This seems kind of strange to me, but would love to see everyone’s comments.
China’s main mobile provider, correct me if I’m wrong: China Mobile, have already been said to be the carrier that will be bringing China their first Google phone (apart from those from the black market that is!). But instead of going for the now internationally recognised first Google phone: T-Mobile G1 / HTC G1, it’s now been said that they will be getting its own version of an Android device via currently the world’s fourth largest personal computer manufacturer, Lenovo from the first quarter beginning of 2009.
Currently in the black market in China, the T-Mobile G1 can go for as much as $550 USD, which is already quite a considerable sum of money. In addition to that, the handset need to be unlocked if you’re not a T-Mobile customer and that costs another $73, which totals up to over $620 USD for an unofficially unlocked G1.
Though I’m not sure whether this pricing has now been affected by the news that officially unlocked T-Mobile G1 only costs a little bit more at $700 USD. Maybe this blackmarket has something to do with China Mobile’s decision?
[via Shanghaiist]
Here are some leaked shots from nedge2k.com of the latest upcoming HTC T8290. From the front, it’s design looks similar to the Touch Diamond just with a larger screen. The HTC T8290 is said to be a GSM + WiMax device, with 3.8-inch display screen with an impressive 800 x 480 WVGA resolution, built in WiFi and Bluetooth. At the back, you see a Yota logo, that’s the Russia WiMaX network provider. There is also speculation that HTC could be bringing this to the US instead of the latest HD version of the Touch…
Check out this gallery where the comparison between two very competitive firm’s latest handset takes place, head to head. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 which runs Windows Mobile, in contrast, the HTC T-Mobile G1 (or HTC Dream) which you will have heard almost too much about, runs the current mobile market’s latest hot and buzzing operating system Google Android.
Head off to the gallery below and skip the concise summaries if you already know enough about these phones…
About Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
XPERIA X1 is the first Sony Ericsson to run on Windows Mobile (Professional) operating system, and the first of the X series. It is high-end device with large WVGA touch display, side-sliding design with QWERTY, integrated GPS, WiFi and quad-band GSM with quad-band UMTS. It will have personalised interface to change the standard operating system …
About Google Android (T-Mobile G1)
HTC Dream is the first phone to run on Google’s Android operating system. It is a side-slider with QWERTY and large touch-sensitive display. Features include 3-megapixel camera, microSD slot, Internet Browser and Email.
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T-Mobile on a roll? After the much talked about launch of the first Google Android operating system based phone, G1, the company seems to be readying to introduce the T-Mobile Shadow II smartphone.
The original Shadow phone from HTC running Windows Mobile was a hit among consumers and not surprisingly it has spawned a successor. Leaked pictures of the Shadow II showed up in an online forum though the poster seems unclear whether it is the Shadow II or Shadow 3 phone.
Not much is known about the phone’s specifications as of now. The online buzz seems to be that T-Mobile is planning an October 15 release for the device priced at $150 USD.
We’ve previously seen the HTC Dream run the Android interface on YouTube, however the video was of very poor quality and blurry as well. But now we’ve finally received a much better glimce of Android in action and it now looks more definite than ever that T-Mobile will be the carrier network involved. First of all, here’s the video just for those who haven’t seen it off YouTube…
The pics have come from a Chinese forum, so it helps if you can read Chinese, these are the pics that have been posted and Android looks to be pretty much complete and ready in all its glory as Engadget have said… It’s unfortunate the pics don’t show what it looks like while on the internet but I can’t wait til it’s available in the UK, Android (and the phone) looks to be quite promising!
In addition to our recent photos and specs of the speculated Palm Treo Pro, here we now have some further small details and also an additional picture…
I’m unsure how many readers from here in the UK will know about this but certainly this will have been all over the news in the US. What’s happening is that Yahoo and Google are talking into a deal in which Google will ‘help’ bring up Yahoo’s revenue which as you will imagine make it even more difficult for Microsoft to further approach Yahoo to settle another buyout deal. Google which at the moment is the giant for earning money most effectively from online ads will ‘assist’ Yahoo by delivering Yahoo search engine results onto their own search result pages (to my understanding) resulting in Yahoo earning 800 million more yearly, but the way many sees this is that Google will just be knocking out one of its main search engine competitor. In my opinion, this feels more like a search engine referral program, but the partnership will remain undecided by the justice department until September this year and Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch thinks the deal is unlikely to happen, check out the short report below…
[via TechCrunch]
