Photos of a new smartphone from LG has been released on the Italian website Androidworld.it. The new smartphone said to be called the LG Optimus Pro is set to have a keyboard and will have a 2.8 inch display at 320 x 240 pixels. The smartphone is said to run on Android 2.3 and will have a 3.0 megapixel camera on board. As to which markets will recieve the new LG Optimus Pro is as of yet to be announced.

The third smartphone of the Motorola Milestone/Droid series is set to launch soon in the U.S. with Verizon announcing it to land soon on the 14th of July. As reported by Droid Life the device will come with a slide-out 5-row physical keyboard, dual-core processor, 16 GB internal memory and can take Full HD videos (1080 pixels). However when the Motorola Milestone 3 will be released in Europe and other palces around the world is yet to be announced.

A few days ago Sony Ericsson surprised everyone with announcing two new Android smartphones that would launch to select markets around the world later supposedly this year.Although it is not yet clear what markets will get the two smartphones the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active and the Sony Ericsson Ray, one would assume that the smartphone would be landing in the U.S. and most parts of Europe. As reported by Phandroid, one UK retailer the Carphone Warehouse has said to customers the Xperia Ray is set to be released come Augest this year. Though whether this datre proves to be true is up in the air as Sony Ericsson are yet to announce a release date for both devices.

Since the release of the HTC Thunderbolt in the U.S. it has become fairly quiet out of the corner, with no further comments from HTC on further details of when the smartphone will be released in other places around the world. Now however HTC have come out and announced that the Thunderbolt will be recieving an update to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Those who do not live in the U.S. will have to continue to wait and see if the HTC Thunderbolt even makes it to markets outside the U.S. Perhaps even with Gingerbread installed on the launch version, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Sony Ericsson have announced over the course of today two new Android smartphones that will land around about the third quarter this year in select markets. The first of the two devices is the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray which is set to have a 3.3 inch display with a resolution of 480 x854, a 1GHz processor and a 8.0 megapixel camera. The smartphone is set to run on Android 2.3 and for those interested there is a short teaser video for the smartphone below.

Rumors of late have been indicating that on the 27th of June 2011 HTC will be unvieling a new Tablet of theirs at a press event. The new tablet so far known as the HTC Puccini is said to be a 10 inch Android tablet that will be running on Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). Also there are those that believe the HTC Evo 3D will start to be rolled out into more markets around Europe. We will update this as further news comes in.

Another brand has weighed in for the Android Tablet fight, with the Chinese company Huawei unvieling their very own Android Tablet aptly named the Huawei MediaPad. The Huawei MediaPad is a 7-inch Tablet with a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, a 5.0 rear-facing megapixel camera and a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera with the Tablet itself running on Honeycomb. In addition the device can display full HD video and has a HDMI port. Below is a short teaser video for the newly announced tablet from Huawei.

Motorola USA has posted on its Twitter page that Google Movies is now available to owners of the Motorola Xoom. The Google Video App can be downloaded for free from the Android Market. However currently it is only available for users living in the U.S. When Google Video will be available in around the rest of the world is unknown, however when looking it established sites that provide a similar service (but for the PC), it could take some time.

A few months ago owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini recieved some good news, with news that they would be recieving an upgrade to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Now it has been confirmed via their Facebook page and on their Blog with the update set to launch in August 2011. In addition there has been a video uploaded to YouTube (see below), showing the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 running Gingerbread. However said phone in the video is not running the final version, but nevertheless it leaves a good impression.

Over the weekend photos of a yet to be announced Sony Ericsson smartphone leaked (see below), with some believing that this could be the first dual-core smartphone from the company. As reported by Phonearena, rumors are suggesting that the new device could have the name of Sony Ericsson Xperia duo, which could further point towards it being dual-core but that is complete speculation. With the Sony Ericsson Xperia mini and the Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro just being released in recent weeks it remains to be seen whether these rumors prove to be legit.