Lenovo has announced a new Gingerbread smartphone, dubbed S2, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, USA. The smartphone has a rounded top and bottom. Lenovo has not announced the release dates or pricing of this smartphone. However, the company will make it available in China very soon.

Lenovo S2 sports a 3.8 inch touchscreen display with 480 x 800 pixel (WVGA) Resolution and rounded top and bottom edges. It houses a dual core 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 mobile processor.

Lenovo has done something interesting &#151 it offers different configurations even for the smartphone! Lenovo S2 will be available in an 8 GB version with 512 MB RAM and a 16 GB version with 1 GB RAM. Do note that smartphones don’t offer the flexibility to update the RAM as computers and laptops do.

This smartphone has an 8 Megapixel snapper at the back and a 0.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calls and video chats. The Lenovo S2 smartphone has a micro USB port, 3.5 mm audio port and micro HDMI as well. By default, this smartphone will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread and will have Lenovo Magic 3.0 user interface integrated with it. Lenovo has added a modest 1500 mAh battery.

In terms of specifications, this smartphone does seem fit for the first half of 2012, but will be able to compete only when it gets Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Lenovo has also announced its new Personal Cloud service that allows syncing multimedia and data between Android devices &#151 smartphones, tablets and even TVs. Personal Cloud is Lenovo’s new cloud server storage service for data backups, syncing, and streaming multimedia.

It is quite likely that this smartphone will stay limited to China and select regions of Europe and the US.

At the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, Sony Ericsson is all ready to show a new breed of Xperia smartphones. Just before the actual launch day, images of the Sony Ericsson Xperia family with model number MT27i and codename ‘Pepper’ leaked online.

Xperia Blog showed the images of an Xperia MT27i Pepper prototype handset and also shared details about it.

The Mobile Indian already reported about the Sony Ericsson Nozomi handset with 720p HD display and dual core mobile processors earlier. From these recent reports we conclude that Pepper and Nozomi will be part of Sony Ericsson’s 2012 Xperia smartphone lineup.

Sony Ericsson Pepper MT27i will feature a 3.7 inch touchscreen display with 480 x 854 pixel native resolution. Under the hood, this smartphone may house an ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 mobile chipset. Ideally meant to be the successor of Xperia neo V, this new MT27i Pepper smartphone features a 5 megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD video. Of course, the front facing camera is fairly visible in the images. There’s no detail about the operating system loaded on this handset but we presume it would be Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Next to the front facing camera rests the LED notification and the smartphone carries a design similar to the Nozomi handset except for the LED strip below the screen. The handset in the image is a prototype unit and the actual handset might be a wee bit different from it. The touchscreen panel also accommodates three capacitive buttons for home, back and menu. This handset can easily be slotted as a mid-high range smartphone with a pleasing set of features.

Sony Ericsson can be expected to show some smartphones and other products at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012.

Putting all speculations to rest, Nokia has formally announced its new Lumia 900 smartphone running Windows Phone OS.

This Windows Phone running Nokia smartphone has everything packed in a 0.45mm thin polycarbonate unibody enclosure. The Lumia 900 is first Nokia smartphone with Windows Phone with LTE network support and it will be launched in the USA though AT&T network exclusively.

Inspired from the Nokia N9 and Lumia 800 design, the new Lumia 900 features a 4.3-inch Amoled ClearBlack display that looks brilliant. Packed in a unibody polycarbonate enclosure, the Lumia 900 weighs just 156.8 grams approximately and is only 0.45mm thick.

The Lumia 900 comes with a single-core 1.4 GHz Qualcomm APQ8055 mobile Processor and has MDM9200 chip for WCDMA network support. Nokia has provided a mere 512 MB RAM for this smartphone and offers 14.5 GB of on-board storage with no possibility to expand it &#151 there’s no memory card slot in it.

This handset supports quad-band GSM/WCDMA networks along with Dual-Band LTE networks that promise 50 Mbps download speeds for data connections.

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Nokia has packed an 8 megapixel camera with the smartphone with Carl Zeiss optics for best quality of imaging. This 8-megapixel camera comes with a dual LED flash and auto focus which enhances its capability to click best quality photos and compete with best camera phones such as Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S II.

The Lumia 900’s 8-megapixel camera features f2.2 Aperture and 28mm focal length for the avid semi-professional photographers to make the best of their smartphone. This primary camera is capable of recording 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. Thankfully this Windows Phone device comes with a front facing 1 megapixel camera that can offer HD quality video chat support.

