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According to iSuppli, the company who estimate the build prices of smartphones and other devices, estimate that the iPhone 4 16GB model costs $187.51 to built. This puts the build price at more than the DROID and more than the previous iPhone 3GS model. The screen is believed to increase the costs a little.

It is expected that the 3.5 inch Retina display costs $28.50 per unit with the A4 processor built by Samsung costing $10.75. The new Gyro chip costs $2.60.

Of course iSuppli wont know the full details of how much each screen costs as huge bulk orders need to be taken in to consideration and Apple [AAPL] will have worked with the suppliers to figure out a price. [Read more…]

Samsung is doing well with getting carriers to sign up to the new Galaxy S class smartphones. Already today we’ve reported that the Samsung Epic 4G (Galaxy S Pro) is headed to Sprint and that the Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) is heading to T-Mobile US.

Now Verizon is getting a new Galaxy S class smartphone. On Verizon [VZ] it will be called the Samsung Fascinate and will pack all the same features such as a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird chip, a Super AMOLED 4 inch display and a 5 megapixel camera capable of capturing video at 720p HD. [Read more…]

It seems like the Samsung Super AMOLED screen is in short supply forcing HTC to start looking at S-LCD screens manufactured by Sony and Samsung in a joint venture.

From what we understand the HTC Desire, HTC Droid Incredible and Google Nexus One will soon be supplied with one or the other type of screen. From the tests HTC performed the company says that there isn’t really any difference that regular users will notice although somehow it seems they will need to notify customers some how to what type of screen is to be found in the phone. [Read more…]

RIM are launching two new phones before August this year it is believed. One of the two BlackBerry devices will be a slider.

It isn’t know what two devices are launching just yet, but we suspect they will run BlackBerry OS 6.0.

Other information reveals that 11.2 million phones have been shipped according to their latest quarterly financial report. That’s 11.2 million phones in a 3 month period which is 43 percent up from this time last year. [Read more…]

Yesterday we managed to get hold of an iPhone 4 to test and see what it’s like compared to other phones such as Android devices as well as a comparison versus the older iPhone 3GS.

Apple [AAPL] has finally changed the design of the iPhone with the new iPhone 4. Previously the iPhone original, 3G and 3GS only had slight cosmetic changes. The iPhone 4 has a complete redesign and I happen to quite like it.

It’s completely flat on the back unlike previous models. The back is covered in hardened glass and has a transparent bit of glass where the 5 megapixel lens and the flash can be found (note the improved camera and the addition of a flash… more on this later in the iPhone 4 review that we will be posting soon). [Read more…]

Swype is an alternate text entry system for mobile phones. The system works by you sliding your finger across a virtual keyboard to spell words. The company claim it is far quicker to do text entry with Swype than it is with a standard virtual keyboard.

We now hear that the company expect to see Swype on 50 smartphones by the end of 2010 with about 90% of those being powered by the Google [GOOG] operating system called Android.

Earlier reports today indicated that Swype was on it’s way to the Apple [AAPL] iPhone although this isn’t happening just yet and it isn’t clear if Apple would approve such software as it replaces one of the main features of the device. [Read more…]

The Samsung Galaxy S Pro was first spotted recently with a few leaks. At that point, no real specs were known about the device. However, the specs have now surfaced.

The Galaxy S Pro has a Samsung/Intrinsity ARM Cortex A8 CPU running at 1GHz. It is about half an inch shorter than the EVO 4G from Sprint [S] and about 3/8 of an inch more narrow. The Galaxy S Pro has a slide out QWERTY keyboard that has been described as being smooth.

It is believed that the resolution on the Galaxy S Pro is 480 x 800 pixels and uses the Super AMOLED built by Samsung. The exact screen size isn’t known although it is believed to be 4 inches. [Read more…]

Shipped-ROMs is a site that includes many ROMs for devices that users can download and modify if needed.

HTC doesn’t seem to like this and they are going after the site owner Conflipper requesting that he stops distributing HTC ROM’s.

“While HTC tries to take a hands off [approach] about the modder / ROM chef community, this site’s sole purpose [is] to make HTC’s content available for download from a source other than HTC. That content is not just the open source parts and kernels of Android but all of the software that HTC itself has developed. This is a clear violation of our copyrights and HTC needs to defend itself in these cases.”

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Angry Birds for the iPhone and iPad launched just 5 months ago and within that time the company behind it, Rovio, has managed to sell four million downloads of the paid version. Angry Birds sells for 99c per time.

Along with 4 million downloads being done on the paid version, the free Lite version of Angry Birds has shifted another six million copies.

The game launched in December 2009 and only took off in February when Apple [AAPL] noticed the game and featured it. At that point it hit many top 10 charts around the world and just grew and grew at that point. [Read more…]

Microsoft [MSFT] is trying to play catchup due to companies such as Apple [AAPL] releasing the iPhone and Google [GOOG] releasing Android. Their current Windows Mobile 6.X just doesn’t cut it these days.

To shift things up a gear, Microsoft are in the process of creating Windows Phone 7 and surprisingly, it actually looks good. The OS hasn’t launched yet, but will be doing towards the end of this year.

To try catch back up to Apple, Microsoft is looking at throwing cash towards popular iPhone app developers and offering them that cash to port their popular iPhone OS (or iOS as it’s now called) games over to the Windows Phone 7 platform. [Read more…]

Sony Ericsson has announced a new smartphone in their Xperia lineup. The new phone is called the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 and from what Sony say, it takes the best from the Xperia X10 and the mini X10 versions and puts those in a package costing less than ‚¬200.

The Xperia X8 uses a very similar UI to the X10 mini. When launched it will either run the Android 1.6 OS from Google [GOOG] and then shortly after receive an update to Android 2.1, or it will launch with Android 2.1 depending on timing and the market it is going to. However, there is no mention of Android 2.2 just yet unfortunately. [Read more…]