The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is coming soon, and it’s already gaining a reputation – well deserved, too, because it’s the world’s first tablet to feature the Super AMOLED Plus HD touchscreen – a brand-new state-of-the-art touchscreen technology which makes the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s TFT-LCD touchscreen brighter, thinner, less reflective and more energy efficient than any screen you’ve seen before. At 7.7 inches (195.58mm) across – hence the name! – the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s touchscreen is 0.7 inches bigger than that of its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Some experts are already saying the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7‘s display is the perfect size for a tablet screen and that it puts the iPad 2′s touchscreen display to shame – the WXGA display has the highest pixel density display among tablets in the market, with 1024×600 resolution, and it offers crystal-clear viewing no matter what angle you hold it at.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 looks amazing too, with a stunning design. Its crisp, clear touchscreen is set within a jet black surround, adorned with a single Samsung logo, and this is backed by a classy brushed metal rear panel.

The brilliant, vivid touchscreen is just one of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s many attractive qualities. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is designed to be comfortable to hold and use, even one-handed, and it has a super-portable design. The Samsung Galaxy Tab’s body is slimmer than a pencil at just 7.89mm, so it won’t take up much space in your bag, or even your coat pocket. And at just 340g, it won’t weigh you down – in fact, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a full 45g lighter than its predecessor the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and it’s not far off half the weight of the iPad 2.

You’ll be able to save your videos and pictures on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s internal memory, which will come in a choice of 16, 32 or 64 megabytes, and of course you’ll be able to expand the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s storage capacity by using the microSD slot and a memory card of up to 32 GB. It’s running on Honeycomb – an Android operating system designed by Google specifically for tablets, and it has a powerful 1.4GHz Dual Core Processor – that’s 400MHz quicker than the iPad 2. With 1GB of RAM, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a speedy performer, even when multitasking.

With the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, you’ll be able to access the internet in a variety of ways, no matter where you are – its connectivity options are second to none. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 benefits from WiFi Channel Bonding technology which will let you receive data-rates around twice as much as existing WiFi. Plus of course the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 has Bluetooth and 3G (HSDPA, HSUPA). The Adobe Flash Player support means you’ll be able to enjoy thousands of great websites in their fullest glory. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s Google links mean it’s fully compatible with Google and Android’s applications – download games and apps from the Android Market, and make the most out of Google Talk, Gmail, Google Calendar, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Latitude, Google Places, and Google Maps Navigation, all of which work seamlessly on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. And if you exhaust the internet for entertainment, relax and watch a film – the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 can play a variety of video formats.

On the back of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, you’ll find a 3.2 megapixel camera with an LED flash and a handy autofocus feature and several modes, including single shot, continuous, panorama and self-shot. Make your own photo-collages in a jiffy with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s auto image-stitching feature. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 even has geotagging facilities thanks to its internal GPS system. This means that you can set the camera up to automatically tag photos taken on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 with the place that they were taken! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s rear-facing camera is also capable of recording 720p high-definition video. And don’t forget that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 also has a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, to be used for face-to-face video-conferencing with your friends and family – brilliant for keeping in touch with loved ones from far away.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a fresh new tablet with great connectivity and features – a brilliant addition to the tablet market.

The Huawei Vision is aptly named – it really is a vision. A good-looking and well-priced mid-range smartphone with a host of features, it runs on Google’s Android 2.3.4 interface (otherwise known as Gingerbread), and it’s landing on UK shelves in time to be in your Christmas stocking.

The Huawei Vision’s super-responsive touchscreen is slightly curved, adding a real sense of quality and luxury, as well as reducing those pesky reflections. And with 252dpi (dots/pixels per inch) you get crisp, clear images – ideal for showing off the pictures you’ll be taking with the 5-megapixel camera with single-LED flash and fast-responding autofocus that’s housed on the back of the Huawei Vision. You can use the Huawei Vision for movies, too – budding film-makers will love using the Huawei Vision to record in 720p video.

