Vodafone Reveals Own-brand £80 Smartphone

Vodafone has launched a cheap and cheerful Android smartphone for users that don’t want to sign a contract but can’t afford to fork out an arm and a leg for an off-contract smartphone.

It’s fairly easy to get an off-contract smartphone. All you need is roughly £300-£400. However, a lot of people don’t have £400 to splash on phones, and, as a result, they’re often forced to sign lengthy contracts if they want a fancy smartphone with all the bells and whistles. However, Vodafone’s now got a cheap alternative for those in the market for a smartphone and on a budget.

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Intel briefly shows off an Atom SoC powered smartphone

Intel Corp. at its sales conference last week reportedly demonstrated a prototype of a smartphone featuring one of its Atom-based system-on-chip (SoC). The demonstration likely involved an early prototype of a handset running code-named Medfield SoC, which is due to be released later this year.

Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and co-general manager of the Intel architecture group showed off a Medfield-based phone at an Intel sales conference, according to a MeeGo developer who attended the event. The demonstrated smartphone was neither big or small; it was also not clear, which operating system the phone utilized.

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One in five mobiles sold are dodgy copies, says Nokia

Fake handset producers take a huge bite out of mobile manufacturers' profits.

Their rarity in the West might make them something of a novelty news item for us, but according to Nokia - the world's top producer of mobile phones - unlicensed Chinese tinkerers are robbing legitimate mobile makers of a whopping fifth of the world market with their counterfeit handsets.

"It is mostly China-originated [sic]", said a Nokia executive, "but it is global. It is not only in Asia, but also Latin America and even in some parts of Europe".

The 20% market share now held by the producers of the cheap knock-offs is in no small part down to their ability to rush a fake lookalike product to market sometimes just weeks after the genuine article's announcement. If this is left uncontrolled then I am sure we will begin to see ever more convincing and cheap mobile phones around.

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Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Phone Reviewed, the Xperia Play’s Secrets Are All Out!

The Xperia Play (Or better known as The Playstation Phone) holds no more secrets.

A member of Chinese mobile forum ePrice was able to meet a friend who had acquired an Xperia Play handset, asking if he would be interested in taking a look at Sony Ericsson’s Android-based gaming smartphone. Wanting to know more, the guy travelled to Shenzhen and was treated with a full overview, capturing more high-resolution photos of the device and a demo video, writing a full review in the process.

The  Xperia Play will feature a 1GHz processor with the Adreno 205 GPU, it will have a 4-inch FWVGA screen that is capable of delivering a 854 x 480 resolution, a 5MP camera, noise cancelling dual microphones and dual speakers

This would run on Android 2.3 as no different as shown on the Chinese videos on the internet, and also, there is support for MicroSD, MicroUSB and there is a 3.5mm microphone jack.

We still have yet to know which games are supported on the Xperia Play besides the PS1 games support. Stay tuned for more info!

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Info Leaked On The Playstation Phone Zeus

After the iPhone 4 leak, the PlayStation phone is perhaps one of the biggest leaks yet. A new video has surfaced which shows the phone running the PlayStation app, although the entire duration shows the phone running in Chinese you can still see that the directional buttons still can’t be used with games yet and that the load time of the Zeus is still a little slow when it is running “Dungeon Defenders”.

The video leak also helped shed some light on the new features of the phone, which are:

• 4-Inch display
• 5 MegaPixel Camera
• 512 MB of RAM
• 512 MB of ROM
• MicroSD Card slot
• Two Microphones
• A micro USB port

So far it is unknown whether the phone will have backward support of any kind, i.e whether it would be able to run old PSP games via memory card or emulated PS1 games and there are no achievement / trophy options like what Windows Phone 7 has on its XBOX Live App.

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LG’s Optimus 2X, first Nvidia Tegra phone

The LG Optimus was one of the better Android phones made by LG, but they are taking their next Optimus even HIGHER with the upcoming Optimus 2x which boasts to be one of the first phones to sport GPU giant nVidia’s revolutionary Tegra technology, The phone will have a Cortex A-9 Dual-Core processors at it’s disposal while Tegra is a fairly old announcement from Nvidia the possibility of it becoming commercial is drawing closer and closer.