That’s a shocking news. It sends wave of disbelief among tech enthusiast, especially among the sub-group of Android people. Some history about this Xperia X10. It was released back in mid of 2010. Locally, it was selling at RM2,999 when launched. It comes with Android 1.6 Donut and a 4inch LCD screen without multitouch support. These are the main reasons it couldn’t sell well. Thats why just after roughly 9months, you are seeing this Xperia X10 selling at RM1,400. Dropping 50% of price in just 9months is horrendous for gadgets.

Anyway, Sony Ericsson has announced previously that their SE Xperia X10 won’t get any update beyond Android 2.1 Eclair. And they just contradicted themselves by announcing today in their blog that they gonna roll up firmware update a.k.a Android 2.3 operating system, and thats a good contradiction. Before you the Xperia X10 user jump into joy, they also said that it won’t be an all out firmware update, meaning some region of users won’t be getting this update.

So when will you be getting this update? Expect Sony Ericsson to roll up by late Q2 or early Q3 this year. But this won’t be an Over The Air(OTA) update. You’ll have to flash this new Android version 2.3 firmware using your computer and everything from your X10 will be wiped off. Sounds like the need for Titanium Backup

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Google Nexus S, image courtesy of Engadget

**Hi non-Android user, confusing isn’t it? For Online “” generic your info, Android divided storage in two sections; phone storage and external storage(microSD in Brand “” this case). Prior to Froyo Android 2.2, you can only install apps on phone storage which is usually just few hundreds MB. In Froyo Android 2.2, you can move your apps to microSD thus saving spaces for your phone storage.

And yeah, Nexus S is loaded with the next generation of Android OS, the new Android 2.3 a.k.a Gingerbread.

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This phone from Huawei might trashed the budget Android phones I mentioned earlier here. In terms of hardware, it is more or less the same as HTC Wildfire and Samsung Galaxy 3. Both target at the budget segment. However Huawei Ideos take a much budget-friendly approach, costing way below the likes of Wildfire and Samsung Galaxy 3.

The construction of the device is not as cheap as it cost. Square sharp edges doesn’t appeal to the consumer these days, thats why you see Huawei Ideos having curve edges with plastic chassis for its body. The back cover is available in few colors which is colorful enough to appeal to the younger phone users.

The Huawei I8510 Ideos is small obviously. Matching the size of HTC Touch 2. Speaking of which, it does remind me of HTC Touch 2. It has almost similiar size and the screen size of Huawei Ideos and HTC Touch 2 are the same at 2.8inch as well. One different is that the Huawei I8510 uses capacitive touch technology instead of the Touch 2′s resistive type. And with the touch sensitive buttons like back, menu, home and search, it added another point of the resemblance to HTC Touch 2. The similarities ends here. As Tadalis SX you can see, Touch 2 and Ideos I8510 are totally different system. Ideos I8510 having the latest modern Android 2.2 Froyo OS while the HTC Touch 2 was bestowed with the almighty old Winmo 6.5, matching with another ancient OS – Symbian, hello Nokia?

As far as buttons are concern, there are 4  physical buttons; power button, call, end , the directional button at the centre and the volume rocker. Pretty standard for touch screen phones these days. And lets not forget the 3.5mm audio jack port which is also found in the Huawei Ideos as well.

For a budget phone, having an ambient light sensor is a welcome feature, something not even found on much expensive phones. It lets the phone to adjust the brightness of the LCD screen to suit different environment. Thats not all, it also has an accelerometer which lets the screen to orientate itself when the phone was tilted in different angles.

What are phones these days without a camera? Huawei is generous enough to supplement a 3.2MP camera which you can’t complain much based on the price of this phone, though it will be much appealing to have a 5MP camera instead.

The biggest advantage of Huawei Ideos I8510 over other similiar competitor’s offering (Wildfire/Galaxy 3/SE X10 mini) is the Android 2.2 Froyo OS. This is the biggest selling point for this phone. It has numerous enhancements over the previous iteration of Android operating system(2.1 Eclair) like evidently-faster processing speed, supports mobile hotspot, and Flash 10.1(more below). Wildfire and Samsung Galaxy 3 employ Android 2.1 Eclair while the SE X10 mini has the pathetically old Android 1.6 Donut. That could be the reason why Sony Ericsson is losing ground on the phone market.

