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Sony Ericsson are also absent from CES 2010, keeping their tinder dry for MWC no doubt, but again we’ve got another leaked photo, this time of the Sony Ericsson Robyn. The Robyn appears to be a cut-down Xperia X10 (and may eventually be called the X10 Mini), and so is another Android device featuring the same user interface as the X10, but with a smaller screen and probably no keyboard.

Nokia don’t do CES (or MWC this year – not sure if they’re going to any tech event, actually, other than their own!), so it’s nice to see a new Nokia phone pic amongst all the CES stories.

This one is of the Nokia Mystic, but mystically, it’s only a leaked pic, and even more mystically still, from Vietnam of all places!

Although it’s blurred, it’s not that blurred that you can’t see it, and it’s definitely not a Photoshop job. It looks bloody awful, though, particularly after all the superphones we’ve seen in the past few weeks.

Hopefully this is either a phone that we’ll never see in Europe and destined only for markets such as Vietnam (no offence, people of Vietnam, it just looks pants!), or else it’s an old prototype that somehow found its way to distant shores!

[Source: Engadget]

Google’s new Nexus One Android phone is set to be officially announced on January 5th. But who can wait that long? Not French bloggers Nowhereelse.fr, who not only got hold of one, they also helpfully recorded a 10 minute video review of the Nexus One.

Lovely people ;)

Details of the Nexus One are being leaked thick and fast. Now finally having had a chance to look at it, it’s looking like it really could live up to its hype. The user interface is super-slick, and the speed is simply incredible. HTC (the Nexus One’s makers) have really pushed the underlying 1GHz Snapdragon chip to the limits, letting Google’s Android team be as creative as they want with the interface.

Check out more details and the full video review of the Nexus One after the jump.

Google is developing its own Android phone, unlike anything on the market today. That, at least, is the latest rumour, which is growing in strenght daily.

A few weeks back, TechCrunch claimed that “…Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers…The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding.”

Why would Google enter the hardware business? Why would it choose to compete directly with other Android phones from manufacturers such as Motorola, LG, Samsung, HTC and Sony Ericsson? Why take on the likes of Apple and Nokia directly?

And just what has Google got in store for us with its own custom-designed Android phone?

Read on after the jump for a few ideas of what Google’s up to.

No sooner has Nokia launched the Nokia N97 than rumours of a new Nokia N97 Mini start swirling around the blogosphere.

This would be important news in its own right, but given the underwhelming reception that the Nokia N97 received, it’s news that might just save Nokia’s skin.

More details and pictures of the Nokia N97 Mini after the jump.

Sony Ericsson have been teasing us of late with what could be the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X5. Currently going under the codename of the Sony Ericsson Rachael, we’ve seen pictures of a brand new smartphone with a fantastic spec, all built on top of the Android OS. Better still, we’ve now got a video of the new user interface, showing exactly what Sony Ericsson has in store for Android’s UI.

More details and video of the Sony Ericsson X5 after the jump.

It must be summer, as rumours of Dell working on a smartphone have resurfaced. Although such rumours do the rounds seemingly every year or so, this one carries more weight as it comes from no less a figure than Ronald Garriques – president of Dell’s consumer division, and ex VP of Motorola’s cell phone division.

In an interview with analysts, Garrique said that Dell was in talks with the “…top three to four” telecoms companies to launch a range of handsets, including 4″ smartphones and 12″ netbooks running on Android.

Although al this sounds rather tasty, however, there may be a sting in the tail…

Just hours before the new Apple iPhone is due to be announced (assuming the rumours are true, that is!), details and pics of the new phone have been leaked all over the Web.

Well, I say leaked – it’s only a leak if these things are true, otherwise it’s just mad ramblings from an overexcited Apple fan-boy!

The fan-boy in question, though, John Gruber, has been right before, and what he says makes a lot of sense.

So read on for more details of the new Apple iPhone 3GS that should be announced in the next few hours (tip: don’t get too excited!)

We’ve just heard a rumour that T-Mobile’s second Android phone, the T-Mobile G2, will be launched in early June. The source is good, coming from T-Mobile themselves via Reuters, and fits in nicely with other news relating both to the G2 and other manufacturers who are working on Android phones. All we need to do now is to work out which phone it will be!

Fortunately, we have some thoughts on that as well…

Once more, Apple fanboys are out in force as the world awaits news of what could be the third generation of the Apple iPhone. The rumours come in advance of the Apple WWDC conference in San Francisco, during which Apple is expected to announce a newly-updated iPhone for the salivating masses.

The third generation iPhone is expected to have a compass, a 600MHz processor, “improved” camera to a still-puny 3.2 megapixels adn 32GB of storage – in other words, not exactly a quantum leap, and certainly not what you’d expect from a “next generation” device.

Still, all of this is just rumour at the moment, and these leaked pics haven’t even been confirmed as real, yet, so we’ll just have to wait until WWDC next week to see what exactly Apple has up its sleeve.

Until then, check out some more pictures of the third generation iPhone after the jump.