It also comes with a “sports armband” and a matching plum-colored Bluetooth headset. The handset sports a WVGA exhibit, HSDPA and WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, HTC Sense 3.5 and HTC Watch streaming video support. Sadly, there won’t be any Beats headphone to full complement the device.

[via SlashGear]

Harvey Norman is offering the handset for AU$829 which the unlocked earphone. It’s very expensive for a smartphone. Maybe if you are interested in it, you should wait a bit longer until it actually hit the carriers with contract cause it could even be free.

[via IntoMobile]

Cricket Wireless is adding their Android line with the LG Optimus C. The humanoid 2.2 handset sports a 3.2? HVGA resolution touchscreen and a 3.2MP photographic camera. The Optimus C volition be the third Android handset to hit the radio company aside from Huawei Ascend and Kyocera Sanyo ZIO.

It volition ship with a microSD circuit board slot and integrated music role player. Powered by a 600Mhz central processor and Froyo. The Optimus C sports Cricket 3G connectivity. Pricing at $199.99 after rebates and without contract.

[via SlashGear]

There’s no particular inside information given by O2 themselves other than a simpleton phrase via Twitters. It said as you tin see above, ” the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is advent to O2.” However, according to Pocket-lint, Vodafone volition also getting the Xperia Play. While Orange and T-Mobile UK have sing up to also carried the gimmick in April.

[via Engadget]

The Samsung Focus has a 4-in WVGA Super AMOLED exhibit, 5.0 megapixel, and has a microSD enlargement one-armed bandit for up to 16GB. The Samsung Focus is the functionary epithet AT&ere;T’s Samsung Omnia 7. AT&T volition offers the Focus for $199 with contract bridge. Check out the press release.

Press Release :

AT&T* and Microsoft Corp. today introduced a leadership portfolio of new phones based on Windows Phone 7 , Microsoft’s new mobile operating organization that has been the direction of worldwide buzz and bandwidth for months. The new smartphones from HTC, LG and Samsung will be available exclusively for AT&ere;T customers ahead of the vacation shopping season.

“These devices – quite literally – ar biz changers, and we ar delighted to bring them to our customers,” said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “It’s a perfect tense lucifer – phones that re-define gaming and amusement, horseback riding a network that assures customers a high-speeding experience.”

“AT&ere;T has long been a drawing card in the smartphone marketplace, and we’re pleased that the powerful, new experiences in Windows Phone 7 volition debut on a very fast and reliable mobile broadband network,” said Steve Ballmer, honcho administrator officer at Microsoft. “With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has taken the most engaging and useful experiences across the company and delivered them in a single distributor point of direction and value for customers nationwide.”

Each of the three smartphones sports a capacitive field glass touch blind, 5-megapixel photographic camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, but is designed to appealingness to different types of customers. The new Windows Phones for AT&T customers are:

* HTC Surround – premiers as the first smartphone to include integrated Dolby Mobile River and SRS surroundings sound speakers. The HTC Surround speakers glide-out and reveal a kickstand for watching video beneath its 3.8-in touching blind. HTC Surround blurs the line between abode and mobile amusement, making games, medicine and video on the go more enjoyable than ever.

* LG Quantum™ – designed for employment, play and everything in between. With a glide-out keyboard for quick manipulation of Office Mobile®, users can stay active and up to appointment with employment. The LG Quantum also features DLNA engineering through a preloaded diligence called Play To, which allows users to wirelessly stream videos, medicine, and pictures from the phone to a DLNA-enabled TV, stereo system, Windows 7 PC and other consumer electronics devices.

* Samsung Focus™ – debuts as AT&ere;T’s thinnest Windows Phone and offers a visually stunning experience with a Super AMOLED™ screen on a sleek 9.9 mm-thin touch screen phone. With the Focus’™ amazingly Saratoga chip, brilliant screen, photos, games and videos come alive.

Windows Phone 7 has been carefully crafted to assistance people get more done in fewer steps by bringing important information to the control surface with a unique Hub and Tile interface. The Hubs offer quick and easy access to a somebody’s latest and most valuable selective information and includes People, Pictures, Games, Music &ere; Video, Office and Marketplace content. Windows Phone 7 also integrates with many popular and powerful Microsoft consumer services such as Xbox LIVE®, Windows Live®, Bing® and Zune®.