And the features in detail:

• CPU @ 528MHz
• ROM/RAM : 512MB/256MB
• QVGA resolution of 320×240
• 2.8inch LCD Capacitive touchscreen
• 7.2Mbps HSDPA
• Bluetooth
• 3G
• Wifi
• Mifi(mobile hotspot) supports up to 8 device
• Android Operating System version 2.2 Froyo
• Ability to run application from SD card
• microSD card support

Some Froyo Android 2.2 advantage over 2.1 Buy “”, Buy “”, Buy “” Without Prescription Eclair:

• V8 Javascript a.k.a faster loading of web pages for your device, it is now the fastest mobile browser winning over Iphone4 mobile Safari as well.
• Notably faster CPU performance. Benefits applications especially for games.
• MiFi mobile hotspot, allows you to share your internet connection over 3G to 8 other devices via WiFi.
• Thethering, allows you to connect your phone as a modem.
• Ability to install application and run from SD-card.
• Cloud backup support, allows you to backup/restore applications.
• Pinch zoom is now a standard feature in Android 2.2 Froyo, but Huawei Ideos I8510 doesn’t support pinching as it doesn’t support multi touch.
• Flash 10.1. For Huawei Ideos I8510, you need to download this Flash 10.1 from their website.

In a single full charge, the battery of Huawei Ideos I8510 can last as much as a day of usage. A typical usage consist of moderate SMS, not more than 30minutes of call, WiFi usage of ~10-20mins and playing some musics and apps usage. However, I would expect a 2-3days usage since it uses a 1200 mAh plus the screen size of 2.8inch only. next page–>>

First there was a Jet, it was speeding too fast and gone out of control and plunges to the sea. It creates Waves strong enough to make everyone on board of the Jet swept across the sea and landing them on an island. They were abandoned by the Jet and the next thing they can do was to look at the Wave, hoping one day there might be someone came to the rescue. This isn’t the LOST series. This is what happened to Samsung Jet owners. A series of mis-promises that Samsung gave to Jet owners. Jet owners were lost, the only saviour is the Jetdroid. Worst of all, Samsung is urging Jet users to upgrade to their new handset Samsung Wave. Well, this is reality, this is business. Anyway, enough of some history lessons. Let’s move on to the real deal here. Samsung Wave S8500, the new handset from Samsung which bundled with loads of new tech never seen before in other phones. The most marketed ones are the Bada OS and Super AMOLED screen. Does it lives up to the hype?

Before the content goes on, pictures first:

And here are the hardware specifications for Samsung Wave S8500:

• 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird Arm Cortex processor
• 512MB of available RAM
• 1.5GB phone storage, with 400MB available only
• 480×800 Super AMOLED capacitive touchsreen @ 3.3inches
• 5MP camera with autofocus and LED flash
• HD video record at 720p @ 30FPS
• Bada OS(Operating System)
• Bluetooth 3.0
• Connectivity – EDGE, 3G, WiFi(supports Wireless-n,802.11n), HSDPA 7.2Mbps, GPS, A-GPS
• Video and audio playability – DivX, WMV, Xvid, h.263, h.264, mp3, WMA, ACC+
• 1500mAh Li-Ion battery

From the specifications above, Samsung Wave S8500 is indeed a very powerful gadget device. Being the most notable one is the 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird Arm Cortex CPU. This CPU is tested to be faster than the 1GHz Snapdragon processor which was found in most high end Android phones like the Google Nexus One, HTC Desire and Sony Ericsson Experia X10. Apart from that, having a fast brain a.k.a processor means nothing if the brain capacity doesn’t have enough space for fast data processing, thus Samsung bundled as much as 512MB of RAM which is quite generous indeed.

