HTC has added another Android smartphone to its range with the launch of the HTC Raider 4G, and it will come with Android Gingerbread and will feature a 4.5 inch qHD display with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels.

The HTC Raider 4G also come with an 8 megapixel camera which features a back illuminated sensor, which is capable of recording HD video in 1080pm plus a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera.

Processing is provided by a  dual core 1.5GHz processor and it comes with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of built in storage, plus WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and HTC’s Sense UI.

The HTC Raider will be available in South Korea shortly, it is also expected to land in the US with AT&T’s LTE network.

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Today Japanese mobile carrier Willcom has unveiled the new WX03A mobile phone which takes its place as the worlds smallest ten-key cell phone complying with the PHS standard.

The new WX03A mobile phone measures just W32 × H70 × D10.5mm in size and weighs only 33 grams. In comparison my iPhone weighs 140 grams. The Willcom WX03A is equipped with a 1 inch OLED display and is capable of providing 300 hours of standby time and two hours of talk time.

Other features of the tiny phone include email, infrared connectivity, (unfortunately Bluetooth is not supported) and microUSB. Willcom will launched the tiny WX03A phone in Japan during December but no prices have been released as yet.

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iRiver has announced the launch of a new Android smartphone which will be available in South Korea,

the iRiver Vanilla and it will come with Android 2.2 Froyo and features a 3.5 inch multi-touch

touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

The iRiver Vanilla also come with 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB microSD card, and it can also take microSD

cards up to 32GB, plus a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus.

The iRiver Vanilla will be available in South Korea with mobile operator LG U+, there are no

details on pricing or availability as yet.

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Apple are expected to unveil the iPhone 5 at a special Apple event which is reported to take place on the 4th of October, and they are also expected to announce partnerships with new US carriers on top of Verizon and AT&T.

We have previously heard that the iPhone 5 would be headed to Sprint, and there have also been rumors that they iPhone 5 would also be available with T-Mobile, but now it would appear that T-Mobile wont bet getting the iPhone 5 after all.

According to the guys over at TMO News, who have got their hands on an internal document from T-Mobile’s Chief marketing Office Cole Broadman, T-Mobile wont be getting the iPhone 5 this year.

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We recently,y heard that the new Samsung Galaxy Note had become available to pre-order here in the UK, at the time there were no details on when the Galaxy note would become available.

It looks like the Samsung Galaxy Note will be available in the UK from November from at least on online retailer, although as yet there are no details on an exact date.

The Samsung Galaxy has a 5.3 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, plus Android 2.3 Gingerbread, plus two cameras, up front there is an 2 megapixel camera for video chat, on the back there is an 8 megapixel camera with an LED flas, processing is provided by a 1.4GHz dual core processor and it also comes with 1GB of RAM.

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It looks like Motorola may be about to launch a successor to the Motorola Atrix 4G, in the form of the Motorola Atrix 2, which is codenamed the Motorola Edison, and it looks like the Motorola Atrix 2 will not be an LTE smartphone like the original Atrix.

According to the guys over at the BGR, the Motorola Atrix 2 will come with either a 1.2GHz or 1.5GHz dual core processor, plus and 8 megapixel camera which will be able to record full HD video in 1080p.

Other rumored specifications on the Motorola Atrix 2 include Android Gingerbread 2.3.5, there are no details as yet on when it will be available.

Head on over to the Boy Genius Report for lots more photos of the Motorola Atrix 2.

It looks like the first mobile carrier may be rolling out Windows Phone 7.5 mango tomorrow, according to a recent report the Vodafone group is scheduled to release the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update to its range of devices from tomorrow the 21st of September.

The news comes from German site Windows smartphones, who have said that the update will roll out to certain devices tomorrow and is expected to be available to all Windows smartphones on the network by the end of the month.

This has yet to be confirmed by Vodafone or Microsoft, I guess we will find out some more details tomorrow.

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Earlier today HTC officially announced the HTC Rhyme which is headed to Verizon Wireless in the US, we also heard it would be headed to the UK, and now HTC has confirmed that the HTC Rhyme will be available in the UK from the 17th of October.

It looks like the HTC Rhyme will be available exclusively through mobile operator O2 here in the UK when it lands on the 17th of October and it will come with Android Gingerbread.

The HTC Rhyme features a single core 1GHz processor, plus a 3.7 inch multi-touch display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, there is also a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and auto-focus.

Other specifications on the HTC Rhyme include HTC’s Sense 3.5 custom user interface, plus WiFi and GPS, there are no details on pricing as yet for the HTC Rhyme in the UK.

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We heard recently that the Motorola Defy+ would be available in the UK this month, and it looks like it will be available from the 30th of September for £249 from mobile retailer Clove.

The Motorola Defy+ features a 3.7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, there is 2GB of built n storage, plus a microSD card slot, processing is provided by a single core 1GHz processor and it will come with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread.

Other specifications include a five megapixel camera with auto-focus and an LED flash, it is designed to be a rugged Android device which is resistant to water and dust and also shock proof.

Source Clove

Sprint’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, the Samsung Epic 4G Touch went on sale last week, and the guys over at iFixit decided to take it apart to see what was inside the Epic 4G Touch.

It features a larger 4.52 inch display than the original Galaxy S II and also comes with the same dual

core 1.2GHz processor, have a look at the tear down photos below.

We were delighted to find that taking apart this allegedly Epic phone was not too challenging. In fact,

the Epic 4G Touch appears to fare better than its overseas cousin in terms of disassembly and repair.

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