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Here is a little gallery of pictures of my new Dell Streak comparing it to my iPod touch, Nexus One and my Archos 5 Internet Tablet.

The Streak is an extremely slim device but feels a tad large for phone use. For web browsing the larger screen is perfect and produces good colours. Only the AMOLED screen on my Nexus One looks better but the Streak has the advantage of better visibility in sunlight.

Compared to my Archos 5 Internet Tablet, the streak is faster and more stable than Android on the Archos. Both run Android 1.6 so there is no advantage over the other except for full support for Android Market on the Streak with copy protected apps. Only the non copy protected apps show up on my Archos with the Android Market hack.

Overall I’m impressed with the streak and having 1,664MB of app storage avaiable compared to my Nexus One’s 196MB and my Archos 5′s 138MB means that the Streak will have plenty of storage for apps. The included 16GB Micro SD card leaves plenty of room for media too.

I’m very happy with it so far!

Hardware shown:

• Apple iPod Touch 32GB (In Belkin case)
• HTC Google Nexus One
• Archos 5 Internet Tablet
• Dell Streak

Sources: Dell Streak o2 UK, Dell

It seems that there is a little damage control over the recent iPhone 4 signal issue revelation when the phone is held (quite normally) in the left hand.

According to Engadget, Steve Jobs has responded to the issue citing that people are to “Just avoid holding it the wrong way” and another post by MacRumors also cites that there are “Other Mobile Phones With Similar Signal Loss Issues”

I decided to put this theory to the test as I’ve seen countless comments saying that the iPhone 3G or 3GS has the issue as well as the Nexus One (neither of which I have experienced during the 12 months of iPhone 3g ownership nor on my Nexus One).

As you can see from my video, my wife’s iPhone 3g performs better in hand and my N1 with it’s GPRS connection has no bandwidth degradation whatsoever.

The silliest thing about this “holding it the wrong way” affair? See for yourself…..

A Czech website has posted video and pictures taken on the iPhone 4.

jablickar.cz has a few shots of the iPhone 4 and pictures and video from the device. (click to enlarge)

The more that comes out about the iPhone  4, the more I am liking it!

More shots of and from the iPhone 4 and the video can be seen at jablickar.cz

Nokia today officially announced the Nokia N8 Symbian^3 powered smartphone.

The Nokia N8

Sepcifications for the handset include:

• 12 Megapixel Camera with Xenon flash.
• High definition video recording.
• 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen.
• HDMI connector for viewing content on a HDTV.
• 16GB of buit in storage expandable to 48GB with the SD card slot and a 32GB Micro SD card.
• Multitouch gestures.
• Ovi Store and Nokia Maps turn by turn GPS

The handset is going to be made available in 5 different colours at a cost of €370.

For more info and some pictures taken with the 12 Megapixel camera hit the source links below. I like it!

Source: Nokia Blog, Nokia Blog sample shots, YouTube

Engadget have a very interesting scoop. They have acquired some supposed shots and what seems to be hands on time with the potential next Gen iPhone.

The worst thing is that the device doesn’t power on so there is a chance that this isn’t the real thing but in my opinion if it is real. it does look similar to the HTC HD2 or the Evolution.

Fore more pics and info, be sure to read the source link.
Source: Engadget

Nexus One Vs iPod Touch – No flash.Here are a few pictures comparing my wifes shiny new iPod Touch 32GB Vs my Nexus One’s screen:

Nexus One Vs iPod Touch - With camera flash.

Nexus One Vs iPod Touch - No flash.

You’ve got to love the viewing angles and black levels of OLED!

Firefoxformobile have posted 2 images of Fennic running on the Nexus One and Motorola Droid.

A work in progress, but another great shot from Michael Wu. This time on Nexus One:http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4389974241/

The two images are below:

Fennec on Nexus One

Fennec running on DROID

Things are looking promising for Mozilla Firefox fans!

Sources: Boygeniusreport, Firefoxformobile

HTC have announced three new handsets at Mobile World Congress today. Two Android handsets and one Windows Mobile handset, all running HTC Sense.

HTC Legend – Android handset.

HTC Legand

The HTC Legend is made from a single piece of Aluminium with a 3.2 inch AMOLED at a resolution of 320 x 480 and runs Android 2.1 and HTC Sense UI. To me it looks like a successor to the HTC Hero which shares a very similar design. (continue reading…)

Microsoft today unvielled its latest phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. Due to be released in Q4 2010, the OS features heavy social networking integration, Zune media playback, XBOX Live support and other things such as 4 point multitouch, Internet Explorer web browser (based on its desktop counterpart), Bing search and maps integration.

Here are a few screenshots of the upcoming UI:

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Exciting stuff indeed!

DailyMobile have posted some leaked images of the new Samsung smartphone, the s8500 Wave. The wave is the first device to run Samsungs Bada OS.

Samsung s8500 Wave

More pictures and some leaked specications of the handset can be seen in the link below. The phone is supposedly going to be officially unveiled at the Mobile World Congress next week.

Source: DailyMobile