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Samsung has released a video to explain the difference between the AMOLED and Super AMOLED displays, and also how they obtained the desired results.

Basically, during the manufacturing stages, with the Super AMOLED display, less materials are needed. Which translates into better brightness and a thinner display, which helps in creating slim phones. The Super AMOLED displays will also be available to other manufacturers to build their own smartphones.

The latest creations from LG, Cookie Plus or LG GS500 and the smaller version Cookie Fresh, also known as LG GS290, will be launched in Europe this March, reaching the number of 50 countries all over the world.

With more or less the same specifications, the Cookie Plus also include a 3 Megapixel photocamera with autofocus, a very simple MP3 player, a 3.5mm Jack, email push, bluetooth and others. The Cookie Fresh has a 2 Megapixel photocamera, radio FM and the possibility of registering audio and video files, and it’ll come in 10 different colors.

During the keynote presented at the TechEd Middle East in Dubai, Eric Rudder from Microsoft showed a demo of a game (Indiana Jones) played on a PC with Windows, a Windows Phone 7 phone and an XBox 360.

The most interesting thing, however, isn’t that the game is compatible with the three platforms, but that the game session is kept for all the three devices, allowing users to continue the game that they started on the Xbox 360 by playing it on the Windows Phone 7 Series phone.

Gamers will definitely like that, we think. Enjoy the video!

People have been expecting Sony Ericsson to launch something similar to a PSP Phone for a while, but the rumors were always brought down, much to some fans’ disappointment. But today, another rumor comes to the list of rumors seen in the past, and it seems that it’s Sony to take the initiative this time.

Indeed, the creators of the PlayStation seem to be bothered with Apple’s hegemony in the portable devices sector and would be developing a smartphone that would be connected to an Online Service (Sony Online Service, which should be similar to the iTunes), where users could download songs and PlayStation games.

Despite the Sony brand, the device will be built by Sony Ericsson, even though the OS is still unknown. Sony also seems to be planning to make a tablet that would be a “netbook, an e-reader and a PlayStation portable” all in one, in order to compete with Apple’s iPad and other devices.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has talked about the Bluetooth 4.0 and the roadmap for the new specifications. The first devices featuring Bluetooth 4.0 will be sold by the end of this year.

The specifications for the Bluetooth 4.0 were thought for the devices with low energy requirements. The Bluetooth SIG has the intention of extending the 4.0 not only to PC, mobile phones and headphones, but also to watches and clocks, pedometers and such. Among the specifications for the Bluetooth 4.0, there’s the possibility of high-speed Bluetooth-to-WiFi, more “wireless capability” to gadgets such as photocameras, portable consoles and tablet PCs, hence helping the communication between devices thanks to the Bluetooth 4.0. It should serve as a bridge for light information without wasting of energy. These protocols have indeed been thought out to be efficient with a low-bit data transfer.

Despite the low-consumption possibility, users will not notice an enhancement in the battery consumption on their own mobile phones: the Bluetooth 4.0 radio waves use as much energy as the Bluetooth 3.0 when used to synchronize smartphones with the laptops or other devices, or to listen to music with the wireless headphones.

The confusion around the Windows Phone 7 and possible upgrades from previous versions is still there in Microsoft. Last week, Microsoft UK declared that an upgrade could be considered by Microsoft’s hardware partners. But today, Natasha Kwan, General Manager of Microsoft Mobile Communications Business for the Asian market has declared that due to specific requirements for the Windows Phone 7 Series, the current models on the market cannot access the upgrade.

In this declaration, it’s included the HTC HD2, which seems not to have all the minimum requirements. The Windows Mobile 6.5 will be able to receive an update to the Windows Mobile 6.5.3, and after the upgrade, the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 will officially become the Windows Phone Classic.

During a meeting with Aaron Woodman from Microsoft, some bloggers managed to have a look at the prototype of the first smartphone that will use Windows Phone 7 series. It’s an LG-manufactured device with complete QWERTY keyboard and a 5 Megapixel photocamera.

Unfortunately for now there’s no way of making any further comments on the new version of Microsoft’s mobile OS. We’ll leave you to the video. Enjoy!

Most of the recent models launched by Samsung feature a touchscreen display. This trend was confirmed once more with the new Caliber R860. Featuring a 3.2″ touchscreen display with the resolution of 420 x 240 pixels, it also has a 3 Megapixel photocamera with flash.

It also supports the 3G networks, the internal memory can be expanded with microSD cards, and also present are the TouchWiz interface, the GPS, the social network integration, bluetooth and a battery that has the duration of 4.5 hours in conversation and 300 hours in standby.

The price in the USA is set at $250.

During last week’s announcement during the MWC 2010, when Steve Ballmer officially presented the Windows Phone 7 Series platform, he also said that the first Windows Phone 7 series phone will be available by Christmas this year.

Apparently, the first device featuring Microsoft’s new mobile platform could indeed be launched in September this year, according to an information obtained by Engadget China, from someone inside the LG Mobile in Hong Kong. This rumor would actually match the one that claimed that LG would be launching a Windows Phone 7 Series mobile called Apollo.

We’ll have to wait and see.

Michael Kordahi and Andrew Coats, developers from Microsoft Australia, ahve explained in a podcast the decision of creating three different models for phones with Windows Phone 7 Series.

The first “chassis” would be a “big touchscreen” phone. It’s a touch-only device, with a 1Ghz processor and a graphic-dedicated processor. The second model will have a physical slide keyboard and touchscreen, similarly to the Palm Treo. The third could be a candybar, but there were no details revealed about it.

Last year, some specifications were revealed, about what now seems to be the Windows Mobile 7 Chassis 1, but that back then were thought to belong to the rumored Microsoft Pink-Zune phone.