A phone demoed that this years Mobile World Congress was the Samsung Wave now available to pre-order from Vodafone. Something of a powerhouse of a phone that was capable of running Need For Space [Insert name of game here] at quite a smooth pace was one thing that caught most people eyes. The other was that it was presented with Samsung’s own operating system, Bada. Likely to be a big seller, the Wave does however feel somewhat indeterminable from several other phones on the market, mostly from Samsung.
Devicewire have the HTC Wildfire available for pre order if you would like to be one of the first to get your hands on it.
If you are not familiar with it this low cost Android Device is a lower spec version of the HTC Desire but with that same great user experience. If you did not see our preview video you can do so here.
As we mentioned in the last podcast the Eken M001 will be arriving soon at a rather attractive $100 price tag. It has be bigger brother however. Whereas the M001 features 7 inches of LCD viewing space, the M003 is an 8-inch device that also runs Android and pretty much functions like a tablet with WiFi-connectivity. At $240 a piece it’s cheaper than the Apple iPad albeit with a much lower built-in storage, which is readily addressed using SD cards of up to 32GB. For more information about the EKEN M003, click the link below or watch the video after the break. Video after the break:
Introducing the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus phones, coming to O2 on May 28.
The Palm Pre Plus, with its handy slide-out keyboard, really lets you enjoy the business of living. Keep all your apps open and connected. Get business and personal email in one place, answers at your fingertips with universal search, and never miss a thing thanks to notifications.
The Pixi Plus gives you a fixed keyboard as well as a touchscreen, so you can text, IM and email in an instant. Watch videos. Browse your favourite websites. Stay in touch with friends. And personalise your phone with interchangeable back covers.
Whichever you prefer, both are amazingly powerful yet simple to use, making it easy and fun to stay connected and ahead1, and both organise all your contacts and calendars into one place so you’re always up to date.
And you can run your favourite apps – like Facebook®, Yell.com, RadioTime and Grooveshark – on Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. With over 1000 available and more added each week, chances are you’ll find the ones you want.
Thank you to everyone that has been following our interview with Microsoft’s Alex Reeve, Director of Mobile Business Group in the UK and to those of you that sent in your questions for Alex.
For those of you that were not able to join us live we had a great followup interview with Alex, it’s incredible to think that it was almost 3 months ago since our last interview with him!
Sorry that we were not able to get to everyone’s questions but below you will see the questions and answers that we were able to cover in the time available. It’s interesting to note that the same questions came from lots of you so those are the ones we made sure to include.
To those of you following live we apologise for the slow start, Twitter decided to fall over just as we got going!
Full Q&A session after the jump…
Zareth, Ratt and Flames get together for some chit chat about the mobile news in the last week. Amongst the topics discussed are Android speed increase, The HTC Wildfire, HTC Smart, rumoured Windows Phone 7 phones and much, much more.
Regulars: Flames Bitchardson, Ratt Mavis, Zareth Byles and Randy Pee
This will be why we heard that O2 were not buying anymore Palm Pre’s.
“We are excited to bring Pre Plus and Pixi Plus to the market for O2 customers,” said Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer. “With the choice of these two new Palm webOS phones, customers across the UK can stay connected, so they never miss a thing.”
The Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 or ‘New Mini 10’ as it’s also known on the Dell website is another Atom based netbook, and as the name suggests it has a 10 inch screen (10.1 actually) – the difference here is that it’s a higher resolution than the standard 1024×600 we’re used to seeing.
The Mini 1012 is running a fairly standard 32bit Windows 7 Starter for Small Notebook PCs on a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 Single Core CPU, paired with 1GB of RAM and an Intel 3150 Graphics Media Accelerator.
This particular unit has the 6-cell battery giving a claimed 9.5 hours of battery life – and the case is styled to keep this larger battery nice and sleek – no ‘lumpy’ batteries here.
So let’s take it for a spin.
Rumours abound at the moment when it comes to tablet style devices, with rumours from RIM, HTC and just about every other manufacturer out there.
One little gem that one of our readers pointed out to me (thanks Mike) is the Eken M001 Android tablet. Looks pretty interesting, reasonably high-res 7″ 480×800 TFT display, SD card reader, WiFi, 600MHz CPU and 128MB RAM. The drawback is that it’s only running Android 1.6 but the biggest plus point is perhaps that the rumours say that it’ll retail for around $100, if that’s true and not just vapourware then this could be a real bargain and a great competitor to the iPad!
What do we think, real or fake?
Posted by: Matt
Further to our recent successful interview on twitter (twinterview) with Alex Reeve from Microsoft you may be pleased to hear that on Thursday May 20th at 12.30 hrs GMT we will be hosting round two.
Once again this will be an opportunity for both yourself and us to ask Microsoft questions about Windows Phone 7.
So please have a good think and let us have your questions. Depending on how may we get we cannot guarantee all will be asked but we will endeavour to do our best.
You can submit your questions to us one of two ways. Firstly on the forum under this post or secondly you can email either Matt or myself:
We look forward to receiving your questions.
Posted by: James
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