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South Korea is home to Samsung, and Samsung is carrying a novel device to S.Korea. Samsung has launched a novel gadget in S.Korea which is known as the Samsung Galaxy K. As you can see the picture above, the handset is matching to Samsung Galaxy S, and the only dissimilarity between Galaxy S and Galaxy K is that the Galaxy K comes with Android 2.2, which means you can enjoy the Flash 10.1 on it. The smartphone comes with the same 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen and 1GHz Hummingbird processor. The phone also comes with 8 GB internal memory, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Samsung Galaxy K is going for 800,000 Won ($716) on South Korea KT. I don’t know what is the point of this gadget, because in few months Samsung Galaxy S will be upgraded to Android 2.2.

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As CTIA Enterprise & Applications comes to a close, there were a few big trends that defined the event: the continued detonation of Android handsets, more competition in the 4G wars, and converted reports that the iPhone was coming to Verizon Wireless. After spending three days polishing the show floor and meeting with lots of corporations, we narrowed our favorite products and services to five top selections. So without further ado here is our favorite smart phone, app, wireless accessory, enabling technology, and software from the fall CTIA show, products that have the potential to unexpected defeat the mobile tech industry and inspire even more innovation.

In a sea of latest Android phones, the Motorola Droid Pro stands out because it was built from the ground up for business customers. Ideal for those looking to step up from a BlackBerry, this gadget sports a comfortable keyboard that’s always front and center, plus Quick Office Mobile Suite for editing documents on the go.

The Droid Pro also covers all the security bases, with remote wipe and password management, as well as data encryption right on the device (coming early next year). While the 3.1-inch screen is on the small side, this 1-GHz handset has plenty of power.

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The iPad‘s early sales rate has surpassed that of the iPhone and the DVD player, making it a “runaway success of unprecedented proportion,” a Bernstein Research analyst supposed in a note to investors earlier this week.

With Apple selling 3 million iPads over the first 80 days and an estimated 4.5 million over the three months ending in September, Bernstein Research retail forecaster Colin McGranahan said that the tablet is destroying all previous records of consumer electronics adoption.

Distinctively, sales of the iPad have shot past the 1 million iPhone handsets sold during the smartphone’s first quarter and the under 6 million sold during the full year of the phone’s 2007 debut. The numbers quoted for the iPad and iPhone are all on a universal basis, though McGranahan told CNET the postulation from his end is that around 45 percent of iPad sales today are in the U.S.

Sales of Apple’s popular tablet have also greatly outpaced those of the DVD player, which had been the largest-selling non-phone electronic product with 350,000 units sold just in the United States in the first year, according to data from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Originally unveiled in Japan, DVD players hit the U.S. market in early 1997. The first DVD players were pricey, selling for close to $1,000, though the cost quickly dropped over the following years. It wasn’t until 2002 that DVD players were selling at around 4 million per quarter in the U.S., a number that’s about the same today, according to the CEA.

Based on McGranahan’s estimate of 4.5 million iPads sold over the past three months, which Fortune says is actually a below-average forecast among the analysts who follow Apple, consensus is that Apple has so far sold around 8.25 million tablets. Apple is due to release its earnings report for its fiscal fourth quarter October 18.

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Corporation Hewlett-Packard (HP) after the achievement of Palm come to grips with the enlargement of its operating system webOS. Rumor has it that, it used to be for smartphones and tablets over and above, perchance, other types of gadgets. Has been reported that the first tablets PalmPad running webOS come out next year, it was deep-rooted, and executives HP. And now the leadership and voted with respect to smart phones. According to the vice-president of HP Eric Cador (Eric Cador), they will emerge early next year.

This is supposed to be one of the first wireless appliance may be rumored model HP Roadrunner HD . It is assumed that she may have a high resolution display 960×640 pixels. HP Roadrunner HD running webOS 2.0. Also in the global network leaked information about Palm C40 – a vertical slider with a large 4.3-inch touchscreen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard below. Perhaps this is the same device. Whatever the case may be, it remains to wait for the details, since there is little concrete data.

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Verizon and Motorola have revealed the Droid Pro, a new Android handset that takes intend at BlackBerry. This corporate-focused gadjet melds the touchskreen edge of its beneficiary Droids with a comfortable keyboard and world-phone antennas.

The candy-bar phone sports a 3.1-inch screen and full QWERTY keyboard. For evaluation, the iPhone 4features a slightly larger 3.5-inch screen, while the Droid X boasts a hulking 4.3-incher. Neither have any physical keypad. The Droid 2 enjoys 3.7-inch touch screen and slide out keyboard, offering bigger keys than the Droid Pro but requires an extra motion every time you want to type on it.

