Another bargain smart-phone: This Thursday, September 1st, German discount supermarket Aldi Nord will offer the Samsung Galaxy S for € 299.00. It is the first time that the low-price grocery retailer is selling such a high-end device. The Samsung Galaxy S might not belong to the first league of Android smart-phones anymore, but it is still quite powerful and several former weaknesses of this smart-phone model have been eliminated by the new Android version 2.3 Gingerbread. And the price point of the unlocked Samsung Galaxy S at Aldi Nord supermarkets is attractive, too.

Low price grocery retailer Lidl will be offering the Android smart-phone Huawei Ideos X3 for just € 99.99 beginning this Thursday. The Android smart-phone will be available in a prepaid package also including a SIM card with Lidl Mobile price plan, 25 free calling minutes and one month mobile Internet access for free. This is a real bargain.

German operator E-Plus is expected to launch its branded Android tablet Base Tab within a few days. The device will be available with a mobile data flat rate tariff for € 19.00 per month over a two-year period. Taking into account the monthly fee of € 10.00 for the mobile data flat rate tariff over a period of 24 months, the costs for the Base Tab itself will amount to € 216.00. Here is a short review of the Base Tab.

The LG P990 Optimus Speed (aka 2X) has been the first smart-phone in the market being powered by a dual core processor. In more specific terms, the LG Optimus Speed is powered by the Nvidia dual core processor Tegra 2 with 1 GHz and with a separate graphics unit that should arrange for smoothly running programs and applications even when these require a lot of processing power. Here is a short review of the LG Optimus Speed.

German operator E-Plus (Base) will launch its own tablet Base Tab in mid-June. The device will be available with a mobile data flat rate tariff for € 19.00 per month over a two-year period. In terms of figures, the Base Tab will cost € 216.00 because the regular monthly fee for the “Base Internet Flat” for accessing the Internet via GPRS or UMTS/HSDPA over the mobile network of E-Plus amounts to € 10.00 per month.

There are differences between the two tablets: While the Vodafone version Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v is 10.9 millimeters thick and features a 8.1-megapixel camera, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is slimmer (8.6 millimeter) and comes with a 3-megapixel camera. Vodafone is offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v for a purchase price of € 659.90 without plan. Here is a short review on the Samsung tablet being available at Vodafone shops.

The Google Nexus S is the second smart-phone in the line of “Google phones”. The Google Nexus S has been the first Android smart-phone in the German market running on the new Android OS version 2.3.3 (Gingerbread), thus offering new features such as a built-in voice over IP client, an optimized power management and NFC support for mobile payment and information services. This short review on the Nexus S shows you what you can do with the new Android smart-phone.

How quickly the picture can change: Even though the smart-phone manufacturer HTC had limited the number of journalists attending the press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, there was quite some scrimmage at the Theatre Lliure close to the trade show area. Everyone expected not only to see new smart-phones but also the first tablet of the manufacturer. The HTC Flyer was the star of the HTC presence at Mobile World Congress this week.

One more short video from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In this one you get to see a demo of the Facebook smart-phone HTC ChaCha. The Facebook button on the Android smart-phone lets you share photos, videos, music or web pages with just one touch.

HTC announced the Android tablet HTC Flyer at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. Here is a short video showing the new tablet which will be available for € 699 (version with just WiFi) without contract in Q2.