One of the leading multinational computer giant Dell Inc has launched its first Android based smartphone named Aero in the US this week. Dell is famous for its personal computers, servers, storage systems, network and other pc peripherals.
Dell announced Aero in March 2010 and launched the product in US on Aug 24th. But currently it is working on an old Android version 1.5 which is a main drawback as most of the other Android based smartphone makers are switching to Android 2.2 or Froyo.
Dell Aero is lightest Android phone and comes with 3.5 inch capacitive touch screen display with 360×640 pixels resolution, 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, 8x zoom and LED Flash, microSD support up to 32GB (2GB Card included), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPS with A-GPS support, 3.5mm audio jack, 1000mAh battery etc
- Video streaming. WMV, H263, H264, MPEG4 @30fps WVGA
- POP3, IMAP4, IMAP Idle, Webmail, Microsoft® ActiveSync®
- EDGE class 10 and GPRS class 10
- Quad-band EDGE, UMTS 850/1900/2100
- OMA DRM 1.0 with Forward Lock. Microsoft® Janus
- HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
- Virtual keyboard with predictive text/auto completion
- handwriting recognition, QWERTY
- multi-touch UI
- Full media player with content management
- AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, MPEG, MP4, 3GPP
- 624MHz processor
- Adobe Flash Light
- One Touch access to social networking sites
In Android world 1.5 is a very old OS as many popular Android Apps requires a minimum of version 1.6. This will make a big issue for Aero as now market is flooded with a bunch of new stylish smartphones from Samsung, Motorola etc with latest Android versions. Also Dell has not announced any deadline for an OS update for Aero.
Dell Aero Price : In US Dell Aero sells for $99.99 with new AT&T two-year contract, and $299.99 without.
Dell Aero Price in India : Dell has not officially announced the product in India yet even though India is a major market for Dell for its personal computer products and laptops. In US Dell Aero comes for $299 without any contract which is almost Rs 14,000/-
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Samsung i897 Captivate is an upcoming GSM android based smarphone from samsung mobiles with 4 inch display, 7.2 mbps HSDPA 3G for high speed internet connection, Android 2.1, 1 GHz Processor and 16GB Internal Storage.
- 4 Inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 480×800 pixels
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Practically unlimited phonebook and call records
- GPRS Class 12 and EDGE Class 12
- 3G : HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
- 5 Megapixel camera, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa and Flash Lite 3.1
- Li-Ion 1500 mAh : 750 hours standby and 13 hours talk time
- ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor and Android 2.1
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA
- 16GB internal storage and microSD support up to 32GB
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 Mhz
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- 720p@30fps Video Recording
- Video Formats : MP4, DivX, WMV, H.264, H.263
Samsung i897 Captivate Price in India : In US Samsung SGH-i897 coming with AT&T contract at $199. Samsung Captivate Indian price not yet announced.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday said that as per Google’s data there are around 2 lakh android based devices sold every day worldwide.
Android is an operating system developed by Google based on the Linux Kernel – used it mobile phones, tablet computers and netbooks. Open Handset Alliance – a business alliance of 65 companies including Google is now handing development works in Android platform.
In March Google launched 7th version of Android code named Froyo or Android 2.2 and now handset manufacturers are releasing devices based on that.
Eighth version of Android (3.0) code named Gingerbread is expected by end of this year.
"The number was about 1 lakh a day about two months ago," Schmidt said.
In the second quarter of 2010 Android based devices topped US smartphone market with a 33% share, followed by Blackberry OS (28%) and Apple’s iOS (22%)
Even though Google doesn’t get revenue from Android itself, Schmidt said Google loves the success of Android because it means more people have phones capable of doing lots of Web searches for which it does get paid.
Google Wave
Google also announced on Wednesday that it is halting development on Google Wave, a real-time collaboration tool aiming to combine various forms of online communication.
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India’s major CDMA and GSM mobile service provider ADAG Reliance Communications (RCOM) has tied up with Taiwan based mobile handset manufacturer HTC to sell HTC’s Android based smartphones in India. As per the partnership HTC’s new Android based smartphone HTC Wildfire will soon available in India.
HTC Wildfire is a mid-range smartphone running with Android 2.1 and soon will be upgraded to Android 2.2 version. Some major features of HTC Wildfire are Better browsing with full flash support, Recommend Apps directly from your phone, 3.2” 240x 320 QVGA Display, Android 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC Sense, 512MB ROM, 384MB RAM and up to 32GB microSD support, 5 Mega pixel camera with flash, geo-tagging and auto focus etc
HTC Wildfire expected price in India : Rs 15,600/-
Currently HTC Wildfire is powered with Android 2.1 but soon expected to get the latest Android 2.2 or Froyo.
Reliance will also provide free 500 MB data access for first six months with this handset.
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Android is an operating system developed by Google based on the Linux Kernel – mainly used it mobile phones, tablet computers and netbooks. Initially Android Inc developed this mobile OS and later Google purchased it. Now Open Handset Alliance – a business alliance of 65 companies including Google, Intel, Dell, Motorola, Samsung, LG, T Mobile, HTC is now handing development works in Android platform.
Currently more than 1 lakh Android based smartphones sold per day worldwide and 50,000 Android based apps available. Blackberry OS is the leading OS in mobile platform developed by Blackberry and Android comes in the second position followed by Apple’s iOS.
At present most of the Android based devices works on Android 2.1. Latest (7th) version of Android was released in March 2010 code named “FroYo” based on Linux Kernel 2.6.32.
Some important enhancement in Android 2.2 are
- Improved Speed with Dalvik JIT compiler (expected 2 to 5 times faster than 2.1)
- Install apps on SM memory card
- Faster Browsing experience with V8 javascript engine
- Improved security and numeric or alpha numeric password option
- Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR support
- Apps Auto updating after download
- Synchronize music collections
- General Android OS speed, memory, and performance optimizations
- USB tethering and WiFi hotspot functionality
- Quick switching between multiple keyboard languages and their dictionaries
- Increased Microsoft Exchange support
Currently Android based smartphone and tablet manufacturers are either upgrading their devices to support Android 2.2 or releasing new devices based on it.
Another major version of Android (3.0) code named Gingerbread is expected by end of this year.
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HTC Legend is an android based smartphone from HTC with 3.2 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 5 mega pixel camera, 3G, GPRS, gravity sensor, Bluetooth, FM Radio etc
- 3.2” AMOLED (Active-Matrix OLED) capacitive touch screen with pinch-to-zoom capability, 320 X 480 HVGA
- Android 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC Sense and 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 Processor
- 512MB ROM, 384MB RAM and microSD support up to 32 GB
- micro USB, GPRS, EDGE and IEEE 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi
- 3G : Up to 7.2 Mbps download speed, Up to 2 Mbps upload speed
- Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate
- 5 megapixel color camera, Auto focus and flash, Widescreen photo capture, Geotagging
- G-Sensor, Digital compass, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor
- Bookmarks, Calendar, Clock, Footprints, Friend Stream, Mail
- Photo sharing on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter
- Facebook Integration, Video sharing on YouTube
- AVRCP, GAP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, PBAP, SPP
- Lower ringer tone while pick up
- 300 mAh battery Up to 490 mins talk time and Up to 440 hours standby time
- GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- Internal GPS antenna, Google Maps, HTC Footprints
- Internet sharing through USB
- A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
HTC Legend Price in India : Rs 23,500/-
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