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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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Nokia Lumia 710

Vodafone UK has recently revealed that the Nokia Lumia 710, the cheapest Windows Phone Mango handset on the public, is now offered on PAYG or on Pay Monthly.

Both O2 and Three already provide the primary device on PAYG for £210 and Vodafone is rumoured to be marketing this smartphone for £150 instead.

Although it is more inexpensive than the Lumia 800, it has inherited a lot of the features of its more major brother such as the 1single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.4GHz CPU, the MSM8255T, which places at its heart.

The Nokia Lumia 710 comes with a 5 MP camera with flash, 512MB RAM, 8GB onboard storage, a free satnav named Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Internet Explorer 9(IE9) plus MS Office Mobile and Zune.

Vodafone UK markets it for £20.50/month on a 2 year with 100 minutes, data allowance (250MB), 500 texts and 1GB of WiFi from BT Openzone.

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Samsung Galaxy S II White

The Samsung Galaxy S3, the heir to the Galaxy S2, will seemingly be a mere 7mm heavy, according to a report informed by Korean news outlet ETNews.

Samsung Electronics has reportedly set to reduce the thickness of the printed circuit boards and different electronics materials by a huge 20%.

We are not confident whether the Galaxy S3 will apply the similar trick as the S2; the latter was 9mm thick at its thinnest point but gotten an unsightly bulge at the back. In ratio, the iPhone 4S is flat and 9.3mm thick.

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Nokia Lumia 800 Design

Nokia is making aims to make a foothold in the Australian smartphone market with its spectacular Lumia 800 windows phone this March. Optus, Telstra, and Vodafone will each supply the Nokia Lumia 800 and will be offered in black, cyan, magenta and white within every great retailers.

Whilst Nokia is yet to reveal a sale price in Australia, it’s planed to be launched as a range of competitive deals based on the prior Lumia releases in different states.

For Australia, the launching of the white Lumia 800 is massive news for the state’s awaiting enthusiasts. Still, it is not obvious whether the white will offer as gloss or matte to suit the rest of the Lumia 800 stock.

Though Nokia has intimated that they are capable of designing yellow and white Lumia 800 colours, no decision has been created to date.

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RIM BlackBerry Playbook

Research In Motion is announcing a luscious price cut in the 64 GB variant of its PlayBook tablet device, ascertained the Canadian smartphone and tablet manufacturer. After the price cut, the 64 GB PlayBook will be offered in the market for only $300.

It is not just the 64 GB variant which was subject to the price cut, the 16 GB variant too is now offered for just $199. This isn’t the first time that RIM is slashing the price of the PlayBook. The device’s is being available at a discounted price ever since October 2011.

As of now RIM is providing the PlayBook at the lowered pricing just in the US and UK folks are yet to get the good news. As of this writing RIM’s online United States store, when accessed, was timing out.

The cost cut announced by the maker is being looked by many as an inescapable result of the product’s not-so-impressive performance in the market so far.

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Samsung offered a glimpse into the future of tablets and smartphones through a video it launched. The video comes with a highly flexible AMOLED display, 3D videos, translation services, video calling capacity and also added reality.

Although some features are distant dreams, options aren’t too far from the future.

Sometime in 2012, the company is planned to announce their first flexible smartphone which features highly low use of energy and will be nearly permanent.

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Nokia Lumia 800

The head of Nokia France said French newspaper Les Echos that Nokia could be releasing a phone which’s the equivalent of the BMW Series 7 car range, following he approached the just revealed Lumia 800 to the BWM 5 series.

The Series 3 can be equated to the WIndows Phone powered Lumia 710. The top of the range Nokia Windows Phone handset is hoped to be the Nokia 900 otherwise recognized as the Ace.

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Sharp SoftBank 007SH KT

Wireless carrier Softbank in Japan has announced competitors Huawei and ZTE to enable it develop its 4G as a upcoming generation Wireless Network.

The maker claimed the network, that will be capable of producing speeds of up to 110 Mbps, will be released in 2012.

According to a Business Week report, ZTE said 4G network was Softbank’s ‘primary strategic partner’ for the project.

ZTE told that it will run with Softbank to cover 90% with the 4G wireless network and Huawei told the network will be bring to developing the 4G network in segments of Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka.

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Samsung Galaxy Note

The Samsung Galaxy Note, the miniature tablet or smartphone released by the Korean electronics giant at IFA 2011 last week, is prepared to debut in the United Kingdom in the first quarter of upcoming year with the United States receiving the note upcoming year.

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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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Intel

Intel has been commanded to amend its netbooks method as the request for tablet PC devices enhances together with large-screened laptops.

The firm had reached early success in the netbook market as buyer request was leaning towards cheap devices.

Still, now, as reported by Greg Welch, division director for mobile costumer platforms at Intel, buyers are now seeking devices which provide nicest performance and provide with nicest feature. Buyers are no longer tended to get devices which are cheap and low on power, PC World reports.

“There was some disappointment on some of the experience side, it maybe didn’t keep up with the pace of innovation. Now we’re trying to reinvigorate that. We’re trying to go in and integrate more technologies and we’ll see… if it has a role to fill in the market place between an ultrabook on one hand and pure tablet experience on the other,” Greg Welch told.

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