Smart Phones of today

First spotted a few weeks ago, the Samsung M5650 Lindy has been officially announced by Samsung, coming as some sort of a successor to the Corby S3650. Samsung says that the M5650 Lindy is a music phone, and given the touch sensitive music dedicated keys on the front, we have to agree with that. The phone also seems to have a 3.5mm headset jack.

Its other features include: 2.8 inch QVGA display, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, FM radio, 3MP camera, 50MB of internal memory and MicroSD card support.

As we previously said, Samsung M5650 Lindy is already available in Portugal (priced at €159). It will soon be launched in other European countries, as well as in India, China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

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Palm webOS is a unique software which made Pre get a place in the top 5 Smartphones of 2009. The Smartphone company is all set to release their latest version of the software the “Palm WebOS 1.3.5” at the CES 2010. The WebOS 1.3.5 is released for Palm Pre and Palm Pixi.

As expected the WebOS will have few improvements like better battery life, increased speed and stronger WiFi.

Palm famous for its Smartphones in the US has confirmed it is looking up to their recently launched Ares Application development kit. The company also said that it has really no interest in making their market bulge with thousands of useless apps. Instead they plan to have a small store with quality applications.

The rest of the updates are all left for the big day but will let you know if something new pops up!

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Samsung announced their new mobile OS, called Bada earlier this month, some screenshots of the Samsung Bada OS have been leaked.

As you can see from the photos, the Samsung Bada OS looks very similar to Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, and Bada will be an open platform similar to Google Android, which Samsung hopes will entice developers to improve it and develop a range of applications for it.

Samsung will be launching their first Bada handsets early next year, it will be interesting to see how well the platform does, and if developers embrace it.

From the photos it does look pretty slick, and as we can see it already has a range of popular services built in like Twitter and Facebook.

If companies want to survive in the current mobile market they will have to develop platforms that perform as well as Apple’s iPhone platform and Google’s Android platform, from the looks of it Samsung will be able to compete, whilst other rivals like Nokia may struggle.

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During the ongoing silence from AT&T regarding Android devices, a photo surfaces of an AT&T-branded Motorola Backflip! The handset could be called the Backflip, Enzo, or it’s oldest moniker, Motus, and not be available until April or May of 2010, but with it’s unique keyboard-trackpad combo, 5 MP camera with LED flash, and Android OS, maybe it’ll be worth the wait. I would love to see the Sense UI on most future Android devices, but I would give the MotoBlur interface a fair chance if only to finally have an Android handset on AT&T.

I wonder if, like the Sony Ericsson X10, the MotoBlur interface could be optional for users who prefer the simplicity of the default Android interface. Another preference would be the Snapdragon 1 Ghz processor, instead of a 528MHz processor with 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM, although the rumor is the handset is still very responsive. Even with an actual photo of the handset, I won’t believe that the Motorola Backflip will make it to AT&T store shelves until photos of branded boxes alongside the handsets. For now, AT&T-locked Android fans may have a little more Android-shaped cheer in 2010.

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The iDEN-based Android-powered Motorola Opus One has been confirmed once again albeit an unconventional method.  Rumor has it the device was found on streets of Florida’s South Beach by YouTube user jay84305 and he is responsible for first videos released of the device.

What we’ve found out from this unusual source, talking in slang English and claiming he took the phone from the street after some guy from Motorola or Sprint dropped it, is that the handset runs Android 1.5 OS and sports the name “p1_opusone” under the battery cover. This phone could also reach Boost Mobile, not only Nextel.

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