Huawei IDEOS Android 2.2 Smartphone
Bluetooth 11 Oct 2010

Huawei, a Chinese company made famous for it’s HSDPA dongles now brings the most affordable smartphone to the masses. Named “IDEOS”, this 2.8″ capacitive touch screen phone features the Android 2.2 Froyo ahead of other competitors in the market.

The Huawei IDEOS has been designed to be an entry level budget Android phone for the masses. This is probably you see a plastic backplate which you can replace with different colours. Although it looks pretty small, it is big in functions. Featuring a slower 528MHz processor, it is able to be used as a smartphone, a WiFi Access point. It also has a 3.2 megapixel camera which takes pictures. There is also accelerometer sensors built in for viewing text/images in both portrait and landscape mode.

The IDEOS also supports functions such as voice dialing, voice navigation, and the ability to run applications off the MicroSD memory card with the App2SD feature. With more than 70,000 applications available in Android Market,  IDEOS provides a wide range of communication, entertainment, and office and financial management applications.

Hardware Specifications of IDEOS

Standards

Display

Camera
Internal Memory
External Memory
Interfaces

Battery

Built-in Applications

Color
Dimensions (L× W× H)
Weight

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UMTS: 2100/1900/850/1700MHz
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900MHz
HSDPA 7.2Mb/s
2.8-inch QVGA (320 x 240) TFT Capacitive touch
screen
262K colors
Auto rotate (gravity sensor)
3.2Megapixel camera
256MB RAM + 512MB ROM
Support up to 32GB MicroSD memory card
USB port: Standard Micro USB
MicroSD memory card slot
SIM/USIM card: Standard 6-pin SIM card interface,
supporting 1.8/3V USIM card
1,200mAh rechargeable lithium battery
Working time: 5 hours max
Stand-by time: 300 hours max
Google Search?, Google Maps?, Google Calendar?,
Google Sync?, Android Market?, Gmail?, etc.
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Blue, Black, Yellow, Purple
104 × 54.8 × 13.5mm
Approx. 100 grams (with battery)

If you have been waiting for Android 2.2 and just need an entry level phone, the Huawei IDEOS might just fit the bill. We have tried out the unit and find it to be pretty usable despite the lower clock speed on this tiny gadget with a 2.8″ screen. Here are some screen shots of the phone and stay tuned for our review of the IDEOS hera at http://www.ocworkbench.com

LG has officially announced the arrival of the LG Optimus One and Optimus Chic, both of which come packing Google Android 2.2.

The products were shown off at a press conference in Seoul, where LG’s head of mobile Skott Ahn announced that LG’s expectations for the Optimus One and Chic is that they “should sell more than 10 million devices”.

The two smartphones have Froyo on board, which essentially means Google Voice Actions, Google Voice Search and Google Goggles are all compatible with the devices. The two smartphones will also turn into portable Wi-Fi hotspots.

The LG Optimus One has a 3.2-inch wide HVGA screen, a long-life battery which can handle 450 minutes of talk time and the touchscreen is capacitive. It also houses a 3MP camera, microSD card slot (up to 32GB) and a 600MHz CPU.

The Optimus Chic is for the style conscious and also has a 600MHz CPU, but can only handle 330 minutes of talk time. It does come with DLNA connectivity and LG Air Sync, and there’s also a 3.2-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen on board.

Camera wise, there is a 5MP sensor inside, a MicorSD card slot (up to 32GB) and video recording at 30fps.

The LG Optimus One has a UK release date of October, while the LG Optimus Chic’s UK release date is in November.

Source

Huawei will launch own brand Google Android 2.2 phone Huawei U8150 in September 2010

The device comes pre-installed with Android 2.2 (one of the first to come out of the box with 2.2), with the hardware designed to be 100% compatible with 2.2.

The product was jointly planned and developed with Google and brings a wealth of Google options, downlink speeds of more than 7.2Mb/s, ubiquitous mobile broadband services. It also functions as a Wi-Fi router.

This new smartphone will be announced on September 2nd, 2010 in Germany. The product will be launched in Hong Kong early September.

It will be highly competitive price-wise and comes in 4 colours -  Black, purple, blue and yellow targeting the youth.

From our sources, this phone intends to be a mass market phone, it will be priced quite competitively at around HKD 2000 (USD 258, SGD 350, Euro 203, UKP 166) without contract.

* Specifications

Dimensions 104×54.8×13.5mm
Frequency UMTS Radio Interface:
EDGE/GSM/GPRS: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
UMTS 900/AWS/2100MHz or UMTS 850/1700/1900/2100MHz
HSDPA 7.2Mbps
Display 2.8” QVGA (320×240) TFT Capacitive Touch
262K colors
Auto rotate (G-sensor)
Camera 3.2 Megapixel Camera FF
Sensor Proximity Sensor
Ambient light sensor
Color Black, purple, blue and yellow

Features
Home Screen: Android Home screen
Local Search: Google Search
Tools: Key Lock / Alarm clock / Calculator / Settings / Note pad
Call service: Voice call
Supplementary Service: Voice mail
Google Mobile Suite:
Google Search, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google sync and Android
Market
Digital Compass: Support digital compass base on Android
Sound Recording: Audio format: AMR
Other
Applications
Google Maps, Google Search, Gmail etc.

As Nexus One users get their fix of the Froyo Android 2.2 update, we query the local telco Starhub as they are the exclusive partner of Motorola Milestone.

They have passed on the query to Motorola and this is their response :

“We’ve heard back from Motorola that they will make provisions for software upgrades when the time comes.”

Looks like Milestone users will eventually get the 2.2 update, just that you have to wait for its availability.

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