Motorola Droid Fighter
This week
the Droid Fighter saw a jump in search traffic when the first image of the
device leaked out. We already knew it was coming to Verizon around April
12, but now we can confirm it will be made by Motorola. Rumored specs of the
device include a 4.6 inch HD display and a 3300 mAh battery.
Some found
it odd that Verizon would release another Motorola Droid phone so soon after
the Droid RAZR MAXX, but we don’t know when it will actually show up in stores.
The April date could be some internal testing or training, and we might not see
it until May.
Hopefully
Motorola will take the opportunity to use the new dual-core 1.8
GHz OMAP4470 that features the faster PowerVR SGX544 GPU. NVIDIA’s
Tegra 3 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 are getting all the hype recently, but
this latest OMAP chip should be competitive across the board and could have the
fastest graphics performance.
Motorola and
Intel also announced a multi-year, multi-device partnership, so there’s a long
shot that the Droid Fighter could feature an Intel Atom processor. We already
saw a leak of a concept device, but no further details have been provided
since.
This week we learned that Sprint and HTC are holding a special press event
in NYC on April 4th. They didn’t say which device they would announce, but
everyone thinks it will be their version of the One X, codenamde HTC Jet.
Sprint’s rumored target launch date is still June.
AT&T already confirmed they would carry the HTC One X, but they have
released no information on pricing or release date. We might have to wait until
CTIA in May for more information.
T-Mobile is also still rumored to get the HTC One X as the T-Mobile G4X, but
we don’t know when they will announce it. The last we heard, the device was 75%
done with internal testing.
Looking overseas, it appears the HTC One X is scheduled to launch in early
April in several countries. Our friend Todd Haselton of TechnoBuffalo posted a
leaked document which shows O2 will launch the device on April 5th. HTC France
is also hosting a party on April 5th, so we should learn more specifics about
the launch in the coming weeks.
Check out our tag HTC One X for all other coverage.
Samsung Galaxy S III
Another day.
Another leak. This time Daniel P. of PhoneArena posted a leaked picture of the
Samsung GT-I9300. Rumors have suggested that the GT-I9300 might become the
Galaxy S III, but we don’t know for sure. We have also seen the model numbers
GT-I9500 and GT-I9800 appear online, which could end up as the Galaxy S III.
The latest
leak this week once again suggested that Samsung could announce
the successor to the Galaxy S II sometime in April. This information
comes from a Samsung executive in China, and we know how these details always
get lost in translation. We still think that late Q2, like June, is a more
likely timetable for the official availability.
