Latest mobile models - Mobile Bloggo News 2010!

Many pictures of the HTC Legend have been seen, and it’s rumored to be presented officially during the Mobile World Congress. The latest image comes from the Dutch mobile carrier KPN, showing how the new smartphone looks similar to the HTC Hero, but featuring an aluminum body. According to the announcement, the phone will be available with them from March on. On the KPN ad there are also some new specifications for the Legend: a 600 Mhz processor, an optical trackpad and a 3.2″ touchscreen AMOLED display.

The other specifications present there were already known: 5.0 Megapixel photocamera with LED Flash, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and Android 2.1 (Eclair) with HTC Sense.

Samsung has launched the M100S, the first smartphone from Samsung to feature Android 2.1. Unfortunately, it seems that the launch is restricted to the South Korean market, from March on.

Hoping it’ll approach our markets as well, we’ll list the main features. It has a 3.7″ AMOLED display with WVGA resolution, a 800Mhz processor, Wi-Fi and GPS. Also featured are the 3.5mm jack, 5 megapixel photocamera capable of recording 720p HD Ready videos and with DivX Support. Together with that, the TouchWiz interface and integrated TV, it really makes us hope it’ll be available for other markets as well.

Another image for the HTC Bravo smartphone: it’s a hands-on image, that shows the user interface for the new HTC device. The HTC Bravo seems to be very similar to the Google Nexus One, even though it has more keys and an optical trackpad instead of the trackball.

The HTC Bravo also features a 3.7″ AMOLED WVGA multi-touch screen, 3G Connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, 512 MB RAM, 5 Megapixel photocamera with HD video recording, Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 GHz processor and the Android 2.1 OS.

Acer will present their second phone based on the Android platform soon. The new model should arrive on the market during the first half of this year. It was Jim Wong, Acer’s IT Division’s president, to announce the news.

Obviously no further information was released. We don’t know how it will be called, or even the basic technical specifications. Of course, we’ll have to wait.

As it commonly happens on the mobile phone world, the LG GW620, the first LG model featuring Android, changes name. It’s now called LG InTouch Max GW620 and it was launched last Tuesday in England, opening the official launch in Europe. The technical specifications are also available, including a physical QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen display and Linkbook, an application that puts all social networks together.

As for the rest of software specifications, the phone features a automatic tag on pictures and the Face-to-Action that allows users to contact their friends (through call, SMS, MMS or social network message) by simply touching their face in a picture. The hardware also has a 5 Megapixel photocamera, 3″ touchscreen display with the resolution of 480×320 pixels, HSDPA connectivity, microSD support, 3.5mm jack, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 1500 mAh battery.

Gigabyte has been trying to get a space in the smartphone market, and in order to compete with the rest, they’ve launched the first smartphone featuring Android. The device measures 103 x 54 x 13.4 mm and has a 2.6″ touchscreen display with the resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The photocamera has the resolution of 2 Megapixels.

The smartphone is made for the medium-low market, supports EDGE and Wi-Fi connectivity. The internal memory features 512 MB and is expandable with microSD cards. Also featured are the accelerometer and the GPS. The availability is set for next month for the price of €212.

If you are curious about the LePhone, the newest smartphone from Lenovo, here’s a video showing it in action, directly from the CES in Las Vegas.

The technical specifications: 3.7″ AMOLED touchscreen display with the resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, 3 Megapixel photocamera, Snapdragon 1GHz processor, Android OS, expandable internal memory with microSD cards, GPS and WiFi. Price and availability haven’t yet been announced.

It seems that Sony Ericsson is really willing to give people something to talk about, especially since the company hasn’t been in their best of moments lately. First the Kanna, then now other leaked images show the Robyn, a miniature version of the Android X10 smartphone.

The device takes most of the features on the X10, except for the smaller size, and it should have a few different colors. The few specifications known speak about a 5 megapixel photocamera with autofocus, touchscreen, USB connector, HSPA and WLAN.

We’ll have to wait for the Mobile World Congress to know more.

It was almost sure that the Samsung i899 was going to be a device featuring Windows Mobile, but Samsung has instead officially confirmed that the model will be an Android smartphone. The news come directly from Samsung’s official Chinese site.

The technical specifications for the i899 are: CDMA/Ev-DO device with an 3.2″ touchscreen AMOLED display with the resoliution of 320 x 480 pixels, GPS, 3.5mm Jack and WiFi/WAPI connectivity. It also features a 3.2 Megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, and an internal memory of 512 MB, expandable with microSD cards up to 32 GB.

The availability is initially only in China, and no word yet whether the device will be available elsewhere.

LG takes the opportunity at the CES 2010 to present a new Android-based smartphone, the LG GT540 Swift. It’s the third generation of Android smartphones from LG that will also be shown at the Mobile World Congress.

For now it’s known that the GT540 Swift has a 3 Megapixel photocamera, a touchscreen display, Android 1.5 with a few modifications to the icons, typical of the LG phones. The device will also be compatible with DivX and WMV movie files, it’ll allow users to change the song by shaking the phone and the internal memory will be expandable to 32 GB with microSDHC cards. As the video above shows, the design is compact and rather pleasant to the eyes.

The LG GT540 Swift will be available from April on, but we’ll probably know more around February.