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The Android fever is in the air and Google’s open Mobile OS is making waves in the industry with the handsets by the major manufacturers.  No wonder there are so many announcements by the mobile makers about launching their new Android phones in the forthcoming Mobile World Congress. Joining the league is a Chinese vendor Huawei, who recently announced its plans to bring a number of Android-based devices, to MWC.

Huawei  is already well acquainted with the Android platform, as it had launched the U8220 or T-Mobile Pulse as the cheapest Android Smartphone. But now the Android based home-use Internet devices will also take the MWC stage along with the Smartphone ranges. The details on the devices remain under the cover.

The Huawei brand has not yet established itself well in the UK and regards its Android as a strategic move to enhance its performance in the Western mobile market. Apart from this, it is also expected to perform demonstrations of its LTE (long term evolution) mobile broadband networks at MWC 2010,

In another announcement, by the Opera Software today, Huawei will preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on a range of mobile handsets. “By selecting Opera Mobile 10, Huawei is now able to implement the same user experience across its range of handsets, no matter the platform, ensuring high quality Web surfing for all customers,” Opera Software says.

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As 2009 has finally waved a goodbye with economic slump too drawing closer to an end, 2010 awaits a year full of new gizmos and gadgets with major surprises from the leading brands. The most anticipated will be from the smartphone industry with hottest designs and android powered phones with Google Nexus topping the charts. So next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas surely has a bunch of surprises wrapped up for the gadget fans.

According to a very recent announcement by Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry says that Moto “may announce” a new Android set for AT&T next week at CES while the other for Verizon. Both the phones will feature OLED screens and Google’s Android OS. It’s said that the AT&T-bound handset has a physical keyboard and will not  feature the MotoBlur interface while the Verizon-bound Motorola phone will have no physical keyboard .The two phones are being called the Enzo (or Backflip) and the Opus One. Source: Smarthouse

1.) Enzo:

• Android 1.5

• Qualcomm MSM7201A processor

• 3.1-inch display at HVGA

• 512MB ROM/256MB RAM

• 5 megapixel camera

• Wi-Fi

• Bluetooth 2.1

• GPS

• Motoblur, Motorola’s phone sync service.

2.) Opus One:

• Zeus XScale processor

• 512MB Flash/256MB RAM

• 3.1-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen

• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

• 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash

• MicroSD card slot

• Accelerometer

• Proximity sensor

• Android location-based services, integrated into the iDEN GPS engine.

Apart from this The Synaptics Fuse, will also be demonstrated at CES. The phone can be squeezed, tilted and pulled to operate, as well as the now-standard method of prodding at a touchscreen. Also lined up our prototype MID Dell Streak,  3D and mobile DTV cheaper HDTVs and many other consumer electronic goods.

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