Smartphone with powerful battery

Japan was the announcement of a new long-running smartphone Casio G'z One Type-L.


Novelty refers to neubivaemoy smartphones. It complies with IPX5 / IPX8 and can withstand a 30-minute immersion in water to a depth of 1.5 meters, and can hold at least 3 minutes at a power shower.

Casio G'z One Type-L is based on the 2-core Snapdragon processor with a frequency of 1.5 GHz. It is a 4-inch IPS LCD-display, 8MR camera and 1800 mAh battery, which is enough for 10.5 hours of talk time and 15 days of standby time in LTE-networks. And the presence of the phone 1seg TV tuner and an IR sensor indicates that the Casio G'z One Type-L is intended only for the Japanese market.

The smartphone operating system is Google Android, and the thickness of his body at the thickest point is 15.9 mm.

HTC smartphone sales continue to fall

Despite all the efforts of the HTC attract the attention of customers to the company's products, the financial position of the Taiwanese manufacturer continues to be extremely difficult. According to recently published reports, in August sales volumes HTC dropped another 4 percent compared to July, and by 47 percent compared to the same period last year.

Against the background of stable growth of smartphone sales Samsung led Galaxy S3, as well as a quick release of the iPhone 5, it's clear that HTC plans to strengthen its position in the company of the world's leading manufacturers of smartphones and tablets have failed, and the company must urgently seek a way forward.


Taiwanese manufacturer can continue to try to produce high-quality smartphones, but in matters of marketing resources and well-established distribution network to the level of Samsung or Apple HTC still does not hold.

Experts predict that in the near future to companies like Sony and Motorola will be able to bypass HTC in shipments of smartphones. Nor should we ignore the ambitious Chinese newcomers in the face of Huawei and ZTE, which are also actively looking for options to expand its presence in the international market.

One of the possible directions of development that can improve the situation a few HTC, experts have called the making of devices on the new platform Windows Phone 8. If successful, the start of sales of these devices in the fourth quarter of the Taiwanese manufacturer is able to correct its order statistics of sales in the current year. But do not forget that there are competitors like Nokia and Samsung are not planning just to lose market share.

It must be noted that the recent rumors are increasingly linked with the name of the Taiwanese manufacturer of devices for the creation of brands such as Facebook or Beats, why HTC is always the option to return to their ODM-roots ...

LG has announced a 4.7-inch smartphone LG Optimus L9

LG has announced a 4.7-inch smartphone Optimus L9, which the company is positioning it as a stylish budget device. The device was a dual-core processor with 1 GHz, GB of RAM, 5-megapixel camera and a battery capacity of 2150 mAh. The operating system installed Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

The amount of internal memory in the LG Optimus L9 is 4 GB, its dimensions - 131,9 × 68,2 × 9,1 mm, weight - 125 g For information about the display not. The company also has not said when and at what price to sell the smartphone. If you believe the information from the images, we can assume that sales will start on October 19. It is expected that the official data will be disclosed during the exhibition IFA 2012, which kicks off in Berlin this week.

Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S III turned to the player

On the eve of IFA 2012, which will begin in Berlin, Germany in less than a week, the South Korean company Samsung has announced a brand new player based on Android. As before, the basis she took her coolest smartphone at the moment and deprived him of the phone functions. That became Galaxy Player 5.8, looks almost indistinguishable from the Galaxy S III.

It is true that if you put the next S III and Player 5.8, the first thing that caught my eye, it's dimensions: the smartphone that gets a 4.8-inch screen, just pales against the 5.8-inch player. But at the last screen is easier: the LCD panel with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels screen instead of AMOLED.

The player also received a battery capacity of 2.500 mA / h, the front camera (VGA), built-in stereo speakers, modem, WiFi, Bluetooth, a system of GPS, 16 or 32 GB of memory. The memory can be further expanded by the use of memory cards microSD. All these mobile platform runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Heat-set casing Samsung TouchWiz.

Galaxy Player 5.8 will unwind and as an educational device, as it offers access to the service Learning Hub (thousands of books from different publishers), endowed with the vocabulary, listening programs for virtual lectures. However, the educational component is likely calculated only on the South Korean market.

That's all we now know about the new device Samsung. More information will appear at the IFA 2012. Prepare your pockets a little more.

