Huawei launches Ideos X5 and X6 in Australia
Huawei has announced two of its Android smartphones, Ideos X5 and X6, in Australia. Both the models come with Android 2.2 Froyo.
The Ideos X5 is equipped with a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display, high-speed HSDPA/HSUPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, a-GPS, Google Apps, accelerometer, and 5MP camera with LED Flash.
Huawei Ideos X6 is offering a 4.1-inch capacitive display, HSPA+ 14.4mbps, Wi-Fi b/g/n, a-GPS, Google Apps, accelerometer, HD video recording, HD video playback, Dolby Mobile Surround Sound and HDMI output.
According to Mark Treadwell, Head of Devices Marketing, Huawei Australia, more than half of all Australians are already using Huawei’s products, including mobile phones, tablets and wireless dongles, which are customized and rebadged by the operator. While the company will continue to work closely with their key partners, Huawei will now also have a brand of its own. The company believes that people have been paying too much for the latest mobile technology and they can give consumers a choice of affordable mobile devices without compromising on innovative design and cutting-edge technology. This is about making high-tech devices within everyone’s reach.
The pricing and availability details of these Android handsets remain nebulous.
Motorola to launch Milestone 2 in Australia
Motorola has unveiled that it will likely be launching Milestone 2 in Australia. The handset features Texas Instrument’s 1GHz OMAP3630 processor and is powered with Motorola’s Droid X phone. The phone also includes new Android 2.2 operating system, Froyo which allows 720p (1280—720-pixel) video recording.
The phone is bundled with 3G hotspot for up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices; it has an 8GB of internal memory and supports MicroSD cards up to 32GB in capacity.
The phone is DLNA capable and also includes Adobe Flash 10.1 ready to go. Users can also access full suite of Google apps, including Android Market for over 100,000 applications. The phone is expected to be released in December through Vodafone and Optus networks. The price of the handset is not yet revealed.
Google’s business apps under construction
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In an effort to ramp up sales of Google Apps, an online store is being developed by Google to sell business software from its partners. Calling it a solutions marketplace, Google offers a site where users of Google Apps can find a variety of add-ons, tools and support services.
The intention of the store is to provide better integration with Google’s partners and make it easier for users to buy add-ons and services.
The new store represents the next step in Google’s strategy to work with business partners to promote Google Apps.
Orange Working On a Google Phone?
A day before the alleged Apple iPhone is supposed to come out, comes the story that Orange is working closely with Google on a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a ‘Google phone’ which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are???. We know about Google apps coming to the mobile phones, including search, maps, e-mail and other services, but the story says that this partnership goes deeper: a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange’s logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, it might have a screen similar to a video iPod. But it would have built-in Google software which would dramatically improve on the slow and cumbersome experience of surfing the web from a mobile handset.
The story says the Google phone would not go on sale before 2008.
Somehow, I am a bit skeptical on this one.
Meanwhile Om writes on his blog that the presence of Andy Rubin on Google campus may give this story some credence. Rubin was one of the co-founders of Danger, the company that makes the Sidekick devices. He sold his last company, Android to Google for an undisclosed amount of money, and has been working there on, well, something.