Inside the Droid Pro, Motorola has packed all the firepower that Android fans have come to expect: 1GHz processor, 512MB of memory, 2GB hard drive plus an SD card slot. The 5-megapixel camera is on par with Apple and the Droid 2, but a little shy of the 8-megapixel Droid X. Of course, pixel count doesn’t mean much these days. We’ll need to wait for a hands-on before ranking any camera above another. The Droid Pro will also come with the latest Android 2.2 operating system.

Many reporters noticed the Droid Pro’s BlackBerry theme immediately.

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The Motorola FLIPSIDE is the latest variation Motorola CLIQ / DEXT platform, and it forms another addition to the ever-growing range Android handsets offered by Motorola.

Sitting towards the lower end of Motorola’s smartphone range, the FLIPSIDE sports a 3.1″ 320 x 480 pixel display, a 3 megapixel camera, 3.5G support, WiFi, GPS and an FM radio, plus it comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

Initially,the FLIPSIDE will be offered in an 850/1900 MHz 3G version for AT&T in the US only, but Motorola’s press statement indicates that perhaps there are broader plans, as they say that the “Motorola FLIPSIDE with MOTOBLUR™ will be available in select regions around the world beginning in Q4 2010.”

Annoyingly, Motorola are launching the FLIPSIDE with Android 2.1 rather than Android 2.2, although we suspect that most customers won’t really care. The FLIPSIDE does everything that every other Android phone does, plus it has access to Motorola’s MOTOBLUR service which offers useful social networking and synchronisation features.

The keyboard is a lot less cramped and altogether better thought out than the one found on the DEXT, and currently there are not a lot of QWERTY-equipped Android devices about. Inside is a very respectable 512MB of RAM and a 720MHz processor which should take care of most applications that you might want to run on it.

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Heading for AT&T in the US, the Motorola BRAVO is an Android smartphone sporting the same 3.7″ 480 x 854 pixel screen found in the DROID and Milestone series, but without a QWERTY keyboard and with a more rounded design. In terms of specifications, the BRAVO is very close to the Motorola DEFY, but without the rugged casing.

This is an Android 2.1 smartphone, which means that it’s a very capable device when it comes to multimedia and downloadable applications, but it isn’t running the somewhat more polished Android 2.2 operating system which is a shame, although perhaps it will be available as a later upgrade.

The BRAVO is a quad-band GSM phone with 850 / 1900 MHz 3G support, which pretty much means that it will only work on AT&T. The BRAVO supports 3.5G downloads and uploads of up to 7 Mbps and 2 Mbps respectively, and the phone also supports WiFi, GPS and comes with an FM radio.

The camera is a disappointing 3 megapixel unit, when really a decently specified Android device like this should have 5 megapixels in our opinion. We wouldn’t expect to see anything great when it comes to video capture either, but it will probably still be good enough for YouTube.

The large 1540 mAh battery is quoted as giving a maximum of 6.8 hours talktime and 10 days standby time, but Motorola haven’t said if those are 3G or 2G figures.

Inside is a useful 512MB of RAM to help applications run speedily. There’s an 800MHz TI OMAP 3610 processor inside which isn’t quite as fast as some of the competition, but it’s certainly better than that found in the original DROID and Milestone smartphones.

Multimedia support is pretty comprehensive, and the BRAVO comes with a 3.5mm audio socket and stereo Bluetooth. The standard Android software package is here, enhanced with MOTOBLUR which will look after all your social networking, backup data and even allow a remote wipe if the phone is lost.

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The Luxembourg-based VoIP company Skype declared the highly projected release of Skype for Android today. Smartphones that runs on Android OS version 2.1 or above can now download the app. The app will allow Android smartphone clientele worldwide to make free Skype-to-Skype calls over Wi-Fi or through mobile data connection such as GPRS, EDGE, 3G.

The app also allows users to orchestrate their Skype contacts with the native address book on a user’s Android phone. Other typical Skype functions now obtainable to Android customers, for example sending instant message, chat, receive and make calls through a Skype account online phone number. Additionally, that app provides customers the ability to make low rate Skype calls to landline or mobile devices.

Mark Douglas, Product Manager of Android alleged:

“The Skype experience is ubiquitous today. More and more people are using Skype to do things together when apart. With the addition of Android, we are pleased that Skype is now available on three of the most popular mobile platforms today: Android, iOS and Symbian.”

Skype for Android 2.1 and 2.2 (AKA FROYO) has been tested fruitfully by Skype on copious Android-based phones including the HTC Desire and Legend, Google Nexus One, Motorola Milestone XT720, and Motorola Milestone. The app also supports ample range of languages which includes Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

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Free app assits clients find any restroom, gate, restaurant, store, etc. with industry’s first interactive destination maps

Point Inside™, Inc. today declared the release of version 2.0 of its free, industry-leading Destination Smart Map™ application for Android-based handsets. For the first time, Android clients have free access to interactive, searchable maps and directories of over 800 of the world’s top airports and shopping centers. No longer do people need to find a paper map or directory to locate restrooms, restaurants, stores, business lounges, etc., inside their destinations.

Point Inside Version 2.0 for Android unites its iPhone®, iPad® and iPod® Touch siblings over and above the recently released Meijer Find-it iPhone and Android applications as the first apps built on Point Inside’s destination content platform.

“We’ve been listening to customer feedback and with this new release we think Android users will see a huge improvement in the app.” supposed Kevin Foreman, CEO, Point Inside, Inc. “Not only do they now have access to all the latest airport and shopping center maps, but new destinations will be added seamlessly, without the need to update the software. Also, Android app developers can now access the underlying APIs to build their own unique experiences leveraging our maps and content platform.”

According to market research firm, Gartner Research, the Android mobile operating system is expected to be the # 2 mobile smartphone operating system in 2010 and could reach # 1 by 2014. According to Gartner, Android-based handsets will reach 17.5% market share in 2010, up from 3.9% in 2009. Apple’s iPhone operating system (iOS) will garner 15.4% of the market this year, up from 14.4% in 2009. By 2012, the research firm expects Android will challenge the Symbian OS as market-leader with 29.6 % of the market versus 30.2% for Symbian.

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The Samsung Wave II is to be released next month in Germany and will be coming to market with a larger screen and a little updated Bada operating system.

The smartphone, which is also recognized as the S8530, will have a Super Clear LCD touchscreen display that packs the same resolution as its predecessor with 480 x 800 pixels.

Countless the handsets other features are analogous to the unique Wave, aka the S8500, including its five-megapixel camera with HD video recording, HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 1.5GB of internal storage that can be increased to 32GB with a MicroSD card and its ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor.

Samsung issued a press release in Germany saying the handset will be accessible in November and will be €429 (£371).

It’s not known when the Samsung Wave II will be released in the UK or how much it will cost.

Samsung Wave 723 and Wave 2 and 2 Pro

We had been in the offing for the launch of the Samsung Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro, aka the S5250 and S5330, since they were declared three months ago with an anticipated August release date.

The Samsung Wave 723 has also been revealed since then and was expected to reach market by the end of September.

Nevertheless, unlike the Wave II, these three mobiles are more tailored for the mid-lower end of the smartphone market. The Wave 2 and 2 Pro both do not support 3G, have three-megapixel cameras and 3.2 inch touchscreens with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels.

The Samsung Wave 2 Pro does have a QWERTY keyboard, which may plea to those who want a Bada-powered phone as well as a full keyboard.

There’s also been reports that the Wave 723 and Wave 2 Pro are about to go on sale in Spain with a €279 (£241) and €239 (£207) price tags correspondingly.

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Apple may have had a opportunity on WVGA Android phones because of the retina displays that come standard on the iPhone 4 and the new iPod Touch, but you had to know that this benefit would ultimately be shattered.

Sharp has confirmed that their latest Android phone, the ISO3 will be accessible through the Japanese carrier KDDI in November. The smartphone which is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU includes a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display with 960×640 pixel resolution and a 9.6MP integrated camera with flash. The gadjet which is obtainable in either black, orange or white and has a weight of 138g also has 512MB RAM, a 2GB microSD card that is expandable to 32GB, 802.11 b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and EVDO Revision A. Rounding out the features on the ISO3 are an FM radio transmitter, 1-Seg mobile digital TV, GPS and support for KDDI’s mobile wallet network.

One of the original features that the ISO3 comes with is a dual-power mode display screen that shows off phone information such as battery levels, signal strength, missed calls, all without the need of an active backlight. Sounds like an appealing handset, we’ll have to see if Sharp plans to develop units for sale in either Europe or the US.

