The massive 5.3 inch Super AMOLED screen is powered by a 1.5 Ghz dual core processor, with 16 GB of onboard memory. A huge 2500 mAh battery will ensure a full days worth of use. It also features an 8MP rear facing camera and a 2MP front facing camera. Even with these large off the chart specs, the device fits very nicely in your hand.

The Note also features a “S Pen” that allows you to jot down notes or even draw and paint. Samsung has a small army of artists at CES that are drawing caricatures of people using the Galaxy Note, that you could choose to have printed on a T-shirt if your interested. The long and short of it is, this S Pen is not the same as your Dads old stylus.

There is no price or availability dates provided, but word on the street is that it will be out really soon.

The problem from the enterprise is still the same – how to secure the corporate data on these devices. When the phone was owned by the organization, it’s pretty easy to define your policies and wipe all data from devices remotely if a device is lost, stolen, or if the employee is let go. With BYOD, I may not like the idea of the company wiping my device clean just because I choose to move along to a new opportunity. 

And this is where VMWare enters the picture. VMWare is in the business of virtualization, and now you can have a separate virtual machine on your phone. All your personal details are stored in the primary image, and the corporate image would contain all the enterprise applications including email, contacts, calendar, and any line of business application that you wanted to expose to your employees.

The two images are seperate, sharing just the notification bar. That means you could be working in the enterprise image and still receive email and twitter notifications from your personal side. Or perhaps the reverse, where you would be notified of your boss’s email while you’re busy FourSquaring.

And when it comes time to part ways, the corporate image can be cleanly removed from the device without affecting the owners personal data in any way. Clean and easy. You have to like that!

No pricing information has been announced, and availibility is coming in late Q1 or early Q2. I expect that there might be a follow up announcement at Mobile World Congress next month.

And the list goes on to include all the stuff you would expect – Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich, WiFi (with B/G/N), Bluletooth 3.0, 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM (a little low on the ROM side, in my opinon), Dual mic’s for noise reduction, DLNA support, and of course multiple colors (metallic black, ceramic white, cherry-blossom pink, and more to come in the future.

I know you’re asking what the difference is between these two devices. After all, so many of the features are the same. Well, the answer is pretty simple – the P1 measures in at 7.69×64.8×129 mm, and the P1S measures in at 6.68×64.8×129 mm. The grand difference? It’s just 1.01mm. Along with the thickness difference comes a small difference in weight, but nothing to be concerned about. Personally, I can’t see why any one would choose the thicker version. Who doesn’t like thinner and lighter?

There’s no date for availability mentioned, other than April 2012. And no mention of price or region where is will start shipping.

Enter Ice Cream Sandwich. The latest revision of Android brings screen capture into the base OS. Hopefully this will bring standardization across the platform and going forward all devices will have the ability to do screen captures with a standard key combination.

On the Galaxy Nexus, you can do a screen capture by pressing the volume down button and the power button at the same time. Within a second or two, you will see the screen capture and then a notification in the top bar that it is being saved. Jump into the gallery and you can browse through all your screen captures on your device. From there it’s just a hop, skip, and jump to posting it on damnyouautocorrect, or sharing with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Grab your iPhone or Android device and point your browser to http://aka.ms/wpdemo. You’re looking at a demo site pre-loaded with contacts and details to give you the full experience. The site is smart enough to know if you’re hitting it from a Windows Phone, or from IE on your desktop. The demo loaded just fine for me on the Galaxy Tab, and on my iPhone 4. Although, at first it was a little slow to download. I’m sure that’s just related to the large volume of people hitting it. I also had to turn of Private Browsing on the iPhone’s Safari settings to get the page to finish loading.

Each of the live tiles on the home screen provides a quick sample tour of that element on the phone. A little blue circle provides you with an indication of where to tap next and what features are revealed. For example, tapping the Calendar walks you through how the experience of viewing and adding entries to the calendar on Windows Phone. Tapping on the Pictures hub will launch you into the pictures and show you how you can quickly share an image on Facebook.

