time last week, and that we all assumed was the upcoming Snapdragon-based HTC Dragon? Well, the source of those images, TheUnlockr, has decided it’s the Dragon too, or to be more exact Verizon’s version of the handset, the HTC Passion. He’s claiming 90-percent certainty on the ID, and if so you could be seeing this Android smartphone on shelves by the end of the year.

The Passion (aka the CDMA Dragon) is expected to be the Android version of the HTC HD2, which basically adds up to a huge capacitive touchscreen – the HD2 uses a 4.3-inch panel – together with all the wireless connectivity you could hope for an a 1GHz processor. The touch-sensitive buttons beneath the touchscreen on the Passion certainly look like those on Verizon’s other upcoming Android handsets, such as the Motorola Droid, and the white notification bar is similar too.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 to be company’s first Android smartphone?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 20th 2009 1 Comment

It seems we could have been calling Sony Ericsson’s first Android smartphone by the wrong name, at least according to a Tweakers forum member. That individual, who claims to have not only talked to Sony Ericsson staff about the device but to have played with a prototype, says that rather than the XPERIA X3, the handset will most likely be branded as the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10. They’ve also let slip some details about a possible launch window.

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HTC Dragon caught in wild? New HTC Android device spotted

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 2 Comments

We’ve mentioned the HTC Dragon a few times over the past week or so, with the rumored 1GHz Snapdragon-based Android smartphone – aka the Android HD2 – seemingly promising to answer any complaints users had about HTC smartphone performance. However, we’ve been yet to actually see the device in action; that may have changed today, with The Unlockr being sent some live photos of a mysterious, unnamed Android handset that could very well be the HTC Dragon.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3 Snapdragon Android phone caught in wild

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 2 Comments

sony ericsson xperia x3 leak 281x500 The Android race is hotting up, with another leaked live image of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3 showing there’s plenty of room in the market for a big-screen slab of megapixel-toting smartphone. Yet another handset tipped to use Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon chipset – as found in the recently announced Acer Liquid A1 and expected to make an appearance in the rumored HTC Dragon – the XPERIA X3 will also pack an 8-megapixel autofocus camera.

Up front there’s a 4-inch 852 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, while under the hood lurks both dualband HSPA, WiFi b/g and GPS. Full specifications for the handset were previewed by a prematurely posted Expansys product listing, though right now there’s nothing approaching official confirmation from Sony Ericsson themselves.

What’s not on show from this snapshot is the distinctive UI that Sony Ericsson are tipped to have included on the smartphone, back when we knew it under the codename “Rachel”. That UI – which you can see in a leaked video demo after the cut – is expected to replace the standard Android interface perhaps even more fully than HTC Sense does on the HTC Hero. The XPERIA X3 is expected to arrive on the market in January 2010.

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Acer Liquid A1 hands-on shows new UI, nifty status LEDs

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

Acer’s Liquid A1 Android smartphone may have Snapdragon under the hood, but that’s not enough to keep us happy these days. We also like to see a custom UI, and from the early details coming out of HDBlog.it it looks as though Acer have done a little – though not a lot – to tweak OS 1.6 Donut. In fact, we’re more excited by the little status LEDs they’ve embedded into the top edge of the Liquid, to show whether you have new messages and what the battery status is.

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HTC site down: promise of “something for YOU” [Updated]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 15th 2009 2 Comments

We normally don't get this excited about a website being down unless it's an Apple update day (and yes, we know how sad that is), but HTC have been pushing out some of the most interesting devices of late. So, when their site says "we're working on something for you and will be back shortly" that starts the ponder-centers of our brains churning as to what, exactly, it could be. Update: The site is back and it's brought a new "YOU" campaign. More details here.

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Acer neoTouch S200 (aka F1) plus beTouch E100/E101/E200 Windows Phones official

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

Acer have pushed out their Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone range, and they’ve segmented the handsets into two different categories. The Acer beTouch line is intended for style-conscious, “trendy” users, while the Acer neoTouch line are more serious, high-end devices. Four models have been announced, the beTouch E100, E101 and E200, and the neoTouch S200 (aka the Acer F1).

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