Sony Ericsson sees 180m Android phones in 2011

 

Sony Ericsson VP and chief technology officer Jan Uddenfeldt said the company expects the Android-based smartphone market to increase from 60 million units in 2010 to 180 million units in 2011. With 60 percent of Sony Ericcson’s sales coming from smartphones, Sony has forged a new pathway that will see it deliver smartphones that only run Android. While it has supported the Symbian OS in the past, it has dropped the OS from its plans altogether. Although not ruling out Windows Phone 7, Uddenfeldt said that Sony Ericsson will not be shipping a device with the OS this year.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA Neo review: More than a sequel

 

Introduction

It’s a sequel. Same cast and the same story but with a new lead and a new director. Shot in HD. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Neo is to settle some unfinished business at the box office. A year stands between the Vivaz and the Neo and Android does make all the difference.

Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 review: Average Gio

 

Introduction

It’s devices like the Samsung Galaxy Gio that helped Android gain so much ground in so little time. They are a better bargain than the uber-smartphone and find their way into people’s pockets a lot easier. With that goal in mind, the Galaxy Gio must be an all-round pleaser of a phone.

They may soon be running out of names for the Galaxy lot. But it will be when number plates start to fall short that they’ll know they’re in trouble. Back to the point though. Boy number S5660 is called Gio. He’s a teenager – mischievous and fun, too young for a suit and tie.

Samsung makes first fast 64-gigabit MLC flash

Samsung has announced that it has developed the world’s first toggle Double Data Rate 2.0 64-gigabit MLC NAND flash memory chips. Samsung has been able to achieve the higher density by fabricating the new chips on a 20nm process. They have a 400 megabits bandwidth are said to 10 times faster than the Single Data Rate NAND flash memory used in most smartphones and tablets in use today.

Upcoming WP7 Mango update to bring along turn-by-turn SatNav

The next update for Windows Phone 7, dubbed Mango will supposedly bring along cool features like music recognition, camera-integrated search (barcode and image scanning) and even turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation for the Bing Maps application.
These are all unconfirmed features but the images, enclosed with the scoop, suggest them to be legitimate.

New Symbian^3 homescreen leaked by Nokia Germany

 

Some images posted on the Nokia Germany website just lifted the curtain on one of the features to come in the next Symbian^3 update. What we are seeing is the free-form widgets that were initially rumored to come with the PR 2.0 Anna update, but apparently didn’t make it.

Mobile Spy v5 enables parents, employers smartphone access

 

Retina-X Studios has updated their Mobile Spy 5.0 smartphone monitoring software to include the Mobile Spy Live Control Panel, which can grab screenshots from the user's smartphone (iOS, Android or Blackberry) as well as a map of its current location, updated every 90 seconds. The program also logs SMS text messages, call information, GPS locations, photos taken and other activities, and the latest version adds silent SMS commands for monitoring and recovering a child's or employee's smartphone as well as the option to have activity logs e-mailed to administrators.