Don’t be shy, grab your friends iPhone and take a tour of Windows Phone today!

At the same time, developer interest in BlackBerry is falling to just over 20%. Devastating news to RIM who are trying hard to stay relevant in todays fast paced mobile game. The following chart shows the different percentages for each platform since January 2010. It’s a very busy graph, and you’ll need to look past platforms like WebOS, Symbian, MeeGo, and HP’s TouchPad – all of which are falling under 10% interest, with the BlackBerry playbook sitting just over the 10% mark. Look past those platforms and you have a good indication of where developer interest was back in January 2010, and where it is today.

Android, and iOS have been pretty stable in developer interest, while Windows Phone, HTML 5, and Android Tablets are fluctuating and fighting to gain that valuable market share. It will be interesting to look back at this in 6 months or a year and see how things compare then. You can read the full report over on the Appcelerator web site.

(Source = Slashgear)

Back when Sling first released their mobile client, they justified the cost as the main player was Windows based, and very few customers were using the mobile player, so Sling need to supplement the cost of development. Let’s be fair here – the player only works if you have a SlingBox and those aren’t cheap. As the mobile space exploded and more and more customers are using Sling Player on their mobile, the price never disappeared, and it has never gone down. At this point, Sling must be pulling in a pretty penny of the license of their mobile player.

Well, I’m done with it. I would happily pay once for any mobile device platform, but having to buy it for each platform and each form-factor says to me  that Sling has very little respect for their customers.

If you’ve got money to burn, check out the Android market to purchase and download your copy today. Oh, and if you’ve paid for the regular Android version, it will still work on your tablet, you just won’t get the higher resolution to actually enjoy it on the tablet. So your $30 is really just buying support for extra resolution. There’s no new features in the tablet version from what I can see.

Sony Ericsson has quite a few new Android phones and are carrying along the XPERIA name.  Last year’s Mini and Mini Pro did fairly well for them, so they have updated them with a slightly larger screen and outfitted them with Android 2.3.  The XPERIA Pro is fairly well specced phone that includes an 8MP camera but comes in at a low cost.

Watch this video on YouTube.

The XPERIA Pro is available from FIDO for $50 on contract.  Details are here.

The XPERIA Mini Pro is available from ROGERS for $49.95 on contract.  More details here.

The slide out keyboard is pretty smooth when it glides in and out, and the keys have a god feel to them. I like that there is actually a little space between the keys making it much easier to feel your way around the keyboard.

It would have been nice to see the screen get a bump up to the Super Amoled Plus screen that so many Samsung devices are sporting these days, Its not like the screen is horrible or anything. It still has a vibrant Amoled screen.

As per usual, no mention of price or availability dates other than “in time for the holiday season”. If you’re one of those people that like the physical keyboard, keep your eye on Rogers for this Galaxy S Glide.

The Galaxy Player we got to see has a 5 inch screen, and while its not a Super AMOLED Plus screen that we have grown to love Samsung for, it still a pretty decent screen.  It also has a 3.2 megapixel rear facing camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, MicroSD expansion, and a 3.5mm headset jack. The Player is a sealed unit, meaning you won’t be able to swap the battery.

The Player comes with Samsung’s DLNA software, allowing you to stream content from the device to any other DLNA compatible device. It also comes with a Col new application called second TV that slows you to watch whatever is currently playing on your Samsung SmartTV. It even has a built in remote so you can control the TV from anywhere in your house. You can also out the TV screen to sleep and just have the stream on your device. No more missing the game because you have to let the dog out, or run to the kitchen. I would imagine the next step for this second TV app would be allowing you to stream it outside of your home network , over the internet. Think SlingBox.

Samsung wouldn’t comment on price, but they did confirm that there would be 3 different screen sizes available and devices would be on sale starting the end of October.