Apps and Entertainment

Each new Windows Phone from AT&ere;T will include AT&T U-verse Mobile, an app that allows users to download and vigil strike shows on their smartphone. U-rhyme TV subscribers with certain packages volition be able to download and vigil hit TV shows for no duplicate charge, and all U-verse TV customers tin also agenda and manage their DVR recordings from the app. For the first base meter, U-verse Mobile River will be available nationwide — even to those who are not U-verse TV customers — for just $9.99 per month. Subscribers can approach the full content depository library, select which series or specific episode to download over Wi-Fi, and survey on the go wherever they rich person their Windows Phone.

For a limited time, AT&ere;T customers who choose Windows Phone volition get a free Entertainment Pack, redeemable at www.att.com/windowsphone. This go volition provide a download to ‘ilomilo’, an Xbox LIVE Arcade biz exclusive to Windows Phones from AT&T through the oddment of the year. In the biz, ilo and milo maize always seems to get separated from each other in their surrealistic world of cubes, and players employment to help them reunite. Ilomilo is a stunning example of the incredible graphics and caliber of gaming available on Windows Phones through Xbox LIVE.

The go also includes a free 30-mean solar day test go for U-rhyme Mobile and Zune Pass, which gives customers the power to download or flow more than 10 meg songs from Zune plus the pick to download and keep 10 songs after the subscription ends. Ilomilo, and a calendar month each of U-verse Mobile and Zune Pass combined represent a nearly $30 economic value.

Pricing and Availability

All troika Windows Phones from AT&ere;T volition be available in AT&T company-owned retail stores and online at www.wireless.att.com for $199.99. The Samsung Focus will be available Nov 8 and the HTC Surround and LG Quantum will be available in time for the holidays.

[via MobileMagazine]

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The French telephone will features 4.3-inch touchscreen, Windows Phone 7, 1GHz processor, 8GB of repositing, 5 megapixel camera, a full complement of sensors, quad-banding radio frequencies, 802.11 b/g/n wireless local area network and more. The HD7 will rich person “Ray M. Dolby Mobile River Sound”. The tipster also honorable mention that the HTC HD7 will launched in Germany 2 weeks starts from now at Ђ559 (about $770) or Ђ79 ($109) on a 2-class contract.

[via Engadget]

Sony Ericsson rich person dabbled with Symbian devices in the past, stretching means back to the P-Series which used Symbian UIQ. The stream range however relies on Symbian S60 5th version which is currently doing the rounds in the Sony Ericsson Satio and a figure of touchscreen Nokia phones. For those of you who remember the software problems found on the Satio (which was later resolved with a software update), the Vivaz is sporting version 2.0 of Sony Ericsson’s implementation of Symbian and so the bugs that plagued the Satio’s launching are a distant memory. Sony Ericsson really couldn’t afford to drop curtain the ball when it comes to quality and with the positive moves made in the build and design, these also appear to have been mirrored in the software.

Powering up the Vivaz for the first meter will present users with a habitation screen that is characterised by 2 blocks of icons; one at the circus tent and single at the freighter of the screen. At the bottom is a large box that occupies the freighter third base of the blind. Within it you’ll discovery four shortcut icons; single to bring up the dialler, a multimedia system cutoff, messaging and a hunt instrument which lets you search on the earphone or online. Above these icons are your stream visibility (Silent, Meeting etc.), the meter and appointment and your network provider. In the top right field street corner of the box is an arrow to maximise the loge, disclosure a music cutoff key. The Vivaz is of course of action a capable smartphone, multitasking with assuredness, so acting medicine in the backdrop is a piece of bar with the track information and music role player buttons added to the box at the freighter of the blind. This acts as a nice means of controlling your medicine role player whilst distillery having an overview of all the other areas of the phone. Between the Box at the bottom of the blind and the tabs at the top sits a blank space populated only by a stylish backdrop that swirls and re-orientates itself depending on how you clutches the phone. On first base inspection this appears to be wasted quad but it’s actually the key to navigating the tabs. Swiping from left to right field will allow you to flick between single of the five tabs at the top of the blind. Of the basketball team tabs, the midriff tab represents the habitation blind itself (complete with the cutoff box at the bottom of the exhibit). On the home screen tab you can tap on the empty expanse to pelt the shortcut loge at the bottom. To call it back up you motivation to, rather oddly, pressure the call option end button. A slight designing crotchet but you’ll get used to it in no meter.

