As expected, today Huawei has lannounced the launch of Ideos, an affordable smartphone powered by the latest iteration of Android 2.2 (also known as "Froyo"). The smartphone is priced between US$ 100 and US$ 200, depending on the market. Ideos redefines the "entry-level" concept by combining high-quality hardware and software with a high price-to-performance ratio. Ideos will be released in a number of countries across Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and Latin America. The ergonomically designed Ideos provides a variety of ways to access the Internet, as it boasts downlink speeds of more than 7.2 Mbps, offers WCDMA as well as WiFi dual network support, and offers ubiquitous mobile broadband services. The device also doubles as a WiFi router for up to eight devices at a time, making Ideos an all-in-one solution for a range of wireless connectivity options.

Today, at its international press conference at the IFA in Berlin, Samsung announced the launch of the Samsung GALAXY Tab (Model: GT-P1000). Powered by Android 2.2, the Samsung GALAXY Tab is the first of the company's tablet devices, representing a new category of mobile products for Samsung. The Samsung GALAXY Tab brings together all of Samsung's leading innovations to provide users with more capabilities while on the move. Consumers are able to experience PC-like web-browsing and enjoy all forms of multimedia content on the perfectly sized 7" display, wherever they go. Moreover, users can continuously communicate via E-Mail, voice and video call, SMS/MMS or social network with the optimized user interface.

Following yesterday's news, that Windows Phone 7 went RTM and Engadget's report, that HTC's next HD isn't called HD3 but HD7, to honor Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 launch, the Global Certification Forum has just approved another HTC device - the HTC 7 Trophy. As always, the GCF isn't spilling any beans about the OS (so it could be a Windows Phone 7 or an Android smartphone or it might be another Brew phone from HTC) but the 7 in the code-name might indicate a Windows Phone 7. The GCF confirms quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as dualband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 900/2100 MHz which makes it the perfect phone for Europe and Asia but not America.

Slowly but constantly Microsoft gets serious with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 launch. What was announced back in February as an upcoming launch during this year's holiday season (whatever it means for a European aka Microsoft means Christmas), today Microsoft reached the biggest milestone for the internal Windows Phone 7 team: The release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7! This means, while the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft's hardware and software partners software as well as carriers is underway, the work of the Redmond-based internal engineering team is largely done and the code is good enough to be released to the partners as it is!

Today, Motorola made official what everybody expected and announced the Milestone 2 with an enhanced MotoBlur. The Android 2.2 device offers more speed, more connectivity, more messaging, more storage, more web with Adobe Flash Player 10.1, more multimedia and more personalization than the original award-winning Milestone. The powerhouse device features a 1 Ghz CPU, allowing users to sift through their content quickly, even when running multiple applications simultaneously or a number of open web browser pages. Respond to E-Mails or texts quickly with an improved and more spacious QWERTY keyboard including larger keys and better tactility for easier typing.