With a strong and sturdy unibody aluminium design, the Huawei Vision weighs about 135g, and is just 9.9mm at its thinnest, with a width and height of 59.3mm and 116.8mm. The back of the Huawei Vision is a classy anodised metal, topped at each end with a matte black plastic. The Huawei Vision’s glossy black front piece has a 3.7-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and 256,000 colours. The Huawei Vision’s touchscreen has an accelerometer sensor, so it rotates automatically when you need it to, and a proximity sensor which locks the screen when it senses that you’re making a call. It’s the perfect size for a touchscreen, big enough to ensure accuracy when typing on the classic Android keyboard or on the Huawei’s default TouchPal keyboard, but not so big that smaller-handed people find it a stretch. This means that not only is the Huawei Vision’s touchscreen ideal for hands of all shapes and sizes, it’s the perfect size for all applications – typing text messages, tweets and Facebook posts, and also for playing the many games you can download from the Android Market. In fact, the Huawei Vision comes ready loaded with Angry Birds, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, Order & Chaos Online and Guerrilla Bob HD, so the second you get your hands on a Huawei Vision, you can start gaming right away.

The Huawei Vision’s specifications are enough to rival any other smartphone. Running on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, the OS designed by Google especially for smartphones, it has a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and an inbuilt 2GB (ROM) internal memory, with 1GB of storage for your pictures, videos and so on. If that’s not enough for you, the Huawei Vision’s microSD card slot can take memory cards of up to a whopping 32GB.

The Huawei Vision’s user interfaces will blow your mind – they are simple and intuitive to use yet fun, and they look very impressive indeed. In fact, the Huawei Vision gives you a choice of two experiences. Traditionally minded Huawei Vision owners can choose the classic Android launcher, which brings up the Google interface that Android fans know and love. If you fancy something a bit more fun, the Huawei Vision has the 3D Carousel interface, a 3D-style carousel that will allow you to view all your home screens at once in an interactive ring, even spinning them at high speed if you wish – a fun feature which looks great and makes accessing your Huawei Vision home screens more interesting. Adding and removing panels is a snap too – you can just drag and drop them in the 3D interface.

Online access on the Huawei Vision is easy – not surprisingly for a phone with an operating system built by Google. Connecting with WiFi and 3G (plus Bluetooth), it comes with the stock Android browser which supports multiple windows, bookmarks, sharing options, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash – cleverly, internet on your Huawei Vision looks a lot like what you might see on your laptop. The Huawei Vision features a host of apps to make life easier and more enjoyable. You can search Google, use Gmail and chat with your friends on Google Talk, and use the inbuilt GPS system with Google Maps to find your way around. Access your documents and work wherever you are with Documents To Go, or browse, download (for free!) and read thousands of books with your Aldiko book reader app. Plus the Android Market has thousands of apps for any purpose you could think of, accessible at a moments notice and often free of charge.

A smartphone that truly allows you to make the most of the internet wherever you are, the Huawei Vision is a mid-range phone that will tick all your boxes.

An exciting development in the much-loved BlackBerry Curve range, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first in the series to replace the traditional QWERTY keypad with a touchscreen. It’s a ground-breaking move for BlackBerry in a device that’s expected to hit the UK market by the end of 2011 – just in time for Santa’s little elves.

The QWERTY keypad is gone, replaced by a bright HVGA touchscreen with a crystal-clear screen resolution of 480mm by 360mm and 188ppi (pixels per inch). At 3.2” (81.28mm), the touchscreen covers almost the whole of the face of the BlackBerry Curve 9380, leaving space at the bottom for the five necessary push buttons: call, terminate, menu, back and optical track pad, all backlit – a nice touch. As the BlackBerry Curve 9380 runs on the reliable and speedy BlackBerry 7 operating system, the touchscreen, like the rest of the phone, responds swiftly to your requests. Its shape and size fit comfortably in the palm and makes navigating the screen, even with one hand, a snap – the drop-down notifications menus can be activated with a swipe without needing to readjust the phone’s position in your hand.

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is a handsome device, with its glossy black finish coming as a refreshing change to the matte finish seen on many smartphones such as the BlackBerry Bold 7970. With dimensions of 109mm by 60mm by 11.2mm, it’s thin, and its sturdy and strong body is hardy enough not to need further protection from a sleeve. Weighing just 98g, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is a very pocketable smartphone.