Back to the tabs, the pre-exercise set tabs on our Vivaz were, from left to right, favorite contacts, Twitter, the habitation screen pill, a quick survey of your media player and lastly yet another shortcut area. This shortcut expanse hosts up to 8 shortcuts which ar all user customisable. The shortcuts can be populated with pretty much anything on the earphone, from Bluetooth to the pre-installed Global Positioning System software. Customising is a fairly simpleton matter; clicking on the shortcuts pill with reveal a settings ikon and tapping on this will reveal the numbered shortcuts 1 through 8 and the applications currently occupying them. Tap on the cutoff you regard to change, choose the new shortcut and voila.

The combination of tabs, the shortcuts within one of the tabs and the shortcut loge at the freighter of the screen employment wellspring. At first base they can be a little daunting but once you’re familiar with the layout, you should discovery yourself navigating like a pro. There literally are so many ways to get to a feature or application that each drug user will use a method that suits them topper. If this is Symbian’s take on Android, we like it and would lovemaking to see Nokia implementing this in their own Symbian phones. Away from the tabs and shortcuts on the habitation screen, there is of course of action a traditional menu that can be accessed by the middle computer hardware button. Once you’ve opened up the main fare, any Nokia drug user of the past tense few days will be instantly at habitation with the port. Users ar presented with 12 icons (that tin be organised to prioritise most frequently used at the top of the screen) for areas such as messaging, media and so on. Selecting the required ikon volition take you into that pamphlet and from there you tin get deeper and deeper into the menus. Symbian has often been criticised for an overly complicated (and not particularly intuitive drug user interface) but the Vivaz seems to strike the right balance. The tabbed/ cutoff habitation blind provides quick and easy approach to your most frequently used areas whilst the main menu, whilst not particularly pretty to looking at or merriment to navigate, is easy to use.

As a smartphone, the doubt everyone will be asking about the Vivaz is “what about the apps?” We rich person the iPhone to thank for this of course with its one C,000 + app store. Well, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is supported by Sony Ericsson’s app computer storage, known as PlayNow. Hitting the PlayNow icon in the briny fare will open a web page to take you to the computer storage. Hera you tin hunt for particular apps, sort by type (games, apps, music etc.) and checkout out the latest and most popular additions. There ar a good cooking stove of apps on offer and the fact that Sony Ericsson include medicine shuffle this tactile property more like a revamped iTunes than the app only experience you get with the Android Market. There is single minor drawback though; if you’re after free people apps you’re not exactly spoilt for selection. Music tracks come in at Ј1 per running, games average around the Ј5 bell ringer and even useless apps that would cost you nonentity on an iPhone or Android phone will monetary value you big bucks here (Ј3.50 for a fart app, seriously!?). There ar some free people apps on, goodness ones at that such as Spotify, but we definitely motivation more of these to compete with the big names in the app worldly concern.

The phone does also include some pre-installed apps such as Facebook, YouTube, the aforementioned Twitter client and a SatNav diligence called Wisepilot. Wisepilot offers users features such as road preparation and general mapping and tin also be upgraded to full voice guided seafaring on a subscription basis. YouTube is a fairly straightaway forward app that takes you to a web portal vein of the popular video recording sharing web site. A hunt prevention lets you find exactly what you’re look for whilst circus tent rated, most viewed and latest tabs also ease seafaring. Click on a video recording and it nicely zooms to full screen and loads almost instantly. The Facebook app is equally impressive lease you checkout profiles, upload photos and commentary on friends photos. Navigation is quick and easy and the overall drug user interface is very similar to that found on the full web site.

Symbian on the Vivaz is impressive. The user port is clean and jerk and easy to navigate and there ar endless customisation options thanks to tabs and shortcuts on the habitation screen. If you’re new to Symbian you should choice it up fairly quickly and discovery yourself navigating like a professional. On the apps front, the preinstalled applications on pass are great and the app store is nicely populated, it would just be goodness to see more free apps advent through. Time will tell how the app community develops but the burden is on Sony Ericsson to shuffle it employment.

Join us tomorrow for the final instalment of our review as we check out the vane browser and multimedia system and spring our final thoughts on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz.