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The LG DoublePlay has snuck online a couple of times in the past week, but today T-Mobile completed the DoublePlay news triple play by officially announcing the Android-powered slider. As you could probably tell by the image above, the DoublePlay not only has a main 3.5-inch touchscreen on its face, but also a second 2-inch touch panel below. The dual displays can work separately or in conjunction with one another,  allowing the user to complete several tasks at once. Other specs include a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, 720p video capture, T-Mobile 4G connectivity, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Expect the LG DoublePlay to hit T-Mobile in time for the holidays for an undisclosed price. The DoublePlay isn’t the first Android phone we’ve seen with a dual touchscreen layout, but what makes LG and T-Mobile’s offering different is that it’s got a physical keyboard for those times that you absolutely, positively need the tactility that only a hardware QWERTY can provide.

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The Droid 3 is a perfectly respectable handset. It’s fast, solid and well made, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that’s one of the very best out there, and a good (if slow) camera. The 4-inch screen is large and colourful but do sample it alongside the Nexus S, say, before committing yourself to emailing and surfing on it for a full 2-year contract.The bulky design also smacks of complacency. Where HTC and Samsung are trying to broaden Android’s appeal, the macho Droid 3 is aimed directly at its core constituency of IT professionals and iPhone haters. The risk is that many of those will be happy to wait for the Droid Bionic, unveiled at CES and due to arrive imminently with a larger 4.3-inch screen and that all-important 4G LTE link.It’s far too early yet to write off the Droid range, and the Droid 3 would certainly make a safe choice for anyone who absolutely demands a physical keyboard. But Motorola should take care. One good idea and reliable build quality will only get you so far – today’s handsets need to be genuine all-rounders. Unless keyboards are your thing, this probably isn’t the Droid you’re looking for.

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The T-Mobile myTouch 4G was one of the prettiest Android devices I have seen over the past year and now we see that T-Mobile is bringing that device with a slider QWERTY keyboard in the myTouch 4G Slide. The myTouch 4G Slide may also have the best camera from HTC, which is an area they have traditionally been quite weak in compared to other smartphone manufacturers. I don’t think it can match what Nokia is doing with their cameras and the claim on the T-Mobile site that it is the “most advanced camera of any smartphone” may be a bit of a marketing phrase. Then again, I will have to give the 8 megapixel shooter a try and see for myself since I do own the Nokia N8.

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Following the announcement that Nokia will be using Windows Phone 7 within a year, the E7 should be among its last Symbian-powered phones. Don’t get too emotional, now…

This handset combines all of Nokia’s current strengths and weaknesses. Made from anodised aluminium, it’s a well-constructed, chunky slider with a full QWERTY. Those elements have a reassuringly old-fashioned feel to them. Giving less of a warm, nostalgic glow are a 680MHz processor that’s noticeably slower than rivals, giving sluggish multi-touch, and an operating system that feels archaic next to Android, iOS or WP7. Symbian is not a pleasure to use, and the range of apps at the Ovi Store remains of lower quality and quantity than at Android Market or the Apple App Store.

The four-inch screen’s resolution is only 640×360, so movies lack the detail of the Incredible S or iPhone 4. Being AMOLED, it does produce excellent contrast areas and off-angle viewing, however. The E7 does have one killer feature and that is its eight-meg/720p camera. Stills are excellent, and you can tweak white balance, sharpness. ISO and contrast. There’s also an LED flash. The HD video capture is smooth with natural colours, too. I Iowever with its other deficiencies, including a battery that needs charging every night, the E7 is hard to recommend to anyone other than die-hard Nokia fans.

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For ages the Xperia Play was referred to by everyone as the PlayStation handset. And with all the publicity neighboring Sony Ericsson’s newest Android phone it’s hard to envisage it living up to potential. Be short of of PlayStation branding in the name is telling, this handset is a association between Sony Ericsson and Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), and so isn’t a pure-bred PlayStation product, but instead is ‘PlayStation Certified’. There’s no direct connection to the PlayStation Portable (PSP) then, and it won’t run games friendly with Sony’s handheld gaming gadget – which is probably all most people wanted or anticipated from a PlayStation handset. It will run games from the, openly retro, original PlayStation (PS1) – but only those that have been specifically converted for use on the Play. The other games in the current schedule are basically Android games, for instance an update of long-running driving series Asphalt, which has been modified to add support for its controls.