As far as the design is concern, the phone was wrapped in a aluminium build with an exception on the top and bottom which is consist of some high quality plastic build. And as for the screen, Samsung decided to upgrade its much touted AMOLED screen for this Wave. It is now Super AMOLED. I won’t go into a technical detail of the difference between Super AMOLED and AMOLED. From a general user perspective, minus out the higher contrast ratio, there weren’t much difference if you compare it side by side in an indoor environment. But taking out to a full blast of sunshine, you might started to note the difference. Super AMOLED is able to produce some readable visual on the screen while AMOLED is completely washed out. Don’t get too excited though, Super AMOLED is only comparable to the standard TFT screen right now, I mean under the sunshine. Don’t expect to get a clear clarity of the screen like what you get back during monochrome days.

The next big thing from this phone is the Bluetooth 3.0 and wireless-n connectivity. These two are pretty new, and you might not find it in your computer right now.

Bluetooth 3.0 is an upgrade over the previous Bluetooth generation, it provides transfer rate of 24Mbps. One thing about Bluetooth 3.0, the faster transfer rate is not done by the Bluetooth chip itself. The Bluetooth hardware only manages the connection establishment, while the data transfer is done via the 802.11 protocol. So, technically, any phones with Bluetooth and a 802.11 build-in is capable of having a Bluetooh 3.0 upgrade. nextpage–>

HTC Wildfire

I start with the recently released Android incarnation from HTC. It is called the Wildfire. Well, catchy name, designed wise might not well suited to its nomenclature though. That might be changed if you get the red version of Wildfire. Oh, before I forgot, there are four colours available. Brown, black, red and white silver. Personal preference, white silver is the one to get. Thus, I’ve attached the picture here in silver.

….and the boring brown like you have seen in Desire as well.

More pictures available here http://www.htc.com/uk/product/wildfire/gallery.html

I have to say, great job HTC. The colours availability is quite an advantage, and it gives consumers more choices.

Okay, physical appearance aside. Let’s see whether this Wildfire is as beauty as skin deep.

• 528MHz Qualcomm processor, same as HTC Tattoo
• 384MB RAM, 512MB “” buy online ROM
• 3.2inch TFT capacitive touchsreen @ 240×320 resolution
• 3G, WiFi, EDGE, bluetooth
• 5MP with LED and autofocus camera lense
• GPS hardware with A-GPS
• 1300mAh Li-ion battery
• Android 2.1 OS (Eclair)

One word about it, the specs is nothing to shout about. 528MHz MSM7225 Qualcomm processor and the TFT screen is kinda outdated, well, that’s what you get at what you paid for. The rest of the specs is kinda standard these days. Did I mention the price? Contract-free at RM1200(USD350) is almost halfed of the cost of Desire and almost RM500(USD160) cheaper than the HTC Legend. But on the other hand, with 1300mAh battery capacity, you can expect to get a long usage on a single charge. Engadget reported of having 12hours of 3G connection, which is quite impressive.

Upgradability to Froyo is no where to be seen. That might be changed if the sales of Wildfire is really wild though. But with HTC Sense UI and at an enticing price, this phone is the budget Android phone to get. Or is it? Let’s look up for the next contender from Samsung.

Samsung Galaxy 3

Samsung attempted budget Androids back a year ago with Galaxy Spica, though didn’t welcomed much by the masses. Now Samsung made an upgrade for its Galaxy phones lineup. Of course, this review isn’t about the super expensive high specs Galaxy S, this one is called Galaxy 3. I certainly have no idea about the naming convention that Samsung trying to use here, as there were no Galaxy 1 or 2 before this. Anyway, here are the specifications.

The buttons situated on the left and right is actually touch-sensitive button employed with capacitive touchscreen technology, while the center button is a 5-ways navigation D-pad which also brings up the menu once pressed on the centre.

The upside about this phone is the Touchwiz 3.0 interface which Samsung uses. It isn’t as elegant as the HTC Sense UI, but it was certainly better than the standard UI found on the vanilla version of Android Eclair. Another plus point is the support for various video codecs natively, so you don’t have to get any 3rd party apps to watch any short clips in DivX or WMV format. Kudos to Samsung for this.

The major downside, yeah, you saw it. Is the lacked of LED flash and the lowly 3.2MP camera. While some may argue this is more to smartphone, but hey, having an LED flash does helps a lot. Another complain is the WQVGA screen ratio. 400×240 is not the standard available on phones these Kamagra Gold days. Which means, the apps you downloaded from the Android market might not be supported on your phone.

