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It’s just over a month before Mobile World Congress 2012 kicks off, and the smartphone rumour mill is in overdrive, with the latest leak suggesting LG will be among the first to unveil a quad-core smartphone at the expo. The new phone, currently known as the X3, will apparently ship with the new Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor under the glass, and a 1280×720 resolution, 4.7-inch display. Images of new powerful smart phone of LG have been leaked on web world and they are showing a slimmed down version of last year’s Optimus 2X, which includes LG’s standard trio of hardware navigation controls despite the X3 apparently running on the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android — software that includes the same controls in virtual on-screen buttons. The same rumours are also suggesting LG will include a 2000mAh battery with the X3, which would be a big step up from the 1500mAh battery pack in the Optimus 2X. In conjunction with the power efficiency promised by Nvidia in regards to the Tegra 3 chipset, the X3 could be a phone that runs all day long.

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Samsung has unveiled the latest additions to the Galaxy Y smartphone series, Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos new dual-SIM Android smartphones. The two SIM cards indicate that you have got 2 phone numbers at your disposal, for instance: one for work and one for your personal life. You can use data according to your plan, regardless of the SIM. Samsung Galaxy’s Duos and Duos Pro phones run on the GSM technology (850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands) and are armed with Samsung’s TouchWiz software.

Samsung Galaxy Y Duos is equipped with a 3.1-inch QVGA (243 x 320) touchscreen, with a 3-megapixel camera, HSDPA modem, microSD storage expandable up to 32GB and an powerful 832MHz processor that runs on all-touch Android 2.3 Gingerbread, armed with a 1,300mAh battery. Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos runs the same Android version and has a full QWERTY keyboard on its candy-bar frame. Thus, the screen is a smaller 2.6 inches, further the smartphone is packed with a 3-megapixel camera on the back, with a front-facing VGA camera and armed with1, 350mAh battery.

Samsung’s Duos and Duos Pro are equipped with almost same features, under the hood. The company states that both the phones at first will launch in Russia in January. Later, the Galaxy Y Duos will strike the Europe, Latin America, CIS, Africa, Southeast and Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and China. While, the Galaxy Y Pro Duos will strike the Europe, Latin America, Southwest Asia, the Middle East, CIS, and Africa. Unfortunately, at the moment Samsung did not revealed any exact information regarding the price tag of Duos and Duos Pro smartphones.

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Though 50.000 is less than one-tenth of what Apple’s iOS App Store has and also a fraction of the more than 400,000 apps in Android Market, Microsoft’s ascent to 50,000 apps is a solid milestone given the time it took to get there. Windows Phone took 14 months to reach 50,000 apps. Android took 19 months to reach 50,000 apps and iOS took 12 months.  The 50,000 mark, which has been reached sooner than we estimated, is a key milestone, but more important is the accelerating growth of the Marketplace. It took just over a year to get to 40,000 apps, but just 40 days to add the next 10,000 apps. That bodes well for Windows Phone in 2012. There has been an uptick in submissions to Windows Phone Marketplace over the last several weeks. The report attributes this to the expansion of the geographic area available to the marketplace as well as to the release of Nokia’s first Windows Phone devices.

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Here strikes a new entry into the phone market from Samsung, which has released a dual-screen, clamshell Android smartphone known as Samsung W999. The new expensive Clamshell smartphone allow the user to opt either as a full touch screen phone, or you can use it as a regular clamshell phone, Flip to open. W999 is equipped with two OLED 3.5-inch displays, both of them at 800 x 480 resolution, running Android Gingerbread 2.3, powered by 1.2 GHz dual core processor. Samsung W999 Android smartphone measures at 17.8mm, weighing 206 grams, equipped with a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera, capable to record 1080p video, with a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera. Armed with a 16 GB internal memory and features a micro-SD card slot for expansion, supporting Bluetooth 3.0, powered by 1500mAh battery. The most fascinating thing about the phone is the screen, where in the W999 unit not only flips up and out, it flips back. The new Samsung W999 Clamshell smartphone is set to go on sale in next month.

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The app, which pulls information from Facebook and Twitter accounts, turns friends’ updates into nicely formatted, perusal-friendly pages. Flipboard also delivers a couple dozen aggregated content sections (news, finance, music, tech, etc.) selected by Flipboard’s creators. The iPad app is popular for its attractive magazine-style presentation of headlines, story blurbs, and photos. The iPhone app adds a feature called Cover Stories, which Flipboard says learns from a reader’s interactions with the content and helps them quickly catch up with some of the most interesting news, updates, and photos being shared at that moment. While the iPad app allowed users to flip through magazine-like pages, the iPhone app uses a vertical flip that allows users to navigate pages while holding their device in one hand.

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Motorola has launched its first 720p HD native resolution display based smartphone, Motorola Dinara officially known as the xT928. However, it was currently announced exclusively for China. Well, after Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus with 720p HD native resolution display, it is now with LG Nitro HD 4G LTE and Motorola XT928 Dinara to take the challenge officially. Motorola’s new Android smartphone xT928 is equipped with a 4.5 inch touchscreen display with 1280×720 pixel resolution (manufactured from Corning Gorilla Glass), an enhanced audio output with Dolby Digital Plus sound technology, called Smart Actions, which automates different profile settings, MotoCast, and a Webtop. Quite Interestingly, the Webtop application allows you to use a full-screen web browser, external monitor, smartphone apps and USB peripherals all at the same time. While the Dolby Digital Plus audio technology will serve as an ultimate multimedia package.

This Motorola XT928, which is similar to Droid Bionic, is powered by a powerful a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, together with 1GB of RAM, and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Moreover this phone as well features dual-mode and dual-standby as a result it could be a dual-networks supporting handset. Motorola Dinara xT928 smartphone is known for its 13.1 megapixel camera, which is capable of capturing of 1080p full HD video and high quality images with Wide Dynamic Range. The phone further also has a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calling.

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AT&T stole some of LG’s thunder last week when it unveiled the company’s LTE flagship — the Nitro HD — before the handset’s official coming out soirée. Well, tonight LG’s gone and thrown that fete anyway, introducing us (once again) to its 4.5-incher. But you have to wonder why the company’s even bothering to roll out yet another Gingerbread-baked device when Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is already out of the gate and leading the Android charge with ICS — not to mention the current availability of rival heavyweights like the Rezound and Droid RAZR. Still, the phone’s packing some very respectable specs, with a “true” HD 1280 x 720 IPS display, dual 1.3 / 8 megapixel shooters, a hefty 20GB of storage and a dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm APQ8060 processor running the show. Is it too late in the game for LG to make its beast matter?

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Sony Ericsson announced that its Xperia arc S and Xperia neo V are now available unlocked in the United States from Sony Store locations. The Xperia arc S runs Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) and is equipped with a 1.4GHz processor, an 8.1-megapixel camera, a 4.2-inch “Reality” display and support for 3D and 2D sweep panorama photography. The Xperia arc S is available in white, black, blue and silver for $529.99 without a contract. Sony Ericsson’s Xperia neo V also runs Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) and has a 3.7-inch display, a 5-megapixel camera and a front-facing camera for video chats. It is available in white, silver and blue for $349.99 unlocked. Both phones will be available from other retailers, such as Newegg, beginning in early December. As a side note, Sony Ericsson also recently announced that its 2011 family of Xperia-branded smartphones will all be updated to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) at a later date, so both the Xperia arc S and Xperia neo V should receive the update at some point.

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HTC Corp. edged out Samsung Electronics Co. to become the largest smartphone vendor in the U.S., capitalizing on the Android platform’s popularity and a lull in demand for iPhones to overtake Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. A 10 percentage-point jump in share from a year earlier gave Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC 24 percent of the world’s largest smartphone market in the third quarter, ahead of Samsung’s 21 percent, Palo Alto, California-based researcher Canalys said in a statement yesterday. Apple fell to third at 20 percent while RIM, maker of the BlackBerry, had 9 percent. HTC, which made the world’s first phone using Google Inc.’s Android in 2008, benefited from strong relationships with U.S. carriers and made different models for each operator. Apple’s iPhone 4S and new devices from Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung may help the two global smartphone leaders gain share in the U.S. this quarter as HTC forecasts its first shipment decline in almost two years.

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RIM is betting the future of its smartphone, tablet, and embedded systems on a new operating system: BBX. But there’s no word when it’ll be available, or what devices it will support. At its BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco, Canada’s Research in Motion officially announced BBX, an new single operating system RIM says will run on all its hardware platforms: smartphones, tablets, and embedded systems. RIM is touting BBX as combining the best elements of its existing BlackBerry OS with the best of QNX (which powers the PlayBook tablet), combined with cloud service capabilities and an emphasis on high-performance HTML5 development. DevCon being a developer conference, RIM also rolled out a bunch of tools for BlackBerry developers, including the BlackBerry Runtime for Android apps on the PlayBook as part of a beta of PlayBook OS 2.0. The upshot is that PlayBook users may soon begin to tap into the very large (and fast-growing) world of Android apps. What is BBX, how is it distinct from RIM’s previous operating systems, and — perhaps most importantly — will it help RIM recover market share and profits lost to the likes of Android and Apple’s iOS?

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Presenting the brightest screen in its class, the new Nokia 701 has a 3.5 inch ClearBlack display which makes it Nokia’s brightest smartphone ever launched. It’s the touchscreen display that stands out giving it an elegant and stylish look. The ClearBlack display creates a great combination of brightness and contrast making it perfect for indoor and outdoor use. It is a sleek and slim smartphone with active noise cancellation for the clearest sound quality making it perfect for people looking for daily phone efficiency. Nokia 701 is NFC enabled and runs on the latest Symbian upgrade; Symbian Belle. NFC technology has some remarkable peer-to-peer communication capabilities, which allows transfer of information by simply bringing two phones close and tapping each other.

This is a tremendously convenient feature for individuals uncomfortable with technology and find Bluetooth and transfer information like business cards and music time consuming and cumbersome. NFC also has a reader which allows an NFC enabled device to upload and download any information that is on an electronic NFC enabled board. Nokia 701 is equipped with a powerful 1Ghz processor and a 8 MP full focus camera with dual LED flash, 2 X digital zoom and HD video capture. Additionally, it has an 8GB internal memory which is expandable upto 40GB with a 32GB microSD card. Available in colours dark steel and light sliver, the Nokia 701 is a classy smartphones for people looking for simplicity and the latest technology in their mobiles.

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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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Still there are speculations about the Apple iPhone 5 and now called it is going to appear as a codename in Apple’s internal inventory system, as the iPhone N94. People aren’t ready to wait for another 24 hours to get the glimpse on the next generation iPhone. There new rumors on the web that the latest iDevice 5 will be called iPhone N94. This is something new looking at the previous versions about the next Apple iSmartphone. First it was iPhone 5, the iPhone 5 Standard and Pro versions, iPhone 5 mini, iPhone 4S and now something new.

The specs for this new iPhone N94 has been given that it will carry Apple’s dual-core A5 processor, 1GB of RAM, Nuance Dictation speech-to-text, 8 Megapixel camera, voice recognition features and it will come out in three versions 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB and some of them say it will be 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities. Don’t forget that recently there was a new dish which stated the new iDevice would be called iPhone N90A. We know that everyone is keen to find out what is the next generation Apple iSmartphone is going look like and what functions and features would be like.

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If you have always believed that big was good, Nokia gives you a reason to rethink. The new Nokia 700 is not only Nokia’s most compact smartphone in the Symbian range, it is the most compact NFC enabled touch monoblock smartphone in the world. Incorporated with the single-tap NFC capabilities, sharing files and pairing devices have never been easier with the Nokia 700. NFC technology has some remarkable peer-to-peer communication capabilities, which allows transfer of information by simply bringing two phones close and tapping each other. This is a tremendously convenient feature for individuals uncomfortable with technology and find Bluetooth and transfer information like business cards and music time consuming and cumbersome. NFC also has a reader which allows an NFC enabled device to upload and download any information that is on an electronic NFC enabled board.

The phones comes with a powerful 1 Ghz processor with a 3.2 AMOLED ClearBlack display, 2GB of internal memory (expandable upto 32GB), HD video capture and a 5MP full focus camera making it highly desirable for people looking for a device which is small but powerfully packed with features.  The Nokia 700, based on the latest Symbian upgrade Belle, is also Nokia’s most eco-friendly smartphone. With an all new UI, long battery life, extensive use of eco-friendly materials and features to minimize battery consumption, the Nokia 700 is the perfect smartphone for any environmentally-conscious smartphone user. It will be available in colours black, white and coral-black.

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Nokia’s loudest entertainment smartphone at 106 phons is a music lover’s dream. It comes with built-in FM radio antenna which means you can finally listen to radio without having to use headphones. The smartphone has NFC technology incorporated into it which allows content to be shared between devices with a single tap. It also allows the Nokia 600 smartphone to pair with NFC-enabled mobile accessories such as speakers, Bluetooth headphones and headsets.  NFC technology has some remarkable peer-to-peer communication capabilities, which allows transfer of information by simply bringing two phones close and tapping each other. This is a tremendously convenient feature for individuals uncomfortable with technology and find Bluetooth and transfer information like business cards and music time consuming and cumbersome.

NFC also has a reader which allows an NFC enabled device to upload and download any information that is on an electronic NFC enabled board.  The Nokia 600 comes with a 1 GHz processor; an all new UI,  5MP full focus camera with LED flash, HD video capture and 2GB of internal memory with ability to increase to 34GB using a 32GB microSD card. An FM transmitter enables the user to broadcast music from the phone to any FM radio. Finally, the phone has 60 hours of music playback time, an incredibly powerful internal loudspeaker and the ability to stream music wirelessly to NFC-enabled accessories. The device will be available in colours black, white and white lime. Ideal for youngsters looking for smartphones with the best quality sound and value for money, the Nokia 600 smartphone delivers big sound and a great personality in a small package.

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