It’s those dedicated controls that really make the Xperia Play show up. They are positioned on a slide out portion, much like a keyboard on many handsets. The touchscreens on modern smartphones have no doubt inspired some novel innovative control mechanisms in mobile games; but more traditional comfort games will really benefit from the Play’s directional pad, four face buttons, two circular analogue touchpads and shoulder buttons. The Play’s design is indistinguishable to previous Xperia handsets, with its rounded and tapered ends and sleek plastic highlighted by chrome details. The top half of the Xperia consists of the screen and four buttons for Android’s ordinary functions: Back, Home, Menu and Search. The bottom half is about 50% thicker, and houses the Playstation controls over and above the phone’s ports – microUSB and headphone. This adds up to quite a substantial handset, and it feels heavy too, but not awkwardly so – its rounded shape helps it slip effortlessly into a pocket.

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HTC may need to expand its awards cabinet. This year it’s scooped the coveted prize of Tech Brand of the Year, as well as retaining its Phone of the Year gong with the HTC Desire.It’s been a rapid rise to glory for the Taiwanese company, taking it from  cult Windows Mobile handset manufacturer to a producer of market-leading Android smartphones capable of troubling the iPhone in just three years. It’s been quite a journey…

HTC Desire Specifications

OS Android 2.2 with Sense

PROCESSOR Snapdragon 1GHz

STORAGE 512MB + microSD

SCREEN 3.7-inch, 800×480

CONNECTIVITY 7.2 Mbps HSDPA,GWi-Fi

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR,A-GPS, 3.5mm audio

CAMERA 5megapixels, autofocus, LED flash

VIDEO 800×480 at 15fps

SIZE 119x60x12mm

WEIGHT 135g

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The first Milestone had a decent screen and a disappointing keyboard. Motorola has largely put that right with the new Milestone, improving the QWERTY by removing the pointless direction pad and adding larger, better-spaced keys. It still has some way to go to compete with the Torch’s keyboard, but it’s the best on an Android. The inclusion of the MotoBlur overlay also makes the Milestone 2 a more enticing proposition. In veterate social networkers will like the way it very fluidly aggregates different forms of communication from your contacts. MotoBlur also backs up your data to the cloud, which could prove extremely handy. In conjunction with Android 2.2, the Milestone 2 is generally fun to use.

Motorola has provided simple ways to navigate across the seven home screens and there are also some good widgets, including a strip of icons to easily turn N Wi-Fi, aeroplane mode, GPS and Bluetooth on or off from the home scre en. Web browsing is fast and video playback smooth. It’s also Flash-compatible so more of the internet is visible than on the iPhone 4. However, although the 1GHz processor  keeps most things running at a good clip, the touchscreen can be annoyingly slow to respond. With the camera taking decent five-meg stills and very good 720p video, this is a strong handset. However the feeling remains that there’s nothing exceptional about it. You might be better off waiting for the Desire Z if you want Android 2.2 with a QWERTY keyboard…

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Previous touchscreen BlackBerrys hurled the baby out with the bath water, ditching the brand’s always excellent keyboards in the rush to join the cool kids. The Torch rectifies that, sitting its most comfortable QWERTY yet under a large, responsive touchscreen. It’s chunky as a result, but still smart. The touchscreen/QWERTY combo feels natural, not cut-and shut. If you want to dial a number without opening the phone, a virtual keypad appears on screen. You can do the same with text messages but given how luxuriously spaced and satisfying the QWERTY is, you won’t find yourself doing so often. The Torch comes with the new BlackBerry OS 6. Based around swoppable screens – Frequent, Media, Downloads and a customisable Favourites one – it’s easy to navigate, with a tap on the info bar at thet op of the screen calling up emails, texts, Facebook updates and the latest from Twitter.

It still feels notably less slick than iOS or Android, and 624 MHz processor sometimes lags but the 3.2-inch touchscreen is quick and responsive and the accelerometer is better than most. The biggest improvement is the web browser, which looks lush, making the most of the greater screen real estate. There’s also a decent five-meg camera with flash, and the battery should last most users twodays between charges. As ever with BlackBerry, email is the best available, being fast, reliable and secure, while BlackBerry Messenger lets you send unlimited free messages to BlackBerry users. This is the best BlackBerry to date. It’s still not the complete smartphone package but for frequent messengers, nothing else comes close.

