Huawei Honor Review

Huawei may not yet be famous in the USA, but we've been keeping an eye on their Android phones, and they have been steadily making progress, so we were very curious to see what the Huawei Honor, aka Huawei U8860, could do in the real world. This smartphone has a very "plain" look to it, and nothing in its design language is a "power statement", so most people would assume that it is an average to below-average phone when looking at it. In fact the Huawei Honor proves to be a responsive phone with a user interface that is well thought-out and surprisingly convenient.














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HTC Wildfire S gets to Android 2.3.5 as well, no Sense 3.0 though

HTC continues its series of Android 2.3.5 for its lineup of smartphones with the entry-level Wildfire S. The Taiwanese company is now seeding the new Gingerbread release to the most affordable of the trio of smartphones that it announced back at the MWC in February. Much like the HTC ChaCha, though, the Wildfire S won't be getting to taste Sense UI 3.0. We suspect this has something to do with the hardware of these not being unable to handle the latest version of the HTC home-brewed UI.

Early user reports suggest that the update fixes the Wildfire S bugs with unlocking and call answering, but there's no detailed changelog provided just yet.

GSM Arena, HTC Wildfire S gets to Android 2.3.5 as well, no Sense 3.0 though

Samsung leads the way with over 300 million mobile phones sold in 2011, Nokia cries foul

Samsung said on Sunday its annual mobile handset sales this year had exceeded 300 million units for the first time in the company's history. The world's second largest handset maker by volume said in a statement it had broken its sales record by the end of last month. Handset sales in 2010 were about 280 million.

2DayBlog.com, Samsung leads the way with over 300 million mobile phones sold in 2011, Nokia cries foul

AT&T Huawei Fusion Unveiled

AT&T has unveiled the new Huawei Fusion. Powered by the Google Android 2.3.3 OS, the handset features a 3.5-inch color multitouch TFT display with a 320 x 480 pixel resolution, a 600MHz processor, a 3.15-megapixel digital camera and a GPS navigation. The AT&T Huawei Fusion also supports GPRS Class 10, a microSD/SDHC card slot (up to 32GB), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, an FM radio with RDS radio receiver and a removable 1400mAh lithium-ion battery. The AT&T Huawei Fusion is currently available as a prepaid device via AT&T's GoPhone service for $109.87.

TechFresh, AT&T Huawei Fusion Unveiled

Motorola Xyboard 10.1 and 8.2 Unboxing

The Motorola Xyboard tablets have landed at the office: there is a 10.1″ version, and a 8.2″ one. Both share a similar “design language”, but the usage model can be slightly different because of their size. For these new tablets, Motorola has used quality materials, and a “tough” design that makes both tablets look solid, and almost rugged (almost). We bet that Motorola wanted to differentiate itself by going after one of the main criticism that other Android tablets, namely the Galaxy Tab series, receive often: they feel a bit “plastic”.

Ubergizmo, Motorola Xyboard 10.1 and 8.2 Unboxing

Disinfection technology does more than kill bacteria

There are strains of bacteria which have grown to be superbugs – simply because they have grown resistant to the antibiotics that we use in our drugs. This phenomena comes about as the routine use of disinfectants and antibiotics help promote antibiotic resistant bacterial populations. Well, perhaps those sneaky little buggers might be able to outsmart antibiotics, but they won't be able to escape from this new technology that was developed in conjunction with Queens University and recently granted a Canadian patent – where it is said to be able to kill off bacteria effectively thanks to the wonders of biomimicry.

Ubergizmo, Disinfection technology does more than kill bacteria

Nielsen Finds Facebook Most ‘Liked' App for Android

As a Google-made OS that ships with a suite of Google apps, you might expect Gmail or Google Maps to be the favorite service Android users have running on their handsets, right. Wrong. Once again proving its level of ubiquitousness, Facebook has been ranked by Nielsen as the most used Android app among users aged 18-44. OK, technically it is the second-ranked app after the Android Market, but considering the fact that one necessarily precedes the other we will ignore this for now.

Android Phone, Nielsen Finds Facebook Most ‘Liked' App for Android