Toshiba expands its Satellite P505 family by the announcement of its innovative notebook P505-S8011 model sporting Intel’s Core i7 processor.

The 18.4-inch laptop is powered up by Intel’s Core i7-720QM 1.6GHz processor, 4GB of RAM-(Random Access Memory), it also packs a 500GB hard disk drive and NVIDIA GeForce 310M 512MB graphics for ultimate graphics experience.

Toshiba Satellite P505-S8011 comes with a 18.4-inch 1680×945 LCD display screen, a DVD SuperMulti burner with LabelFlash and a multi-in-one memory card reader. The notebook has also integrated harman/kardon stereo speakers with Dolby Sound Room, eSATA connection port, HDMI port, a webcam for video conferencing and a 12-cell(8000 mAh) lithium-ion battery.

Toshiba Satellite P505-S8011 has a price label of $1149 and it can be had at Amazon.com

The iPhone was Apple’s top-selling product last quarter, which took $5.45 billion in sales, or 40 % of revenue. Apple Inc may plan to uncover the successor of its highly appreciated product iPhone this June. Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs will be addressing the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference to be held in June and the news much likely will be revealed then.

According to Willian Kreher(St Louis-based analyst at Edward Jones & Co), the company will introduce the new hardware i.e the latest iPhone. WWDC is known for the product introduction and this time it will be the new iphone. Steve will kick off the meeting on June 7 which will be till 7 days.
 
Since the release of iPhone in June 2007, Apple has presented a new version every summer. In July 2008, the iPhone 3G went for sale which was then followed by another upgraded version in June 2009.

HTC uncovers its newest Android smartphone Wildfire, the Wildfire with the HTC Sense UI. Most the technical experts round the world think that the HTC Wildfire combines the design of Google’s Nexus One and HTC Desire, getting the color scheme (the brown version) and touch-sensitive buttons of the former and the optical trackpad and UI of the latter.

The HTC Wildfire is embedded with a 528MHz processor, 512MB ROM-(Read Only Memory) and 384MB RAM-(Random Access Memory) and executes Android 2.1 Eclair with HTC Sense. It features a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus and flash, built-in GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. The Android phone also features G-sensor, proximity sensor, digital compass and digital compass.

The HTC Wildfire will be released till Q3 2010 in Europe and Asia. It supports dual-band 900/2100 WCDMA/HSDPA 3G and quad-band GSM/EDGE networks. Its Brown, red, black and white versions will be released.

With a new open source development platform in Bada, Samsung is offering almost £2 million worth of incentives to the best app creators.

With a £200,000 first prize, developers with apps hitting the top 300 will get a free Samsung Wave to play with – for testing purposes, of course.

Below this, winners get between £30,000 and £70,000, with the odd 20 grand prize for apps that get an ‘honourable mention’ from Samsung themselves.

The competition is open to all and sundry, with three months left to sign up if you want to get yourself a Samsung Wave for gratis…

The Wave S8500 is a landmark handset for the Samsung for more reasons than one – not only is it the first handset to run the Samsung’s new proprietary Bada operating system, the Wave is also the first handset to come from the Korean manufacturer with new Super-AMOLED screen technology.

Users can comfortably view the 3.3” colourful screen even in bright sunlight conditions, with minimal glare and from acute angles and also at lower power consumption rates, making the Wave the perfect handset for the summer months where you’re more likely to stay out and about.

The Wave also boasts some top-line specs with a 1Ghz processor, 5 mega-pixel camera (with flash), high definition video recording capabilities, Wi-Fi support and a handy 3.5mm jack.

Samsung Wave deals are available now, on the Orange and Vodafone networks.

Sony Ericsson are set for a stellar 2010 with a range of the handsets that sees them aiming at top echelons of both the feature phone and smartphone markets – the Xperia X10 and the Vivaz.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a Symbian based handset – the smallest ever HD video-shooting device, which is capable of capturing 720 pixels at a rate of 24 fps, via its 8.1 mega-pixel camera.

The results are nothing short of stunning and thanks to a continuous auto-focus feature the Vivaz is able to track moving objects for a dynamic clarity previously unseen on a handset.

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Deals

It’s not just feature phones that Sony Ericsson are aiming their sights on for the 2010 season however. With the Xperia X10 the Swedish/Japanese manufacturer has got their eyes on the high-end smart phone market too.

