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HTC Edge

The HTC Endeavor, that was beforehand recognized as the HTC Supreme and the HTC Edge, will seemingly be marketed under the title One X, according to mobile news website Pocketnow.

The HTC One X, that’s planed to be released at Mobile World Congress at the end of February in Barcelona, will be HTC’s peak of the range smartphone and get a QuadCore processor, probably the Nvidia Tegra 3, a 4.7″ 1,280 x 720 pixel HD display, an 8 MP camera, plus a combination of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense UI 4.0.

Different tech website, Slashgear, is reporting that the HTC Ville will be named the HTC One S, intimating to the fact that the Taiwanese phone manufacturer may be warming to titling its range of mainstream/top-of-the-range smartphones as “One”.

Last year looked the rise of the Sensation (XL, XE and Plain Vanilla) and the year prior to the Desire (S, Z, plain vanilla and HD).

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Sony P Tablet

Sony has released its Sony P tablet device in the United Kingdom, at a more advanced rate than the Apple iPad.

The Tablet P comes with a clamshell design, offering two 5.5″ touch screens. It gets on the Android Honeycomb version 3.2 and is powered by the dual-core Tegra 2 processor, according to SlashGear.

Sadly, the Tablet P gets on an older version of Android while Google has already released Ice Cream Sandwich, that’s indicated for both Android smartphones and tablets.

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The Lenovo LePad K2 will designate the Chinese maker’s entry into the best of the range market of Android-based tablet.

Benchmarks announced by the GL Benchmark website feature which the chip does in amazement good approached to the Tegra 2.

It attains 63 FPS on the Egypt Offscreen 720p benchmark and almost 83 FPS on the PRO Offscreen 720p one approached to 24 FPS and 42 FPS severally.

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HP TouchPad

A test version of the WebOS application package or IPK file which anables you to operate Android on HP TouchPad has been built by a Chinese developer who goes by the pseudonym Chomper.

When it is set on HP TouchPad, the IPK will allow users operate the Android like they were getting Android for the TouchPad.

TouchPad users who are ready to attempt their hands on this new application can download the IPK from a Chinese Web Site.

In regards to performance of Android on TouchPad, Engadget stated that set in this way the Android operates well but it has also been noted that neither audio nor multi touch runs till now and there are matters when bouncingamong home screens or playing YouTube videos.

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ITL Atom E6xx icon

Intel Corp. has officially affirmed that the upcoming generation of Intel Atom CPUs – the E6xx series will be fitted with the Android 2.3 OS platform, also known as the Gingerbread.

Intel also set itself a deadline for the similar, that’s January next year.

With this move, Intel now complies the footsteps of arch competitors Nvidia and Qualcomm who had already announced same products a while back. Besides, Nvidia and Qualcomm’s products are suitable with both the Android 2.2 Honeycomb and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

No doubt, the prolonged capability of its new generation product will reinforce Intel’s stake in the ever developing mobile industry. But only time will say the effect it will have in mitigating the tough competition coming from firm competitors.

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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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Verizon Motorola DROID PRO QWERTY Candybar Android Phone

Microsoft is trying to block the sales of Motorola’s Android phones in the U.S., because it combats Android via litigation.

According to an article in Bloomberg, the Microsoft states that Motorola defied seven of its copyrights proposed with the US International Trade Commission.

Microsoft has requested the ITC to block the import of Motorola devices in the U.S. covering Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq XT, Devour, Backflip, and Charm.

Motorola, on the different side, is “vigorously defending”its interests against Microsoft’s copyright litigation strategy.

“We have a responsibility to our employees, customers, partners and shareholders to safeguard our intellectual property,” David Howard, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for litigation told through e-mail.

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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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Android Apps for Google TV

New reports have declared that Google is eventually announcing Android app support to its Google TV platform, something which Google has been planning from long, but failed to apply on for whatever cause.

The year was 2010, and the world watched Google, the Mountain View based search behemoth delivering its best shot at carrying your home entertainment experience to a fully new dimension with the release of the Google TV – a product which was made to offer users with good blend of web and TV content, and so make a revolution in the television industry! The product failed miserably, at least by the standard of Google, and needless to state, that aimed revolution never happened.

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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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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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