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A smartphone bearing the brand of supercar manufacturer Lamborghini has been launched in Hong Kong, bringing all of the pomp and circumstance across from the race track and to the palm of your hand. The Lamborghini Spyder smartphone is set to retail for around £1100 for the basic model, although there are costlier models which bring the price point even further out of reach to the general public.

Though it is very expensive Lamborghini smartphone is a little light on high end specs. The 2.2 inch display is a real minnow compared to the four inch plus devices regularly showcased by mobile providers such as HTC and Samsung. The smartphone’s three megapixel camera and four gigs of onboard storage mean that the specs are roughly on par with a mid range Nokia agdget.

There is an option to have crocodile skin stitched onto the rear of the phone, which is definitely a step up from the plastic and metal usually found on various mobile devices. The display case in which the concept phone is shipped is another work of boutique opulence – it is finished in steel and has pneumatic arms to hold the lid.

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Samsung Star, presented by Samsung Electronics in May 2009 has surpassed sales figures of 30 million units in record time thereby making itself the first gadget in Samsung’s history to touch this figure in such a little time. Samsung Star notched up sales figures of 10 million just within 6 months of its launch and 20 million in just one year. In Austria and Germany, it became on the top selling smartphone.

Samsung Star is the second mobile device in the Samsung’s history to touch 30 million sales figures. Samsung E250 was the first one to touch the landmark figure. But Samsung Star achieved the feat in just over half the time taken by Samsung E250.

Samsung Star boasts of rich multimedia features and is aimed towards the next generations of mobile users. Samsung has expressed its pleasure over the success of the handset. Samsung Electronics  expects it touch screen phones to contribute over 20% of the company’s mobile phone volumes in 2010. This is based on the success of the company’s success of mobile devices like Samsung Champ and Star.

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Whereas Verizon wireless made a huge pact about rolling out 4G in December, 4G gadgets have been much harder to find. On Thursday, the business is expected to initiate smartphones from vendors including LG Electronics, Samsung and Motorola. According to the source all of the latest devices will be powered by the unwrap source Android OS.

4G phones will allow mobile users to surf the web at speeds analogous to the broadband they use at home nowdays. Internet capable gasgets like the iPod touch, the iPad, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the iPhone and hundreds of other cell phones have been limited in internet access speed. The mishmash of small screens and slow speeds has made internet procedure by mobile devices discomfited and unproductive at best.

Most latest devices are now sporting superior displays. While that makes them more tricky to carry, the browsing experience is significantly enhanced. More and more web pages have been redesigned for the slighter screened mobile devices. Now with truly high-speed Internet accessible to smartphones, mobile internet usage is expected to skyrocket.

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The innovative handset assortment is based on Samsung’s open-source operating system, the Bada smartphone platform, which has been intended to offer innumerable smartphone applications for example games, entertainment, news, music andvideo, health, social networking, reference, productivity, e-books and utilities over and above providing new technology to Samsung punters.

“The new Wave family is testament to Samsung’s continuing commitment to deliver a smartphone for every lifestyle. I’m proud of the Samsung Wave family as it continues to offer rich, connected and innovative smartphone experiences to users,” believed Stephen Jun, head of Mobile Division at Samsung Electronics. “These three new gadgets in the Samsung Wave family represent Samsung’s commitment to delivering choice for smartphone users and ultimately democratising the smartphone market.”

The Wave family has been designed for social net workers, according to Samsung, and contains the Samsung Social Hub application, on all three phones, which is designed to integrate email, IM, SMS and social networking sites on the phone.

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We have a contrast battle video between two Windows Phone 7 smartphones for your screening delight below today between the Dell Venue Pro and the HTC HD7 phones on the T-Mobile network. The Dell Venue Pro versus the HTC HD7 comparison video comes our way civility of the guys over at Daily Mobile and by way of  Pocket Now and delivers a finicky eight minute Windows Phone 7 comparison battle between both mobile devices.

The Dell Venue Pro is a weightier handset than the HTC HD7 weighing in at 190 grams as opposed to the HD7’s 162 grams but that is possibly due to the Dell venue Pro sporting a slide out QWERTY keyboard which the HTC HD7 doesn’t feature. The HTC HD7 has the superior screen of the two coming in at 4.3 inches while the Dell Venue Pro measures 4.1 inches, but you don’t want to hear about all that from me, you’d rather skip over all this and head on down to the video and check out this comparison for yourself, o get to it and enjoy.

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The newest Which? survey concerning mobile handset expenditure which questioned 1271 adults aged 16 or over has shown that we in the UK are prone to spending too much with contract packages.

According to Which?, 10 million users in the UK overpay for their mobile phones, claiming that we are paying extra on extra texts, call-time, and data allowance because of going over the monthly allowance from network providers.

The results that Which? claim are “not surprising” have also revealed that over 6 million consumers have no idea that they are reaching or have exceeded monthly limit for call minutes and 5 million didn’t know about their text and data allowance limits.

The survey also showed that we don’t tend to look around for the best deals or are frightened of change as the survey revealed that 18 million users have never even switched mobile providers.

Tom McLennan, head of Which? said that, “You could be spending hundreds of pounds more than you need to on your mobile every year if you’re not on the right tariff.”

McLennan also recommended that consumers who are going over their limits should amend their bills and search for better tariffs to suit their phoning and texting needs.

However, McLennan also claimed that the opposite circumstances was also true, that “If you never go over your agreed line rental, it’s because you’re not using up your allowance so you may be able to save money by finding a cheaper tariff that reflects your usage.”

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T-Mobile has declarated a full range of new Android phones this fall, and it gazes like the carrier plans to discharge more of the kind in January 2011. T-Mobile plans to release the Motorola Cliq 2 and Dell Streak 7, possibly on January 19.

The Cliq 2 will receive a honeycomb-shaped slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The novel Motorola smartphone is codenamed Begonia, and will be motorized by Motoblur atop Android 2.2. The Cliq 2 is also said to feature a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi Wireless-N with Wi-Fi calling and possibly HSPA+ connectivity.

The specs for the forthcoming Dell Streak 7 are mostly unknown, though its name reveals that a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen should be expected, along with HSPA+ connectivity. The press images also reveal front- and rear-facing cameras.

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You remember a few days ago when it was announced that Sony Ericsson was planning two new gasgets – the Hallon and the Anzu? Well, spy shots have emerged of handsets that looks astonishingly like at least one of them.

The first is the Hallon, and fits perfectly with the information our well-placed source gave us – it’s a Sony Ericsson Vivaz rebooted with enhanced hardware (ie a capacitive screen) and Android 2.3.

The top of the handset houses the microUSB slot as well as a bowed exterior, mimicking the ‘human curvature’ design of the Vivaz, so it’s almost certain we’ll be seeing this at Mobile World Congress.

The next cell phone was snapped in China, and while we’re waiting for the Anzu to rear its head, it’s improbable that this is the one given the smaller screen.

The mystery device has been tipped to come with a 3-inch screen – much slighter than the Anzu’s reported 4-inch effort, and also comes with a superb graphic processing and benchmark score – is this a PSP Phone sidekick?

Given Sony Ericsson looks likely to be opening an Android gaming portal called Xperia Play that seems a real possibility – roll on MWC when all these mysteries should be exposed.

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