Nokia World might be coming next month, but it seemed that some people had been getting early access to what seemed to be a new model that Nokia would be launching in their event. The C7 has been spinning around the web for quite some time now, but Nokia has never made any statement regarding this 3.5-inch touchscreen beauty. But when a tech web from China called zol.com.cn published a ‘press-quality’ photo shot next to a Chivas Regal nip, it’s hard not to think that this gadget here is the real deal.
The C7 is Nokia’s smartphone running on their new Symbian^3 OS, and of kush there’s the 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display. Besides that, it has an 8-Megapixel camera sans Carl Zeiss, dual ELD flash, and a somewhat stingy 1,200 mAH battery to match its slim and sexy body. Well, just a month’s time to wait, so why not?
iFixit has again do what they do best, that is to tear down smartphones and things alike. Since the Dell Streak has been launched only recently, they seemed to be quick on their hands to get it raped. iFixit reports that the Streak is extremely easy to disassemble, and inside they found a Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon CPU, and cameras which they report are “similar” to those found inside the iPhone 4. Photonic sensors? Interesting. There’s nothing earth-shattering here, though iFixit has taken the Dell Streak teardown as an opportunity to debut their new “fixability” rating – and you’ll be happy to know that this baby has scored an 8 out of 10. Hit up the source for the full rundown.
Nokia is now ready to put your name in the list, and ship one unit of N8 smartphone to you at the end of September. Sadly that’s the only thing coming in the box. No fancy and free Bluetooth headsets or whatever, only the manuals and some cables, plus the adapter.
For more info of the Nokia N8, check out our previous post.
Here’s another leaked phone out there. Engadget has what seemed to be a Dell Thunder, Dell’s Android phone running on Éclair. Spec wise, this Thunder has an 8-Megapixel camera with LED flash on the back, capable of recording 720p videos, along with a removable 1,400mAh battery at the back. Dell’s miniature tablet Streak is now in retails, so it’s no surprise that Dell’s gearing up for their ‘real’ Android-smartphone. The phone itself looks rather smart too, with chrome-like side strips, and the back looks like an XPS notebook design.
The prototype that Engadget’s tipster has on hand runs on vanilla Android 2.1, though the final product should wear Dell’s custom skin on top. Screen resolution is purportedly 800 x 480, though judging by that 7 x 4 icon grid up there and the tipster’s own experience, it could be even higher; the 4.1-inch display looks to indeed be of the OLED variety. Well, all that we can say is, yet another oversized supercar smartphone coming right up in this soon-to-be crowded market.
Traditions are traditions and we as believers should act up and follow the traditions in order to keep it alive. The folks over at iFixit have done it again, this time to the newly launched Motorola Droid 2 which got teardown. Here’s 24 pieces of ‘exciting’ chips and circuit boards for your viewing pleasure. Amazingly enough, the internal construction is almost exactly the same as the Droid, despite Motorola’s near-doubling of the nuclear reactor inside, and also the Wi-Fi N. You’ll find a nigh-identical logic board, speaker, camera and LCD screen – not to mention the exact same battery, which means original Droid owners will have a handy swap. Not that you’d necessarily want to do the same to your new handset – its days like this we’re glad iFixit is here to take that bullet for us, just in case.
Head over to iFixit for the full glamor of the teardown.
There hasn’t been a big participation when it comes to Android’s gaming platform. Most apps that show up in the app store are daily-use or work-related, which lacks the fun-factor. The number of games for Android has been small when compared to the iOS platform. Bu that’s about to change, as Sony gets its ‘1337 skillz’ onto the green monsters’ home. Engadget has news that says that ‘the company is actively and heavily developing a brand new gaming platform, ecosystem, and device which are already in the late stages of planning’. Perhaps this is where those game developing companies bought by Google steps in. What’s more, it’s going to be Android 3.0! Read more…
More and more Windows Phone 7s are surfacing as of now. HTC has announced that theirs would be uniquely called the ‘Schubert’. This is rumoured to be ‘day one’ device from HTC. The uniqueness of this Schubert in order to stand out from the upcoming crowded market is that it is built using a single piece of aluminium, unibody style like the HTC Legend.
Shall I blame the Americans for this? They love everything that’s big, and now smartphone manufacturers are getting crazy over oversize phone fetish. We have the HTC Evo 4G, the Droid X; and now HTC is getting ready to throw in yet another oversize smartphone, the HTC Desire HD aka HTC Ace. Read more…
The Xperia 10 was rumoured back as far as November, and can you imagine it only emerge right about now? What gruesome tests were running in the certification process for the carriers? The Android-powered X10 will be ready for consumers’ purchase on 15th August.
Sony has put up a countdown on their Sony Style website, which hints on a new release sometime tomorrow. What we (and many others) are guessing is the Sony Xperia with Android. Apparently the four-inch Android smartphone is finally ready for its debut, though whether it’s “smarter” or no will perhaps hinge on which version of the OS it ships with.
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