Leaked video of the HTC Desire HD

We’ve had numerous leaks of the HTC Desire HD for some time now, but at last the latest in HTC’s top-end Android smartphones has been caught on film. The Desire HD is indeed alive and well and is due for release around October 2010 – just in time for Christmas.

It’s packing some seriously cool features as well, and is certainly a worthy successor to the original and best-selling Desire, which itself was based on the Google Nexus One, and which HTC couldn’t make enough of before they all sold out!

So what does the new Desire HD offer?

1.2GHz HTC QWERTY phone leaked

This big beauty is a new HTC Android phone set for release in early 2011. As you’d expect from a phone from next year, its specs are a step-up from the current crop of 2010 phones. No 1GHz Snapdragon processor for this little monster – it’s packed with a 1.2GHz 2nd generation Snapdragon for screaming performance.

It also comes with a 4″ display, CDMA and GSM connectivity, meaning it’ll be sold across the world, and a full physical QWERTY keyboard.

Which is an interesting feature in more ways than one…

LG and Samsung’s next-gen User Interfaces

When you think of Korean phones from the likes of Samsung and LG, you think of marvels of technology, with phones crammed full of features, but with pretty ordinary user interfaces.

The superb Samsung Galaxy S, for example, has a crystal clear Super AMOLED display that even outshines the iPhone 4, yet its user interface isn’t quite on a par with the likes of HTC or Sony Ericsson’s redesigned Android interface.

It’s the same with LG. Although they’ve tried over the years, they’ve never quite come close to the aesthetics on offer from the likes of Apple, Palm and HTC.

Not any more, though. Realizing the world has moved on, and that the user experience is now just as important as the hardware underneath, both Samsung and LG have pulled their socks up and are working like mad on completely revamping the user interfaces of their next gen phones.

Dual-core HTC Glacier and Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragons revealed

HTC have something big lurking in the depths of their R&D department. Currently called the HTC Glacier, it’s a smartphone so powerful, its CPU is three times faster than its current fastest phone, the Evo 4G. Rumour has it it’s heading for T-Mobile as part of their mysterious Project Emerald device, details of which are extremely sketchy.

In fact, details are so sketchy, it’s driving the blogosphere nuts! People are reporting that the Glacier is actually the HTC Vision, or maybe the HTC Desire HD or even the T-Mobile G1 Blaze, which at least links in nicely with T-Mobile’s Project Emerald.

Project Emerald, apparently, is a top-secret HTC Desire-like Device that HTC are apparently developing solely for T-Mobile. But it’s so top-secret, that’s all we know!

But as for the HTC Glacier, well we can deduce a few things from the rumours swirling through the mobile phone blogs. Just what can we expect from it? What kind of CPU will it have and what sort of features can we expect from such a fast phone?

Leaked pics of the HTC Paradise and Fiesta

Never known for slowing down, HTC have yet more Android phones in the pipeline for us. The HTC Paradise and Fiesta are mid-range devices, which will help bring the benefits of Android to even more people.

As you can see, the Paradise (top picture) comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, while the Fiesta (below) is a simple touchscreen phone with no physical keyboard and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

Leaked Pics of the HTC G1 Blaze

Remember the HTC Vision leaked photos we showed you a while back? The latest rumour now suggests the phone is real, it’ll be coming to Europe on T-Mobile, and it’ll be branded the T-Mobile G1 Blaze.

As well as the full-size QWERTY keyboard you see in the pic, the G1 Blaze will have a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 3.7″ WVGA screen, and of course, will be running Android.

In many ways, then, it’ll be the true successor the original T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone ever released.

Now if only HTC will release an Android phone with a full QWERTY keyboard, a 1.5GHz processor and Android 3.0 (typical, I’m never satisfied!)

Next-Gen HTC Desire HD leaked

Mmmmm, tasty leaked details of a new HTC Desire HD have surfaced showing one seriously super-packed Android smartphone. The Desire has been one of the best selling smartphones on the market since it’s launch, and has been a huge hit for HTC.

News of an even better Desire, with a release date of October 2010, is mouth-watering – and even more mouth-watering is the feature list of this marvel.

So just what can we expect from a Desire HD? Find out after the jump…

Video teaser of new Blackberry OS 6.0

With all the news of Apple and Android lately, Blackberry has been a little bit lost. So they’ve decided to rectify that by showing a sneak peek of their new up and coming smartphone OS, Blackberry OS6.

The video reveals an OS that pretty much has everything in place that you’d expect from a smartphone in 2010. There’s a great browser (Webkit based, of course), multitouch support, pinch zooming, and lots of support for social media apps like Twitter and Facebook.

In addition, the overall look of the OS is looking pretty slick. The transitions and effects are reallty smooth. Although this sounds like superfluous fluff, such effects really add to the overall user experience of using a smartphone (something that Nokia should remember when working on Symbian^4).

Blackberry OS6 will first surface on the Blackberry 9800, which will be released later on this year.

Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 device leaked

Tantalising news reaches us of a new Sony Ericsson device using the brand new (and yet to be released) Windows Phone 7 OS from Microsoft. Regular readers will know that Windows Phone 7 is a complete rewrite of Microsoft’s ageing (and pants) OS, Windows Mobile, and by all accounts actually looks rather good.

Of course, that all depends on Microsoft not screwing it up, which is dangerously close to becoming a reality. They created, then immediately cancelled, the Microsoft Kin, which itself was a competitor to Windows Phone 7. Worse, though, was the underlying reasons for this, which have been revealed in all their inglorious glory over on Engadget (well worth a read).

It’s proof, if proof were needed, of how bloated, fractious and cumbersome Microsoft has become, with political infighting seemingly more important than beating the competition.

But I digress. Sony Ericsson’s new phone is currently codenamed the Sony Ericsson Jolie. What can we expect from it?

Video of Nokia MeeGo in action

All future Nokia N-Series phones will soon be running its brand new MeeGo OS. As I reported a few days back, MeeGo is a brand new OS formed from a collaboration between Nokia and Intel, and based on their Maemo and Moblin OSes respectively.

All very well, but what does it look like you ask? We already know what Nokia’s Symbian phones can do, as well as Maemo, thanks to the Nokia N900, which currently is the only phone to run Nokia’s heavy duty OS. But what about MeeGo? How good is that shaping up to be?