With a bar-type form factor and a large 4.8-inch touchscreen, I am just not sure whether should I call the ICONIA SMART a smartphone or a tablet. While dual-core smartphones are coming, Acer’s SMART packs a 1GHz SnapDragon processor. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbrad OS with Acer custom UI. The ICONIA SMART features a 4.8-inch large 21:9 touchscreen with 1024×480 resolution, a 8 Megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, WiFi, DLNA support, HDI output and 6-axis motion sensing (Gyroscope + accelerometer). It has a 2 Megapixel front camera for video calling as well. This

We know many among you have started flaunting your new HTC ThunderBolt, which was launched just a week ago. Even as the excitement is riding high, we have for you something that will give you more reasons to get excited. A possible OS update is waiting to hit your ThunderBolt, and per available tips, ThunderBolt will get a Gingerbread update in the second quarter of the year. The story goes thus: A ThunderBolt owner had some issues with the Bluetooth functionality. In his bid to fix the issue, he contacted HTC officials, and got a reply from a  HTC official via e-mail that

The next generation Nexus device, Nexus S is yet to drop by at Canadian stores. Though it will hit several Canadian carriers in the near future, online retailers have now started begun pre-order for customers who are impatiently waiting to get their hands on this ‘pure Google’ device. The retailer now offering the Nexus S for pre-order is BestBuy Canada. They have announced that customers who want to get their Nexus s ahead of others can pre-order them right now at BestBuy stores. Though the details of the price for this Android 2.3 smartphone is yet to be published by the

Sony Ericsson said that there would be no Gingerbread update for Xperia X10. Well, it is hard enough to get Smartphone updates when companies promise them well ahead (ask the Samsung consumers about that and they will tell you the long, hard tale), but to get an update that was not promised is a real sweet surprise indeed. But that is exactly what Sony Ericsson is offering to the Xperia X10 users. Those stuck on Éclair aka Android 2.1 on the Xperia X10 will soon be able to jump to Gingerbread. The announcement just became official as Sony Ericsson promised to release the

You have been hoping that your Verizon Motorola Droid X to good satisfaction, we know. But you have always wanted your device to have a higher version of Android OS, right? Motorola is now answering your prayers – we get to gather that the device will get Android 2.3 Gingerbread update in a couple of days. The grapevine has it that the device will get the Gingerbread update by midnight, this Sunday. Speculations are that the update will be first offered to business clients, while all other users will get it before the end of the next week. Rumors, by the way, have to be

Hope you remember reading about the HTC Incredible S that had first reared its head at Barcelona when MWC 2011 was underway. The latest on that front is that a handful of exclusive images of the device have surfaced. This gives us the hint that the device might hit the stores soon. We expect the handset before the Q1 of this year-end. Actually, when HTC unveiled the phone at the Mobile World Congress last month, the manufacturers had stated that they were planning for a release during the second quarter. The device had also passed through FCC recently. Now with the images

We have been telling you about HTC’s Flyer tablet and the manner in which the device would place itself in a noteworthy position in the tablet horizon. Various manufacturers have been readying or have already introduced their tablet PCs, triggering a tablet war of sorts. HTC Flyer is one battle-ready device and the latest we hear hints at the popularity that it could command in the short term. Demand seems to be one major driving force for the HTC Flyer, and from what we get to know, HTC has ordered one million units and these units are to be ready for August 2011. Now, that

With the expected explosion in Android and BlackBerry tablets set to occur over the next few months, many of you might have been looking online, seeing the price of some of the expected top models – such as the Motorola Xoom – and thinking about buying an iPad instead. After all, what’s the point of waiting for an open source alternative like Android when the device itself costs more than the Apple device that kickstarted the market? The benefits of the Motorola Xoom are obvious – a dual core Nvidia Tegra processor, high definition video and the Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS

All you European folks who have been waiting impatiently to get your hands on the ‘world’s first’ dual-core smartphone can now look forward to a release date. The LG Optimus 2X will arrive in your palm this month (March) itself. We don’t need to tell you again as to the amount of interest the device had generated when it was first showcased at the CES in January. The phone running Android 2.2 Froyo and a promised Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade later on, is something the world has talking a lot about. The device  is currently available in the Korean market. Germany

Adding to the Android update drama, it looks like the Galaxy S is now supposed to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread, sometime in March. Those of you who are familiar with the case, know that there are plenty of Galaxy S smartphones still running Eclair and not getting their share for Android 2.2 Froyo — although it was meant to be available since last autumn. And now they tell us Gingerbread will be available in less than a month. For some reasons, I find it very hard to believe. Our source is a Twitter message in German, citing the manufacturer at an event for Samsung bloggers in