Anyway, Samsung Galaxy 3 was just announced, so you might not get it that soon. Pricing should be at the range as HTC Wildfire. Based on the specs, I suspect it could be cheaper. Falling to the range of Sony Ericsson X10 mini is great. next page >>

• Nokia 5800 Express Music
  

  Nokia 5800 Express Music

Basically the best bang for buck touchscreen smartphone out there. It has almost all the features you looking for; 3.2inch TFT LCD  resistive touchscreen, 3.15Mp camera, wifi, 3.5mm audio jack, multimedia playback capabilities and “” Professional tonnes of Symbian apps available. With an added bonus; square bulky plastic build which acts as an antithesis to the featureless yet beautiful iPhone. If you don’t mind the extra bonus, costing at ~RM1k(USD 310), this phone is a real bargain.

• Nokia E63
  

  Nokia e63 Smartphone

Yet, another smartphone from Nokia dominates this recommended chart. It is actually the hugely popular Nokia E71 with chopped off hardware; without the aluminium casing and the front facing VGA camera. Priced under RM1k(USD310), choosing between this E63 and 5800 XM is a no brainer; E63 for better faster texting and for those who dislikes touchscreen. Otherwise, go for 5800 XM for bigger screen and touch ability.

• Sony Ericsson W705 Walkman
  

  Sony Ericsson W705

I would say, the best budget Walkman series so far. Walkman phone from my opinion, is basically dead. It was sad to see these great series of Walkman phones just died at a mere 4.5years old. It is a small brother to W995. At the same price range as Nokia 5800 XM, it isn’t “” online buy a smartphone though. Purely aim for music lovers who need a phone with great music capabilities. Untill the price of W995 drops further more, this is the best wifi- enabled Walkman phone which doesn’t hurt your wallet that “” much.

• Samsung Corby Wifi S3650
  

  Samsung Corby s3650 Wifi

With its cute trendy design, Samsung’s original Corby managed to win the hearts of many. It draw sales big enough to convince Samsung in making another revision; same phone with an added wifi capability. This phone is targeted at youngsters in mind (girls especially), and it’s basically an anti-gadget-freak phone. And at the cost of under RM750(USD210), this phone is a big recommendation for the average teenagers. On top of that, its build in Dolphin internet browser is a bonus. Good mobile internet experience is at least a guarantee here.

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Installing an OS for a handset(Android in this respect) is not as straightforward as it is for a computer.

1. You have to get the bootloader to boot up the Android OS. Thus, needing to mod the bootloader comes with the handset.
2. Since 3rd party OS will be installed on the SD card for safety reason(you won’t screw up if it fails), it would be necessary to initialize the SD card upon booting as well.
3. Compiling the Android OS which includes all the necessary drivers for booting up the handset. Initial stage may only need the crucial parts only like the AMOLED screen, CPU, memory controller, storage controller and the touch input.
4. Get all the hardware drivers

Of course, the above mentioned are just a rough explanation, but you get the idea here.  It isn’t easy and these people dedicated to make this possible deserves an applause.  On top of that, they didn’t get any payment whatsoever. But it was sickening for seeing people asking the status of the project all the time. Reminds me of stupid Project Manager in an IT firm.

If you are deemed to be skillful enough , please pay a visit to  Jetdroid Group

**Omnia II which shares almost similiar hardware as Jet, already has been successfully ported an Android OS onto it. But it was slow and some hardwares were not usable.

This new Motorola Android phone is the next evolution from Droid. Sleek is what makes this phone shine. It was already selling in Korean market and the States should get this phone by this month. What distinct this phone with any other phones is its ability to output HD content through its mini-HDMI port. The rest of the specifications are 3.7inch touchscreen, 8mp autofocus camera with xenon flash and 720p video recording.

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New Android phone Galaxy S from Samsung

Boasting a 4inch AMOLED screen, this phone is beautiful. While not as sleek as others, it doesn’t feel cheap and quality of the build is there. While the 5Mp camera is kinda letdown, it was supplemented by 720p HD video recording capability. For storage, it has 16gb build in memory and expandable via microSD. No doubt, its triumph card is its crisp and clear AMOLED screen.

