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Rumor: Sony Ericsson Kurara Symbian Touch Screen Phone

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:17:08 +0000

More info and photo for an unannounced model, Sony Ericsson Kurara, are now leaked on phonesdb.com. The Kurara is only of the Satio/Aino “Entertainment Unlimited” family, built with full touch screen and Symbian S60 OS. It comes with a 3.5-inch AMOLED touch screen, 8.1 megpaixel camera and hardware buttons below the touch screen. The camera module comes without Xenon flash but has a flash LED and able to shot HD 720p video.

[via semcblog]

Rumor: Sony Ericsson Susan Candybar

Kim Poh Liaw — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:49:02 +0000

Apart from the upcoming Xperia X3 / X10 Android smartphone, Sony Ericsson Susan is leaked with a candybar design. It is not sure that if the Susan is running on Android OS. The candybar might comes with a touch screen on top of the hardware keypad.

Not much of the phone detail is available at the moment. We can watch a leaked video on youtube below, which reveal a 5 megapixel camera module at its back with LED flash and support of auto rotation.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[via semcblog / slashgear]

New Xperia X3 Photo, Announcement in November

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:38:38 +0000

Featuring a Qualcomm’s 1GHz snapdragon processor, the upcoming Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 (Rachael) is said to be announced in early November. The Xperia X3 has a big 4-inch touch screen in WVGA resolution, 8 megapixel camera, built in WiFi, GPS, bluetooth and support dualband 900/2100MHz HSDPA / HSUPA network.

The 8 megapixel camera does not have a Xenon flash but comes with a LED flash instead. It can also record 30fps VGA video, plus a helpful list of features like smile shutter, image stabilizer and face detection. The new leaked photo above did not have the company’s unique user interface though. Just like HTC Sense, Sony Ericsson is developing its custom user interface to replace the usual default Android UI.

Check out the previous leaked video below for the Sony Ericsson Android UI

Click here to view the embedded video.

Rumor: Unknown HTC Android Smartphone, HTC Dragon?

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:48:09 +0000

An unknown HTC Android smartphone has been posted on theunlockr.com, sadly it came without any further detail specification or model identification. Some suspects that it could be the HTC Dragon, which feature the 1GHz snapdragon CPU, but that did not derive from any clues as well. More info will be posted here when available.

Palm Pixi GSM Made its First Appearance

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:26:54 +0000

Not official announced for GSM yet, the Palm Pixi GSM is leaked on tinhte forum, but is 2GB less memory than the Sprint’s CDMA version. The Palm Pixi is the second webOS smartphone from Palm , check out a hands on video here on the CDMA version for more detail on its hardware.

[via engadget]

HTC HD2 Promotion Brochure Discovered

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Preparing for its launch in UK, hard copy material has been found with HTC HD2 printed, bringing the 4.3-inch multimedia smartphone closer to official announcement. First identified as HTC Leo, the HD2 will feature a newer TouchFLO 3D version(Manila 2.5), comes with twitter, facebook and other improvements on the user interface. In some applications like photo album, the HTC HD2 will also support multitouch for zooming action.

Supporting a WVGA resolution, the upcoming HD2 should comes with 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, 320MB RAM, 512MB ROM and a microSD card slot. It should be announced in October, earliest by October 6th which is the official Windows Mobile 6.5 launch schedule.

[via engadgetmobile]

Rumor: O2 Germany to Sell GSM Palm Pre Soon?

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:15:25 +0000

Although the GSM Palm Pre was spotted in early this year during the Mobile World Congress, it looks like it will be finally launched by few service providers in Europe soon. The GSM version had already officially announced for UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain, and now the O2 Germany has put up the email notification page on their site. According to nimsso from PreCentral, he called up O2 and was told that he could make the pre-order 2 weeks later, which will be first week of October. We should be able to see the GSM Palm Pre by October or November?

HTC Leo Could Be Called HD2 When Launch

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:47:06 +0000

Right after the quality leaked HTC Leo from ai.rs, techblog.gr has posted a quick hands on on the first Windows PHones that comes with a capacitive touch screen. The blog has confirmed that it will support multi touch with its 4.3-inch display, plus it will be named HTC HD2 as appeared on the bluetooth setup wizard. Click on the techblog.gr link for a Google Translate’s detail.

[via slashgear]

LG Monaco and HP Obsidian Going to AT&T in Nov/Dec

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:22:36 +0000

Coming to AT&T network in November and December this year, Windows Phone users will see the additional LG Monaco and HP Obsidian line up on AT&T inventory. Both smartphones should have the latest Windows Mobile 6.5, and comes with QWERTY keyboard, bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and microSD card slot.

[via BGR]

Rumor: Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Spy Photos

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:08:57 +0000

Similar to the renderedXperia X3 picture, here comes the first spy shot of the Xperia X3 Android smartphone photos. We can hardly see anything in detail yet, but if the smartphone will be available by Jan next year, it should be announced pretty soon in this quarter.

[via se-nse / engadget]