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Change, a phone we can believe in

Next week the entire world will welcome a new American president. Barack Obama is  wildly popular around the world, but nowhere is more excited than Kenya, the birthplace of the President-elect’s father. How is Kenya celebrating the inauguration? With an Obama branded cell phone, obviously. Mi-fone, a maker of low end mobiles for Africa and South Asia has created a budget handset for the Kenyan market in order to cash in on that country’s love of the future president. If someone were to create a phone to cash in on a politician, I don’t think there is a better choice these Days Than Obama. The phone features dual band GSM, a built in FM radio, an LED light, and a 4.5 hour talk time. The phone should be available now for around $30.

Source: IntoMobile

HTC to use Nvidia’s Tegra processor on 2009 new devices

Chip maker Nvidia will power new mobile devices made by HTC. The maker of popular Geforce graphics cards technology enabling computers to render 3D imagery is pushing a new Tegra processor that is aimed for mobile devices and lower powered Netbooks. “We believe that HTC has selected the NVDA Tegra applications processor for a new handset design that will ramp in [the second half of 2009],” according to Doug Freedman of American Technology Research. Announced in early 2008, Tegra puts an Arm-based processor core, a GeForce graphics core and other components onto a single chip. The product lineup will include the Tegra 600 running at 700MHz and the Tegra 650 running at 800MHz.

via wmpoweruser and International Business Times

Android Dream G2 video

Android Central have uncovered a video which looks like the Dream G2 Android phone for the Chinese market. There is a video of it in action after the break. Surprised to see a lot of stylus action going on in the video although this phone doesn’t have a hardware keyboard maybe its not that big of a surprise especially for handwriting recognition which there is an application for on this phone. The multimedia capabilities of the phone in this video are on display with a movie sample and some music. Take a look after the break.

Centro 2 running WebOS

Palm Infocenter has heard from a seemingly reliable firsthand source that Palm is prepping a new Centro 2 that will debut later this fall on Sprint. According to Palm Infocenter, the Centro 2 is supposedly around the same size as the current Centro and will run on the Palm WebOS. PIC also mentions a PCMag article that addresses the top 15 questions concerning the Palm Pre and the WebOS. Question #4 was “Will there be other Pre models?”, and the answer is:

“Yes. There will be different models, in different shapes and sizes. According to a tipster, the next Pre may be a lower-cost, candybar-style phone without a QWERTY keyboard.”

[Via Treo Central]

Dell making Android phone?

Smartphone sales are trumping PC and Notebook sales for quite a number of years, you would have expected Dell to be in the market long ago to cement their position as a top manufacturer in the market, and sadly, they stayed on the wayside. Now rumours are popping up everywhere on the Net about a possible Dell Smartphone, it is expected that this Smartphone will be announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress or CTIA and will feature Google Android or Windows Mobile, so far from what I’m reading, Android seems to be the likely contender.

Nokia E71 goes all the way up to 200.21.188

One of my favourite phones of 2008 has received a major update just to make it that little bit more attractive. I didn’t really have too much trouble with the phone and I certainly haven’t heard of many people complaining that it’s buggy. However, Nokia have deemed it necessary to push out an update and packaged some interesting features. Click to read on.

Steve Jobs taking medical leave

Steve Jobs is temporarily handing over control of Apple to Tim Cook, while he recovers from his hormone imbalance. Steve sent an email to apple employees stating that he underestimated the complexity of his health issues. He was quoted in the email saying “In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to  allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June,”. I hope Steve takes the spring to convalesce, and returns in time to make a big iPhone announcement this summer.

Apple approves third party browsers in App Store

MacRumors are reporting that over the past 24 hours, Apple has begun to approve 3rd party web browsing applications for the iPhone. A number of new web browsing apps have suddenly appeared with original submission dates ranging as far back as October. Web browsing applications were previously charged with “duplicating functionality” of other iPhone apps and was felt to be the reason why Opera would never be approved by Apple.

Palm Pre vs. iPhone vs. G1 (and WM as well!)

Gizmodo have put together a fun comparison of the three operating systems that will rock 2009. As you will probably guess from the recent demonstration at CES Palm manages to clean the floor with the others. It’s exciting to read about all these excellent features and how all three compare. Time will tell as there is so much potential in all.
In addition Mobility Site have listed the features and added Microsoft’s Windows Mobile to the rumble. A nice addition. Blackberry and Symbian don’t get a look in…