OliveSmart is India’s First HSPA+ Android Gingerbread smartphone !   Olive Telecom has kept it’s promise of delivering an Android smart phone for India. The company today announced  the launch of the OliveSmart  VS300 which happens to be India’s first HSPA+ phone and also the first phone to launch with the latest version of Android – 2.3 Gingerbread. The device is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 1GHz processor  and sports a 4.1 inch capacitive touchscreen. It also packs a Adreno 205 Graphics engine. It supports 3G HSPA+ networks and WiFi (b&g) .It has a 5 MP camera which does 720p HD Video too.

Samsung Korea just announced the development of two new image sensors for smartphones and other portable devices. Both emphasize low-light performance. The eight-megapixel S5K3H2 CMOS sensor uses the company's 1.4-micron backside illumination pixel technology and will have the ability to record 1080p video at 30FPS. The more capable 12-megapixel S5K3L1 is likewise back-illuminated and comes with an optional RGB-white color filter array. This reduces noise and brightens up the image by as much as 30 percent. It works with another logic chip that converts the RGB-white pattern to a more camera-like RGB Bayer for back-end compatibility. The larger sensors has the performance to record 1080p video at 60FPS.

Specs for Galaxy S 2, Desire 2, HD2, Wildfire 2 revealed?   Preliminary, unofficial specs for a few upcoming Android handsets have been revealed, PocketNow found. Originating from online retailer Expansys, the spec sheets are for the HTC Desire HD2, the Samsung Galaxy S2, the HTC Desire 2 and HTC Wildfire 2. The Galaxy S2 will allegedly use a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8260 CPU along with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display. Other leaked specs of the Galaxy S2 include an eight-megapixel camera and 1080p full HD video recording capability. A two-megapixel front-facing camera is onboard, as is an NFC module, HDMI output, HSPA+ 3G and DLNA plus hotspot support. The Desire HD2 will reportedly share the same 1.2GHz Snapdragon and get a 4.3-inch, 540x960 display. A similar eight-megapixel camera with 1080p video will likewise be onboard. Both the Galaxy S 2 and Desire HD2 will have 512MB of RAM. The Desire 2 will get a single-core 1GHz Snapdragon along with a 3.7-inch Super LCD screen. The five-megapixel camera will be able to record 720p videos. The Wildfire 2 will get a 600MHz MSM7227 Snapdragon and a 3.2-inch HVGA LCD. Its five-megapixel camera will be limited to 480p video recording. Expansys is quick to point out that the specs are "nothing more than speculatively populated product holding pages, created and designed for internal use only" and does not have full details of these products. When the devices launch hasn't been disclosed, but some or all of the dates are expected to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress next week.

China rejects accusations on Google hack, Internet freedom China on Monday dismissed accusations of any official involvement in hacking attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, adding to tension between the two countries over the issue. A Chinese official also defended online censorship of political topics and said the country would not change how it regulates the Internet, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Google has said it was hit by cyberattacks from China that caused the loss of intellectual property and were also aimed at accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Google cited the attacks, which hit at least 20 other large U.S. companies, as one reason it plans to stop censoring its Chinese search engine, even if that means closing its China offices. Google did not blame the Chinese government for the attacks, but U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on China to investigate the claims. "Whether through explicit or implicit means, criticizing 'Chinese government participation in hacking attacks' is totally baseless," China's official Xinhua news agency cited a spokesperson for China's IT ministry as saying. "We resolutely oppose this." The Xinhua article quoting the ministry official was posted on the ministry's Web site. The official repeated previous government statements that Chinese law forbids hacking attacks and that the country is open to international cooperation to fight cybercrime. A spokesperson for China's State Council said the country's laws protect freedom of speech online but also forbid use of the Internet for acts such as subverting the government, destroying national unity or spreading porn or violent content, according to a separate Xinhua report. "China's handling of this harmful information according to the law has a full legal basis, and without a doubt is a totally separate issue from so-called 'restrictions on Internet freedom,'…