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HTC desire with Android 2.1 operating system

HTC manufactured Google Nexus One. You can expect HTC to sell one with similiar features. And what you got now is the HTC Desire. It was basically a Nexus one with slightly sleeker design and slightly more Brand “” RAM. What made up the Desire? 1GHz Snapdragon processor,  576MB Ram, 5mp camera and of course  Sense UI. Availability circa Q2-Q3 2010.

This new Motorola Android phone is the next evolution from Droid. Sleek is what makes this phone shine. It was already selling in Korean market and the States should get this phone by this month. What distinct this phone with any other phones is its ability to output HD content through its mini-HDMI port. The rest of the specifications are 3.7inch touchscreen, 8mp autofocus camera with xenon flash and 720p video recording.

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New Android phone Galaxy S from Samsung

Boasting a 4inch AMOLED screen, this phone is beautiful. While not as sleek as others, it doesn’t feel cheap and quality of the build is there. While the 5Mp camera is kinda letdown, it was supplemented by 720p HD video recording capability. For storage, it has 16gb build in memory and expandable via microSD. No doubt, its triumph card is its crisp and clear AMOLED screen.

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HTC desire with Android 2.1 operating system

HTC manufactured Google Nexus One. You can expect HTC to sell one with similiar features. And what you got now is the HTC Desire. It was basically a Nexus one with slightly sleeker design and slightly more Brand “” RAM. What made up the Desire? 1GHz Snapdragon processor,  576MB Ram, 5mp camera and of course  Sense UI. Availability circa Q2-Q3 2010.

During the heydays of Nokia 3310, people are only limited to WAP based mobile internet. It was so limited and nobody bothered to surf net using their mobile back then. Few years later, phones with 65k colours TFT LCD are booming like mushrooms. There are at least few people used their phones to surf some WAP sites via GPRS/EDGE and that’s including me. The Sony Ericsson T610 is classic, serving me for 4years before I decided to retire it.

With the introduction of iPhone, the mobile industry was revolutionized. Mobile service provider is selling the phone with data package. It’s very enticing since most service provider absorbed the hefty price of the iPhone by signing up with the consumers with 1-2years contract(not in Malaysia, a 2year contract buy “” without prescription still cost a premium). Mobile provider take note of this idea and introduce it with other phones as well like the HTC android series. Although 3G was introduced many years before iPhone, not many afford to use this data service without a data plan. It was iPhone who revolutionize the service provider in providing affordable data plan + voice call + cheap phones (again, not in Malaysia).

What’s next after 3G? For your sake, it isn’t iZzi 4G network (refer to my intro paragraph). Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the next step after 3G. While it was only considered as pre-4G as it doesn’t meet some of the requirements to be adhered to the 4G specifications. Some countries already initiated trial and testing and branded it as 4G. Some of the countries including Stockholm and Oslo. The latest was Singapore where SingTel demo the technology by streaming HD content to a tablet PC.

LTE will be absorbed into 4G family though it doesn’t comply with the 4G standards. As far as business is concern, carriers will most likely to market it as 4G instead of “pre-4G” or “3.9G” which represents the correct term.

Here are the specifications of LTE:

• Downlink speed of 100Mbps.
• Uplink of 50Mbps
• idle to active at ~ 100ms
• reduced latency at 10ms
• IP based wireless network, no more analogue voice packet. Voice calls are being done via VOIP.
• IPv6 support. IPv4 no longer sufficient to sustain this much of connected device by then.

Basically, LTE is fall short of the bandwidth “” Professional requirements as 4G; downlink speed of 1Gbps when client is stationary and 100Mbps for mobile operation. And also the efficiency of the burst rate.

The true 4G technology will be LTE-Advance. Its specification were only finalized at late 2009.  Apart from that, mobile-WiMax is competing with LTE-Advance to get the nomenclature. I say, both will complement each other and hardware manufacturer will probably support both technology in the same package. In the mean time, HSDPA 3.5G is not even utilized fully. There are no killer applications that can take advantage of that massive bandwidth for mobile by factoring in the cost. Untill bandwidth becomes cheap, don’t try to watch Youtube HD on your mobile.