Winners in the fifth annual CTIA E-Tech Awards were announced on March 23rd in 15 categories covering the areas of mobile CE, applications, enterprise, green solutions, luxury mobile and network infrastructure. Winners were announced during International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® which takes March 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Mobile CE – Phone/Smartphone
First: Samsung I8530, Samsung Telecommunications America
Second: HTC HD2 from T-Mobile, HTC
Third: Saygus VPhone, Saygus, Inc.

Source: Mobility Wire

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It’s not easy to find an Android phone that hasn’t been churned out by the HTC factory. The Saygus Vphone is a smartphone from a Utah-based company that promises a nifty handset with one unique feature: the ability to make two-way video calls even on an EDGE network.

“We have designed our own proprietary video calling software that’s optimized so you can get three to four hours of video calling capability on extremely low bandwidths,” says Chad Sayers, founder and CEO of Saygus.

Video conferencing is still a novelty in smartphones. It can guzzle bandwidth and carriers have been hesitant to support the applications. Saygus says its video calling software can change that. It won’t bog down the network and can run 18-22 frames a second on Edge network and up to 30 frames a second on 3G. Saygus estimates that 5GB of bandwidth can support 10,000 minutes of video conferencing on the phone.

Saygus also hopes to partner with Skype to bring Skype video calling to the phone.

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