Pantech Vega Xpress comes with DDR2 memory, extravagant performance claims
Pantech 's bringing a new wrinkle to the mobile hardware space with its newly announced Vega Xpress handset. This 4-inch Android 2.2 beastie will come equipped with an unspecified amount of DDR2 RAM -- yes, the stuff that usually goes into x86 laptop and desktop computers -- which Pantech will have you believe is going to blow the competition out of the proverbial water. The company claims the new phone doubles 3D graphics performance relative to its previous best, while power efficiency is also said to be two to three times better
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 480-resolution, engadget, korea, mobile, msm8255, pantechvegaxpress, power, qualcomm, specs-include
AT&T buys Qualcomm’s FLO TV spectrum for a cool $1.9b, promises 4G awesomeness
Qualcomm and AT&T are no longer talking about a deal , they've agreed to one: pending regulatory checks and other closing conditions, the wireless spectrum that was once dedicated to FLO TV will now be transferred into AT&T's ownership in a $1.925 billion deal. Located in the lower 700MHz range, this bit of wireless space is said to cover more than 300 million people nationwide and AT&T expects it to play an important role in its future 4G network rollout and development
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: agreement, entry, million-people, network, qualcomm, take-the-two, wireless, wireless spectrum
Exclusive: PlayStation Phone ‘Zeus Z1′ prototype benchmarked on video
We can't get enough of Sony Ericsson's PlayStation Phone (also known as Zeus Z1), and we're guessing neither can you. We were just sent a new video of the device in action, only now it's running Qualcomm's Neocore benchmark app. As you can see, the device managed 24.4 frames per second on average.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: benchmark, ericsson, horizon, known-as-zeus, mind, neocore, playstation, playstationphone, prototype, psp phone, qualcomm, result, video, zeus z2, zeusz1
Sony Ericsson’s 4.3-inch Anzu previewed: ain’t got no Gingerbread, but still looking tasty
Our hope for the recently leaked Anzu (likely to be known as the Xperia X12 at retail) handset from Sony Ericsson was that it'd be the company's Android Gingerbread flagship , but here comes international super-reviewer Eldar Murtazin popping that bubble for us. The good man from Russia has a preview unit in his secret lab and reports that it currently only runs Android 2.1, with the intention being that launch devices in early 2011 will start off with Android 2.2 before getting their Gingerbread (2.3) fix in a later update. He also notes a 4.3-inch display with 854 x 480 resolution (just an LCD, nothing exciting ), an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 (same as in the T-Mobile G2 / Desire Z ) powering things inside, and a 12 megapixel imager mounted on the back.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: comprehensive, eldar, entry, galaxy 2, galaxy2, launch, megapixel, qualcomm, result, scorpion, sonyericsson, sonyericssonanzu
Acer Liquid Metal S120 spotted running Android 2.2 on AT&T bands in FCC
Rumors of a 3.6-inch 800 x 480 Liquid Metal handset from Acer have been heating up in recent months. Now the aluminum handset said to be housing an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230-1 processor just cleared the FCC sporting GSM/EDGE 850/1900 and WCDMA Band II and V making it the perfect candidate for an AT&T launch. The listing also confirms Android 2.2 Froyo, GPS, Bluetooth, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi on the tested model S120 DVT2 (that's Design Verification Test 2) prototype
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: acer, after-the-break, aluminum, design, edge, fcc, gps, Metal, north, perfect, qualcomm, spotted-running, wcdma
HTC HD7 review
The screen that just keeps on going meets the OS that refuses to fit on a single display. Yes, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, like Windows Mobile 6.5 and Android before it, is getting treated with a 4.3-inch display from HTC for its launch party. The aptly titled HD7 is, by virtue of Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements, mostly just a stretched-out version of its WP7 contemporaries: it offers the standard 800 x 480 res, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, 576MB of RAM, and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with a 720p movie mode.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: benefit, contemporaries, entry, getting-treated, microsoft, party, phone, qualcomm, review, windows-mobile, windows-phone, xbox live
HTC Bee spied by way of firmware?
Remember how the HTC Lexicon / Merge render leaked -- accurately, may we add -- via a firmware updater ? Well, it seems we might have another one here
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: beasts, bee, buzz, display, image, leak, qualcomm, seriously-might, time, verizonwireless, wildfire
WSJ: Verizon to sell iPhone in 2011, fifth generation iPhone is in the works
We've been to this rodeo before (a few times , actually), but the smoke that leads to fire is getting far harder to ignore. Following a Bloomberg report in June that a Verizon iPhone was on track for a January 2011 release as well as independent confirmation from John Gruber, Yukari Iwatani Kane from The Wall Street Journal is now sounding mighty confident that the aforementioned plans are true. According to various people "briefed by Apple," Jobs and Company will begin "mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year." It'll rely on a key Qualcomm chip as well as a CDMA radio, but curiously enough, there's nary of a mention of LTE in this report
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: closely-related, design, Generation, lte, qualcomm, related, result, rumor, smartphone, verizon
Qualcomm launches augmented reality SDK in beta form, ready to rock your Android devices
By now you would've come across at least a handful of inspiring augmented reality apps (with a few exceptions , perhaps), and if you fancy having a go at coding one yourself, Qualcomm may be able to assist. Today, the giant chip maker is pushing out a beta release of its Android AR SDK, which has produced interesting demos like the digital photo frame concept showcased in London last month, as well as the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots game pictured above. In fact, Mattel's so confident with the latter app that it's planning on commercializing it, so who knows -- you could be the next Peter Molyneux of the AR scene, or at least a winner of up to $125,000 from Qualcomm's AR Developer Challenge.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: arsdk, augmentedreality, beta, developer, digital, Frame, handful, london, mattel, peter, programming, qualcomm, result, sdk
HTC finally throws T-Mobile G2 up on its site, lays out the final specifications
We've theoretically had nearly all of these numbers confirmed piece by piece , but there's something eerily comforting about HTC tossing it all together on a single page for our perusal.