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LG Mini GD880 hands-on video

Not to be outdone, LG chose MWC to show off its Mini GD880, a svelte piece built from brushed aluminum in both black and silver. Build quality is striking here — jaw-droppingly so — with fit and finish on all corners, seams, and around the various ports looking spot on.

This device also has heft for its diminutive size — sure, it’s only 99g, but that feels like so much for a device of this size — but it only adds character and, well, it feels like money for lack of a better word. Running LG’s S-Class UI, the touchscreen sadly isn’t really up to snuff, we had to really poke at the screen to get it to register a touch, and there was lag and delay between key press and action.

Of course, this isn’t shipping today, but rather launches in Europe in March — for some unknown price — and then on to other markets. So here’s hoping there is still a tweak or two in the GD880’s future, it’d be a shame to let something as glorious as it looks not deliver an experience to match.

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HTC Legend hands-on video

Mobilecrunch paws the oh so shinny HTC Legend which was announced today and is made with an aluminum uni-body, bit like the Mac and Nexus One.

First Impressions:

• It’s absolutely gorgeous. The majority of the unibody design is cut from a single sheet of aluminum, ensuring that there are no screws or unsightly seams. It’s hard not to compare it with a MacBook Pro; side by side, they look like they were born from the same robotic mother.
• The Hero was notoriously slow at launch – and while it sped up over time, it still had its lags here and there. The Legend is only 72Mhz faster (600Mhz vs 528mhz), but that little bump (and all of the work Google and HTC have been doing, presumably) make this an incredibly smooth ride.
• Being accustomed to trackballs, I went into the hands-on a bit unsure about the optical trackpad. I didn’t even consciously notice the difference until someone mentioned it – which says a lot. It works perfectly.
• In terms of durability, the unibody design makes this thing a friggin’ tank. As long as you don’t go smashing the glass screen, you’ll be hardpressed to damage the guts inside. HTC smashed the handset onto the desk multiple times hard enough that it was uncomfortably loud, and it walked away unscathed.
• HTC introduced a Exposé like multi-touch zoom control on the home screen, allowing you to use two-finger pinching to show all of your widget pages at once. This seemed silly in theory, but it’s pretty great in practice. You don’t realize how annoying it is to scroll through 7 pages of widgets until you’re given an alternative.

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HTC Legend, Desire, and HD mini promo videos

HTC have made some nice videos showing off the three handsets they just announced at Mobile World Congress: the HTC Desire, HD mini, and Legend. They havent been officially released yet, so heres a sneak peak curtsey of Mobilecrunch.

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Sneak peak of Adobe Flash 10.1 running on the Dell Mini 5

Adobe have released a video showing off its latest handy work on the Dell Mini 5. Flash 10.1 uses the GPU to accelerate the decoding of flash and H264 content that you might find on Youtube or iPlayer, taking the stress off the cpu and gives a desktop like experience.

Whats this Dell thingy you ask? Well its a 5” tablet running Android and will be available in the summer.

HTC Desire hands-on video

As usual, Engadget are first on the scene with a hands on with the HTC Desire at MWC. This looks to be the must have handset for 2010.

3D games coming to N900

Nokia has demoed some upcoming 3D games, and the earlier released mobile version of Firefox on its N900 device out at the Mobile World Congress event.

The 3D games, shown by Jussi Makinen, marketing manager for Maemo for Nokia, comprise of 3D rollercoaster title that Makinen says shows off the graphical capabilities of the touchscreen handset.

There’s also another game that involves wrapping rope around a log, which looks more compelling than it sounds. For this, and a look at Firefox running on the phone, checkout the video below.

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TAT Home: the gesture-powered 3D home screen your Android

TAT Home have whipped up a really nice skin for Android which transforms the home screen with a powerful gesture based 3D experience that relies heavily on cascading windows and finger flicks in order to improve your navigational efficiency.

Finger friendly widgets and rich transitions are all here and is supposed to blend nicely with Androids original widgets. Checkout the video for more then head over to TAT to sign up for the beta.

Toshiba TG02 hands-on Video

The TG01 probably still has the sexiest hardware made to date, trouble was, the software was terrible and the resistive screen sealed its fate. Skip forward 12 months and now Toshiba has updated the beauty with brawn and brains. Say hello to the Toshiba TG02.

Sporting Windows Mobile 6.5.3 with a UI layer provided by SPB Mobile Shell, a popular third part skin for WinMo in the similar vein to HTC’s efforts which has gained popularity for those in the know, and a capacitive screen to go along with the Snapdragon 1ghz cpu. Seems like Tosh still have a few kinks to work out but without doubt the TG02 is worth a second look. The eagle eyed amongst you will spot CorePlayer, which happens to be one of the most versatile media players ever made and will hopefully make it into the final build.

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Motorola Quench Hands-on Video

Engadget is at it again, this time with the Quench from Motorola, a mid tier Android device that was announced earlier today.