From the back, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 looks comparable to its older sister, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 – only true BlackBerry experts would notice that the microUSB port on the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is on the left, a little lower than on the BlackBerry Curve 9360.

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 comes pre-loaded with apps to make browsing the internet and keeping up to date with your mates easier than ever. Of course, there’s BBM – and lots of new BBM-connected applications which will let you chat to friends while you play a game or listen to BBM Music. Now the BlackBerry Curve 9380 also comes with the nifty Social Feeds application – a one-stop shop for all your social media needs, it allows you to update all your social media feeds at once, and see messages from your friends the second they arrive. And of course, you can browse the internet with ease on the BlackBerry Curve 9380 with the updated and improved web browser – it has a new state-of-the-art JavaScript compiler to improve the load time speed of web pages for a significantly faster, more fluid web browsing experience. Page loads are 40% quicker than on the Blackberry 6.0 OS. 3G connectivity and WiFi are standard on the BlackBerry Curve 9380, for internet on the move, and the new optimised HTML5 adds a new dimension to gaming and video. And if you really need information on the go, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 has a smart new update to BlackBerry’s popular Universal Search feature – just say your search terms out loud and its voice-activated search will find whatever you’re looking for.

Of course, a smartphone isn’t smart without a camera, and the BlackBerry Curve 9380 has an excellent built-in 5-megapixel camera with a bright LED flash, x4 zoom capabilities and a handy dedicated button – perfect for quick snaps. It’s a VGA video camera too. Save your pictures on the 512MB built-in memory, or augment the memory capability using the microSD slot – the BlackBerry Curve 9380 can support memory cards of up to 32GB.

And the BlackBerry Curve 9380 camera supports the amazing Augmented Reality technology. What’s that? Well, imagine you’re standing in front of a famous building. Using the Wikitude app, you can point your camera at the building, and the app will tell you all about it. Augmented Reality technology even links in with BlackBerry favourite BBM – hold it up in a crowd and it will recognise the faces of your BBM friends.

Packed with space-age features, fast and good looking, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 truly is a super-smart smartphone that you’re sure to love.

At its launch, Nokia’s CEO called the Nokia Lumia 800 “the first real Windows phone device – no small boast since its operating system, Windows Phone, has been on the market since late 2010 in other smartphones. But it’s easy to see why he made that claim – the Nokia Lumia 800 has got the whole tech world talking. Created by a crack team of industrial design and user experience experts from both Nokia and Microsoft, the Nokia Lumia 800 represents a renaissance for Nokia, who were so keen to produce a smartphone that they were proud of that they turned the new phone around in just six months. But a short production time has not compromised the product one bit.

At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Nokia Lumia 800’s design has a lot in common with the Nokia 9, but on closer inspection there are many differences. The most striking thing about the Nokia Lumia 800 is the sleek lines of the curved chassis, which measures 116.5mm long by 61.2mm and just 12.1mm thick. These curves which extend to the screen, where they encourage the natural sweep of the thumb as you use the phone. The Nokia Lumia 800’s slightly convex 93.9mm (3.7”) touchscreen also reaches all the way across the phone’s body, creating a “popping” effect that makes the screen graphics really stand out. Weighing in at a light 142g, it’s made from a tough polycarbonate that feels rock-solid, is hard to damage and, apparently, is coloured all the way through – a nice touch. Its attractive matte finish doesn’t attract fingerprints the way glossy shells do, so it stays looking clean and new. The Lumia 800’s snappy design further breaks away from traditional black and white smartphone colour combinations, and it’s available not only in black, but in hot pink and an eye-popping peacock blue. On the back you’ll find a high quality 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, HD video capability, a dedicated capture button and dual LED flash.

When you pick up the Nokia Lumia 800 and dive in, you’ll be up and running in no time, aided by the speedy 1.4Ghz processor and 3D graphics hardware accelerator. The Lumia 800 has some unexpected features – for instance, the lack of traditional address book, which is replaced by the nifty People application which pulls in contact details from Hotmail, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like, and incorporates email, chat and SMS too. There are, of course, also apps to import contacts from your old phone, smoothly and easily.

