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LG announces three new Android mobiles for MWC: LG Optimus L3, LG Optimus L5 and LG Optimus L7

It is noticeable that the Mobile World Congress starts a week for the run-up has started. LG has now announced three new models that the manufacturer will be showcasing the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

From left to right in the picture above, we have models LG Optimus L3, LG Optimus L5 and LG Optimus L7. All three units have been equipped with LG’s cryptic screen technology Floating Mass. Apparently the technology has been named to the actual displays are so close to the glass that the units “seem to float.”

All three models in LG’s L-series has a thin, square metal design with a “warm” leather-like backing. Details of the units are missing. L7 has, however, equipped with a 4.3-inch display while the L5 has a 4-inch display. Both models will be released with Ice Cream Sandwich in the first half of the year. The smaller LG Optimus L3 has 3.2-inch display and distributed in Europe in March.

T-Mobile confirms HTC Ville / HTC One S arrives in April

Interesting new details of HTC Ville / HTC One S are contained in a new document to be from T-Mobile has confirmed the existence of the terminal, and the expected date of arrival on the market provided for the month of April.

The document does not contain new confirmation of the technical specifications of the terminal, but specifically refers to some dedicated accessories HTC Ville, which include a protective film of the display, which will be marketed simultaneously with the launch. The date refers expressly to launch next April 4. E ‘can thus reasonably assume that the terminal can also be marketed on the same date.

Recall that another long-awaited HTC terminal, namely the HTC One X / HTC Endeavor could reach the market in the same period.

Summing up the data so far collected of HTC Ville, we can hypothesize a presentation in a few days at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and a subsequent sale in April. Among the technical features of the HTC One S (to be confirmed) include the presence of a dual-core processor and the form factor particularly low.

Asus Eee Pad MeMo 171 arrives in Taiwan from March 5 to 450 euros

At the last CES in Las Vegas unveiled the Asus Eee Pad MeMo ME370T equipped with Tegra and Android 3rd ICS, leaving outstanding the older Asus Eee Pad MeMo 171 presented in 2011 and never appeared on the market. Surprisingly, during the last event in Taiwan was officially make its debut on the list where Asia will be available from March 5 next to the cost of 450 euro.

Recall that the Asus Eee Pad MeMo 171 mounts S3 chipset Qualcomm MSM8260 platform with dual-core clocked at 1.2GHz assisted 1Gb Ram, 16Gb of storage space and a 4,400 mAh battery that provides 8.5 hours of continuous use. The display is a capacitive IPS 7 “1280 × 800 pixel resolution with wide viewing angle of up to 178 °. Do not miss the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mini USB port, HDMI, GPS, a 5MP camera back capable of recording Full HD and a frontal 1.2Mp. Read on »

Samsung announces Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2

Samsung said Tuesday the successors of his Galaxy Ace and Galaxy Mini announced. The new smartphones come in the spring on the market. The Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2 both have bigger screens than their predecessors received. The power is improved.

Galaxy Ace 2

For example, the Galaxy Ace 2 on a 3.8-inch display with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels, where his predecessor had a 3.5-inch screen of 480 by 320 pixels. The 800Mhz single-core processor of the original Galaxy Ace has the additional Galaxy Ace 2 computational kernel of received.

The device runs on Android 2.3 and has two cameras, including a 5-megapixel camera on the back. The rear camera has a flash and can record video in 720p quality.

Galaxy Mini 2

The compact Galaxy Mini 2 still works with a single-core processor, like its predecessor, but it runs with clock speed of 800MHz or 200MHz faster. Also, the memory has been expanded, while the 3.3-inch 0.1 inch screen, is greater than that of the original Galaxy Mini, and now has a resolution of 480 by 320 pixels.

This device runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The Galaxy Mini 2 also has a 3-megapixel camera that records videos in VGA resolution. / Samsung provides the device in a yellow version, with an additional black cover in the box for “less sunny days,” says the manufacturer.

Both devices have 4GB of onboard storage that can be expanded with microSD cards. The duo comes in the spring on the market. The Galaxy Ace 2 gets a price of $ 349, while the mini 2 199 euros will cost.

Tablet Archos Arnova 8b G2 unveiled

Archos has a new version of its Arnova 8 G2 budget tablet introduced, the new device is called Arnova 8b G2 and features a modified housing with less hardware buttons.

The housing of the new tablet Arnova 8b G2 looks a lot tidier than its predecessor. This is mainly because the physical Home, Back, Menu and Search buttons are omitted.

The operating system – the somewhat outdated Android 2.3 Gingerbread – is unchanged. The tablet will also run on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor and an 8-inch screen (800 by 600 pixels) and 4 or 8GB of storage space available. The Arnova 8b G2 price is not yet known.

Barnes & Noble soon a cheaper model for Nook Tablet?

The first American bookseller has marketed the reader with color screen multimedia in November 2010 with the Nook Color. The 7 inch tablet has received a great success across the Atlantic, prompting the firm to repeat the experience. On November 7, 2011 was presented the Nook Tablet. FormFactor same 7 “screen IPS résoltion 1024 by 600 and an application suite dense – Hulu, Netflix etc.. All under a modified Android as could do Amazon with Kindle Fire. With a dual core processor from Texas Instruments running at 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 16 GB of storage expandable micro SD, the tablet is very well equipped to face common use, that is to say, the video playback , games through his first argument: reading books and comics. The introductory price was $ 249 or $ 50 more than the Kindle Fire, which receives only 8GB of ROM and 512MB RAM on a technical level.

If sales seem to go again, the price factor played a very important role in the battle between the Kindle Fire. With an effective solution in the cloud and offers a streaming well studied, Amazon has not played the card of storage capacity, preferring to get the price down. Taking advantage of its offerings in the cloud – Nook Cloud – and to return to the level of its direct competitor, B & N will launch in the coming days – probably Wednesday, February 22 – a model boarding 8GB of storage priced at $ 199 $, as suggested by the recovered mail leaked by the site the Verge. Will this be enough there to take market share at the famous Kindle Fire? Nothing is less certain, especially if one listens to the rumors that escalate on the side of Amazon. Nook Tablet

Officially announcing of Panasonic Eluga

In November 2011 we wrote that it appeared that Panasonic could well return to the European smartphone market. Not long after this also appeared to be happening: Panasonic unveiles a new device that was destined for the European market, but the unit still had no name. Today it was announced that the device will be called Panasonic Eluga.

Panasonic Eluga

On the Panasonic Convention 2012, the Panasonic Eluga announced the next smartphone from the company in Europe will be available. In March, the device must be available, but how much it will cost is not yet known. The manufacturer allows returns after years of absence back on the European mobile market. Panasonic had already released details about the Panasonic Eluga, but the time had no name.

There are still not very many details about the device is known, which were to follow. However, the device has a 4.3 inch screen with a resolution of 540 × 960 pixels. The device is thin and light, he would weigh only 103 grams. It should also present an NFC chip, which the phone is one of the few devices with such a chip. Other devices include the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. Furthermore the device is waterproof and dustproof, what you do not often see in a device with such a slim design. What the device is running Android version is not yet known, but the NFC chip, this will at least be Android 2.3.

Besides that the unit should be available in March is not much known. Panasonic, however, would still publish details on its website. No price indication for this Panasonic Eluga.

ZTE Mimosa X with processor and modem HSPA+ integrated of NVIDIA

A little less than a week the start of Mobile World Congress, and officially we meet new terminals that can be seen next week in Barcelona, ​​as the new ZTE Mimosa X, and do not be fooled that it is a ZTE, because comes with a powerful NVIDIA Tegra 2 and for the first time integrated 3G modem Nivida with ability to connect to HSPA+ networks.

Inside the Tegra 2 processor have dual processor and GeForce graphics processor, NVIDIA also Modem HSPA + Icera 450. All in one chip, allowing ZTE fabricase this terminal without having to make room for a driver and a chip from another manufacturer. This is interesting because, being all in the same processor is supposed to prevent incompatibilities and improvement in overall speed of the terminal.

Features a large 4.3-inch QHD, which amounts to a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, and 4GB of internal memory expandable with microSD cards up to 32GB. Includes Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which is interesting because apart from the processor that includes having the latest version of Android is important to enough people, always being updated is very important to your phone by adding new software Acon value.

Other features of this ZTE Mimosa X include Wi-Fi is 802.11n, Bluetooth A2DP and camera capable of recording video in high definition.

HTC Fireball gets certification WiFi

HTC Fireball, smartphones that could be deployed by the telephone operator Verizon has recently been certified WiFi, confirming its existence and continuation of the approach procedure to the market.

We’ve worked on several occasions HTC Fireball, a smartphone past the headlines last December after being inserted into the database of the telephone operator Verizon, then become a Global Phone and then, in theory, be used also to outside the U.S. market. Later, the HTC Fireball was mentioned in connection with an alleged picture made ​​with the camera device.

The smartphone has received on 15 February, the WiFi certification that confirms the existence and a few other details, such as the presence of a module WiFi a / b / g / n WiFi Direct function. The code shown in the document, which demonstrates the successful certification, corresponds to that previously emerged, namely ADR6410LVW. The two final letters “VW” correspond to the initials of Verizon Wireless, the carrier that will distribute the device. Read on »

Huawei Ascend D1 Q: first pictures, a quad-core smartphone introduced at MWC

Huawei surprises us by leaving its target entry-level to target the upscale market, with its Ascend D1 Q.

At CES, Huawei had surprised us with its first dual-core smartphone: the Ascend P1 S. Very thin, fast and directly integrating Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the Chinese ended its strategy towards the entry level. A few days days later, a statement of one of the leaders indicated a target more upscale because of smartphones more powerful than the Ascend P1 S will be presented at MWC.

Subject of many teasing, there will indeed “a smartphone even faster” in Barcelona. The president of Huawei gives us direct information from his Twitter. It will therefore be of the Ascend D1 Q, which you can see in these photos with a quad-core processor.

It is difficult to get an idea on the smartphone itself, but we see that Huawei ZTE keeps his distance. While the two Chinese companies were following a path rather cheap and unknown to the public, Huawei wishes to make its mark. It remains to be seen how it will impose its premium model face the giants (Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola …). Ascend D1 Q