What’s the matter with Moto? Did it wake up of its slumber? We’ve just seen the Calgary which will the its first Android phone and now we hear that a new Motorola phone, the Ironman, will also run on Android.

Nobody announced the Ironman just yet so we don’t know if it’s a special edition Iron Man handset or just a codename and the phone is expected to be launched in the third quarter of the year. The phone will feature a good CPU, a full QWERTY keyboard, 3G connectivity, WiFi and an impressive camera. Which one do you like best, the Calgary or the Ironman?

UK customers will be able to choose a new Samsung phone this May. The Tocco Lite is a touchscreen phone which doesn’t have any 3G support. That’s a weird combination but the whole 3G-less feature will make people change their minds about buying one.

Nevertheless the Tocco Lite or the Samsung S5230 will offer you the following:

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity
• 3 inch TFT touchscreen display with 262K color and 240 x 400 pixels
• TouchWiz UI
• Accelerometer
• Facebook, MySpace and YouTube widgets
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Samsung DNSe 2.0 music technology
• FM Radio with RDS
• 3.2 MP camera
• 50 MB of built-in memory
• microSD card support, up to 8 GB
• 104 x 53 x 11.9 mm

All we need now are some prices and we expect the Tocco Lite to be available for a great price since it lacks that important 3G support.

Motorola has been working for quite a while now on its first Android handset and we finally have a name and some pictures. The Calgary will be the first Android phone to come from Motorola plants. Like the G1 the Calgary will have a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and the Moto phone will focus on social networking. The phone might arrive some time in the second quarter although nobody wants to confirm that right now. We have no leaked specs at this time and there’s no pricing available for the Calgary. At least we know its coming soon…

Europe and Taiwan must be rocking the latest HTC flagship cell phone already, now that April 2009 is almost done with us, but seems like HTC just can’t let the Touch Diamond2 hit the streets.  We now have news that the high-end smartphone is ready to capture Malaysia too, according to a recent press release, and if HTC sticks to its words this time, Malaysians should be getting cosy with their Diamond2s by the middle of May 2009.  The price falls in the same ballpark as the European and Taiwanese versions, going for about 2599 RM (roughly $722).  We know you love your tech HTC, but can we have a go at it too?

A version of the Snap QWERTY smartphone from HTC, albeit likely with CDMA and GSM network support, is one step closer to its release at Verizon, as a rendering of it has been spotted. Known in the render as the XV6175, it was codenamed Cedar when it was undergoing testing at the GSM Global Certification Forum. The XV naming scheme has regularly been used to rebrand HTC’s phones on Verizon’s network. Neither a release date nor pricing information are yet known for the XV6175.

An FCC filing tipping up today has shown that Motorola will have a full QWERTY smartphone for Verizon in the near future. Known very early on as the Napoleon, the A4500 is now confirmed to be a World Edition phone that would support both EVDO (likely Revision A) and GSM for calling abroad. It also betrays the existence of a 2-megapixel camera and Wi-Fi. It’s not known when the A4500 will ship. Leaks showed of working models as early as July of last year and reveal a protracted development process for the handset. As Windows Mobile 6.1 is still poised to be the operating system, however, the smartphone is likely to show before the fall, when Windows Mobile 6.5 will reach shipping handsets. Read the rest of this entry »

MetroPCS on Tuesday announced it has released the Samsung Tint cellphone on its flat-rate network. The phone ships with interchangeable grey and pink faceplates and customers have the ability to buy more to suit their own personal tastes. The user interface is also customizable, with banner themes, fonts and wallpapers. The Tint is mostly basic but offers push-to-talk communication over a ChatLINK feature as well as a built-in web browser, e-mail and IM program support. There is also an integrated but unspecified camera (likely VGA), voice dialing and Bluetooth support.

Prices for the handset or actual availability dates have not yet been announced, but both are expected to come soon. Read the rest of this entry »

Motorola last week introduced its MOTO V10 for the Korean market, which sports a body color that flows from black at the top of the handset to red at the bottom. The dual-color body has a soft feel material on its backside for a better grip. It also gets dual displays, with about 10 functions accessible while the flip phone is closed, and all accessible via the internal 2.2-inch, 240×320 resolution display. The handset includes navigation functionality, Bluetooth, a 2-megapixel camera and MP3 playback capabilities. It can likewise access on-demand services for music and video. The V10 has a standard microSD slot that allows users to add 2GB of storage space to its integrated 256MB of memory.

The MOTO V10 is available at SK Telecom retailers in Korea, though no pricing information is available. Whether or not it will surface in North America hasn’t been discussed. Read the rest of this entry »