The Windows Phone operating system is easy to use – a speedy flick of the fingers transfers you between the handy Live Tiles interface (the colours matching your phone’s shell exactly – a stylish touch!) and your downloaded applications. You’ll pick it up in a trice and will soon be making the most of your Nokia Lumia 800’s internet and WiFi capabilities, enjoying Internet Explorer 9, Bing searches and the Facebook app anywhere and everywhere. The battery life will keep you going for ages – up to 335 hours standby time, 9.5 hours 3G talktime, 7 hours video playback time and a whopping 55 hours music playback time. When it finally runs out of steam, recharge is by micro-USB from the mains or from another USB device.

There are apps galore to enjoy, to be downloaded from the Windows Phone Marketplace, but the Nokia Lumia 800 comes with plenty to entertain you right out of the box. Included bundled in the Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia Drive, the first free satnav service on any Windows Phone device. Music lovers will enjoy Nokia Music, a free app which includes access to the exclusive MixRadio, with genre-dedicated radio stations – you can stream music from them or save for offline listening. Bluetooth connectivity allows you to listen wirelessly with Bluetooth-enabled devices. Plus the generous 16GB of internal memory (with a 512MB RAM) gives you plenty of space for hundreds of songs, which can be downloaded from Nokia’s 15m track collection and transferred from other devices. Still not enough memory for you? Nokia Lumia 800 owners can sign up for a SkyDrive account, a free online backup storage solution which gives you access to 25GB more of online storage.

A new smartphone that can stand up for itself amongst the big players, the Nokia Lumia 800 is something of which the Nokia and Microsoft teams can be proud.

Nokia Lumia 800 device will go on sale in the UK on November 16 in the color black.

A Nokia spokesperson confirmed to WinRumors on Tuesday that Nokia will initially offer the black Lumia 800 and that Cyan and Magneta variants will follow shortly afterwards. No reason was given for the delay but it’s likely due to manufacturing given that colored devices take longer to perfect on production lines. WinRumors spoke to various network operators on Tuesday and some are hoping to stock the popular Cyan color variant on November 28 but the majority will be offering the black version in large volumes initially.

Nokia Lumia 800 is expected to be priced at £399 on various Pay As You Go (PAYG) packages in the UK. Orange will offer the Lumia on a range of packages and according to one source familiar with Orange’s plans, the Lumia 800 will be offered at £36 per month with either 900 minutes and unlimited texts and 250MB of data or 600 minutes, unlimited texts and 1GB of data. The device will be offered free on this contract. Existing Orange customers will also be offered a free Xbox console if they upgrade their current contract.

source :Win Rumours

Galaxy Nexus processor
The new handset has a dual-core 1.2GHz Texus Instruments OMAP4460 processor, the same speed as the chip used in Samsung’s Galaxy S2. Indeed, several of the Nexus Prime’s core specs mirror that of Samsung’s existing top end Android handset.

Galaxy Nexus operating system
The Galaxy Nexus is the first handset to feature Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The OS will be coming to other high end Android handsets including the Nexus S. Ice Cream Sandwich is designed to bridge the gap between the user experience on Android 2.x phones and Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets – the same operating system will now run on both types of hardware.

Galaxy Nexus memory
Like the Galaxy S2, there will be 1GB of system memory on board the handset. That’s double the amount inside an iPhone 4S.

Galaxy Nexus display
The huge 4.65-inch Super AMOLED screen boasts 720p resolution. It’s bigger than the 4.27-inch display found on the Galaxy S2 (and the same as that found on the S2 HD LTE in the US) but thankfully smaller than the whacking great 5.3-inch display found on the Samsung Galaxy Note.

It’s also still dwarfed by the HTC Sensation XL by 0.05 inches.

Galaxy Nexus dimensions and weight
The device follows a similar form factor to its predecessor, the Samsung Nexus S, but is thinner at just 8.94mm thick and weighs in just a little heavier at 135g. The footprint? 36 x 68mm.

Galaxy Nexus Design
As you can see, the design language apes the previous Nexus S and Samsung Galaxy S2 with the lip at the bottom of the phone.

A button-less display may confuse some always looking to hit the Home key to get back to the main menu, but Google wanted to create a slick, edge-to-edge front to the phone.

While more rounded than the Galaxy S2, the Galaxy Nexus is almost the non-identical twin to the current darling of Android users.

