Virgin Mobile, Sprint’s prepaid brand, launches the new Alcatel One Touch Venture entry-level Android smartphone. The handset has a similar design as Motorola’s Droid Pro, featuring a bar-type form factor with QWERTY keyboard. It is boosted by a 600MHz processor with 512MB RAM and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.

Sony Mobile announced yet another Xperia smartphone, the Xperia solo featuring the Floating Touch navigation technology allows you to browse the web without actually touching the screen. The Floating Touch allows uers to navigate the web by hovering their finger above the screen so it acts like a moving curser, without actually having to touch the screen.

Sprint launches a new budget-friendly Android smartphone, the ZTE Fury, which is a full-featured device “ideal for families who want the convenience and connectedness of a smartphone at an accessible price point”. The Fury sports a 3.5-inch 480×320 capacitive IPS touchscreen display, a 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash, and 4GB onboard storage.

Samsung brings a new affordable Galaxy smartphone, the Galaxy Pocket running Android 2.3 OS. The entry-level handset boasts a 823Mhz processor and comes with 3GB user memory. It features a 2.8-inch LCD 240×320 touchscreen, a 2 Megapixel fixed focus camera, A-GPS support, Bluetooth 3.0, FM radio and WiFi 802.11b/g/n connectivity.

Nokia introduces its fourth and most affordable Lumia smartphone, the Lumia 610 running Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS. The new headset is boosted by a Qualcomm SnapDragon 800MHz processor with 256MB of RAM. It comes with 8GB storage and has no microSD slot.

Nokia’s Lumia 900 is a new high-end smartphone running Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system. In addition to the LTE 4G version announced earlier, Nokia is also launching the DC-HSPA variant supporting up to 42Mbps download in regions where LTE is not available. The handset is powered by a Qualcomm 1.4Ghz single-core processor with 512MB of RAM, and comes with 16GB internal memory. In fact, the Lumia 900 is like a Windows Phone version of the company’s Meego-powered N9, featuring the same slim, sleek body.

Nokia announced at the MWC 2012 the Nokia 808 PureView smartphone equipped with an ultra high resolution image sensor. As the first phone to feature PureView Pro technology, the 808 packs a 41 Megapixel image sensor, Carl Zeiss F2.4 optics and the PureView oversampling technology that distil 7 pixels into 1 for stunningly sharp and clear 5 Megapixel photos. For the best image performance, the phone also comes with auto focus and touch focus, Xenon flash with up to 3.5 meter opearing range, face detection, scene modes. It is able to capture Full HD 1080p video at 30fps and there is integrated video editor.

Huawei Ascend Y100

Huawei brings the budget-friendly entry-level Ascend Y Series Android smartphones to its Ascend line. The Ascend Y100 gets a 2.8-inch touchscreen while the Ascend Y200 features a bigger 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen. They both pack 3.2 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS/AGPS and WiFi connectivity.

The quad-core Ascend D quad and Ascend D quad XL are not the only members of the Ascend D line, Huawei is also launching the Ascend D lte, a 4G smartphone. The handset supports LTE 1800/2600/800/2300 4G networks as well as quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band 900/2100 HSPA. Unlike its brother, the LTE model doesn’t get a quad-core CPU, but a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor. There is 1GB RAM.

In addition to the Eluga, Panasonic also announced at the Eluga Power smartphone for the European market. As its name tells, the Eluga Power will be more powerful than its little brother. Boosted by Qualcomm’s SnapDragon S4 dual-core 1.5GHz processor, the handset runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It features a slim form factor measuring just 9.6mm thick and is a lightweight big-screen device at just 133g.