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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Motorola XT316

   Motorola has made public their new XT316 smartphone which is a QWERTY keyboard and touch screen Android. They say is fashion, fun, functional and budget friendly. I agree with all except the fashion part as the design makes me think of people who are working in construction field or engineers. The most important technical details are:

-- DISPLAY: 2.8 inches QVGA capacitive multitouch, 16M colors
-- CPU:  ARM 11 600 MHz.
-- GPU:  Adreno 200.
-- MEMORY:  256 MB RAM.
-- STORAGE:  521 MB for ROM, microSD card slot up to 32GB.
-- CAMERA:  3MP.
-- CONNECTIVITY:  3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, micro-USB port, 3.5 mm headphone jack, A-GPS.
-- SENSORS:  Accelerometer, Proximity, Digital Compass.
-- MULTIMEDIA:  QWERTY keyboard.
-- BATTERY:  Li-Po 1420 mAh.
-- OS:  Android 2.2 Froyo upgradable to Gingerbread.
-- APPLICATIONS:  Google apps, social networking.

   The announcement mentions an amazing battery life with performance of 27 days for stand-by - that is if it`s a reality. The XT316 is a main competitor for those other QWERTY smartphones from BlackBerry, Nokia, Samsung and HTC. Of course is great for users who like touch screen devices but prefer a physical keyboard to type quickly and simple.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Evolio Neura

   Evolio - a Romanian telecom and GPS devices producer - has announced a new tablet which appears to be a main competitor for the iPad 2 on the local market. The most important technical specifications are:

-- DISPLAY:  TFT capacitive, multi-touch screen, WXGA 1280 x 800 pixels, 9.7  inches.
-- CPU:  nVidia Tegra 2 1 GHz dual-core processor.
-- MEMORY:  1 GB DDR2 RAM
-- STORAGE:  16 GB SSD flash for internal, microSD card slot up to 32GB.
-- CAMERA:  Primary - front 1.3 MP.
-- CONNECTIVITY: 3G HSPA+ and/or Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0, A-GPS, 3.5 mm headphone jack, LAN, HDMI.
-- SENSORS:  Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Compass, Proximity.
-- BATTERY:  unknown.
-- OS:  Android Froyo 2.2 upgradable to Honeycomb 3.0, Adobe Flash.
-- APPLICATIONS:  Google Apps, Social apps.

   It`s clear that this has the latest hardware for Android Honeycomb so I do not understand why is not shipping with this OS version. The great thing about this tablet is the fact that has all connectivity options in the world including a LAN port - I have not seen this so far on a tablet. 
   As the Evolio mentions this should be an iPad 2 killer. I am not sure about that but I am proud that is made in Romania, is looking nice and has a good price - about 500 USD for the Wi-Fi version (iPad 2 in Romania is starting from about 700 USD) and about 600 with 3G included.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Motorola Droid 3

   Motorola has announced the other days their new Droid 3. This is available only in US through Verizon for now but perhaps we will see the Europe version. The main technical details are:


-- DISPLAY: 4-inch capacitive touch qHD 540 x 960 pixels TFT screen
-- CPU:  Texas Instruments OMAP 4 dual-core 1 GHz processor.
-- MEMORY:  512 MB RAM.
-- STORAGE:  16 GB for internal, microSD card slot up to 32GB.
-- CAMERA:  8 MP camera, LED, video recording up to 1080p.
Secondary - VGA, video chat, video calling.
-- CONNECTIVITY:  3G/4G, HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, micro-USB, HDMI, DLNA, OTA, 3.5 mm headphone jack, A-GPS.
-- SENSORS:  Accelerometer, Proximity, Ambient Light Sensor.
-- BATTERY:  Li-Po 1520 mAh
-- MULTIMEDIA: QWERTY keyboard slider.
-- OS:  Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
-- APPLICATIONS:  Google Apps, social networking, QuickOffice, Citrix GoToMeeting, Citrix Receiver.

   The phone is business dedicated, and not just with the QWERTY keyboard, but has encryption capabilities for internal memory and for SD card and virtual meetings application from Cisco. It seems to be an ATRIX with physical keyboard.