Smartphone Sony Xperia SL - slightly improved version of the Xperia S

The official site for Sony introduced a smartphone Xperia SL. In fact, innovation is the "improved" version of the flagship Xperia S.


Technical specifications are virtually identical - "updated" version boasts a clock speed of the processor, which increased to 1.7 GHz, and a more recent version pre-installed operating system - Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. The latter, however, is not an advantage, because this update is already possible to install the Xperia S. In addition, presented a pink and gray version of the Xperia SL, which was the parent model.

Full specifications are as follows:
size and weight - 128 × 64 × 10,6 mm, 144 g;
diagonal and resolution - 4.3-inch, 720 × 1280 pixels, touch screen, capacitive;
capacity of the battery - 1750 mAh;
time during the conversation - 8 hours 30 minutes;
While working in standby mode - up to 420 hours;
communications - GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, 3G UMTS HSPA 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz, GPRS / EDGE / HSDPA;
Camera - 12.1 MP, 4000 × 3000 pixels, autofocus, LED flash;
Operating System - Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich;
hardware platform - SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260, 1,7 GHz, dual core, GPU Adreno 220;
RAM - 1 GB;
internal flash memory - 32 GB (available to the user - 27.8 GB);
wireless modules - Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n (DLNA, Wi-Fi Hotspot) and Bluetooth 2.1 EDR and NFC;

GPS-receiver, Video HDMI, headphone jack 3.5 mm.

Declassified Smartphone Sony Mint

Appeared on the Internet comprehensive information about the new smartphone by Sony. He LT30p, also known as Mint. The model (a prototype, of course) fell into the hands of journalists Mobile-Review, which it carefully considered and tested in action, as well as photographed from all angles.


Sony LT30p received a 4.6-inch screen with a resolution of HD, 2-core Snapdragon S4, 1GB RAM, 16 GB of internal memory, slot for memory cards microSD, output MHL, slot MicroSIM, NFC and chip sealed battery. Star of the evening - a 13-megapixel camera capable of recording videos in the resolution of Full HD. The front camera would cost a resolution of HD.


Mint on dimensions less than Xperia S, so that it is more convenient to use with one hand. But MobileReview impressed with something else: the model has no physical buttons below the screen, and it uses the platform of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at one hundred percent. Standard buttons, interestingly, have settled down a bit unusual: a power button, volume control and camera shutter - all of them perched on his right side.


With regard to changes in the software, then the model will be supported by Small Apps, which will allow access to certain applications directly from houmskrina. Judging by tests, the model is very close in performance to the HTC One S and Galaxy S III, although it is still not the final version of the smartphone.

Unfortunately, it is not clear how soon the Mint will make an official debut.

Smartphone Sony with a powerful processor and 13-megapixel camera

The network has photos of the new powerful Android-smartphone Sony LT29i with the tentative title "Xperia Hayabusa", which is likely to be a "global" version of the Xperia GX, created for the Japanese market.
Resource GSMArena reports that, in contrast to their "Japanese brothers", the novelty will get a more powerful dual-core processor (Krait) with a frequency of 1.5 GHz and a graphics accelerator Adreno 320 (latest chip Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960T).

Other characteristics, according to recent reports, including 4.55-inch display with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, 1 GB of RAM and a 13-megapixel camera.
It is expected that the new product goes on sale later this year.

Read also about another unannounced smartphone from Sony 13-megapixel camera - Xperia LT30i Mint.

The network has a reference to the smartphone Nokia Dogphone

Available resource list was WPDang smartphones running operating system Windows Phone 8. Some of the models have already been mentioned in the news, while others meet for the first time. This, for example, Nokia Dogphone, Nokia P4301, Juggernaught Alpha and the Samsung SGH-I687, which appear among the virtual device for testing.

All presented in a list of devices using different build Windows Phone 8, and combined, seem to fit the screen - 480 × 800 pixels. Unfortunately, this is all that can be learned from the published data.

Recall, the day before, Nokia opened the chance of information has not yet announced mobile devices.

Coming cheap but powerful smartphones

This year there will be cheap Android-communicator on the quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra platform 3.



Google Nexus 7, the first tablet PC Internet giant, combines previously seemed impossible: a powerful hardware "stuffing" and the attractive price of $ 200. This was made possible thanks to the initiative Nvidia Kai, designed to reduce the price of devices without any casualties and compromises on the part of the performance and usability.

