LG Prada 3.0: Slim fit

Introduction

It's slim and smart, and wears Prada. This little devil is too sexy to hang out with the other droids. It puts on its evening shoes and goes to town. It hates being chased by paparazzi but always turns its better side to the cameras. We'll see what the other droids think about that.
And by other droids we don't mean a certain Armani-clad Samsung Galaxy S. We're talking about some pretty scary dual-core smartphones with massive screens and the latest in connectivity, imaging and entertainment.

LG Prada 3.0 official photos

We're looking at the third phone designed by Prada and built by LG. And it's only the first smartphone to come out of this partnership. LG and Prada go back a long way and their latest creation isn't supposed to be just another Android smartphone.

Samsung Galaxy mini 2 S6500

Specification And features

GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100

Announced 2012, February

Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2012, Q1

BODY Dimensions 109.4 x 58.6 x 11.6 mm

Weight 105.3 g

  - Touch-sensitive controls

DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 320 x 480 pixels, 3.27 inches (~176 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB

Internal 4 GB storage, 512 MB RAM

DATA GPRS Yes

EDGE Yes

Speed HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP

NFC Optional

USB Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels

Features Geo-tagging

Video Yes, VGA@25fps

Secondary No

FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)

CPU 800 MHz

Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass

Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS

Browser HTML

Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS

GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

Colors Black/Orange

  - SNS integration

- MP4/H.264/H.263 player

- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player

- Organizer

- Image/video editor

- Document viewer

- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,

YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration

- Voice memo/dial

- Predictive text input

BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh

Stand-by

Talk time

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

Specification and Features

GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100

Announced 2012, February

Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2012, Q1

BODY Dimensions 118.3 x 62.2 x 10.5 mm

Weight 122 g

  - Touch-sensitive controls

DISPLAY Type PLS TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 480 x 800 pixels, 3.8 inches (~246 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

  - TouchWiz v3.0 UI

SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 32GB

Internal 4 GB storage, 768 MB RAM

DATA GPRS Yes

EDGE Yes

Speed HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth Yes, v3.0

USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB

CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Features Geo-tagging, face and smile detection

Video Yes, 720p@30fps

Secondary Yes, VGA

FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.3

CPU Dual-core 800 MHz

Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass

Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email

Browser HTML

Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS

GPS Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS

Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

Colors Black

  - MP4/H.264/H.263 player

- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player

- Organizer

- Document editor

- Image editor

- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,

YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration

- Voice memo/dial

- Predictive text input (Swype)

BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Stand-by

Talk time

Motorola planning to launch 13MP variants of RAZR in China

if you thought the Motorola DROID RAZR launching in the US was awesome, you should get a load of these. Motorola is planning on launching not one but two RAZR devices in China on different carriers and they both pack more impressive hardware than the US and International versions.

First is the XT928 (the one on the left), a slightly thicker version of the DROID RAZR but with one key difference that justifies the added girth, it has a 13 megapixel camera sensor. There is also a Dolby Digital Plus certification mentioned proudly on the back. This model, however, loses the Kevlar back found on the DROID RAZR.

Next is the MT917 (one in the middle), which is made for the TD-SCDMA network and is only thicker by 1mm compared to the DROID RAZR. In this one you get a 4.5-inch, 1280 x 720 LCD, along with the 13 megaqpixel camera. You also get the Kevlar back plating.

No official info regarding the price and availability of the devices but Engadget is reporting that they should be available by the end of the year.