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Chinese company Huawei at CES 2011 officially unveiled its new model of Android smartphone IDEOS X5 , Android OS 2.2 based thin model with a range of pre-office applications. New IDEOS X5 from Huawei offers an opportunity to work with file formats, like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF. In addition, IDEOS X5 supports high-speed data transmission technologies like HSPA and Wi-Fi 802.11n. The main characteristics of Huawei IDEOS X5: Display: 3.8-inch touchscreen display with support for multitouch technology Entry screens using SWYPE Dimensions: Slim design – only 11.4 mm thickness Camera: 5 megapixel camera with LED-backlit display and support for HD video (720p) Multimedia features: FM-radio, support for audio technology SRC, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Communication: HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Sensors: Accelerometer, GPS IDEOS X5 will be available to residents of Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand this month. In the U.S., this product goes on sale in mid...

You may absolutely love that sleek and shiny smartphone in your pocket, but a visit to this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas would lead you to the inevitable conclusion that it’s about to get old very quickly. You probably don’t know what processor your phone has, and why should you? But the newest phones from the likes of Motorola and LG boast two processors apiece, so they can run twice as fast as the swiftest phones currently available. Maybe, this is time for a warning: if you don’t want a chronic case of smartphone envy, maybe it’s best to stop reading. And if you continue, please try not to drool in public. FYI, Motorola’s Atrix 4G runs on Nvidia’s dualcore Tegra chip, offering 2Ghz of power and 1GB of RAM, allowed the company to claim that it’s “the world most powerful smartphone.” It’s not just all brawn, however. Running on the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, the Atrix is designed to work with various accessories like a d...

ViewSonic has introduces the Android smartphone ViewPad 4 running on Android OS 2.2, Froyo at CES this week. ViewSonic’s VeiwPad 4 has equipped with Qualcomm’s 1GHz MSM8255 processor together with a  4.1-inch WVGA display, 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with 720p video recording capability. More over the smartphone includes 5MP rear facing camera and 3MP front facing camera for video callings.  The ViewPad 4 also offers GPS functionality, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and HDMI 720p display output. ViewPad is set to retail for $549 when it hits to market and will start shipping in the middle of 2011.

  Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, All Things Digital's Kara Swisher interviewed Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and started off with the most obvious question - what was Twitter doing at a gadget show? According to Costolo, Twitter had been busy meeting with several device makers to try to make it easier and more consistent to use the microblogging platform across multiple platforms and devices, including becoming an embedded feature of some phones. "One of the things we're trying to do this year is to become more of a mass consumption environment," said Costolo. "It's more and more important that Twitter become easier and simpler to use across more platforms and devices." What exactly does that mean? According to Costolo, Twitter has spent a lot of time this week with various companies like Samsung and other device manufacturers discussing the ways that Twitter could become a standard feature on devices. "It would be gr...

Android Honeycomb, much awaited version of Android OS is launched in CES 2011. Honey Comb version is Android 3.0 designed specially for Tablet PC. Year 2011 being Tablet Year, Google has launched its next update of  Open Source Operating System Android 3.0. They have released Sneak Peak Video of the Android OS. Google recently released 2.3 version of Android named as Gingerbread, and had a preview of Android Tablet from Motorola running HoneyComb which features Google Maps 5.0. Honeycomb is the next version of the Android platform, designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. We’ve spent a lot of time refining the user experience in Honeycomb, and we’ve developed a brand new, truly virtual and holographic user interface. Many of Android’s existing features will really shine on Honeycomb: refined multi-tasking, elegant notifications, access to over 100,000 apps on Android Market, home screen customization with a new...

They note Microsoft announced: Zune/Netflix/Hulu Plus/ESPN integration with Kinect avatarkinect Copy and paste for Windows Phone 7 New laptops using Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors Windows 8 [?] running on SoC chips (such as ARM) Microsoft Surface 2.0

In just two days CES 2011 will kick off in the Las Vegas Convention center. But what is CES?  Here is our guide to the International Consumer Electronics Show. CES is one of the largest  consumer electronics shows in the tech industry. Companies use CES as a yearly gathering point. Here these tech companies do business and talk to the press. They also show off their newest products and since the first show back in 1967, CES has seen the launch pad for most major technology innovations. Many of your favorite gadgets and entertainment devices where introduced to the public at CES. The Video recorder, the CD, Laserdisc and Blu-Ray Player were all unveiled first at CES shows, as were the original Xbox, the Nintendo Entertainment System and the game Tetris. That alone is but a small list of hundreds of gadgets and gizmos that first saw the light of day at CES. CES sets the tone of the technology industry for the entire year and truly is an exc...

In addition to the video demo we had posted of the Asus Eee Pad Slate, Transformer, and MeMO, we also have Asus announcing and demoing the Eee Pad Slider, a tablet with a sliding form factor and integrated keyboard to help you get some work done while on the go. The Asus Eee Pad Slider utilizes a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 chupset and is powered by the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. As Asus has announced in its press release that Android 3.0 is Honeycomb, we’re assuming that 3.0 will be the final version designation for the Android OS that will be the first to be tablet-optimized. From the Asus press release: ASUS Eee Pad Slider Mobile users who want the best of both tablet and traditional notebook worlds will be well served by the Eee Pad Slider. This pad computer not only features a 10.1” IPS touch-screen for finger-friendly use, but also a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, use-anywhere typing. It is powered by the NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2, the world’s m...

Bangalore: The romance with tablet PCs is reaching new heights this year. The first glimpse of it can be seen at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to be held at Las Vegas from January 6 to January 9, 2011. A prime technology trade show, the CES is a prominent platform to showcase new gadgets and products by companies hoping to grab the consumer eyeballs. This year, many tech companies are up with a tablet of theirs at the CES, hoping to give competition to the iPad, which has ruled the tablet roost since its launch. We round up some of the major companies that are set to display tablet PCs in the mega event.  1. Motorola will showcase the first Android Honeycomb run tablet called the Motorola Droid Xoom at the CES. Powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, the Droid Xoom tablet features a 5MP rear camera and a front facing 2MP camera. The tablet ships with 32GB of flash storage memory and is expected to have a seven or ten inch touchscreen display. 2. HP is mulling ...

CES is a magical time of the year for geeks with new gadgets and gizmos hitting the market in force. Some of the gadgets are junk that we just don’t want and others are really cool products that try to forge new markets. A company called SBN Tech has announced that it will be bringing a new video phone to CES 2011 that runs the Android OS that sounds more like a tablet to me. The phone is called the IP Video Phone and will provide features that are sort of like those of a tablet computer. It will offer Skype, email, Think-Free Office apps, Twitter and Facebook integration, plus access to YouTube and internet radio along with a lot more. The video phone has a 10.1-inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 and it has a front mounted camera for video calls. The company isn’t specific on which version of Android the machine runs citing Android 2.x as the OS. It has a SD card slot for storage and a kickstand on the back for propping it up. Pricing and availability are unknow...