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This descendant to the popular HTC Desire Android smartphone, the 4.3-inch SLCD screen with a 480×800 screen resolution is larger than its predecessor’s 3.7-inch display. This means it will be a superior phone than the HTC Desire. HTC alleges the HTC Desire HD is crafted from a single block of aluminium, similar to the HTC Legend.

The HTC Desire HD is powered by a 1GHz ARM-based processor (8255 Snapdragon). It comes outfitted with an 8MP camera with dual-LED flash, 720p HD video recording and Dolby Mobile sound. It has 1.5 GB of internal memory, along with a micro-SD memory card slot that supports cards of up to 32GB in size.

Over and above these hardware features, the HTC Desire HD benefits from the latest 2.2 “Froyo” version of Google Android OS which adds full Flash support, built-in wireless tethering and the knack to store third party apps on your SD card, in addition to a choice of other improvements.

The HTC Desire HD is one of the first HTC smartphones to advantage from HTC’s new Sense software. Enhancements comprise a shorter boot up time (10 seconds), cached map data for quicker rendering of maps (along with a digital compass built into the map), and DLNA support for connection to compatible televisions. HTC has also launched HTCSense.com, a set of desktop-based services basically centred on backup and security. You can locate your handset on a map if it is stolen, remote lock or wipe the phone and archive contacts, text messages and call history.

There is a security function in this, in that people can effortlessly lock or locate a missing phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it. And with HTCSense.com all the HTC Sense enhancements can be ported to a new phone handset – so long as it is an HTC model.

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The first Android smartphone, Coolpad N930 will be released by the Chinese handset maker Coolpad at the Beijing Telecommunications Exhibition. Android phones are one of the most fiery smart phone operating system. China is one of the biggest mobile phone markets in the world which is main battlefield for brands such as HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG and Sony Ericsson.

The new Coolpad N930 comes with Android 2.1 as the operative system and one of the special details in it is that the materials in the body are very particular like the ceramic buttons and the titanium body with high strength and corrosion resistance. Coolpad N930 is also featured with a 3.5 inch ASV capacitive LCD display (800 x 480), 1GHz processor. A total of twelve home screen panels, an application dock, and some pretty elegant widgets are appeared in the handset’s custom UI treatment.

Android phones could be said to be the most sizzling smart phone operating system, in numerous major international brands like Samsung, Motorola, LG, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and more. In China, a leading mobile phone company’s business Yulong Cool Cool Android phone is said to have to enter the market. In recent times, a model for the N930 Android flagship will be the first in the upcoming year by the company.

According to insiders Cool, Coolpad N930 comes with powerful software and hardware advantages. Though looking good, the quality remains unknown. There is no official detail regarding the price of the Coolpad N930.

Coolpad N930 supports the CDMA network. The screen of the phone is made by AVS – Advanced Super View TFT, which is developed by Microelectronics Sharp. Other details about Android smartphone will be revealed during the P&T / Expo Comm China in October.

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After countless expectancy, RIM’s Blackberry Torch 9800 is launching this week in the U.K. We have had reports from Electric Pig that Phones 4U are getting hold of its first batch of the Blackberry 6s on Friday.

The slider device has  a 5 mega pixel camera, WiFi, GPS with Blackberry Maps, Blackberry Messenger and a 3.2in touchscreen. The Torch has been accessible for pre-order from different network providers such as Orange and Vodafone.

It was exposed today from Mashable that Blackberry is the most owned smartphone in the U.S, ahead of Apple’s iPhone and Android. Optimistically the Torch will live up to the expectation and prove to be a force in the mobile market.

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From the very beginning, Microsoft have insisted on keeping complete control over both the form factors and inner specificationss of all mobile phones that wishes to run their upcoming OS, Windows Phone 7.

To this point, nevertheless, Microsoft have only given facts about one of the promised two “chassis” of their phones: the slate-style handsets that you’ve seen around. It should be noted that “Chassis 1″ are allowed to have slide-out QWERTY keyboards, but no known WinPho 7 phone presently has one.

So, what is “Chassis 2″, then? Well, in an interview inSilicon this week, Microsoft’s ISV developer evangelist, Paul Foster, may have spilled the beans with this little nugget:

WP7 devices will have one of two screen resolutions – either 800 x 480 for large touchscreen appliances with the potential for slide-out Qwerty keyboards, or 480 x 320 for ‘BlackBerry’ style cell phones that can incorporate a Qwerty on the front of the device. Microsoft expects the majority of WP7 devices to have the larger screen resolution at launch, with smaller resolution handsets coming later.

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