Yesterday we saw one of the first HD Android smartphones, the Arrows Z, which has been produced by Toshiba and Fujitsu, and it is one of the very first Android smartphones to feature a 4.3 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixel.

The video below gives us a good look at the Arrows Z, which also comes with a 13 megapixel camera

which can record full HD video in 1080p and it comes with Android Gingerbread 2.3.5.

Other specifications on the Arrows Z include a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera, and it features a

dual core 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor plus 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage and a microSD card slot,

there is also Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and a digital TV tuner ... Read more »

Nokia are expected to launch their first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, which will come with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, before the end of the year, this has even been confirmed by Nokia’s CEO.

We still don’t have a firm date on when the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone from Nokia will go on sale, but their first Windows Phone 7 app has now turned up on the Windows Phone Marketplace.

We are expecting to see the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone from Nokia next month, and Nokia World 2011 which takes place in London on the 26th of October, and we suspect we will see a few more Nokia Windows Phone 7 apps appear in the marketplace before then.

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Last week Sprint announced that they would be putting a data cap on their mobile hotspot plans, many thought that the company would follow suit with their data on their smartphone plans.

It would appear that Sprint has decided to continue to offer unlimited data on its smartphone plans, and one reason for this could be to differentiate itself against AT&T and Verizon if it gets the new iPhone 5 when it is announced next month.

Both AT&T and Verizon removed their unlimited data plans, so Sprint keeping unlimited data could set it apart from its competitors, especially if the company gets the iPhone 5, which looks pretty likely considering everything we have heard over the last month or so.

Source Cnet

HTC is holding a press event next week where they are expected to announce a new range of smartphones, one of those is one we have been hearing about quite a lot over the last few weeks, the HTC Runnymede.

We had head recently that the HTC Runnymede may end up being called the HTC Bass, after it appeared on an online retailers website, now according to the guys over at Pocket Now it will be called the HTC Sensation XL.

What we know so far about the Runnymede or Sensation XL is that may feature a 4.7 inch multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display, plus a since core 1.5GHz processor, Android Gingerbread, and Beats audio.

We should have some more information on the HTC Sensation XL some time next week.

Source Pocket Now

Today Nuance the makers of the widely used Dragon speech recognition software for Windows, Mac systems, iOS and Android devices has announced that they have now added text-to-speech support for Windows Phone 7 within their SDK available through the NDEV Mobile developer program.

"Our renowned Dragon Mobile SDK is easy-to-integrate and accessible to anyone and everyone interested in enhancing their applications with speech-input and text-to-speech solutions.”

The developer program NDEV Mobile is broken into three tiers: Silver, Gold, and Emerald : NDEV Silver is the base level providing devs free access to Nuance’s text-to-speech and voice recognition technology : NDEV Gold service provides access to SSL data encryption and a web services interface through per-user or per-transaction pricing models : NDEV Eme ... Read more »

Nokia has just announced on the Nokia Blog, that the company has finally started shipping the new Nokia N9 smartphone, although it will only be available in certain countries.

We know that the Nokia N9 will only launch in certain countries, although Nokia has yet to confirm exactly which countries will get it, and considering they have just announced that it is headed to stores, you would think they would confirm in which countries it would be available, instead we get the following.

The Nokia N9 is available in three colours – black, cyan and magenta with 16GB and 64GB storage options to accommodate plenty of content and will be on sale in countries around the world.

So there we have it, the Nokia N9 is headed to stores in countries around the world, which countries? we have no idea, maybe Nokia will decide to let us know when it finally goes on sale.

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We heard recently that Sprint will soon be announcing the new HTC EVO Design 4G, and now the guys over at Pocket Now have got their hands on a press shot of the EVO Design 4G.

The HTC EVO Design 4G is reported to come with Android Gingerbread 2.3.3. and it will features a single core 1.2GHz processor, and will come with 768MB of RAM.

Other specifications on the HHTC EVO Design 4G include 4 inch qHD display, plus a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera for video chat and a rear facing  five megapixel camera which can record HD video in 1080p.

Source Pocket Now

We have been hearing quite a lot about the HTC Vigor over the last few weeks, and are hoping that HTC will unveil the European version which is rumored to be called the Droid Incredible HD at their press event on the 6th of October.

Now some more photos of the HTC Vigor have been leaked, and these ones show the Verizon branding,

and we are expecting some sort of announcement from Verizon shortly on this new Android smartphone

from HTC.

The photos confirm some of the specifications that we have previously heard, which include a dual core

1.5GHz processor and a 4.3 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

Some of our readers will remember the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro that was announced at MWC 2011 back in February, and now it looks like the Xperia Pro will be available in the UK from the 6th of October, for £269 SIM Free.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro features a 3.7 inch multi-touch touchscreen display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, it will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a single core 1GHz Qulacomm Snapdragon processor.

Other specifications on the Xperia Pro include an 8 megapixel camera with Somy’s Exmor R Sensor, 8GB of storage with a bundles microSD card, n FM radio, Bluetooth , WiFi and HDMI.

You can find out more information about the Xperia Pro over at Clove.

T-Mobile’s version of the extremely popular Samsung Galaxy S II is now official, and it comes with a range of impressive specifications which we heard about previously, these include a dual core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S3 processor and Android Gingerbread 2.3.5.

The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II features a 4.52 inch Super AMOLED Plus display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, there is also 16GB of built in storage, which can be expanded via the microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB microSD cards.

Other specifications on the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II include two cameras, with a 2 megapixel front facing camera for video chat and a rear facing 8 megapixel camera with a built in flash which can record full HD video in 1080p.

There is also 1GB of RAM, 4G, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, a 1850 mAh battery, DLNA and HDMI out, it will be available from T-Mobile from the 1 ... Read more »