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HP has said that it will launch a Windows 8 based Tablet next year. Meg Whitman, HP Chief Executive said, “We’re at the beginning stages of a new segment. I hardly think that we’re too late, the work we’re doing with Microsoft is extraordinarily compelling, ultraportables are compelling.” She also said that the HP will soon launch its Windows 8 Tablet next year. HP recently unveiled a Windows 7 based Slate in October. Priced at $799, the device is powered by a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of internal memory and will have 1080p video feature. There’s also a front facing camera and a 3MP rear one. The 8.9-inch device runs Windows 7 Professional and HP targeted the enterprise and business market.

Nokia showed off its flexible OLED smartphone along with Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 during the Nokia World event . This smartphone is called Nokia Kinetic Device. The feature of this smartphone is that it can bend and is very flexible and a UI that is wholly dependent on the way in which users interact with it, specifically by bending and twisting it to navigate its various functions. This flexibility can be used in order to maintain and control the various levels of interface. Other path breaking features of this device is that it is water proof in nature which means that this device is expected to work fine even in water surface as well. We can zoom in or zoom out any images or pages in that device by bending the phone. Since its still in its prototype phase the phone dint have an camera, GPS or a touchscreen, the navigation was through bending of the phone through files and photos.

Lava mobile has launched its first android based smartphone in India. The Lava S12 will run on Androids old 2.2 Froyo OS. It will have an 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen with 480×320 resolution with 3D interface, a 5MP camera, it is powered by a 600 MHz Qualcomm processor , Lava S12 will come with a 2GB microSD card which can be expanded upto 32GB. The 3D UI transforms the home screen into a virtual 3D space and offers 16 customizable home screens. For connectivity it has 3G (up to7.2Mbps), Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot and Bluetooth features. This smartphone would cost you around Rs. 9,999.

Porsche Design and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the elite new Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry. Designed by Porsche Design, in collaboration with RIM, the luxury brand’s first smartphone delivers engineered luxury and performance. This customized Porsche Design P’9981 comes with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience. It will have a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and crystal clear touch display. Coming back to specs the smartphone has an MSM 8655 1.2 GHz processor, a new BlackBerry 7 OS, 5MP camera with HD video recording and 4x digital zoom, 24-bit high resolution graphics, and advanced sensors enabling new augmented reality applications. It comes with 8GB of on-board memory, expandable up to 32GB with a micro SD card. The BlackBerry P’9981 will be available in Porsche Design Stores by the end of this year for about $2000.

Samsung will sell flexible phones from next year, the Samsung Galaxy Skin is the smartphone which will bend around a cylinder with a 1 inch diameter. The phone will have an AMOLED display that will be flexible and almost unbreakable. The key material of this new technology is ‘graphene’. Research by scientists from Columbia University has established that ‘graphene’ is the strongest material in the world, some 200 times stronger than structural steel according to the research. This new technology also allows the phone to be used as a mouse, a clock or a wrist-watch. The Galaxy Skin will have high-resolution 800×480 flexible AMOLED screen, eight megapixel camera and  a 1.2GHz processor which will be powered by 1Gb of RAM. Samsung has not yet disclosed the device’s operating system, but there have been rumors about Jelly Bean Google’s next Android release after Ice Cream Sandwich which will run the phone.

Samsung is all set to launch its new large-screen mini-tablet like smartphone Galaxy Note in India on November 2. The company will also live stream the launch event from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm on next next Wednesday. The Galaxy Note has a 5.29 inch display. The phone is powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM and will run on Android 2.3 OS. The smartphone has an 8 megapixel rear camera and 2 megapixel front camera. It will have an internal memory of 16 GB, it will have an microSD card slot for increasing the storage capacity upto 32GB. While Samsung has not yet revealed its price in India, the phone is set be launched in UK with an price tag of around of £594.

LG Prada K2 has not been officially announced by LG, but the recent images which are leaked proves that the phone will be announced soon by LG. The Prada K2 will run on Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) OS, it will have a large 4.3-inch touchscreen TFT display, it uses the NOVA display technology and offers over 1000 nits of brightness. It will have a 8 megapixel camera with an LED flash with HD recording feature and have a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera. The LG Prada K2 will have an internal storage of 16GB and have an microSD card slot for increasing the storage memory upto 32GB. It will also have a ccelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, a microUSB port, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and 3G. (Image Credit: phonearena )