There are two versions available, one of them of 8GB storage and 512MB of RAM, the other with 16GB storage and 1GB of RAM. The price of the phone in China is $400 right now and it will be launched worldwide soon.

If you’re interested in a cheap smartphone with Android on it, but you still want it to be half decent, you’re in luck. Amazon Wireless is offering the HTC Rhyme for $0.01, as long as you get the mobile hotspot feature as well. Amazon also offers an additional $100 gift card for free, so all in all it’s a pretty nice deal.

The HTC Rhyme comes with a processor at 1 GHz, a screen of 3.7 inches, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 5MP camera and the OS is Android 2.3. If you also enjoy purple smartphones, then it’s perfect, as this is one of the few models which come in this color. The package includes earphones that match. [Learn more]

This Android phone doesn’t have the best specs, but the price is a low one, so many things can be forgiven thanks to that. Huawei Ascend II comes with a 3.4 inch touch screen with a resolution of 320×480, a camera of 5MP, a processor which runs at 600MHz, support for microSD cards (the phone has a 2GB card installed) and the battery is a 1400 mAh model. Other features include GPS, WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth. [Source]

Nokia 801T also comes with a 8MP camera, which will be able to record 720p videos, at a speed of 30 frames per second. The phone also has a VGA camera, in case you want to do video calls. You can use memory cards to boost its internal storage and it will come with Bluetooth 3.0.

Right now, these phones use just the basic functions of Android, with things like WiFi or Bluetooth missing at this point. Chances are that they will show up soon enough though. [Source]

The launch date for the BlackBerry Torch 9810 is November 9 and it will set you back $249.99, as long as you get a new contract with T-Mobile for 2 years. If you’re a business user you can already buy the phone.

When you think about it, it makes perfect sense to invest in technology that allows pocket-size devices to become bendable. Humans are bendable, and therefore anything on our person that isn’t is at perpetual risk of being damaged when the body commits to basic natural contortions. Right now, we carry around fragile and frigid devices just asking to be smashed; when your thigh gets squashed against the side of the bus after another passenger heaves his way into the small seat next to you, you better hope your phone is in your other pocket. But with a bendable device, the impact would be spread out against your body when the device molds to the shape of your leg upon striking the side of the bus.

This isn’t just talk based on paper prototypes: Nokia and Samsung are both currently in the process of perfecting bendable prototypes that already exist. But these companies are taking a careful lesson likely mined from the long-lasting and highly successful practices of Apple Inc.: not only provide revolutionary form, give it a reason to exist as well. The twisting and bending of these new phones won’t just be for show and to safeguard against destruction. As far as we can tell from the prototypes that have been released, bending such a phone when it’s unlocked will result in a particular function being performed; if you want to scroll, you’ll curl one end upward as though you were squeezing the most out of a tube of toothpaste.

As far as 2012 is concerned, little will likely be achieved in this subset of mobile device short of further trade show revelations and an end-of-year release to see how well next year’s holiday market warms up to the idea of a bendable smartphone. But whether it’s next year or the year afterward, bendable smartphones are going to become a hot item for mobile-minded consumers. It’s a revolutionary attribute we surprisingly did not see Apple incorporate first. In fact, this might be the first time in which Apple will blatantly copy the breakthrough of another company when it comes to smartphone technology.

When people heard about the release of a new Sony gaming smartphone, they immediately correlated the up-coming device with the PlayStation’s. For years, the PlayStation has been offering excellent graphics and complete gaming experience. A smartphone released by Sony would be the perfect smartphones for gamers, right? Nope.

In fact, the HTC Sensation does a much better job.

While the Sony Play does allow users access to PlayStation Certified games, there really isn’t a gaming experience that even complements the PlayStation experience. The keypad is nice; designed to mimic a controller, it does provide gamers with at least the feel of the gaming experience.  But that’s about it.

On the actual phone side of things, it is a little large. Because it was designed with gaming in mind, it has a larger screen and overall size because of the built in controller. At 4.7 x 2.4 x .6 inches and 6.2 oz, it’s a bit of a heavyweight. Other gaming oriented phones are actually smaller, but don’t have the keypad feature.

The screen is a nice 4 inches, which is becoming the industry standard, but the display itself is a little weak. It’s not as bright as other smartphones, and only has a 854 x 480 resolution. While the screen was probably reduced to save battery life while gaming, it doesn’t make doing so less enjoyable. Gaming is all about graphics, and it the Xperia drops the ball with them. However, the battery life is impeccable, and the phone can go for an astonishing 9 hours – which is unheard of for a smartphone of this size.

The sound on the Xperia is also good, and there is a camera on the phone as well. So the Xperia doesn’t have to be about gaming all the time, and it is available at both Verizon and AT&T which is good for those wanting high speeds.

Overall, the Sony Xperia Play is mediocre at best. For a company that is renowned for gaming, any gaming smartphone released by them should have been incredible. Unfortunately, the Xperia play simply isn’t.