All About New Cell Phones

Cricket Communications has decided to release the Huawei Mercury Android smartphone exclusively in the United States. The handset is claimed to be Cricket’s fastest and most powerful smartphone so far. Powered by a 1.4Ghz processor, the Huawei Mercury features a 4-inch FWVGA touchscreen display, an 8.0-megapixel Auto Focus HD rear-facing camera, a VGA front-facing camera for video calls, a 2GB of internal storage, 3G, Wi-Fi and Stereo Bluetooth. What makes this Android smartphone more interesting is that it provides Mobile Hotspot (i.e. Tethering) for up to 5 devices. The Huawei Mercury is currently available for US$249.99 at Cricket branded retail stores, dealers and at www.mycricket.com. [Press Release]

Folks in China are now able to purchase the Samsung W609 that supports dual-SIM cards (CDMA and GSM). The 3G handset also features a 3.2-inch WQVGA (400×240) touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, a 3.2MP camera, GPS, Office documents support, SOS, e-dictionary, Bluetooth, a 60MB internal memory and a microSD card slot (up to 16GB). [SamsungHub]

T-Mobile UK is ready to release the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro, which is the QWERTY version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini. The non-QWERTY version is thinner than the QWERTY model. The new Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro features Android 1.6 (upgradeable to Android 2.1 starting Q4 2010), a 2.55-inch QVGA touchscreen display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a 5MP AutoFocus camera. What’s more, T-Mobile UK will also release the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105, which features an alphanumeric keypad instead of a SureType keypad. Both smartphones will be released in June 2010. [UnWiredView]

Samsung will release the new Samsung SHW-A110 in the South Korean market. The SHW-A110 boasts a 2.4-inch QVGA display with a 2MP camera on the back (a front-facing VGA camera for video call), T-DMB, pre-installed Subway maps and 3G for both SK Telecom (SHW-A110S) and KT (SHW-A110K) wireless carriers in the region. We will keep you posted. [SamsungHub]

The Samsung S3370 is now available in Russia as Corby 3G (or Acton in Belgium and few other European countries). The Samsung S3770 Corby 3G comes jam packed with a 2.6-inch QVGA touchscreen display, TouchWiz UI 2.0, 3G, Bluetooth, a music player, an FM Radio, SOS, DNSe 2.0, a 1.3MP camera and a microSD support (up to 16GB). Folks in Russia are able to buy the Samsung S3770 Corby 3G from May 10th, 2010 for 5790 Rubles ($190). [Mobile-review]