We’ve got a fresh comparison video courtesy of Pocketnow, one that focuses on the performance of the hottest CPUs embedded in smartphones right now. The handsets involved in the test are Motorola Droid X (TI OMAP CPU), Samsung Captivate (Samsung Hummingbird CPU) and Nexus One (Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU).
Four methods are used for the comparison:...
Japanese carrier au KDDI recently introduced a new CDMA handset, dubbed the Toshiba IS02, a Windows Mobile QWERTY smartphone, that packs a large widescreen display with VGA resolution. There’s also a Snapdragon CPU on board and many interesting functions, detailed after the break.
The handset’s keyboard is a sliding one and the device also...
Toshiba seems to be preparing the next smartphones to follow the TG01 handset, with the K01 recently getting the FCC blessing. We’re talking about the slider pictured below, packing a 4.1 inch capacitive AMOLED touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard. There’s also a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU on board and more stuff that you’ll learn after the...
Mr. Blurrycam does it again, this time spying on the supposed Motorola MOTOSPLIT, that you can check out below. Apparently, this is an Android smartphone, based on the Snapdragon CPU and resembling the Droid a bit and… yes, this is a render and not a live picture.
There’s a strange split-horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard incorporated,...
Qualcomm is getting busy lately, by announcing the Brew Mobile Platform and now a bunch of new Snapdragon CPUs for this year. CES 2010 was the perfect occasion for Luis Pineda, SVP of product management at Qualcomm to speak up and mention the plans of the company.
This month, the company will launch a 45nm version of the Snapdragon CPU, the 8X50A....
Motorola’s Droid (dubbed Milestone in Europe) is certainly the hottest Android smartphone revealed till now and it would be a pity not to compare it to the hottest Windows Mobile device released till now, HTC HD2. The latest versions of both operating systems also meet in the following duel (Android 2.0 versus Windows Mobile 6.5):
HTC HD2 has...
Remember the mysterious LG IQ phone leaked a couple of days ago? It turns out that this is in fact the LG Monaco smartphone, packing a Snapdragon CPU, a WVGA display and a sliding keyboard. The device just got pictured live, as you can see in the images below.
There’s also a 5 megapixel camera on board of the IQ/Monaco and the branding on it...
HTC HD2 was recently launched in Taiwan officially, as it started shipping in Europe and Asia. During the event that got filmed and shown in the video below, HTC and Microsoft’s bosses announced that the WM 6.5 smartphone will land in the US in early 2010.
Peter Chou, HTC CEO and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO attended the event and reminded everyone...
After finding out that the beautiful and very powerful Toshiba TG01 smartphone went on sale in Japan, it seems that the handset will hit the UK next week, on July 9. The device will be launched during a special event, but its price is not known yet.
Also, we’re not sure which carrier will sell TG01, since Telefonica is selling it in Spain and...
After finding out details about the Acer A1 handset, we’ve got fresh info on the F1 smartphone, also coming to the stores this autumn. Scheduled for a September release date, Acer F1 should pack a full touchscreen and a Snapdragon CPU, just like Toshiba TG01, but this time we’re dealing with an 800 MHz ARM chip, no the 1000 MHz of the Toshiba...