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Motorola announces Backflip handset, which has a folding design and runs the Android operating system.
As expected, Google announced its new Android-powered Nexus One handset on Tuesday at an event on the company's Mountain View campus. But the event itself was...
Google will detail its Nexus One handset plans Tuesday. Here is how Google can bring the hurt to Apple's iPhone.
Google's semi-secret Nexus One handset has been more or less exhaustively leaked at this point, with very few cats left to let out of the bag. The only two major points left were the tech specs and the release date - and now, even those have made their way out.
Outside of a completely simulated appearance in a commercial, we've been hard-pressed in finding any video of the LG eXpo's projector attachment in action. We expected to see some hit the Tubes after the handset launched last week - alas, the projector accessory still hasn't hit the shelves.
Fortunately, the guys over at MobileSyrup have managed to scrounge one up north of the border.
What won't Google do to extend its reach into businesses and homes. If a handset seemed far-fetched, a Chrome OS netbook almost makes sense.
Remember that crazy lookin' Motorola-made Android handset that leaked out a few days ago? The one that appeared to have a flip-out keyboard on a big ol' hinge? It's real - and it's heading for AT&T.
Virtual SIM technology developed by Comviva in India allows up to six users to share a handset.
 If you were gettin’ all antsy in the pantsies about yesterday’s launch of the LG Expo and it’s detachable projector accessory, you might be a bit bewildered right now. A full day later, AT&T’s still showing no sign of the handset.
If you're one of the 600,000 people who bought a Samsung Intensity (SCH U-490) or Samsung Trance (SCH U-450): good news! You've got an over-the-air update coming your way. One of our sources just came through with the patch notes for both handset's respective updates, which are scheduled to begin as early as tomorrow.
It may not have seen as much hype as it's big brother, the Moto Droid, but the Verizon Droid Eris is still one helluva handset. Generally coming in at around $99 bucks, it's one of the cheapest ways to get in on all this Android-hullabaloo - and for one day, it's even cheaper. And by "cheaper", we mean free.
High demand is forcing users to wait for the Maemo 5 handset.
Verizon began an ad-campaign in October for the Droid handset where it ran commercials entitled "iDon't", attacking the Apple iPhone. The Verizon advertisement attacked Apple's oversights on the iPhone like a real keyboard, running simultaneous applications, being customizable, allowing widgets, open source development and interchangeable batteries. The advertisement also took a stab at the iPhone's camera, stating that the Android based phone has a 5MP camera and is capable of taking pictures in the dark. Today Apple has fired back with two new iPhone adverts showing how the iPhone can take calls and use the 3G internet at the same time, something that the Verizon network is unable to do.
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Don't worry. This won't be another post on the merits/shortcomings of the Pixi and whether such a handset is worthwhile as its older, more capable brother, the Pre, plummets in price. Other sites have done that to death.
I just wanted to point out that, regardless of how anyone feels about the handset, even the Pixi wants to be a Pre. Check out this picture, taken right from a fresh-out-of-the-box Pixi.
As part of a webcast reporting its third quarter earnings, Garmin released a presentation containing a reference to a new Android OS handset for 2010. While the webcast did not call attention to the new product, mobile news site GSMArena caught the purported slip-up and brought it forward. Garmin's Nuvifone lineup already includes Windows Mobile and Linux-based units with the M20 and G60 recently released in a Garmin-Asus partnership in parts of the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Sales numbers for these products have not been made available, but the gadgets have so far failed to gain major attention.
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You're stuck in quite the conundrum. You want the chic elegance of the iPhone - but you want unbridled flexibility that comes with the Android platform. Whatever are you supposed to do?
If you're able to read Chinese and are absolutely insane, there's a solution: the APhone A6. Straight out of a Chinese handset cloning workshop, the APhone A6 is built to walk the walk of Apple's finest, but talk the talk of Google's.
With Verizon's Droid out Friday, is it too early to start dreaming up the next version of the handset?
This $100 handset will let you access Twitter while on the go, but it seems too hobbled to be useful.
Sony Ericsson introducing an Android handset on November 3 called "Rachel."
Motorola's handset joins the growing selection of Android-powered phones; is Apple nervous yet?
Motorola's $200 handset joins the growing selection of Android-powered phones; is Apple nervous yet?
Of course, Vodaphone isn’t here in the US, but internet video in universal, and this is pretty damn cool. So sit back, turn up the speakers, click play, and see what happens when some very clever people get 1000 cellphones together in one place and decide to make a viral video. Here’s the making of video too, it’s definitely worth a viewing: [via Mashable]
An analyst, supposedly with the inside scoop, says Google will release its own Android handset before the end of the year. Good idea or bad?
Does Verizon risk setting expectations too high with its ambitious marketing campaign for its Motorola Android handset, 'Droid'?
Starting all the way back in December of 2008, Acer let it be known that it was working on a self-branded smartphone. Then, this past June, Acer up and joined the Open Handset Alliance and said that it would release its first Android device by Q4 of 2009. Well what do you know. Q4 is here and Acer has actually put its money where its mouth was with the announcement of its first Android-based, Snapdragon-powered smartphone, Liquid.
This prototype handset can last about 13 days on standby, then be recharged in seconds.
The Ooma Telo base station costs $249. That gets you the unlimited calling, caller ID, a new phone number, and access to online call logs. If you want to port your existing number, that costs another $40. The Ooma handset is another $50 too. But wait, there’s more. Ooma is banking that at least some buyers will opt for the $10 per month Ooma Premier Service that adds on a few extra features. You get one-touch access to voicemail, call screening, remote access to messages, 3-way calling, free 2nd number, backup number, personal blacklist, call forwarding. The Telo comes with a three month trial of the Premier Service, btw. But when you start to look at the numbers, it makes sense. Vonage is about the only direct competitor to the Ooma anymore (MagicJack doesn’t count, sorry) and it’s least expensive unlimited plan is $25. Let’s say you port your number to Ooma for $40, but don’t buy the branded handset. You only owe Ooma $290 total, where you’re out $25 every month to Vonage and so it only takes you 12 months to recoup your costs with Ooma. Sure, the Vonage system does have more premium features included and now lets you call more than 60 countries with for no additional charge, but there is a one-year agreement that covers the free hardware. The high price might turn some off to Ooma Telo at first, but my goodness, the numbers don’t lie. It makes sense. The base station should be available at all major electronic outlets now (or real soon) with the handset launching in November.
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Okay - either LG accidentally plopped military secrets onto a handful of devices, or they're looking to start a Golden-Ticket-esque hunt for their handsets. The Korean manufacturer has just offered up $10,000 to anybody who can bring them a handset with any of the following serial numbers:
Disappointed by the handset's sales, the carrier may be looking elsewhere for hot offerings.
Oh, the infamous chin of many HTC Android phones - how controversial it is. At least, it's about as controversial as things get in the geeky little world of the phone-obsessed. Done one way (as with the G1), it finds itself on the wrong end of an endless train of mockery. Done almost identically on another, generally more appealing handset, and people like it so much that more than half of them get upset when it's taken away.
Either way, one things now for sure: while not all Android handsets will carry a big chin, any HTC-made handset with a chin will carry Android.
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