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Though share of LG has taken a bit a toll last year, yet the company continues to be one of the prominent handset manufacturers in the world and. The mobile phone market has seen unprecedented growth over the last few years with sales of feature phones as well as smartphones rising high. LG has the reputation of rolling out feature rich handsets and the company has come up with three new cell phones for consumers. The company has come up with handsets named LG T310, T325 and P 520 which looks to enrich experience of users. All the aforementioned handsets are equipped with solid features and looks to increase the consumer base of the company in the country.

LG T310 boasts of a vibrant touch screen with the home screen loaded with widgets of social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Orkut. The phone has a 2 mega-pixel camera and Wi-Fi network coupled with applications such as Zap Box and Mobi Comix. LG T325 is also a touch screen phone which boasts of 3G video calling and access to social networking sites. T325 also has applications such as Mobi Comix and Zap Box.

And if you are looking for a stylish Dual-SIM handset, then LG P520 is the one for you. The vibrant metallic finish of the phone gives the phone an elegant look and the home screen of the phone has widgets which gives you quick access to the internet. The device has Opera 5 mobile browser and boasts of fun Class UI cartoon theme.

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T-Mobile established late on Monday that it is going to shut down its Sidekick service on May 31 2011. Just then, the Microsoft-backed Danger servers will no longer be active and all Sidekick handsets will mislay the costly cloud-based services that define the phone. To lessen displeased patrons, T-Mobile will offer unnamed offers to Sidekick consumers to help them changeover to a latest phone. Web-based tools and in-store acquaintances will also be accessible to help Sidekick users back-up their contacts, emails, photos and more. There is no reveal of how many T-Mobile clienteles will be exaggerated by this conclusion. Many regulars were most likely obsessed away by the large date loss and outage suffered by Danger/Microsoft and its Sidekick brand back in 2009.

Fear not Sidekick fans! Although the Danger servers are being shut down, the Sidekick brand will prolong with Android. A Samsung-made Sidekick 4G was recently spotted in the wild with full Android attire and T-Mobile just launched a Sidekick 4G sign-up page. On the microsoft side of things, this spells the end of Danger which was bought for $500 million in back in 2008. These teams of Danger workers supposedly worked on the now defunct Kin handsets and have been or will be transitioned over to Windows handset. With Nokia’s switch to WP7, perchance the talents of this team can be used to incorporate Nokia’s Ovi cloud services with the Windows Phone platform.

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The Sony Ericsson Spiro is a slide-form Dual Band GSM phone with a QVGA TFT display, sustaining up to 256,000 colours, measuring 2.2 inches point to point. The Spiro sports a fairly clear-cut, almost disarmingly humble frame with a sleek glossy front & a matte battery cover that makes for a pleasant contrast, besides preventing the mobile from slipping out of your palm during frantic use. At almost half the price of the Zylo, its Sony Ericsson stablemate, the Spiro makes much more sense, particularly if you hunt for a good music-playing mobile, since it comes with a 3.5mm headphone socket. It is extremely recommended that you endow in a good pair of earphones as the incorporated pair doesn’t do justice to the handset’s impressive playback quality. The phone also supports FM radio with RDS functionality.

As with many Sony Ericsson handsets, the Spiro sports a central, circular Navi key which is flanked by semi circle menu selection keys, which wrap around the call send/end keys. The describe allows for easy traversing of the menus, besides rendering easy control of the media player functions. The Spiro is powered by same Walkman 4.0 software that is featured in much higher end Sony Ericsson mobiles and delivers striking perfomance with PlayNow support. The mobile supports the TrackID function which lets you categorize a song just by listening it for a few seconds. Even though you need to rely on EDGE or GPRS connection to connect to Sony Ericsson’s data servers with your request. It also supports Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP for wirelessly streaming music. The Spiro sports a 2 MP camera at up to 2X digital zoom, which is fine for impromptu snaps to be send to friends via MMS. The mobile supports an impressive 2000 entries phonebook and recognizes microSD cards up to 16GB.

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HTC has always enhanced the mobile phones sector with stylish gadgets and was last spotted unleashing its ChaCha and Salsa handsets. The company has now joined hands with Sprint to roll out the HTC Arrive Windows Phone 7 smartphone with a sliding full QWERTY keyboard and tilt-up display. The offering enables punters to plunge themselves in various Microsoft services for example Microsoft Mobile Office, Zune, and Xbox Live. The Windows Phone 7 platform comes along with Hubs for faultless access to customers’ most liked content, counting people, pictures, games, music and video over and above Office along with Marketplace. The start screen can be easily tailored with Live Tiles which may also highlight pending messages and meetings, news and weather, games or friend status. Featuring full HTML web browser with advanced Bing Search, the latest phone enables clients to access corporate e-mails, personal e-mails and text messages with ease.

