LG was kind enough to send me an LG Ally to review. I recieved it 2 days ago and finally got around to unboxing it and shooting a quick video of my first impressions. While not sporting the latest and greatest in specs the phone is a few months old now and it was never billed as a superphone like the Droid Incredible, Droid X or even the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S Facinate on Verizon. What this phone is, Is a mid-range Android smartphone with a QWERTY slider and it seems to do it well so far. My only gripe at this point is the microUSB cover its a little difficult for me to open as you will see in the video, Other than that I will do a more in depth review in the next couple of weeks once I get to spend some real hands on time with the phone. I’ll get to that shortly first lets take a look at the spec sheet:
600Mhz MSM7627 Qualcomm CPU
3.2″ 800 x 480 Screen
3.2 mega-pixel Camera with LED Flash
1500 mAh battery
MicroSDHC memory card slot (Comes with 4GB card preloaded)
The classic is reborn Augmented Reality style with a little Android for color! This ought to be fun! I want to get my hands on this!
Qualcomm recently introduced their Augmented Reality platform and SDK in order to enable the next generation of vision-based augmented reality applications for Android. The company is sponsoring a $200k developer challenge to encourage the use of their new platform and teamed with Mattel to demo the technology.
The team at the new Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio, established at Georgia Tech University, showed off a Rock’em Sock’em game that mixes both real-world and rendered visuals to create a unique gaming experience.
This could be the next quantum leap in smartphone tech! Dual Core Smartphones are coming and it looks like HTC will be at the head of the line!
Qualcomm announced the third generation of their Snapdragon platform late last year, but the chip supplier recently revealed they began sampling it this month and they have already shipped the chipsets to one of their hardware partners.
The new chipsets (MSM8260 and MSM8660) are significant because they are the first dual-CPU Snapdragons from Qualcomm. Each enhanced core runs at speeds up to 1.2GHz and they are made with the new 45nm process technology for ultra-low power consumption. Additional features of the third-generation Snapdragon include support for HSPA+ networks, a more powerful GPU, 1080p video encode/decode, and support for 24-bit WXGA 1280 x 800 resolution displays.