Nvidia Kai tries to expand its own reach, connecting to the program is not only the new tablet, and smartphones. Last see the light at the end of the year. Among the partners called Chinese vendors, but this does not mean that the phones will not go beyond the Middle Kingdom: same as Huawei and ZTE in full trade in the international arena.

It seems, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, ST-Ericsson and even MediaTek will have to find an answer Nvidia Kai.

The tablets were popular smartphone

In recent years, many analysts have repeatedly said about the superiority of the tablet smartphones especially in the service sector. For information about the company confirm analysts Monetate, specializing in marketing.

Based on statistics from more than 100 million committed purchases, analysts say that commercial websites selling various goods and services, visit with the tablets of about 6.52 percent of users. The comparable figure among the smartphone market is 5.35 percent.

Traffic growth plates increased by 348%, while traffic growth of smartphones totaled only 177%.

It should be noted that this growth in popularity of tablets has been made possible thanks solely iPad.

Rumors: HTC is preparing a super-powerful smartphone

A couple of screenshots posted on a German resources, tell us that the device will receive a 4.7-inch display with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, 8-megapixel primary and a 1.8-megapixel front camera, Bluetooth 4.0 module and the code name "Closurexxl ".
For information about the chipset is even more interesting: The unit will receive quad-core Qualcomm (Krait core 1.6 GHz), 2 GB of RAM, a graphics accelerator Adreno 350 and the support networks of LTE.
A little later, the network appeared screenshots and benchmark AnTuTu. According to them, One XXL will really superproductive devices.

It remains to hope that these images are not someone else's joke, and we shall soon see a very powerful smartphone is one of the world's leading vendors.

LG announces extra-screen smartphone

The South Korean company LG Group announced the LCD screen smartphone, which is capable of displaying images with a resolution of 1920x1080.

Diagonal screen is the latest of five inches, and each accommodate four hundred and forty-inch pixels. According to experts, the new product uses a matrix that is made by proprietary AH-IPS, which allows to achieve excellent viewing angles and better color reproduction.

It is worth noting that the corporation is going to start to deliver the latest display in the second half of this year. In addition to displays, the screens will be designed for the "reader." Recall that in the spring of this year, LG has developed production screens in electronic ink.

Created the first smartphone from bamboo

23-year-old British student, will release the phone out of bamboo, reports Telegraph.

The smartphone is called "ADzero", is expected to be released at the end of this year. Made from four-year-old organically grown bamboo, treated for greater strength, he will be running the Android OS from Google.

Kieron Scott-Woodhouse, from Sheperds Bush, London, has developed this design because was saddened that the majority of modern models of phones are very similar to each other.

He is a student Middlesex University. Employers contacted him immediately after he published the design of your phone on the internet.


Phone was originally designed for the Chinese market, but the fact that he was well received in the UK means that we will see it in retail stores later this year.

The new strategy of HTC - less is better

With the curious revelations in a recent interview with Mobile Magazine gave the British division director Phil Roberson HTC (Phil Roberson). Referring to the company's plans for the coming year, he said that HTC is going to return to the strategy, which brought her into the front ranks of manufacturers of mobile devices - not to produce so many models, but of excellent quality and rich functionality.

With the curious revelations in a recent interview with Mobile Magazine gave the British division director Phil Roberson HTC (Phil Roberson). Referring to the company's plans for the coming year, he said that HTC is going to return to the strategy, which brought her into the front ranks of manufacturers of mobile devices - not to produce so many models, but of excellent quality and rich functionality.

In other words, the Taiwanese manufacturer plans to release in 2012, less than smart phones, but to make them truly high-end devices attractive to consumers. Recall that in the past year, supplemented with numerous portfolio HTC smartphones (mostly based on OS Android), some of which differ from each other only 1-2 options, for example, support for LTE-networks.

Make changes in its strategy forced the Taiwan-based, including the results of the fourth quarter, were unexpectedly weak. In addition, stand as an example of Apple, in fact, has only three models of the iPhone on the market, including two old, but it has no problems with sales growth. As for the segment plates, HTC is going to follow here mainly expectant management, focusing on the issue of smart phones.