Moreover improved Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth 2.1 capabilities, the HTC Arrive houses a 5MP camera with flash, auto-focus, digital zoom and 720p HD camcorder. The audio experience is leveraged with SRS Wow HD surround sound. The gadget also features a media player with 3.5mm stereo headset jack. Customers can enjoy voice and text prompts in English and Spanish. As light as 6.5oz, the cell phone comes equipped with a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a 3.6-inch 800 x 480 WVGA capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch abilities. The smartphone is powered by a 1500mAh Lithium-ion battery which is capable of delivering around 6 hours of talktime. Owners can store their favorite content easily using the handset’s 16GB internal memory. The HTC Arrive will hit stores starting March 20. This mobile handset will be accessible via Sprint retail channels. Customers can now pre-order the HTC Arrive through any participating Sprint Stor. Extra, these users’ names will be added to the device wait list and be contacted to pick the handset beginning March 20.

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For a long time rumoured to be the PlayStation phone Sony has now made its nastiest kept surreptitious official in the appearance of a Super Bowl Advert. The vaguely unsettling TV spot was the last thing to leak before its official revelation and depicts an Android robot getting opposable thumbs grafted onto it’s arms with the tagline “Android is ready to play”. A Facebook page has also been launched advertising the device’s official launch date and Sony has been quick to label this one its “next gamechanger”.

Whereas it won’t blow any other high end smartphones away with it specs it hordes some rational hardware and most outstandingly seems to capture the spirit of Sony’s popular gaming gadget. The front of the handset looks noticeably Xperia-like but when the display is slide up it reveals a gamepad with a layout which will be memorable to gamers. Running Android 2.3 it will be powered by a 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. The display is a 4″ capacitive touchscreen and there’s also a 5mp camera. One key feature will be Sony’s PlayStation Suite, a gaming platform for smartphones which will permit punters to play PlayStation games on the Xperia Play. It will be a first for smartphones and will ultimately find itself on other operating systems.

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Samsung Galaxy 551 is an addition to the low range of Galaxy Series of phone manufactured by the Korean electronics giant, Samsung. Samsung Galaxy 551 is an addition to the portfolio containing models like Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5. Samsung Galaxy 551 is an effort by Samsung to capture the mobile market of mid-range smartphone users. Samsung Galaxy 551 is made entirely out of plastic which gives it a cool look. As there are no heavy materials used in its construction, the gadget is quite light weighing just 117 grams. The highlight of the phone is its full QWERTY keypad and we were impressed by the overall design of the handset. Samsung Galaxy 551 measures 111 x 55 x 15.2 mm and has glossy black finish.  Samsung Galaxy 551 comes with a 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touch screen which is capable of displaying 16M colors of resolution measuring 240×400 pixels. The display is equipped with an accelerometer sensor for UI-auto rotate and has TouchWiz3.0 UI. The screen of the phone is quite responsive and below the display you can find the hardware buttons. The volume rocker button is placed in the left side of the phone while the power/lock button is placed on the right. Considering the price tag associated with the phone, the performance of the display and overall build of the phone is quite impressive.

Samsung Galaxy 551 is preloaded with social networking applications like Facebook, Twitter and it also has Google applications like Gmail, Google search engine, Youtube, Google maps, Picasa and G-talk. It is a 3G based mobile and it also supports Adobe Flash 10.1 support. It also supports audio apps like mp3, mp4 and WAV formats. It is available with monthly contractual deals on Vodafone network which is the leading network. The phone is powered by a 667 MHz processor and comes with internal memory storage of 160 MB. The memory however, can be increased to a staggering 32GB with the help of microSD card. The phone allows you to store practically unlimited number of phone records. Samsung Galaxy 551 is equipped with a 3.15 mega-pixel camera which is capable of clicking pictures of resolution measuring 2048×1536 pixels.

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There is news that the Nokia N9-00 had been canceled then replaced with the Nokia N9-01 . The Nokia N9-01 we guess it will be powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with U8500 chipset, a 4.2-inch touchscreen display, a 12 megapixels camera with dual LED flash and autofocus,support for HDMI output, 1080p HD video playback and run the MeeGo Operating System. If we have any news on this Nokia mobile phone you’ll be the first to know them.

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