The recently launched Xperia X10 is an Android-based device (runs version 1.6) that boasts a gorgeous 4.0” capacitive touchscreen, with a whopping 480 x 854 pixel resolution – the results are fantastic.

The Xperia might not run the latest version of Android, but what it does offer is a highly customized interpretation of the Google-based operating system.

The Xperia centers around two interfaces – MediaScape, which displays all your music & videos in one place, and TimeScape which threads together all your contacts and messages.

A unique ‘Infinity’ button then opens up a whole stream of possibilities, depending one what you are currently focused on. For instance, pressing the Infinity button whilst on an artist gives you links to both the off and on-line content available to you by that performer.

The Xperia range covers all sizes too, with the X10 Pro, which packs a 4-line QWERTY keyboard, the X10 Mini (a cut-down version of the original X10) plus an X10 Mini Pro (includes a compact QWERTY keyboard).

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Deals

HTC Legend

Release Date: 1^st April

Pricepoint: £25/£30 per month.

USP: Android powered Vodafone exclusive.

A Vodafone exclusive, the HTC Legend is exciting as it marks a real mass market push for Google’s mobile phone operating system, dubbed ‘Android’.

First reaching the public conscious in the HTC Hero, Android offers a wealth of web-savvy smartphone features – browsing, an App Store alternative (Android Market), e-mail, instant messaging) in an attractive and affordable package.

The Legend is made of a single piece of aluminum, feeling weighty and expensive like the first generation iPhone, also looking the part with a gorgeous form, 5-megapixel camera and expansive touchscreen.

The user interface is also visually arresting, HTC customizing the experience with pretty menus and an intuitive user experience for the uninitiated. Unique features include Twitter integration, and FriendStream – a thread of status updates, messages and alerts filtered in from a bunch of social networking sites into one place.

Taking the geekiness out of the smart phone seems set to make the Legend hugely popular next month.

HTC Desire

Release Date: 1^st April

Pricepoint: £30/£35 per month.

USP: Google phone facsimile with even more oomph.

As above but without the shackles of selling through a single network and the cache of being the mirror image of Google’s own Nexus One phone (HTC created both), Desire seems set to be even bigger than the Legend.

Simple to use but superpowered, the Desire brings high-end features and functionality, yet remains accessible to the layman.

The screen is bigger, the internal gubbins are more powerful, but the Desire is much like the Legend, complete with Android operating system and browsing prowess.

It is those small touches that make a big impact on your overall phone experience: like the new ‘Leap’ thumbnail view that lets you easily jump to any of the seven panels on your Home screen, a ringer that automatically lowers the ringer volume when you pick up the phone.

The Exchange support means that the Desire can just as easily be a BlackBerry substitute, and the media support means that music and movies are easy too.

Both this and the Legend give Apple cause to stop and think, as innovation is not just from their corner these days…

HTC Desire deals will be available from the end of March.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10

Release Date: March / April

Pricepoint: £30/£35 per month.

USP: Sony’s first Android attempt, betting big on merging on- with offline content..

Sony Ericsson’s first bite at the Android cherry, the XPERIA X10 is their big bet for the first half of 2010…

Using the Google operating system as a starting point, they’ve developed their own all-new interface, which seamlessly integrates all of a user’s on and offline content into one place.

The TimeScape menu gives you a stream of updates (pictured above) from your fave social networking sites, from status changes to additions to their albums.

Photos taken with the X10’s 8MP camera can be automatically uploaded to Facebook, then tagged with friends’ names, thanks to facial recognition software.

MediaScape does the same for music and movies, looking at the contents on your phone and offering YouTube videos, album art and extra features based on what you like appearing on the 4” touchscreen.

It still has all of the smartphone trappings like 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS,

Based on an older version of Android and subject to numerous release delays (thanks to the extreme makeover taking so long), the XPERIA X10 will be everywhere come release time. TV, online, Spotify…a £6 million ATL spend will ensure that this phone shifts some units.

Samsung Wave

Release Date: April

Pricepoint: £25/£30 per month.

USP: New operating system, brings App Store alternative to affordable handsets.

Samsung’s opening salvo in the fight against the iPhone, the Wave is the first of their phones to run on their own internally developed operating system– ‘Bada.’

Meaning ocean in Korean (symbolic…), this platform allows users to download a sea of applications (told you!) from Samsung’s App Store, as well as offer smartphone functionality at feature phone prices.

Unfortunately, the Wave is rather smartphone functionality at close to smartphone prices, but is going to be the touted as a poster boy for a new breed of phones from Samsung, with cheaper handsets to follow.

