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Samsung Galaxy W, M Pro, Y and Y Pro

Along with the M Pro, Samsung will feature a new entry level smartphone named the Y Pro planned at those longing for a feasible QWERTY keyboard.

The handset, that comes with the similar candy bar shape factor as the Blackberry Curve, is a little smaller and gets a lower detail compared to the M Pro.

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Samsung Galaxy S2

Samsung has mildly changed the design of its popular Galaxy S2 smartphone before its release in the United Kingdom, possibly to make it look more similar an Android phone and less similar an iPhone.

That modification is the deletion of the home button, something inspired by Apple’s iPhone, and its change by a more traditional “four button” row as gotten on most Android handsets.

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Defy+ Smartphone

Motorola Mobility has stealthily launched the Defy+ amidst the ruckus caused by the declaration of its acquisition earlier today by Google, whose newest operating system, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, can be gotten on the handset.

Such as its forerunner, the Defy, the Defy+ is a rugged, water resistant and dust proof handset which also features with a scratch-proof Gorilla Glass show courtesy of Corning.

It does however present with a faster Cortex A8-based TI OMAP3630 SoC (1GHz vs 800MHz), 512MB RAM, a microSD card slot, Android OS 2.3.3 Gingerbread rather than Froyo, a 3.7″ 480×854 pixel touchscreen, a 5MP camera with HSPA, a 7 hour battery life, up to 16 days on stand-by, Wi-Fi, GPS, a USB port and Bluetooth including 2GB internal storage.

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Apple iPhone 5

A recent report has announced that Pegatron will start deliveries of Apple’s iPhone 5 in September, with the Taiwan-based maker so becoming the 2nd ODM for Apple’s smartphone.

A volume of 10 million iPhone 5 units has been reserved from the maker, as reported by the industry source, Digitimes reports. Earlier last month different report stated Pegatron had gotten orders for 15 million iPhone 5 units.

The agreement could actually allow the Asian maker, whose utilisation rate reduced to 50 percent and gross margins reduced to 1.8 percent after the firm delivered less than 4 million units of the CDMA iPhone 4. Pegatron is told to be planning at enhancing the gross margins and attempting to rival with Foxconn by bagging orders for different Apple products like the iPad and Mac computers.

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Motorola Droid Bionic

Motorola’s very expected Smartphone, Droid Bionic is rumoured to be launched in August or September 2011 through network carrier firm Verizon.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 4G LTE

Samsung has just revealed the official launch of the 4G LTE variety of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, that like its WiFi brother will offer in 16GB and 32GB flavors. The 2 can be had for $529.99 and $629.99 respectively a two year contract from Verizon. Check out our unboxing of the almost similar WiFi version below.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

The new Galaxy Tab 10.1 is just a “few days away,” as reported by Samsung Mobile USA on Twitter.

Moreover, as illustrated in different tweet from Samsung, the new version of Galaxy Tab 10.1 will showcase the newest version of Honeycomb, Android 3.1.

The new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is really a change for different tablet in the equal call, that Samsung idea was unfit of rivaling with Apple’s iPad 2.

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Honeycomb Gingerbread

Honeycomb is Google’s target-developed tablet interface which applies a radically diverse interface than 2.x Android develops. Still, it appears which at specific resolutions, Honeycomb tablets returns to a Gingerbread-ish interface. Hardcore hacking isn’t needed, either. All it takes is a Honeycomb tablet that’s been gave root access and later an app which switched the pixel density for you. 160ppi or less receives you Honeycomb where anything over 170ppi stimulates the Gingerbread interface. View it in action following the break.

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Google News Mobile

Google News for mobile is receiving more place-aware, presently applying your place to deliver news points right to your whereabouts.

Friday, Google launched the new display, named “News Near You,” to Android and iPhone owners applying the U.S. English version of Google News for cellular.

“Now you can find local news on your smartphone,” Google News Product Manager Navneet Singh tells of the statement. “We do local news a bit differently, analyzing every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.”

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Google Nexus S

Almost all worth having in this world arrives in knock-off shape, and it would look which Google’s Nexus S is worth having, as a knockoff named the K1000D has appeared in Shenzhen Huaqiangbei district in China. Like we’d expect, the K1000D is not as powerful as the Nexus S, but it is only as beautiful.

The K1000D sports a 4-inch 800×480 WVGA resistive touchscreen, a 3.2 MP camera (rear) that comes with a LED flash, and a o.3 MP front camera for video calling. The handset also displays support for GPS, Wi-Fi and has double SIM card slots. Sadly, the guts of the phone can not actually consider with the Nexus S, as the K1000D is powered by a 460MHz MTK 6516 processor, and operates Android 2.2 Froyo, whereas Google’s smartphone operates Android 2.3 Gingerbread powered by a 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor.

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Samsung Apps Mobile Application

Perhaps this is only a rumor. As reported by Marbridge Consulting, an industry insider states which Sina, one of China’s greatest Internet portals, has shaped a teamwork with Samsung, under that Sina will run the Samsung Apps mobile application store for mainland China. And Sina’s mobile applications will be pre-installed on Samsung handsets. Oh, sounds impressive, only visualize Sina microblog is pre-installed on a Samsung smartphone.

For the application of Samsung Apps mobile application store, Sina make a plan to transfer the operating authorizations to 1000CHI Software Technology, a mobile phone download customer developer which is backed by Sina. Here’s what spokesperson for Samsung China told in a declaration,

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Samsung Droid Charge

Just days prior to Verizon last go to release the Droid Charge, their 4G network mysteriously fell to pieces nationwide. Releasing a big 4G device in the central of your first big outage is not really right for return rates, thus VZW went ahead and pushed matters back a bit.

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