Samsung Launches Samsung Champ and Omnia

Samsung Electronics launched Samsung Champ, its full-touch mobile phone which can function as a Music Player and Omnia Lite, its Windows 6.5 Pro based touch screen phone.
Samsung Champ (C3303) is a full touch mobile which can function as a Music Player with a 3.5mm ear jack and dual speakers. The Sound Alive 3D effects in the handset claims to produce sound quality for an enriched audio experience in the earphones. The phone comes with Wireless FM and 30 MB internal memory, expandable upto 8GB, allowing users to store music of their choice.

The Samsung Champ comes with a 2.4” QVGA touch screen, 3 page extended menu, Touchwiz Lite 2.0 and a Stylus Pen. Users can customize home screen upto 7 pages and highlight the widgets and applications that they would like to use. Popular widgets include the clock, calendar, my buddies and shortcuts. The phone also offers connectivity to 7 social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr, Friendster, Picassa, and Twitter. Users can upload photos to their social networking sites through Samsung Communities and download content from Samsung Apps. Samsung Champ supports Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0.

iPhone Exec Departs Apple After “Antennagate”

Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of iPhone engineering, has left the company weeks after the “Antennagate” controversy over complaints of poor reception on the company’s latest smartphone. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed Papermaster’s exit and said Bob Mansfield is assuming his responsibilities. Dowling declined to provide a reason for the departure of the former IBM senior executive.

WP7-based HTC Schubert and Froyo-loving Desire HD leak

We’re still a few months away from the official Windows Phone 7 launch but a bunch devices based on it have already made their way to the cameras and then to the web. We are now looking at the next portion of live photos, featuring the WP7-running HTC Schubert and its Froyo-powered bro, the HTC Desire HD.
Speaking of the Desire HD, it is quite reminiscent of the WinMo-based HTC HD2. The Desire HD (a.k.a. HTC Ace) is said have an aluminum unibody (quite like the HTC Legend), to run Android 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo) and to feature a huge 4.3″ WVGA capacitive touchscreen. Reportedly, the device is powered by a zippy 1GHz Snapdragon processor and packs a promising 8-megapixel camera capable of shooting 720p HD videos.

HTC Desire HD a.k.a. HTC Ace

The HTC Desire HD should also come with support for XviD video files out of the box and feature SRS Surround Sound equalizer. Another interesting feature the Ace should arrive with is the preloaded e-book reader. And, unsurprisingly, the Desire HD web browser will have Flash support

Sony Ericsson teases with countdown and an XPERIA device

Sony Ericsson is trying their hand at the whole countdown teasing, but they haven’t got it right quite yet. The mysterious device hiding in the dark is quickly revealed to be an XEPRIA, maybe an XPERIA X10.
If you copy the teaser photo into a photo editing program and fiddle with the brightness setting you’ll get the result bellow. And putting it next to photos of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, there are too many similarities to be ignored – the silver strip design, the camera/LED/logo arrangement.

Vonage iPhone App lets you call Facebook Friends for free

Vonage has released a new iPhone app that enables you to call any of your Facebook friends for free.
VoIP apps from the likes of Skype are already well established in the iPhone ecosystem, but this latest application from Vonage takes it one step further.
The only potential problem being – do you really want any of your ‘friends’ on Facebook to be able to contact you at any point on your mobile phone?
iPhone and Android

Vonage lets you call your Facebook 'friends' for free on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices

Game Center for iOS bombshell shows Apple still doesn’t get gaming

Apple was built on gaming foundations. Steve Wozniak’s design decisions for the Apple II – adding colour, line-drawing and BASIC commands, sound, and paddle controls – were primarily driven by his desire to use the then-cutting-edge consumer hardware to create a version of Breakout to show off to his engineering chums.
Soon, though, Apple became a resolutely business-oriented company, and although Steve Jobs much later transformed Apple into a consumer-orientated powerhouse when he returned to the fold in 1996, two iOS shortcomings – one old, one new – show that the Cupertino giant still doesn’t entirely get gaming.
This despite the fact iOS gaming is huge: games comprise the second-biggest block of iOS apps after books, and in response Apple has long since repositioned the iPod touch primarily as a games system.
The first problem is Apple’s back-up process, which is user-friendly (back-up on sync, restore everything from a back-up if problems occur), but its global nature isn’t gaming-friendly.

HTC Android CDMA/GSM smartphone tipped for Verizon early 2011

An unnamed HTC smartphone with dual CDMA/GSM for the Verizon and Vodafone networks has leaked, believed to be on the way for a Verizon launch in early 2011. The handset – which is currently running Android 2.2 – has a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard and is tipped to use a 1.2GHz processor, likely Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon.

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