New Toshiba Tablet AT100

The first thing you’ll notice about the AT100 is that it’s a little chunky. At 273mm x 177mm x 16mm, it’s almost twice as thick as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and it weighs a beefy 725g. Still, such things can be forgiven if the features are right. The question is: are they? Hardware The hardware in the AT100 is very similar to that of other Honeycomb slates. There’s an NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC with a 1GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage space (upgradable up to an additional 32GB via the SD card slot). AnTuTu benchmarks gave the AT100 a score of 4726.8, placing it above the Motorola Xoom, but below the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and...

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New LG Optimus Pad

Best Android tablet for: Playing around with 3D The consumer electronics giants are throwing everything at 3D, and LG has decided that its first Android tablet should play a role in its '3D is the best' hearts and minds mission. The tablet has dual-5MP cameras which work together to shoot 3D images and record 3D footage. Cool, huh? The problem is that there's no 3D screen, so if you want to watch your 3D movies you'll need to either plug the tablet into a 3D TV or watch in anaglyph 3D on the tablet's screen. If you're crazy about 3D, though, this is your next Android tablet. he LG Optimus Pad has been a long time coming. After months...

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New Samsung GT-P1010-CW16ARB Galaxy Tab 7" WiFi Android Tablet

Get Everything You Want-To Go The Samsung Galaxy Tab™ brings you the media you want and keeps you connected with anyone, anytime. Compact and light, you can keep in touch with people and content through Wi-Fi® 802.11 a/b/g/n and Bluetooth® Wireless Technology 2.1. With a battery life of up to seven hours and a crisp TFT-LCD display, you’re free to communicate, update, and enjoy. What It Is And Why You Need It:     A brilliant 7” WSVGA 16M Color TFT display with 1024 x 600 Resolution – that easily displays a typical web site/page     Android 2.2 (Froyo) Platform - perfect for Web & 100,000+ of Applications available    ...

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New Google Nexus S

Often trickier to find in shops than phones from the major manufacturers, the Google-branded Nexus S was the first phone to arrive running the latest version of Android software, Gingerbread. The hardware is actually made by Samsung, and it’s not hard to see their handiwork here; there’s a Super AMOLED screen, making the screen sharp and readable, even in sunlight. Black pixels don’t use up battery power, and are as black as the phone’s casing. With the Google branding, you’ll be amazing at the pace of this phone. It has a pure Android Gingerbread interface- there’s no unnecessary bloatware from phone networks or manufacturers, and this could...

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New LG Optimus Black

We loved the smooth lines of this LG smartphone. Though it was recently usurped of its title as thinnest smartphone by the dual-cored Samsung Galaxy S2, pulling out the Optimus Black in a group of friends is still bound to impress. LG’s NOVA screen technology gives a sharp performance, rivalling SAMOLED. LG promise it’s also more battery friendly when dealing in full-colour screens. Out-of-the-box, it’s running Android Froyo, and an upgrade is penned for later this year. Features-wise, like most Android phones there’s an FM-tuner that we found had better reception than rival phones, whilst there’s already 2GB of internal memory for your...

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New HTC Wildfire S

The HTC Wildfire S is an update to last year’s popular Wildfire. With suitably stylish design from HTC, you get plenty of power for your pound, although it will never reach the dizzying heights of high-end smartphones costing several hundred pounds more. Another workhorse phone when it comes to typical smartphone functions, you’ll find it able to handle the likes of YouTube and Google Maps, with HTC Sense interface adding some clever touches like the ability to remote lock your phone if it gets lost or stolen, or to mute your phone by turning it over. Comparing the Wildfire S to mid-range rival, the Samsung Galaxy Ace, the Wildfire S...

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New Samsung Galaxy Ace

It’s not the fastest, thinnest Android smartphone but it brings a satisfyingly stable user interface, and and quality build ideal for anyone looking a more keenly priced android handset. They’ve crammed last year’s Galaxy S into a smaller, cheaper handset, and although you don’t get the luminous joy of a AMOLED screen, the design similarities are uncanny. It’s lighter and smaller than it’s predecessor, but don’t confuse it with the disappointing Samsung Galaxy Mini. You’ll find it works as well as many high-end models from last year, but it’s noticeably more petite. There’s a respectable 5-megapixel camera and flash, and arrives with an extra...

