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Huawei’s new 3.8″ capacitive Android smart phone.
Huawei is showing this 4.1″ capacitive high-end Android phone.
Yet another video of this pure awesome ARM Cortex-A9 Powered device, here’s more demonstration and interview with product manager on this project about the features of the UI and about the performance of this device. This is definitely a candidate for Best of Show on my list.
The most powerful phone in the world they say. This keynote presentation was just pure awesome, appropriate for compulsive cheering by crowds of ARM fans in the audience.
Here’s a new sleek, super slim, super light, 117gr, Android Super Phone by Sony Ericsson using the new 4.2″ Sony Bravia Reality Display technology which is a very bright, vivid colors, sharper image high end LED backlit LCD.
Uses the same 3D screen that is in the upcoming Nintendo 3DS device.
This is LG’s Super Phone, Nvidia Tegra2 ARM Cortex-A9 Powered, here’s some HDMI output usage demonstrated and the screen close up.
An awesomely thin and light 109 grams Android Super Phone from LG using the Texas Instruments OMAP3630 ARM Cortex-A8 processor, it comes with LG’s new 700nit NOVA LCD screen and Wi-Fi Direct functionality demonstrated in this video.
Here’s a 4.3″ capacitive LTE enabled phone by LG powered by the Qualcomm MSM8655 processor.
Here’s an interview with the Product manager on Motorola Atrix 4G, Seang Chau, where he talks about how it was designed and how it works. This may be the coolest ARM Powered device ever shown at CES, Motorola promotes this as a full Laptop replacement! Yeah!
For now they don’t want to show the new Super Amoled Plus screen yet. And they don’t say on this video if this uses a new Honeycomb or the ARM Cortex-A9 Orion processor already.
It’s ARM11 at up to 800Mhz, HVGA 480×320 or WQVGA 400×240, 3G integrated on the chip, 65 nm digital CMOS process, support for Android 2.2 and up. That is what is claimed by Broadcom representatives in a Fortune Magazine CNN post.
To be clear, That sub $100 price is not the cost of materials, it is the suggested retail price after the manufacturers (and carriers) have taken their profits.
This could enable Android to accelerate into first position in worldwide Smartphone sales by next year in front of Symbian even, generating most of possibly as many as 500 million smartphones to be sold next year (up from 269 million smartphones sold in 2010 and 173 million in 2009).
Thus as Android might have been activating 30 thousand smartphones per day (less than 1 million per month) back on 1st January 2010 and has officially been announced to be activating 300’000 smartphones per day (9 million per month) by 1st January 2011 (900% growth rate year over year), if Android expansion accelerates as can be expected with this type of platform to reach sub-$100 and sub-$75 unlocked sales prices to reach China, India and other developing markets during 2011, it may reach an activation rate of closer to 1 million units per day by 1st January 2012 yet another 300% growth rate in a year.
Within a year, the smartphone could thus become the dominant fastest selling device to access the Internet in front of the laptop. While cheaper Android devices means the developing world can finally afford access to smartphones (better than Symbian stuff), it also means carriers in rich countries may have to come up with new tricks if they want to continue making huge profits on wireless phone services. As sub-$100 Android phones can be bought, consumers in rich countries will also decide to buy those with pre-pay services, more and more data centric, and that could trigger the disruption of the “carrier-subsidized” Android super phone carrier model. Which model is not as much about a carrier “subsidizing” a phone than it is about a consumer over-paying on 2-year contracts on a phone device presented as overpriced if bought unlocked.
If you thought Android’s huge growth was impressive while most phones are bought with 2-year $2500 contracts, just wait for Android’s continued growth once most of them will be bought below $100 without any contracts needed.
Source: broadcom.com
Found via: cnn.com
After the low cost $150 2.8″ capacitive Huawei IDEOS U8150 (also known as Huawei Ascend?), Huawei is now also bringing larger screen perhaps a bit higher end X5 at 3.8″ and X6 at 4.1″ screen sizes, also including a 1Ghz processor and a HDMI output. It will be interesting to see at what prices those are going to be sold at unlocked, if Huawei plans to provide cheaper alternatives to the high end Android phones.
