The Motorola Defy Is The Toughest Mobile Phone Yet

Can it also “defy” its competition in the Android phone space?

After “flipping out,” Motorola now wants to be defiant with its latest Android 2.1 mobile phone, that they think is the toughest mobile phone ever made!

The Motorola Defy is dust proof, water resistant and maybe even Hulk-proof, and features a large, resilient display that has protection against scratches making this phone one of the toughest out there. Another main feature is the inclusion of CrystalTalk PLUS technology that decreases noise by using two microphones that filter out background noise and amplifies your voice so you don’t have to shout like the Hulk does!

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The Nexus S is the Heir to the Android Throne, Now with More Gingerbread

More oogly googly smartphone goodness.

The Nexus One still stands as the one of the finest Android handsets out there. But Google decided to drop HTC and go with Samsung this time around for what is essentially the Nexus 2 but we’re guessing the “S” stands for “speed” since it’s reportedly faster than its predecessor.

The Nexus S is more important because it sports the new Gingerbread or Andorid 2.3 OS on it. Also exciting is the 4” Contour Display, a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, front and rear facing cameras, 16GB of internal memory, and NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts.

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Google Launches Cantonese Voice Search for iPhone and Android

The Googley ones roll out voice search in Hong Kong.

Here’s a fun fact: Cantonese is the third most popular Chinese dialect for voice search after China Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin.

In a nutshell, Google launched a Cantonese Voice Search in Hong Kong and the feature will be available for all Android 2.2 and iPhone users.

The funniest thing about this is that as you’ll read below, it really is tailored for Hong Kong Cantonese – meaning Google has made special point to figure out the English words that Hong Kong people slide into sentences, transliteration, tones, noisy environments and the best thing to our readers who may have Cantonese as a second language (like us) – ACCENTS!

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HTC Desire Z Brings Pop Hinge Keyboard and Froyo to New Smartphone

Another day another HTC phone, more hot models.

So you still can’t stand typing on your smartphone without a physical keyboard? Yes, we know you can – but apparently many of HTC’s users cannot so voila: the Desire Z.

The selling point here is the pop hinge QWERTY keyboard and the usual 3.7″ touch screen, 720p HD video recording and a 5-megapixel camera. Looks like HTC is focussing on business users with this one as they make special mention that it can open and edit any format in the Microsoft Office suite and PDF files. They’ve followed the iPhone’s universal inbox for multiple accounts as well.

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China Hi-Tech Fair 2010 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center

Everyone and their brother is making Android tablets in China.

You haven’t been to a gadget show until you’ve been to a China gadget show.

The China Hi-Tech Fair 2010 is happening right now till Sunday in Shenzhen and we had to show off some of the photos we took walking the aisles of what is one of the biggest shows in Southern China (100,00 square meters big) – and even if you’ve been to CES, nothing will prepare you for this one!

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