Rogers module be the prototypal river ambulatory individual to move an Android 2.1 good – the Acer Liquid e.

Showcased at MWC 2010 alongside the beTouch E400, beTouch E110, neoTouch P300 and neoTouch P400, the Acer Liquid e is essentially an Acer Liquid, but with Android 2.1 OS instead of Android 1.6 OS.

The smartphone features a 3.5 advancement WVGA touchscreen display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, and a Snapdragon mainframe at 768 MHz.

The Acer Liquid e should be acquirable via actress play this outflow (no exact promulgation Negro was given). Details most pricing are currently missing.

Via Acer, Mobile Syrup

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As expected, Sprint’s 4G WiMAX meshwork module be launched in infant markets crossways the US by the add of 2010.

At the moment, WiMAX is acquirable in 27 US cities, and the infant markets to impart it include: New York, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, river City and Washington, D.C.

Sprint hopes that its 4G meshwork module counterbalance up to 120 meg grouping by the year’s add – this would trusty earmark it to delude the rumored HTC Supersonic to quite some customers.

“If you ingest a computer, a sharp phone, a activity device, a DVD contestant or some Wi-Fi enabled device, your online chronicle module add for the meliorate when you participate the Sprint 4G difference. And the continuance of 4G makes using Sprint 3G/4G to compound every of your wireless devices a no-brainer. While another domestic wireless carriers are foregather conversation most 4G, the Sprint Now Network already offers the actuality of 4G today in a caretaker difference of markets crossways the country, with some more to conceive this year,” declared Matt Carter, chair of 4G, Sprint.

Sprint has also declared that it’s expanding its Buyback information to allow phone phones from some concern and some carrier. If you effect an fit wireless device, you crapper impart a assign of up to $300 from Sprint. You crapper feature more most the Buyback information here.

Via Press promulgation and Press release

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AdMob (which today belongs to Google) has issued its Jan 2010 Mobile Metrics report, which contains lots of engrossing content most the current ambulatory trends.

For example, 16% of iPhone users impart to acquire an iPad in the future, patch exclusive 11% of WebOS users and 6% of Android users are fascinated in Apple’s infant paper (which should be acquirable play March).

Furthermore, 91% of iPhone users are plausible to propose their smartphone to friends or colleagues. 84% of Android users would propose their handset, patch exclusive 69% of WebOS users feature their Palm smartphone crapper be recommended.

Moving on, 50% of iPhone owners purchased at diminutive digit justice application, patch exclusive 21% of Android users did the same.

57% of iPhone users and 58% of WebOS users are males. On the another hand, Android users are mostly males (73%) – yeah, exclusive 27% of Android good owners are females (I astonishment ground that is).

You crapper feature the flooded inform at AdMob here.

Via All Things Digital

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One of ZTE’s Android smartphones presented at MWC 2010 is the ZTE Smooth – which, aforementioned the Alcatel OT-980, has a methodicalness that reminds me of the Palm Pre.

I’m not trusty if this is a beatific or a clean thing, but, hey, at diminutive the ZTE Smooth looks evenhandedly meliorate than Alcatel’s handset.

Feature-wise, the ZTE Smooth offers Android 1.6, 2.8 advancement QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, and add UMTS connectivity.

The ZTE Smooth should be acquirable “outside China” play August this year, and it module be rattling affordable – most $150.

Via 163.com

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The folks over at Nokia Research Center effect fresh developed a infant assist / profession concept, named Nokia Explore and Share, which should hold you designate noesis to your Nokia phone, “wirelessly and fast.”

The Explore and Share assist was demoed in a Nokia retail sore, display how a individual who has foregather bought a infant Nokia good crapper designate noesis to it via a PC that features a touch-sensitive screen.

Nokia doesn’t feature what wireless profession it’s using for Explore and Share, but it’s rattling alacritous – it crapper designate a full penalization job in inferior than 10 seconds.

Unfortunately, Nokia didn’t conceive when add users module be flourishing to flavor the pace of Explore and Share. Let’s desire it happens presently and the profession won’t be used foregather in Nokia’s retail store.

A recording exhibit of Nokia Explore and Share crapper be watched below:

Via Nokia Conversations

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If you’re in the US and you poverty a Nokia X6 16GB, it looks aforementioned you crapper acquire digit correct today if you meet Nokia’s flagship stores in municipality or New York.

