Archos continuing its cheap Android tablet trend. While the Archos Arnova 7 tablet was released with a £99 price tag or around $160, The Archos Arnova 10 is now available at Buy.com with a $169.99 price tag. That’s of course a very good price for a 10.1-inch tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, resistive display though. Running Android 2.1 eClair, Arnova 10 comes with a 600MHz processor, 4GB onboard storage, WiFi, MicroSD card slot, a USB 2.0 port, G-sensor, VGA camera and 720p video playback capability. The specs might not woo anyone but the $170 price might.

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If you’re of the gambling type who wagered on Samsung’s Canadian launch partner for the Infuse 4G, you can settle up those bets: the phone is coming exclusively to Rogers this summer — and it’s shipping with Gingerbread. For those familiar with AT&T’s story, it should come as no surprise that the carrier quickly highlighted the Sammy as its first smartphone capable of pulling in 21Mbps — good luck attaining those numbers, though. Sadly, the release date and price of this 4.5-inch beast remain up in the air, but that might just be an opening for some high-stakes speculation.

The Sony Ericsson txt pro comes jam packed with a 3-inch touchscreen display, a 3.2-megapixel camera and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Its integrated friends application enables users to add their five best friends to see at a glance updates from their Facebook and Twitter feeds. The Sony Ericsson txt pro will be available globally in selected markets from Q3 2011.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango saw the light of day on Tuesday, but what’s the most impressive feature?

Bing Audio and Vision are without a doubt a sign of things to come for Windows Phone Mango and Apollo (Windows Phone 8). Bing Audio and Vision allow users to simply scan every day items such as books, CDs or DVDs and have Bing confirm the product, online pricing and reviews. The Bing Vision piece will even allow you to scan product barcodes to locate groceries and other items online. Although many of the features are available in rival platforms and separate applications, Microsoft’s tight integration into the core of the operating system means that the features will be surfaced to every Windows Phone user.

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A phone enthusiast named DJ_Steve has kept the Dell Streak fresh, thanks to a series of hacked ROMs, dubbed StreakDroid. The latest version, 2.0.0 (or GingerStreak, if you’re feeling cute) brings Gingerbread to the 5-inch smartphone — expanding on the last ROM, which gave hackers the option of selecting Gingerbread’s app launcher.

As always, though, dear Steve has noted a handful of bugs in the ROM’s early stages, including issues with the Superuser app, less-than-stellar graphics performance, and the fact that both GPS and 720p video recording require an engineering baseband and DSP to be flashed. As of this writing, all of the comments are from Streak owners eager to download this for themselves. We assume you are, too, so let us know how the new ROM works out for ya.

Google build Honeycomb as an Android version for tablets while GingerBread is for smartphones. Now they announcing Android which can run on both devices called Ice Cream Sandwich. Google call it as “One OS that runs everywhere.” Ice Cream Sandwich can be used on small Android smartphones to 10-inch Android tablets. It has a resizable status bar which will adapt to the device it running from. For smartphones, Ice Cream Sandwich will offer holographic interface which found on Honeycomb tablets. Other features including face tracking and autofocus camera based on voice recognition. Ice Cream Sandwich will be available in Q4 2011 for both smartphones and tablets. Meanwhile you can play with the Android 3.1 announced today on your Xoom.

Samsung is continuing the marketing blitz for its power packed Galaxy S II phone. After showing off the phone’s thinness, Super AMOLED display and Voice Talk feature, Samsung is touting the phone’s 1.2GHz dual-core processor as well as HSPA+ that gives a download speed to up to 21Mbps.

Amazon Wireless is currently offering you the Sprint HTC EVO 4G White for only $89.99 ($30 cheaper than the black version). As a reminder, the HTC EVO 4G packs a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 512MB RAM, dual cameras (1.3MP & 8MP), WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G, an HDMI port and runs on Android 2.1 OS. Interested?

A test carried out by Korea Communications Commission has confirmed that Samsung’s Galaxy A and Galaxy S running on SKT are two smartphones in South Korea that drops least number of calls. The commission conducted the test between October to December of last year after receiving series of complaints related to dropped calls on smartphones.

The commission picked up two bestselling smartphones on each operator and tested the call success rates.

Interestingly, the test found Apple’s iPhone on KT at the bottom of the list with at least 4 out of 100 calls being dropped.