Galaxy Nexus camera and video
The Galaxy Nexus shoots 1080p video, just like the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S2, and has a 5-megapixel rear camera with an LED flash. The front-facing snapper is a 1.3-megapixel unit. There’s also a panorama mode plus, according to Samsung, no shutter lag.

Galaxy Nexus mobile payments
As expected, NFC tech remains on board from the Nexus S – though the tech is still slow to roll-out across other handsets.

Galaxy Nexus connectivity and sensors
The handset also boasts Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11n Wi-Fi and HSPA+ (enabling download speeds of up to 21Mbps) over 4G networks, rolling out in the US at the moment. Unfortunately, we won’t see these in the UK quite yet. There’s also a proximity sensor as you’d expect and, strangely enough, a barometer. We could do with a few other phones featuring that.

Galaxy Nexus storage
The handset will be available in two versions featuring 16GB or 32GB of internal storage.

Galaxy Nexus storage
The handset features a 1,750 mAh battery – far better than the 1,420 mAh unit in the iPhone 4S.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus isn’t branded as being from Google
Although the handset still carries the name of the search giant on its rear, this is the first Nexus device not to have the word ‘Google’ as part of its name, following the Google Nexus One and Nexus S. It also isn’t called the Nexus Prime, as was rumoured.

source: techradar

The first we saw of the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 was a bit of a let-down. It looked pretty much identical to the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and 8530 which had made its first appearance nearly a year earlier; same screen, same camera, same housing, same keyboard. Wi-Fi 802.11n wasn’t a huge deal, and though the 8520 was hurting bad for missing 3G and GPS, the fact that the BlackBerry Curve 8530 came shortly afterwards to fill those gaps meant that besides the added flexibility of running on GSM networks, the 9300 wasn’t that huge of a leap.

That is, until RIM announced the Curve 3G as being compatible with with BlackBerry 6, the new operating system that had launched on the higher-end Torch just a few weeks prior. Though it eventually launched with the same ol’ OS 5 that we had been using for awhile, some forward compatibility gave what would otherwise be considered a low-end entry-level smartphone a doorway into a fresh and modern operating system. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 largely failed to impress as its moderate OS enhancements still couldn’t quite keep up with the upper end of the smartphone market, but for lower-end smartphones, universal search and a nicer user interface could set a new baseline standard for BlackBerry. The Curve 3G is now out across Canada, and available today on T-Mobile, but can it stand on its own well enough (and long enough) until OS 6 comes around?

source: intomobile

Three UK have just started selling the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300. So far, we’ve only seen this phone launch in Canada, on Rogers, Bell and Virgin, and now it seems to have made its way across the pond. This is basically a Curve 8520 with 3G support.

This is not at the high end of the smartphone spectrum, and Three have priced it accordingly. It’s free for plans starting at £25 per month. A 24-month contract is required, of course.

The £25 plan gets you 500 anytime minutes to any network, 5000 texts and 1 GB of data each month. There’s a £33/month plan that ups the minutes to 900, and a £35/month plan that features 2000 minutes each month. All the other allowances are the same regardless of the package you choose.

Interesting pricing options as usual from Three. The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300′s main features are:

•HSDPA, WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth, GPS
•New ‘optical trackpad’ for one handed precision control
•2.0 MP camera with video recording
•2.44 inch display
•Up to 29 hours music playback
•256 MB internal memory, expandable via microSD card slot
•1150 mAh battery
•Dimensions: 109 x 60 x 13.8 mm
•Weight: 106 g
This is a decent choice if it’s your first dive into the BlackBerry world, or perhaps a second device. It’s also a solid recommendation for the less tech savvy of your relatives. It may not have all the glitz of the Torch, but it’s a classic BlackBerry. And now you can get it hassle-free if your operator of choice is Three UK.

source: unwired view

We loved the HTC Desire, oh yes we did. Loved it so much in fact that we hanker for more of it. Which is why we nearly keeled over with happiness today when HTC told us about the HTC Desire HD — a brand-new smart phone that quite literally delivers even more mobile.

The Desire HD should be out in October on contracts around £35 per month. We’ll have a full review and more details nearer the launch.

source: cnet