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Both Huawei Ideos X5 and Huawei Ideos X6 are running Android2.2.
The Huawei Ideos X6 comes with a 4.1-inch capacitive LCD touchscreen (WVGA resolution), Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, 3G with HSPA and HDMI port on board. The smartphone is powered by a 1 GHz CPU and packs excellent all round connectivity. The 5 megapixel snapper of the Huwei Ideos X6 is capable of recording HD videos.

The Huawei Ideos X5 is slightly more compact, coming with a 3.8 display. It also offers HSPA-supporting radios as well as Wi-Fi b/g/n and A-GPS. The Ideos X5 5 megapixel camera is accompanied by a LED flash.

SOURCE huawei.com.au

In Q3 2010, the worldwide smart phone market grew an impressive 95% over the same quarter a year ago to 80.9 million shipped units. Nokia retained its leadership position, albeit by a diminished margin, with a 33% share of the market. Apple’s healthy performance this quarter saw it achieve a 17% share worldwide, a little ahead of RIM, which held a 15% share this quarter.
In the world’s largest smart phone market, the US, Apple ousted RIM from the top spot, seizing a 26% share as iPhone shipments continued unabated. RIM has also launched its latest generation smart phone, the Torch, though it only saw half a quarter’s shipments in the US. But the plethora of smart phones running the Open Handset Alliance’s (OHA’s) Android platform meant that Canalys’ final published country-level data shows that it took the lead in the US market by operating system (OS), with a 44% share.

Once again this quarter, it was devices running the Android platform that proved the greatest driver of growth in the worldwide market, up 1,309% year-on-year from 1.4 million in Q3 2009 to more than 20.0 million units in Q3 2010, forming a quarter of the market share.

Driven by Nokia, the Symbian Foundation retained its position as the leading smart phone OS vendor worldwide.

Devices running Microsoft’s OS accounted for just 3% of worldwide smart phone shipments in Q3 2010, though with the launch of Windows Phone 7 devices, the outlook for the fourth quarter and beyond is significantly improved.

SOURCE canalys.com

Smartphone markets continue to forge ahead at an extraordinary pace. According to ABI Research, smartphones made up 19% of all handsets shipped in the second quarter; that represents a 12% increase over the first quarter, and a 50% jump compared to the same quarter in 2009.

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T-Mobile is confirming today what we’d been hearing: wi-fi calling for a range of the Android phones they offer. The two handsets specifically mentioned are the new myTouch and the Motorola Defy, both launching soon.

The feature is a great help for those whose homes are in spotty coverage areas, and also can be a way to reduce the use of minutes. It also helps T-Mobile differentiate itself from other U.S. carriers.

SOURCE t-mobile.com

Three international vendors of smartphones: Estimated and forecast shipment volumes (million units)

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 officially on September 30th, first in UK, Germany and Sweden.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 seems to be one of those smartphones that have the power to truly revolutionize the mobile world, is a horizontal slider phone based on Windows Mobile 6.1. It is Sony Ericsson’s first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile.

Xperia X1 features: 3 inch TFT touchscreen display with accelerometer overlaying a full QWERTY keyboard. Touchscreen is a 65.536 color WVGA display with a wide 800 x 480 pixel resolution. It has a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with auto focus and records video at thirty frames per second in VGA quality. It features a variety of connectivity options: mini-USB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, EDGE, and GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD.
The Xperia X1 has 400MB internal memory, which is expandable to 32 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards. The phone also features internal GPS and A-GPS for navigation.