The buzz around technology never seems to end. Smartphones gain new ground as communication giants launch them in the market. These phones, with applications running on  complete operating systems, are becoming more popular by the day. Since the first Android phone was launched in 2007,  a whole lot of companies have released smartphones based on the Linux based Operating System.

The latest of these smartphones to have hit the market is the Samsung Acclaim Android 2.1 smartphone, loaded with, as the name suggests, the Android 2.1 OS, the latest that Google has to offer. Packed with every feature possible, the smartphone boasts of a 3.2 inch touchscreen display, a full slide out QWERTY keyboard, a 3MP camera/video recorder with a LED flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, micro SD slot (expandable upto 4GB) and a slate of Google services like Google Talk, Gmail, Picassa etc. The smartphone was released  in the market amidst a flurry of expectations and high hopes on July 9th,2010. And it has survived.

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U.S. telecommunication giant, U.S. Cellular, the sixth largest in the United States, released the power packed smartphone which is now taking long strides in the market, getting close to the relative sales of the Motorola DROID X from Verizon and the HTC EVO 4G by Sprint, its competitors. The smartphone works on a linux platform with JAVA and C libraries enabling installation of third party applications. The smartphone is priced at 99.99$ available through U.S. Cellular telecommunication services.