Nokia Drive App will come pre-loaded on the Lumia 900 and offer turn by turn based navigation support along with capability to download only the maps needed. Other features of the Lumia 900 include WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, proximity sensor, Magnetometer sensor, 3D accelerometer, gyroscope sensor, ambient light sensor and GPS.

Lumia 900 packs non-removable 1830 mAh battery that expected to offer a continuous talk time of 7 hours over both 2G and 3G Networks. Music lovers can play music till 60 hours on this handset or watch videos for 6.5 hours, the Finnish handset manufacturer claimed.

Apparently, the Nokia Lumia 900 is one of the first LTE Network supporting Windows Phone handset. Nokia hasn’t announced the pricing and availability of this handset and we believe more details about the same shall be shared at the Mobile World Congress 2012 next month in Barcelona, Spain.

Chinese company, Huawei has announced two new ambitious handsets &#151 Ascend P1 S and Ascend P1. Out of these two new smartphones, Ascend P1 S arrives as the thinnest Android smartphone with mere 6.68mm slim form factor while the Ascend P1 handset is 7.69mm thin.

Huawei has been pro-active to announce the first smartphone Honor to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Now the company has attracted the attention with world’s slimmest Android smartphone so far. Clearly, the Ascend P1 S gives the Motorola Droid Razr a run for money by couple of millimetres.

New Ascend P1 S is a 3G networks supporting smartphone that will be introduced in several markets while the Ascend P1 is exactly same handset but with LTE chip inside.

Huawei has used 4.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display that has qHD (960×540) pixel Resolution natively in both Ascend P1 S and P4. Under the slim chassis, the smartphones house a dual-core 1.5 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 mobile Processor coupled with PowerVR SGX 540 graphics chip.

The Ascend P1 and P1 S have 1 GB RAM and 4 GB ROM that is good enough to run the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smoothly. Both the smartphones will come with 8 megapixel rear camera with capability to record full 1080p HD video and optimised for HDR effect. Also, there will be a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera in both these handsets which would be capable of recording 720p HD videos.

Indeed, Huawei has packaged these Android smartphones with monstrous hardware and latest software. Ascend P1 will get a 1670 mAh battery pack while the Ascend P1 S will get a 1800 mAh battery pack to make it run for long.

New Ascend P1 and P1 S offer great hardware to support multimedia entertainment, gaming and number of other modern day features. Huawei will offer these handsets in metallic black, ceramic white and cherry blossom pink in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, Middle East and China. There might be a bit of a time gap but Huawei promises to make these smartphones available in the second quarter of this year 2012.

HTC has announced its first LTE network supporting Windows Phone handset &#151 Titan II. Peter Chou, chief executive officer of HTC, showed the 4.7-inch display clad Titan II smartphone at the on-going Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, USA.

HTC Titan II is the first Windows Phone operating system based smartphone to arrive with a 16 megapixel camera and LTE network support. This handset is set to be launched in the USA exclusively with AT&T connection in coming few months.

HTC had recently introduced the Titan handset with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and 4.7-inch gigantic touchscreen display. Now the Titan II arrives with similar configuration but with bit extra on it. The Titan II has similar 4.7-inch LCD capacitive touchscreen display and body design as its predecessor. The screen is big enough to enjoy movies, videos and photos.

HTC has used a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 mobile Processor that also features the LTE network chip. This smartphone comes with a Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Commercial Release 2 that supports the LTE network chip. HTC Hub within the Windows Marketplace will offer HTC developed applications for free.

The most interesting and attractive part of the Titan II smartphone is the 16-megapixel camera at the rear with Wide-Angle lens (f2.6, 28mm). This rear camera is capable of recording 720p HD video which is bit of a surprise. Of course, it comes with dual LED flash and Autofocus along with pack of features such as red-eye reduction, image stabilisation, panorama mode, and burst shot mode.

HTC has also added a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video chat and video calling. Then it comes with usual flock of features such as WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. To make the phone last longer, HTC has added 1730 mAh lithium-ion battery.

In the USA, the 4G LTE network infrastructure is still getting deployed and hence the Titan II may take couple of months to arrive. At this moment, there is no certain date for its launch and we can expect this smartphone to show up sometime late this year.