A large 3.3” touchscreen sporting world’s first technology to make it more vivid and bright than ever, a superfast processor and plenty of memory make the Wave a handset firmly in high-end territory.

Once again, a handset jumps on the social networking bandwagon, with the Wave offering aggregation from the usual suspects to present a one-stop-shop of status updates, friend notifications and pokes.

Ernest Doku is editor of mobile phone deals comparison site Omio.com.

LG introduced at the CES 2010 its second Android mobile phone, the GT540 Swift, after the GW620. The Swift feature a 320×480 resistive touchscreen (oh..) and a 3 Megapixel autofocus camera. It runs Android 2.0 OS with S-Class-like UI.

The LG GT540 gets integrated GPS and supports Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. It supports playback of DivC and WMV video and comes with a Motion UI player. Itworks on 3G/HSDPA networks. There is a microSD card.

Looking for on handsets other than the iPhone? Then you should almost certainly consider the following two smartphones:

HTC’s HD2 – a superb smart phone with a huge touchscreen and Windows O/S, and the N900, Nokia’s flagship handset, which features one of the best QWERTY keyboards in the game, plus the Maemo browser, developed in tandem with Mozilla, the people behind Firefox.

The HD2 was the surprise hit of 2009 – outselling iPhone in many retailers. Meanwhile, the Nokia N900 landed on the scene just at the turn of the year and has yet to prove itself on the market, however it’s spec sheet says it deserves a serious look – let’s see how they measure up to each other.

Let’s take a look at how these phones size up to each other:

HTC HD2

Dimensions 120.5 x 67 x 11 mm
Weight 157 g
Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches

CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
User Memory: 448 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

Connections: Enhanced 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

Features:

- Sense UI
- Multi-touch input method
-Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Pick-to-mute
- Speakerphone
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- Facebook and Twitter integration
- YouTube client
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- HTC Peep, HTC Footprints
- Voice memo
- 5 MP Camera, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, dual LED flash
- GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

Nokia N900

Dimensions 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm
Weight 181 g
Display Type Resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 800 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches

CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
OS: ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics
User Memory: 448 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

Connections: Enhanced 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Infrared port

Features:

- Adobe Flash Player 9.4
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Loudspeaker, stereo sound
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- 32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM
- microSD, up to 16GB
-A-GPS support; Ovi Maps
-Skype and GoogleTalk VoIP integration
- MP3 music player
- DivX video player
- TV-out
- 5MP Camera , 2576×1936 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, Video Recording – 848 x 480 @25fps

HTC HD2 / N900 Compared

The HTCs superb Sense User Interface makes using the HD2 a joy. The HD2’s huge screen is ideal for navigating Windows applications, plus it’s super fast Snapdragon processor handles these applications with ease. The combined result, is that the htc hd2 deals with all your organisational needs, on the go.

By comparison, the N900 is much better as an entertainment device. The nokia n900 deals ably with all the rich web content you can throw at it: Not only does it boast a browser made specifically for multi-tasking, it also has Adobe flash support so you can view top quality videos and images (take that iPhone!) plus, the visual real-estate to reproduce this content on your screen.

So, the verdict? It’s the HD2 for homework and the N900 for web-play. Keep your eyes peeled for some fantastic mobile phone deals on both handsets.

AT&T and HP is officially launching the HP iPAQ Glisten business-oriented smartphone, which is previously called HP iPAQ K3 Obsidian. The bar-type QWERTY phone runs Windows Mobile 6.5 OS and gets a full QWERTY keyboard and 5-way directional pad.

The iPAQ Glisten comes with a 2.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, a 3.1 Megapixel camera, support for A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity. You can also find a microSD card slot.

This latest businese phone from HP is powered by a Qualcomm 7200A processor, 256MB RAM and 512MB ROM. It offers microUSB connector and a 3.5mm audio jack. The HP iPAQ Glisten will be available in the coming weeks for $179.99 after $50 rebate with two-year agreement, smartphone data plan.

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iHome launches the new iP88G dual dock clock radio and audio system for iPhone and iPod players. The device is able to charge the two docked iPhone or iPod at the same time. It features stereo drivers in specially designed Reson8 speaker chambers, AM/FM tuner, backlit button and remote control. The iP88G also plays music from iPod or iPhone.

Of course, the iHome iP88G serves as an alarm clock. It is priced at $149.99.

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