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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

Microsoft have posted an extensive video of a Windows Phone 7 Series hands on demo at MSDN

This is it! What you’ve all been waiting for: your first look at Windows Phone 7. Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore gives us a full demo of the announcements being made today at Mobile World Congress, including:

• The new user experience
• Integration with social networks like Facebook
• Internet Explorer
• Photos, videos, and music
• E-mail and texting
• GPS and maps
• Search integration
• Hardware standards

The link to the video is here (Microsoft silverlight required)

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!

Chris Zeigler has posted on Engadget that the Motorola Motoroi (otherwise known as the Sholes Tablet) is headed to T-Mobile in the United States.

We needed to independently connect and verify a few dots before sounding the alarm here, but sure enough, it looks like Cell Phone Signal has unearthed the best smoking gun yet suggesting Motorola’sMOTOROI — the phone formerly known as the Sholes Tablet — is destined for T-Mobile USA.

Looks like T-Mobile US will be getting another nice Android handset. I wonder if this is destined to be sold through http://www.google.com/phone?

Source: Engadget

Following Google with free navigation (US Only for Android), Nokia have now released its GPS software for free to all with a Nokia smartphone.

Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for itssmartphones that includes high-end walk and drive navigation at no extra cost,available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. This move has the potential to nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market. The new version of Ovi Maps includes high-end car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries, in 46languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries, as well asdetailed maps for more than 180 countries.

For more info  and to grab it now, visit http://nokia.com/maps

Sources: Nokia Reuters

Phonearena have posted some promo shots of the SonyEricsson Vivaz Symbian powered smartphone.

Some features are an 8.1 Megapixel camera and 720p resolution video recording all in a nice looking handset. More info on specifications below.

Source: Phonearena

Virgin Mobile have announced their first Android handset from LG. The phone is available from £49.99 on an 18 month month contract at £18 per month, any higher tarrifs and the handset is free.

Price plans availalbe from Virgin Mobile.

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Mobile-ent.biz has reported that Nokia will be holding a press conference citing “Big news” on it’s Ovi services.

Nokia Ovi Event in London

The event will start at 9:30 UK time on the 21st of January.

More here (via mobile-ent.biz)

Screenshots of Android 2.01 running on the HTC Hero:

Late Friday evening (very late) I ordered my Nexus One phone from Google. The total cost was $577.65 but I could have saved a little if I hadn’t got the charger as I forgot that I have a UK to US power adapter!

The total cost of my Nexus One

The order hasn’t been shipped yet but I’m hoping for it to be shipped tonight to be with me this week. We shall see!