Archive for February, 2011

Acer beTouch E130

Acer’s E130 is a 2.6in-touchscreen smartphone running Google Android that looks very much like it means business. It features a finger-friendly BlackBerry-style qwerty keypad and trackball – rare gems in the touchscreen-heavy Android world. Buttons on the keypad are raised in the middle yet smooth, allowing for fast. comfortable typing, while the trackball is ideal [...]

LG Optimus 2X

The original LG Optimus turned our heads, so we’re looking forward to getting our hands on the Optimus 2X. A high-end affair with a dual-core processor onboard, it’s likely to draw comparisons with the Nexux S and iPhone 4. It is based on Android ‘Froyo’ 2.2 but you can upgrade to ‘Gingerbread’ 2.3 over the [...]

The shape of the future

Almost all of the smartphones on the market today appear to be of a similar shape and design; many will house a full touchscreen that showcases a variety of applications.  Applications can be moved around in order to create a handset that is personal to the user and most of the handsets come housed in [...]

The best of both worlds

The Blackberry Torch has taken all the features of today’s smartphones and put them in one handset.  The all-new Torch doesn’t just offer a multi-touch touchscreen; it also houses a full QWERTY keypad.  This is a unique feature of this handset and one that makes it suitable to a wider market. The new ‘select all’ [...]