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While at the HP booth at Mobile World Congress Gareth spent some time taking photos of the recently announced Pre3 and Veer. Rather than him make a collage for his bedroom wall we thought you may be interested in seeing them so you will find them all below.
I’m not sure how big the man in the photos is but you will get an idea of the size difference between the Pre3 and the Veer. That man really must stop biting his finger nails!
Inspired by the 2011 national census, Samsung Mobile UK today launches the country’s very first social census asking people to submit photos of a moment that signifies their ‘present’ via social networking sites. The ‘Now Project’ will curate a collection of images that will be logged with time, date and location culminating in a visual census of the UK.
The project, which runs throughout February, invites people to capture images that represent what they are doing or feeling ‘now’. Everything from the commonplace and the ordinary, right through to the unconventional and the unique will be uploaded to an online gallery hosted on Facebook.
After yesterdays HTC press event in Barcelona, Gareth had the opportunity to get a demonstration of the newly announced HTC Flyer.
With so many companies now releasing tablets have HTC done anything to makes theirs stand out from the competition? Yes they have. As you will see in the video below Gareth gets walked through the HTC Sense user interface and even more interesting, how the Scribe (stylus) works. It is not an ordinary stylus as you will see and has more than one feature.
See the video below along with a reminder of the HTC Flyer specification:
After Sunday’s Sony Ericsson event where they officially announced the Xperia Play Gareth hooked up with one of the Sony Ericsson team to get up close and personal with the Xperia Play.
In the video you will see Gareth getting shown around the user interface, the hardware and most important, some gaming. With Gareth being a keen gamer and a PSP owner I am eagerly awaiting his first impressions. Matt and I will also be hands on with the new Sony Ericsson devices tomorrow so look our for further demo videos later in the week.
Check out the video below.
Over at Mobile World Congress Gareth has found his way to the BlackBerry booth to get a demonstration of the BlackBerry PlayBook.
As you will see, one of the BlackBerry team gives Gareth a quick run down of the basic user interface and how wonderful the PlayBook is at true multi tasking.
You will also see Need for Speed and Tetris being played and boy do they look good. I spoke with Gareth afterwards and he said that the PlayBook ran so smoothly and he was very impressed.
You can see the video after the break and please let us know what you think in the forums.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider of smart mobile devices, today announced the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 Smart Player, the latest addition to its expanding range of Android-powered Galaxy products. Available with a 4″ Super Clear LCD display, the Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 delivers apps and entertainment, powered by Android.
Following the global success of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone, Samsung has created the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 that delivers all the features of the original, such as video communications via VoIP services, and video and music entertainment with multi-codec support, without the need for an operator contract.
Today, at Mobile World Congress, Three has confirmed that it will range the HTC Flyer. HTC’s first tablet has a 7″, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, making e-reading, watching movies and browsing the web a pleasure, and its pocketable size makes it convenient to check maps, buy apps or download music while out and about. The HTC Flyer boasts a tablet version of the company’s smartphone Sense User Interface and runs on Android’s Gingerbread at launch, and will be upgradable to the next Google software platform. It includes a 5MP camera and a front facing camera to allow for video calling.
The HTC Flyer is integrated with the Evernote application, and comes with a magic pen allowing people to take notes on the fly, which are then accessible from other devices. It also makes book reading more fun with clever highlighting and annotation features.
The HTC Wildfire was launched last year and since then its popularity here in the UK cannot be denied. Many of the UK operators offer the handset and even its SIM-free pricing is pretty aggressive.
This latest version, the HTC Wildfire S, is a nice progression offering HVGA rather than QVGA and adding a 5 Megapixel camera with flash and 720P video recording, GPS, WiFi all in a 105 gram package.
At launch there will be 4 colours available, silver, black, purple and white but we can probably expect the range to expand throughout the year.
Having played with this one last week I was impressed with the build quality and feel of this little handset.
Building on the popularity of the HTC Wildfire smartphone, the HTC Wildfire S smartphone is an affordable, compact and playful device that packs a powerful smartphone experience. It enables people to maintain and build connections and friendships through popular sites like Facebook, as well as through voice and text messaging. You can instantly tag your friends in photos before posting them on Facebook, or share your latest discoveries from the Android Market at the touch of a button.
HTC Wildfire S is one of HTC’s smallest phones ever – measuring just 10.13cm long and 5.94cm wide – and boasts a distinctive 3.2 inch, HVGA display.
Celebrate your individuality and choose from a wide variety of colours including black, purple and white. The phone’s home screen is fully customizable with your favourite apps, widgets and content, while a 5-megapixel colour camera with auto focus, expandable microSD memory and support for a variety of audio and video formats make a great all-around multimedia device that slips easily into any pocket.
More pictures and full specification can be found below.
HTC have a lot to talk about this year at MWC but that’s ok as they’ve just annouced a couple of new social networking handsets that’ll help them get the message across.
These two ‘Facebook’ phones have been rumoured for a while, we spoke about the HTC Salsa back in December but the name of the other handset, pictured below, had an unknown name. You’ll either think the names are fun or silly but the ChaCha and Salsa started out as HTC internal names (for two other devices as it happens) but HTC though the fun names suited this type of product.
You’ll notice a Facebook key on both of these handsets which allows you to get instant access to HTC’s Friendstream application to share your thoughts with your friends on Facebook or Twitter. A long-press of this key allows you to announce where you are and to check in on Facebook with places integration.
The HTC ChaCha has some nice colour accents, the one we saw last week was white with a blue inlay around the edges but expect to see lots of colour combinations over the coming months. Both devices launch at the end of Q2 2011.
Press release and photos follow.
Busy times for MWC and the third of their new ‘Evolution’ products to be announced today at MWC is the HTC Incredible S. The incredible was a US-only handset but the new ‘S’ version will be available pretty much everywhere.
I was lucky enough to have a meeting with Phil Blair and Drew Banford from HTC last week and get to have a little play with the Incredible S and this is definitely the one to have as far as I am concerned. It really does take the inside-out, physical-mechanical approach to a new level with its unibody design it looks quite different and has a truly wonderful screen. This one really does stand out. I’m looking forward to doing this review!
The alluring HTC Incredible S smartphone combines cutting-edge design with a premium mobile experience for those who dare to be different. Showing what can be achieved when engineers and designers work together to raise the bar for mobile phone design, the HTC Incredible S smartphone features a stunning, contoured body that highlights the internal hardware components of the device. Capturing and viewing video in crystal clear High-Definition has never been so easy and a bright 4-inch WVGA Super LCD display and stereo surround sound bring a vibrant cinematic experience to the palm of your hand.
HTC Incredible S also takes high quality pictures with its 8-megapixel camera with dual flash, and it easily enables videos, photos and music to be shared from the handset direct to a TV using DLNA® technology. Thanks to the HTC Incredible S’s front facing camera and video call functionality, users will constantly be able to chat with their friends face-to-face.
Full specs can be found below:
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