Deliveries are expected at the beginning of June 2011, and there’s currently no SIM-free, unlocked pricing for the handset. Announced back at MWC 2011, the ChaCha – and its all-touch Salsa sibling – runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor paired with 512MB of both RAM and ROM, and has both 5-megapixel front and VGA rear cameras, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS. It’s fronted with a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen and comes preloaded with a new Facebook Chat widget for real-time IM conversations.

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Lasers are awesome. The laser was once the stuff of fiction and today we use lasers for all sorts of cool things. We can burn things with them, the military is using them for weapons, and some researchers are using the laser to transfer data much faster than wires can. The world record for shooting data down a path with lasers is 101.7 terabits per second. That record setting system used a whopping 370 separate lasers making it expensive and impractical with today’s laser tech.

Professor Wolfgang Freude and his colleagues have announced a new world record for transmitting data with a single laser. The team was able to hit 26 terabits per second with the one laser. Each pulse of the laser used in the demonstration has about 325 different colors of light and each light color can carry a bit of data. The team was able to shoo the data down a length of optical fiber 50km long and then extract the different colors using a fast Fourier transform at the opposite end ...

Rumors for the Motorola DROID 3 have been swirling about since March, but now we may have more confirmed details on this still mysterious device. This successor to the DROID 2 ...

Google is always innovating with new research and breakthroughs of its own. The company is also sitting on a giant bankroll that allows it to buy up companies and patents that are for tech that it thinks would be good for its offerings too. You might recall that Modu that had an interesting modular mobile phone. The core mobile phone part of the Modu system could be removed from its sleeve and placed in another one to suit the need and style of the user at any given time.

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We are going to file this in the rumor section until there is more confirmation, but this is an interesting rumor. HTC is more an Android smartphone maker in my mind, but over the years, the company has held close ties to Windows Mobile operating systems as well. It would be no surprise to see HTC offering up more Windows Phone 7.5 handsets once the Mango update lands. A new rumor that popped up claims just that.

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