MobileCrunch seems to have acquired some new information about the rumored Samsung Galaxy Q. The Q will purportedly be an Android 2.2 powered, quad-band, GSM phone complete with a 7.2 Mbps HSDPA radio running on the 900 MHz, 1900 MHz, and 2100 MHz frequencies. The device will be driven by a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor, and sport: a 3-inch Super AMOLED display (with multitouch), Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, 16 GB of internal storage, 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, and weigh in at 3.8 ounces. The devices spec sheet closely resembles that of the Galaxy S, with improvements/additions to the operating system and camera(s). Looks like the Epic 4G will have some company in the high-end, Android, full-QWERTY market place!

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According to one of the Korea Time’s sources, Samsung is preparing an Android smartphone designed to go head-to-head with the BlackBerry in the U.S. Said to have a form factor similar to the BlackBerry but with the addition of a touchscreen display, KT’s insider claims that Samsung is negotiating with AT&T and Verizon to have the phone on the market before the year’s end. Beyond the name Galaxy Q, nothing else is known about the phone. Samsung is hoping to make significant gains in smartphone marketshare through 2010 with a goal of shipping 18 million devices, although it seems quite a lofty goal considering the popularity of smartphones from Apple, HTC, Motorola, Nokia and RIM.

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Way back in April before anyone outside of HTC knew what it was all about, a poster over at the xda-developers forum claimed that Sprint would be carrying a device known as the Hero on October 11th, mere days after the Fall edition of CTIA kicks off. The claims were pretty much brushed aside and/or soon forgotten, but now the poster is back with some evidence in tow. Well, kind of. The evidence that the poster has brought to light isn’t in the form of a fancy internal slide deck from Sprint but instead, a close up of a piece of paper that lists release dates for several upcoming Sprint handsets (more on them in a moment). Now normally we wouldn’t read too much into these sort of things but the fact is this guy called it from a long way back. Unless he just spit out a name from the huge 2009 HTC leak we’d say that has to count for something. Plus, he’s certainly not the only person who has suggested the sexy Android phone is Sprint-bound. On the very same day, it is also said that Sprint will be launching another Android device by Samsung, the Q (hello Moto?), but at the moment nothing is known about it. Perhaps it’s just Sprint’s internal name for the Galaxy.

Back to those other devices; The BlackBerry Curve 8530, which we already know to be headed to Verizon, is said to be launching on November 1st alongside a few numbers from Kyocera — the Pro 410, Pro 910 and perhaps the 3810 as well. Then we have the LG Lotus 2 (LX610) dropping some time in 2010. Yeah, we’re much more interested in the Hero, too.

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If you have been looking for an alternative to Blackberry or Nokia smartphones, the Motorola Q11 might be a good option. Some live shots floated around the Internet for a little while, but it’s now official and just cruising under the radar. Where it will be released and how much has yet to be determined, but we hear the device should be “affordable,” so expect it to compete with the major smartphone players. But just how affordable will it be? Well, the phone comes without 3G – major bad move for Motorola! Still, if you’re interested and are living in the Stone Age or an area without 3G coverage, we have the official specs for you:

• Windows Mobile 6.1
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity and no 3G
• 2.4 inch TFT screen, 262K colors and 320 x 240 pixels
• full QWERTY keyboard
• A-GPS and GPS with support for Google Maps
• Wi-Fi, used with Boingo Mobile
• WAP 2.2 / HTML / Pocket IE 6 for browsing the Web
• Integrated ActiveSync Email Push
• Java App for Instant Messaging
• MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WAV, MIDI, WMA, WAX, WMV player
• MPEG4, H.264, WMV, RV player
• Bluetooth 2.1
• MicroUSB/USB 1.1
• 3 MP fixed focus cam with LED flash, 8X zoom and video
• 128MB of Flash, 64MB of RAM,
• microSD card support, up to 32GB
• 1170 mAh battery for up to 7.5 hours of talk time or up to 195 hours of stand-by
• 115 grams and 117 x 64 x 11.7 mm

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