Huawei has added a new Android smartphone to their range with the launch of the Huawei Honor, and it features a 4 inch FWVGA multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display and is powered by a single core 1.4 GHz processor.

The Huawei Honor comes with Android Gingerbread 2.3.5 and it features an 8 megapixel camera on the back with auto-focus and HDR, there is also a front facing 2 megapixel camera for video chat.

Other specifications on the Huawei Honor, include 802.11 b/g/n WiFo and Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, it comes with 512MB of RAM and a microSD card with a 4GB card installed which can be expanded to a 32GB card.

The Huawei Honor also features A-GPS, an FM radio, dual microphones, a compass, gyroscope, G-sensor and a 1900 mAh battery plus DLNA, it will go on sale in quarter 4 in China, Russia and the Mid ... Read more »

An alleged defect with some of the touch panels for the iPhone 5 may cause delays in delivery of the next-generation Apple handset.

Based on reports from earlier this week, we’re nearly 100 percent certain that the iPhone 5 (and iPhone 4S) will be unveiled next month, probably on October 4. What remains more of a mystery, however, is when customers can actually get their hands on the next-generation Apple handset. Unfortunately, bad news out from an Apple component supplier may push that date back further than anticipated.

According to Taiwan-based industry outlet DigiTimes, touch panels produced by Wintek for the iPhone 5 have a defect that may make it impossible to meet initial demand for the device. The defect, known as "delayed bubble,” happens when pockets of air form between the t ... Read more »

Nokia Essence is quite attention-grabbing and features a touch pad on the other side, which can be used to control many applications. This can be flexibly used as a remote control for different pieces of equipment or wireless touch pad while making presentations.

This a future communication device named Nokia Essence. The concept will make good use of the internet and will work like computers that can connect globally. Phones are turning into mini computers that solve additional purposes than just dialing or receiving calls. 

If you are an Android user that uses SoundHound the app has been updated with a couple new and cool features. The best of the features is called LiveLyrics and it will help you figure out what the words to your favorite songs are. I know we have all listened to a song a hundred times before realizing we were singing it wrong in the car.

LiveLyrics is a cool feature that will show you the correct lyrics to any song playing, even is the song is not at the start. The lyrics scroll up the screen in real-time along with the tune so you can sing along. That is a very cool feature to have.

The other feature makes sharing the tunes you like much easier. You can share tracks and comments on the tracks you like on Twitter and Facebook at the same time. The new features are in version 2.7.4 of the app.

Earlier in the week we saw some photos and some of the specifications on the new LG Optimus EX, now some official press photos of the device have been leaked along with some more specifications.

The LG Optimus EX will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and processing is provided by a dual

core 1.2GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor plus a ULP GeForce AP25 GPU.

It also comes with a four inch WVGA IPS display and a five megapixel camera with auto-focus,

which can record full HD video in 1080p, plus 1GB of RAM and 8GB of built in storage plus a microSD

card slot.

The LG Optimus EX is he ... Read more »

Google has been expanding its services more and more recently, attempting to get the Google Brand into as many different areas as possible, and now it would appear that Google may have its own cellular service in the works.

The photos below are of a Google branded SIM card, which has turned up in Spain, and the SIM card is apparently being tested on the Google Nexus S, as you can see in one of the photos belows the mobile carrier is identified as Google_ES (Google Spain).

It isn’t clear as yet whether Google intends to launch its own cellular service, or if they intend to team up with one of the large mobile carriers to launch a Google branded mobile network.

A new Android credit card payment SDK has been developed for Android by Card.io that takes the pain way from having to type credit card details on your Android smartphone to make a payment.

To make a payment using Card.io simply hold up your credit card to your phones camera and within the blink of an eye payment is sent, with no typing required. Watch the 30 second video after the jump to see just how quick the process is.

The Android SDK can be used by developers to include the simply payment features within their applications. Following on from the already available iOS Card.io SDK. For more information jump over to the Android Market to download it and have play. Card.io never saves the credit card data and everything within the process is full encrypted.

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The other day we heard that the new Samsung Galaxy Note would be launching in the UK in November, the news came from the guys over at Clove, but now it would appear that the Samsung Galaxy Note may land in the UK next month.

We just got an email from the guys over at Mobot, who have spoken to Samsung, and apparently the official word from Samsung is that the Galaxy Note will become available in the UK at the end of October, start of November.

The Samsung Galaxy Note looks like an interesting device from what we have seen so far, it features a massive 5.3 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

There are also two cameras, with a front facing 2 megpaixel camera for video chat and a rear facing 8 megapixel camera, processing is provided b ... Read more »

The latest Android smartphone from LG which is headed to MetroPCS, is the LG Esteem, which is a 4G LTE enabled device and it will come with a 4.3 inch LCD display plus Android Gingerbread.

Other specifications on the LG Esteem include a rear facing 5 megapixel camera and a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera for video chat, it will also come with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

The LG Esteem will also come with 512MB of RAM, and a 1500 mAh battery, and it is expected to retail for $349.

Source Android Central, Phandroid