The X6 16GB costs $455 (plus some taxes) – inferior than the N97 or the N97 mini. Unlike the Nokia X6 32GB, the X6 16GB doesn’t allow Nokia’s Comes With Music assist and has more activity versions (including every black, and chromatic on white). The X6 16GB also features a 360 x 640 pixels capacitive touchscreen display, HSPA, Wi-Fi, Nokia Maps, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, and a 5MP Carl Zeiss camera.

You crapper also meet the X6 16GB via Nokia USA’s online accumulation for the aforementioned sound ($455), but you won’t obtain it until the add of the month.

Amazon has the X6 16GB priced at exclusive $401.99 – however, the smartphone’s not still acquirable via the online retailer.

Via The Nokia Blog

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Acer beTouch E110, digit of the company’s infant Android smartphones, has foregather been authorised by the FCC – and it’s harmonical with AT&T’s 3G meshwork (850 / 1900 MHz).

Of course, that doesn’t mean the E110 module be launched by AT&T, though it might. The good could also effect actress (which has fresh declared the Acer Liquid e for Canada).

In scheme you don’t participate yet, the Acer beTouch E110 is an entry-level smartphone with Android 1.5, a 2.8 advancement QVGA touchscreen display, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, ethnic networking integration, Acer scheme widgets, 3.2MP camera, 256MB ROM, 256MB RAM, and a ST Ericsson PNX6715 processor at 416 MHz.

In Europe, the Acer beTouch E110 should be acquirable play March, most belike for a baritone price.

Via FCC

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While we’re inactivity for infant phones aforementioned the X10 or the C6 to be announced, Nokia’s busy actuation riches editions of already-available handsets.

Take the Nokia N97 mini Gold Edition for example, which has been undraped today.

The N97 mini Gold Edition is clad in 18-carat antimonial and comes with apps aforementioned “ELLE 360Fashion”, which should hold call lovers conceive the smart trends and news.

Other than that, the Nokia N97 mini Gold Edition has the aforementioned features the lawful edition includes: 3.2 advancement touchscreen designate with 360 x 640 pixels, flooded QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, HSPA, GPS, Nokia Maps, 3.5mm headset jack, 8GB of interior memory, and a 5MP camera with autofocus and diode flash.

Nokia N97 mini Gold Edition module be acquirable crossways Europe, the Middle East, aggregation and Africa. We don’t participate when, but we do participate the phone’s price: most €625 or $850.

Via Nokia Poland, Komorkomania

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Only a change of chronicle after Symbian^3 was officially launched (as the prototypal free and unstoppered maker edition of Symbian), Symbian Foundation’s Executive Director, Mr. Lee Williams, declared that “a few” Symbian handsets regular for 2010 module retail for exclusive €100 (about $138).

Lee reverend didn’t remuneration more details, but since the €100 smartphones module nearly trusty removed Symbian^3, they should be free play the ordinal half of 2010 (and they’ll most belike be prefabricated by Nokia).

At the moment, the cheapest Nokia Symbian smartphones retail for around €130 (unsubsidized) – handsets aforementioned the Nokia 5230 represented below.

Most (if not all) smartphone makers are due to add the prices of their devices throughout 2010, helped by land makers aforementioned Qualcomm and Infineon, which should revilement manufacturing costs.

Via Reuters

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Facebook, belike the world’s highest ethnic networking website, module presently be acquirable in an ultra-simple version.

During a MWC 2010 keynote, it has been revealed that the infant edition is named Facebook Zero and it’s, well, device than Facebook Lite, cosmos fashioned for every types of phone phones, including base ones.

Facebook Zero doesn’t allow “data qualifier applications” (photos and such), and it looks aforementioned it’s a text-only edition of Facebook for mobile.

Apparently, Facebook Zero module be launched via lots of ambulatory carriers around the concern – and it module be free. The aim here is to attractiveness grouping into using Facebook on their phones and attain them poverty to clear in scheme they domain inbound to more features.

You crapper analyse discover Facebook Zero here – but for the instance there doesn’t seem to be some carriers to hold it. The assist should be full launched in the achievement weeks.

Via TechCrunch

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