LG seem to be ignoring any crisis in the economy and planning on releasing 125 new individual handsets globally in 2009.
LG are planning on releasing 25 phones in the UK alone.
This means they will be releasing more than 2 phones per week globally and nearly 1 phone every 2 weeks just in the UK! Crazy!
Still, I am sure it will mean they will be releasing a phone that has to appeal to every possible market and hopefully improving their market share.
Asus announced yet another smartphone, though no info on a release date. The is supposed to be the fastest Business PDA Phone in the World, running a Marvell TavorP 800MHz CPU at 800Mhz and Windows Mobile 6.1.
The phone is fully touch screen and uses the Asus Glide touch-responsive user interface. Glide enables users to perform a variety of navigational actions—such as selecting, zooming, scrolling and flipping with simple flicks of the finger.
Other features include a 2.8 inch screen with VGA resolution, HSDPA, Wifi, 3MP camera, microSD card slot, and 3hrs with 3G and 4 hrs with 2G battery life.
Andy Rubin, Director of Mobile Platforms at Google, has recently helped demo Flash on the G1 at Adobe’s MAX event. There is no news on when flash will be released for Android / G1 however this is quite a big one up over Nokia (Symbian S60) and Apple as neither of these companies have flash running on their phones.
Phones Review have posted 2 links to You Tube video reviews comparing the iPhone and G1.
The reviewer is quite thorough and basically shows you many features of each phone and compares the two together to see what one is better.
Personally I am not a huge Apple fan so I am a bit biased against the iPhone, however you can’t deny it is a good phone. I feel that the G1 has more flaws than the 3G iPhone however this is the first incarnation of the phone, and if we look at the first iPhone that had even more flaws, especially the lack of 3G!!!
I think Android/G1 is more of a grower and not a shower at the moment. I do have complete confidence that Android will become the best Smartphone OS out there it just requires a hardware manufacturer to release something to make the most of the OS. It also means that Android could potentially have hundreds of different hardware options at any one time. This is where the iPhone is let down, there is only 1 company releasing hardware for it so the phone will always have people that don’t like something about it.
We previously blogged about possible pictures of the Nokia E91, and we have just posted the internal roadmap of Nokia Smartphones.
So did any of the road details match up with a possible Nokia E91 Specification?
The answer is, possibly. The best possible match I can see for the E91 is the phone codenamed Eitri which is due for internal release in week 17 of 2009 (Mid April).
This is a landscape candybar with QWERTY, 3.5-inch 640×350 display, minimum 8GB ROM, microSD, pressure sensitive touch UI with tactile feedback and gestures, charging via USB, 5MP AF camera with dual LED flash, integrated compass and accelerometer, proximity sensor, FM transmitter.
Some pretty impressive specs there. While it may only be a small thing I am impressed that Nokia have FINALLY decided to go with USB charging.
It may not be the E91 as there is no mention of dual screens, and the screen is actually smaller than the current internal screen with a 3.5-inch 640×350 display compared to the current 4 inch 800 x 352 display. However this could indicate they are releasing a smaller version giving it more mass appeal.
Engadget Mobile have a very interesting post today. Apparently the internal roadmap for Nokia Smartphones has been leaked. This is basically a list of all the smartphones Nokia are working on, however this is not a list of the phones that will be released. Quite a few will be cancelled, others will be re-specced though it does give us a taster of what is to come.
There are quite a few nice sounding phones though including a 8 megapixel, half QWERTY keyboard, 128MB RAM, 8GB ROM phone codenamed Corolla due internally in March 2009.
Also a couple of widecreen touch devices, IP08 and Ivalo with the later having 32GB of storage!
The table of phones is after the jump.
Well them Google developers don’t mess around do they?
Google has commented on the issues saying:
“We’ve been notified of this issue (Jailbreaking of Android) and have developed a fix. We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open source code base to reflect these changes.”
It is likely the update will be rolled out in the next few days.
Via: Androidcommunity, via xda-developers
It has only been a few days since the launch of the T-Mobile / Google G1 and hackers have already bypassed the restrictions implemented on the Android platform.
This hardly comes as a surprise as Android is open source, and hackers didn’t take too long to crack the closed iPhone system.
The hack allows the user to access the phone as a root/superuser.
The process seems relatively easy, you need to get PTerminal, a command line tool, from the Android marketplace. From there, you navigate to your system/bin folder (where the binaries are kept) and type telnetd to launch the telnet program which lets you login to the phone remotely.
Make sure your Wi-Fi is switched on then type netstat to get your IP address. From there, you just grab a computer on the same network and telnet in. You now have root access to the entire file system.
It is worth noting that this will essentially allow anyone to access the phone as a super user as the phone has no authentication. So it is advisable to shut everything down once done.
At the moment the hack has mainly been used to install applications onto the SD card which is prohibited normally. However it should be possible to use this technique to unlock the phone, allowing you to use it on any network.
It is expected Google/T-Mobile will try and fix this issue ASAP as T-Mobile cover the cost of the phone based on the user being tied into a long term contract.
Personally I think things like this could end up being one of the strong points of Android. When a system can be opened up and customised by individuals it tends to get a huge community following. Just look how many people contribute free work to things like Linux, Wordpress and Joomla. Granted Android is quite different than them 3 examples but you get my point.
Via: Wired
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