Source: androidguys.com
Via: androidcommunity.com
Here’s some filming of Marissa Mayer’s Q&A with Michael Arrington and David Burke’s Nexus S Gingerbread demostration of Google Maps 5.0 Vector Graphics and 3D features at LeWeb 2010, you can watch the full official video here.
Charlie Kindel is the General Manager of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Developer Ecosystem. He tells us about some of the features of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform. You can watch Charlie Kindel’s Q&A at LeWeb 2010 here.
Latest news about Nokia’s Ovi store. Does Nokia have any chance against Google Marketplace and Apple’s App Store?
Check out the Meego OS running on this nice new super powerful ARM Cortex-A9 processor and some talk with a representative about the performance and potential of this processor platform.
Nicole of Netbooknews reports from the LG Optimus press conference in Taiwan. The phone is a 480×320 3.2″ Android phone to retail unlocked for about $332 in Taiwan. It uses the 600Mhz ARM11 Qualcomm MSM7227 processor.
This video was released by: netbooknews.com
Numbers for Q3 smart phone sales in the US market are currently being released by market analysis companies such as NPD and Canalys. The main graph to look at is following:
This confirms my predictions that Android smart phones are selling more than double as many smart phones per day than Apple iPhone in Q3 (considering even that the iPhone4 was released during this quarter) and possibly the rate will be closer to 4x as many by Christmas time.
Things will further accelerate in Android’s favor once cheaper Android phones are commonly available to all consumers. Once people can easily buy a $199 Android phone out of contract, on a pre-paid plan offered by major US carriers as well as pre-paid specialist carriers such as Virgin Mobile and MetroPCS.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is working closely with Indian mobile phone makers Micromax Informatics Ltd., Spice Mobility Ltd. and Olive Telecom to produce cheaper Android smartphones to be sold below $150 now and towards below $100 soon.
Most of the initial Google-powered phones in India from global handset makers such as Motorola Inc. and HTC Corp. cost upward of $400—a high price for a market where 42% of the population of 1.2 billion people earns less than $1.25 a day.
Ways in which cheaper prices can be achieved could be by selecting to use ARM11 class processors, with 128MB RAM and resistive touch screens, and maybe also, limit the cellular part at 2G GPRS modem type instead of 3G. As India does not yet really have 3G coverage everywhere according to this WSJ article.
Android devices also work best on wireless networks capable of “3G” speeds. Indian carriers are just now in the process of upgrading to that level.
New Delhi-based Micromax, which is planning an initial public offering, hopes to release its first Android handset around the Hindu festival of Diwali early next month, and wants to have at least four Android phones by March, a person familiar with the company’s plans said.
$100 Android phones is the way Google can reach a billion Android users within a year or two, and 5 to 7 billion Android users in 3-5 years with $30-50 Android phones once all the components for making Android smartphones are thus lowered in price.
isuppli.com has been reporting for a while that current Android super phones sold by HTC and Motorola all have a bill of material and manufacturing costs closer to $150 than $200, thus proving that when manufacturers sell Android super phones for above $400 today, there is a healthy profit margin there for them. So with mass manufacturing and lower profit margins, I also believe developing countries could be getting Android Super Phones with full capacitive screens, full ARM Cortex A8 processors and 3G capable modem speeds and still not have to pay more than $150-200 for a phone now and $100-150 with optimizations of component costs.
The question could be, how does Google support the manufacturing of $100 Android phones for developing countries and at the same time not disrupt the existing $400+ Android super phone market of developed countries? I would like to see the $100 Android phone reach all countries of the world, and this is why I am a fan of new pre-paid cheap Android phones being manufactured by Huawei (2) and ZTE.
Source: wsj.com
Found via: techmeme.com
