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Doesn't look too bad for a $95 Android tablet, huh? Well, there's plenty more where that came from. Scattered along the main halls of CeBIT are dozens of Chinese and Taiwanese consumer electronics resellers looking to sell products to new customers, and this year they sure loaded up the suitcases with cheap Android / Windows CE tablets. For the most part all these tablets (or small smartbooks) have ARM 9 or 11 processors and 5 to 7-inch resistive touch displays. While some like the FirstView PC607V tablet (pictured above) have attractive skins on top of Windows CE, others from companies like Forsa and Huawei have gone with stock versions of Android. In truth, all of the ones we played with felt chintzy, but it was easier to lower our standards when we learned they wouldn't draw more than $150 from our ...

Have you heard of Innocomm? Chances are it?s a name that doesn?t sound terribly familiar. That?s because it?s a fresh new smartphone manufacturer that has lofty inspirations to come out with several low-cost yet high-quality Android handsets and distribute them to carriers on a global scale. We first saw Innocomm at MWC 2010, where it was demonstrating its upcoming Skate handset (pictured below), which will actually come out the second half of 2010 as the Innocomm Raja. Now the company is planning four additional devices, all using Android. The names of these handsets are the Innocomm Shark, Innocomm Shadow, Innocomm Scorpion and Innocomm Gemini. The Shark is the closest to launch. Sales Manager Chuck Huang told PC World to expect this device to come out in May or June; he also mentioned that while it will be in the same category ...

Samsung has launched the Clutch SPH-W9500 in South Korea, a new phone that resembles the Samsung Diva S7070 (recently released in the UK). While the Diva S7070 is an entry-level touchscreen handset, the Clutch W9500 is a mid-end one. The phone features a 3.2 inch display, 3G, GPS, T-DMB, 3MP camera with 3D motion picture, secondary 1.3MP camera for video calls, MicroSD card support (up to 16GB), and a 960 mAh battery. The Samsung Clutch W9500 has a ?Lady UI?, which is actually TouchWiz 2.0 with some extra apps (like party planner, meeting scheduler and calories calculator). Samsung Clutch W9500 will be soon available in South Korea (via KT) in three color versions: Beige Silver, Romantic Pink and Black Gold. The phone should retail for about $520. Arkayne = window.Arkayne || {}; Arkayne.baseurl = 'http://www.arkayne.com'; Arkayne.go = function(e, a, view, cid, gid) { ...

Apple (which has recently sued HTC for alleged patent infringements) will launch a new iPhone this year, possibly in June or July. At the moment, no one knows exactly what the 4th generation iPhone looks like or what new features it will bring. Of course, we?ve seen some iPhone 4G concepts, and there are lots of rumors regarding the new smartphone?s specs (AMOLED touchscreen display, 5MP camera, more memory and so on). Here?s another iPhone 4G concept that comes from Italy. The creator of this new iPhone 4G concept sees it as having multiple color versions, a front-facing video calling camera, 32GB or 64GB of internal memory, and MicroSD card slot. The black and white versions look pretty nice, and they might actually be close to the real new iPhone, which could be a bit taller than the iPhone 3GS. via Arkayne = window.Arkayne || {}; Arkayne.baseurl ...

With Sprint getting ready to launch 4G / WiMax in many new US markets this year, some phone manufacturers are surely thinking about making WiMax hardware for the carrier. Apart from HTC (which should launch the Supersonic Android phone), Palm may also introduce a WiMax handset via Sprint. According to ComputerWorld, Kris Keilhack from PalmInfocenter says that there are some rumors regarding a Palm WiMax handset ? although, of course, nothing is confirmed yet. At the moment, sales of the WebOS-based Palm Pre and Palm Pixi (pictured below) are ?below expectations?, despite the fact that Palm launched the Plus versions of the two smartphones via Verizon Wireless. A smartphone that combines WebOS and 4G / WiMax could be successful and bring Palm some profit, even though the device would be made only for Sprint?s customers. Palm could also launch handsets via AT&T and T-Mobile this ...