After exciting smartphone fans with a high-end spec that includes a 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, 1GHz processor, 5MP cam when they introduced the Android-powered Galaxy S last March, word is out that they plan to take the world by storm. According to this report from Korea, Samsung will be releasing their flagship smartphone to over 110 countries at the same time.
Qualcomm just announced that they’ve started shipping samples of the next-gen dual core Snapdragon chips for mobile devices. The existing 1GHz Snapdragon chipset can be found running today’s current crop of high-end smartphones (like HTC’s premium Android-powered mobiles), so yeah, this means we should expect faster smartphones that can handle multithreading apps and smoother multitasking soon.
In case you were wondering what all the hype surrounding Nokia’s N8 was all about, here’s a video overview (the first of three, apparently) demonstrating what you can do with it. The video gives us our first look of the Symbian^3 OS, featuring a slick, customizable interface that’s chock-full of widgety eye-candy.
Acer has just officially launched the Stream, a high-end, Android-powered smartphone that packs in enough hardware to hang with the big boys around the premium smartphone yard. Before anything else, here are the basics: this phone sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a 480 x 800 resolution up front, a 5MP cam at the back, and Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 512MB RAM between the ears to make for a nice, solid smartphone base.
It looks like the Nokia N8, the top-end smartphone that’s being seen as the brand’s entry into the premium smartphone wars, will be available by the end of August. There have been leaks going around that point to an August 24th launch through UK’s Vodafone, and although the date is still “officially” unknown (since it hasn’t been confirmed by Nokia), Vodafone UK has already put up a product page that lists the N8 as “coming soon.”
