Nokia World begins in London next Wednesday and last night at AsiaD Andy Lees, president of Windows Phone, had a few things to say about Nokia’s plans for the event. Bearing in mind that we all love Windows Phone here at Digixav (with the possible exception of Bada-mad Chris), this is great news for us so head past the break to read what he had to say.
Speaking at AsiaD, Asus CEO Jonney Shih made two surprise announcements. The long awaited Transformer Prime and the PadFone will both ship in Q1 and more details can be found past the break. (Hint: we have quad core and Ice Cream Sandwich!)
Apologies for not being with the liveblog, I had an… altercation.
Anywho, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. It is beautiful. While maybe not as thin as the Motorola RAZR, it still packs some key features.
The keynote is over, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is official and Ice Cream Sandwich finally has a version number, but how does it all look?
Firstly, the phone. The Super AMOLED HD 1280 x 720 16:9 screen sounds fantastic, even if at the mahoosive size of 4.65 inches. The 8.49mm deep handset houses a full gigabyte of RAM, a 1.2GHz Texas Instruments dual core chip and 2 cameras. The 1.3MP front shooter is standard fare but one expects better than a 5MP lens on the back, especially in comparison to the fantastic cameras on the Samsung Galaxy S II, Nokia N8 and of course the iPhone 4S. An NFC chip is incorporated for Android Beam tap-to-share and of course Google Wallet whenever it launches on this side of the pond. The phone will ship with Android 4.0 and will come in both LTE and HSPA+ variants, depending on location and demand. No pricing has been announced, but NTT DoCoMo will be carrying the phone in Japan along with it being another Verizon exclusive stateside if earlier leaks are to be believed.
Well today is the day that Samsung and Google are set to hold a delayed keynote in Hong Kong. We’ve seen the Ice Cream Sandwich Android on the invite and plenty of Galaxy Nexus leaks, including on Samsung’s own site. But Chris, Henry and I will be liveblogging on this very page at 3am BST to let you know what is happening – if you are awake. We have Pepsi and chocolate to get through this so here goes!
First things first, why have a Kevlar back on a phone. Now I’ve got that out-of-the-way, I can get down to the actual phone. the first thing you notice about the phone is that it is incredibly thin, just 7.1 mm in fact. This makes it the undisputedly the world’s thinnest smartphone. The specs for this new phone are very good. With a powerful dual core 1.2 GHz processor and 1GB of ram it can handle most of what you can throw at it. It is also equipped with a Super AMOLED screen of qHD (960 x 540) resoluion and an 8MP camera capable of 1080p HD video. Also you can stream music, films and more from your computer from anywhere using MotoCast.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has leaked on the Samsung site just 3 hours before it’s expected announcement. The leak details that it will be available on Verizon in the USA and the picture of the phone itself matches an earlier leak from Japanese network NTT DoCoMo. Have a look for yourself at the link past the break.
Hi. I am Henry Hunt, the chief reporter for this blog. I will be doing reviews and the occasional rant about how bad Android/Symbian/RIM is and how brilliant iOS/WP7 is. I am a Microsoft enthusiast with a secret love of Apple.
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