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New HTC ChaCha

Complete profile Android Gingerbread smartphone HTC Chacha HTC turned out to follow in the footsteps of Samsung manufactures samrtphone middle class, the two handsets have been prepared by HTC and one of them is the series 'HTC Chacha'. This handset is equipped with a lower specification when compared to other HTC phones, but nevertheless remains a complete and good quality. In HTC Chacha using a 5 mega pixel camera to provide multimedia facilities, and also a front camera for video calls and much more. This handset would compete with Samsung and LG Optimus mini Galaxy Black. Full Specification :     Camera: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944...

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New Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

Spy those designer curves and you realise you’ve got your hands on a quality piece of kit. It shrugs off the idea of a processing power fight; there’s a single-core 1GHz processor, more than enough to get through the daily demands of a smartphone. Despite its plastic backing, it feels like a premium product in the hand, and the greatest feature on the Xperia Arc (there’s several) has to be the camera. Sony Ericsson have brought across Sony’s camera experience, and have included an Exmor R sensor, and a wider f2.4 lens aperture to aid low-light photography. The physical camera button, sadly disappearing from many smartphones, is simple...

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New HTC Sensation

Taking the flagship crown from last year’s HTC Desire, this high-end offering follows the tried-and-tested design and build-quality of its predecessors and adds a much-needed technical boost to keep it at the front-line of powerful Android phones. Reliably weighty in the hand, this dual-core phone zips around websites, and the luscious 4.3-inch screen’s curved outer edge also means the screen is better protected from bumps and scrapes. It’s also Gorilla Glass; super-reinforced to avoid key and spare change damage. HTC have worked hard to add extra value to their Android phones, and with their Sensation, you get the improved HTC Sense...

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New Samsung Galaxy S2

   With what we see as the best screen of all Android phones, Samsung have outdone the AMOLED screen of the original Galaxy S, with a sharper, brighter Super AMOLED plus touch-screen, measuring in at 4.3 inches. Some may be put off by the lightness of Galaxy S2, especially when compared to an iPhone or the HTC Sensation, but we like it- it feels like a truly modern smartphone. Despite these dimensional restrictions, battery power is comparable with other high-end Android phones, and with a few adjustments to brightness, WiFi, and how often you sync your email, we found it performed admirably. Samsung’s own Android software interface,...

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New Android Dev Phone 1 Unlock

Google announced the Android Dev Phone 1, that is basically a T-Mobile/HTC G1 without SIM/Hardware lock. The Android Dev Phone 1  is supposed to be sold only to developers. The Android Dev Phone 1 works with any SIM card and can be flashed with custom Android builds that will work with the unlocked bootloader. This unlocked Android Dev Phone 1 is priced at $399. [google] Google is either too busy or is in a hurry to get the Android tweaked tested modified and churned out as the best. It has opened the gates for the developers to try their imagination on the Android Dev Phone 1 by making it a lock free version of G1. The phone which doesn’t...

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New ZTE Skate 4.3-inch Android Phone

ZTE announced at the MWC 2011 the Skate, which is the company’s latest Android smartphone. The Skate comes with a large 4.3-inch touchscreen and will be running Android 2.3. It is boosted by a Qualcomm 800MHz processor with Adreno 200 graphics chip, so don’t expect too much on its graphic performance. The ZTE also comes with a 5 Megapixel camera and support for AGPS, Bluetooth and WiFi. It supports quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G/3.5G HSPA networks. Here's the ZTE Skate 4.3, which takes part of its name from its huge 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen. It's the first high-end phone we've seen from China's ZTE that's headed to these shores;...

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New BlackBerry Storm 2

The BlackBerry Storm2. To say it has been highly anticipated would be an understatement. Before the original BlackBerry Storm was available to customers, the first rumors of the Storm 2 began to surface. Research in Motion even acknowledged the existence of the new device much earlier than they historically would, when RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie said in a presentation to analysts and investors (reported by Reuters) in May 2009 that they were working on a next generation of its BlackBerry Storm as part of a continuing push into the retail market. From that point, it was less than two weeks later when the first photos of the new BlackBerry Storm...

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