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Nexus S launched in Malaysia and Singapore

Google's Nexus S, the successor to last year's Nexus One, is now available for purchase in Singapore and Malaysia. Samsung Asia and Malaysia's Maxis Communications made the announcements earlier today separately in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

Irene Ng, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Samsung Asia said in a statement, "Samsung is pleased to deliver the best Android smartphone experience for consumers. The Nexus S is a smartphone that combines superior functionality and a stunning user-experience that will appeal to the increasingly connected Singapore consumers and meet their demand for entertainment and functionality on the go."

At a separate Google event in Jakarta earlier this week, Google PR Therese Lim explained that the Nexus S is Samsung's device and therefore Google does not control its distribution. Google is taking a very different approach for the Nexus S to that of the Nexus One which was made available in very limited markets.

For some reason, the Southeast Asian Nexus S does not feature Super AMOLED screens, instead, it uses Super LCD screens. Additionally, despite what the brochures said at the Maxis launch, the press release from Samsung made no mention of Near Field Communication (NFC), the technology that allows device owners to for example, make payments directly from their mobile devices at retail outlets. This technology is present in the US edition of the phone.

Outright price for the Gingerbread powered Nexus S in Singapore is S$ 828 while in Malaysia it's RM 2499 or RM 1499 with 24 month contract.

The Samsung press release from Hardware Zone for Singapore after the break

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Android Gingerbread ported to Nokia N900

The guys from NITDroid Community, Alexey Roslyakov aka DrunkDebugger has been succesfully ported Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) to Nokia N900 device.

Although not all features worked perfectly but the Nokia N900 reportedly success to access data over the cellular network. In addition, voice and WiFi. DrunkDebugger has another plan to make another version of Gingerbread for N900 to make more stable (we all know the Nokia N900 which originally running Maemo 5) will be released before the year ends.

[via electronista]

Posted by Oki Rosgani 

Google announced the Nexus S

Google announced the first phone that will use the Android 2.3, its called the Nexus S. Nexus S is the next generation of Nexus devices co-developed by Google and Samsung.

Its basically a clone of the Samsung Galaxy S, only without the tacky touchWiz UI. The Nexus S boast a 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) for its processor, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of Internal memory. The screen is 4" with 800x480 pixel for its resolution. One unique thing about the display is, its a contour display, it means that the screen is a bit 'curved'. It will also supports NFC and three-axis Gyroscope.

You can check out more about the Nexus S from its home page.

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Posted by Bayu Wicaksono 

Android 2.3 announced, updates should be available in the next few weeks

After a couple of months of waiting, Google finally announced the newest iteration of the Android OS, Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread. Android 2.3 offers a couple of new features for User, Developers and for the Platform Technologies it self.

The new features includes:

• UI refinements, the UI has been refined in many ways across the system. Its faster, easy to use and more polished. The visual themes has been updated with black as the dominant colors (eg. Notification Bar, Context Menus all have turned to black.)
• Improvement for Text input, the keyboard is updated and redesigned. The keys are reshaped and reposition for improved targeting. Multitouch has also been added to the keyboard.
• One-touch word selection and copy/paste. Just use the bounding arrows to select the words, then it will automatically copy the selected text.
• Improved power management.
• Control over applications
• Internet calling
• Near-field communications (NFC)
• Download Management
• Ability to access multiple cameras on the device.
• Gyroscope and other sensors for improved 3D gaming.

Those are just a small new features that Android 2.3 has, you can check out more of them from here. The updates should roll out to the Nexus One users in coming weeks.

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Posted by Bayu Wicaksono 

Playstation Phone is real and its coming in 2011

Along with the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), the Playstation Phone might also shipped with a custom market place (PSN?) so that users can buy Playstation games from it. We still don't know when the phone will be released or officially announced, but you'll probably have to wait until around 2011.

Check out more pictures from Engadget.

Posted by Bayu Wicaksono 

Sony Ericsson preparing mobile gaming devices with Android 3.0

Sony Ericsson will produce a cellphone for gamers, these phones will have a mix form-factor between Samsung Galaxy S and a Play Station Portable game console. This device will use the Android 3.0 Gingerbread.

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Posted by Oki Rosgani 

Rumor: HTC Ace the next Android phone from HTC

We've got a rumor about HTC Sabor from HTC before but it seems they preparing another next Android phone which called HTC Ace. According some rumors, HTC Ace will have Android 3.0, 4.3-inch screen, 1.5 GHz processor, 8 MP camera and 1.3 MP front facing camera, better battery performance and record 1080p HD video.

The 1080p HD recording sound quality is much better than the record 720p. But it seems this new Android 3.0 device from HTC will available in the end of this year. HTC will remove the Sense UI but another custom UI will available in this device. And 2GHz processor is not an impossible but HTC Ace using 1.5Ghz rather than 2Ghz processor, it's nice.

HTC said, that the HTC Ace will have a GSM version of the EVO, and when you lay side-by-side with HTC EVO, the specs are not much different. Recording capabilities, processor, and the type of display is the differentiation.

[via AndroidSpin]

Posted by Oki Rosgani 

Rumor: HTC Sabor, Android phone with 2GHz processor

Do you remember with the rumors about Motorola's plans to produce Android phones which powered by 2GHz processor? Even the CEO of Motorola Sanjay Jha has said plans for this phone is ready to ship by the end of this year.

It was not just Motorola that has similar intentions, as one of Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC is also planning the same thing, which will produce the HTC Android phone powered by 2GHz processor. Not only that, the new HTC phones was also going to use the next Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) operating system.  The phone itself will be given the named HTC Sabor

HTC Sabor will also use a better screen technology that developed by Samsung. This is the first mobile device packed with the latest display technology. HTC Sabor likely this will also appear in the market in late 2010 or early 2011. The phone also is suppose to be a tight competition with  HTC  EVO 4G and Motorola Droid X. Lets wait and see...

[via ozcarguide]

Posted by Oki Rosgani 

Google plans to release Android 2.3 Gingerbread on Q4 2010

Not long ago, Google has announced the existence of a new version of Android 2.2 aka Froyo, in the event of Google I/O which was held in San Francisco, U.S. companies now prepare the newest operating system who has called the Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

According to rumors spread on the Internet today, Google team will plan released Android  2.3on the fourth quarter of 2010. While for now, the existence of Android 2.2 Froyo not been fully released and not yet widely spread on Android devices.

If this news is true, it means that Google Android has had five variants that has a code name taken from the cake, such as Android 5.1 as 'Cupcake', Android 1.6 'Donut', Android 1.2 'Enclair', Android 2.2 'Froyo' (Fozen Yogurt) and Android 3.2 'Gingerbread '. If the note all the names that have the prefix letter alphabet C, D, E, F and G. An intelligent approach than Google, while the use of a snack/cakes makes this platform so impressed more "sweet" and sound friendly for the user.

[via engadget]

Posted by Oki Rosgani 

After "Froyo", the next Android update is likely to be codenamed "Gingerbread"

We all know Google is crazy with these "sweet" stuffs, the first Android update is called "Cupcake", then we have "Donut", then "Eclair", after that there's been a rumor about "Flan" which quickly gets replaced with "Froyo". But now before we could even "taste" the "Froyo", there has been a buzz about the next Android version, codenamed "Gingerbread".

This week we’re finalizing our move to 2.6.32 for the Android “Froyo” release, and we’ll likely be on .33 or .34 for “Gingerbread”.

Posted by Bayu Wicaksono