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AT&T Finally Gets Android: Motorola Backflip Arrives March 7

AT&T is late to the Android games, but they’re making up for lost time with five Android handsets in the first half of the year. First up: the Motorola Backflip, coming March 7th for $100 with contract. Wait… $100? https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-motorola-backflip-a-folding-android-phon-5442110 To me that seems a little steep, but I guess that’s because I’m not the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

HTC Legend, Desire and HD Mini UK Pricing and Availability

HTC swept the show with the sexy Legend, well-specced Desire and rugged WinMo HD Mini, and while US availability hasn’t been confirmed yet we can let our UK readers in on the good news. All phones will hit eXpansys on the 12th of April, with the HD Mini at £349.99, the Legend at £399.99 and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Swipe Gesture Passwords Maybe Aren’t Such a Good Idea

Oh, dear. Looks like if you’re going to rely on Android’s swipe gesture passwords for security, you’d better doing constant wipe-downs. Or maybe washing your hands once in a while forgoodnessake. [IntoMobile]

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Swiss Army SIM: SK Telecom Squeezes Storage, CPU and Android OS Onto One Card

This magic SIM card from SK Telecom is a long way off from being commercially viable. But so help me, when someone stuffs this much information into a single SIM, I’m going to stand up and take notice. Packed into this protoype are a processor, memory, 1GB flash storage, and Android OS. That’s enough to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Firefox Mobile for Android Could Be Available By End of the Year

Firefox Mobile for Android is inevitable, it’s just a question of when. While it’s still vague, at least we know it’s on the cards for late this year, with Mozilla’s VP of mobiles telling TechRadar the hold up is due to different code: https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-firefox-on-android-looks-like-right-now-5463242 “Android has been built on a Java platform, whereas [Firefox Mobile]…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

All the Smartphone OSes: A Beginners’ Guide

Windows Phone Series 7 is here, and it’s like nothing we’ve seen from Microsoft—or anyone else—before. But how does it measure up? And where does every other smartphone OS stand? If you want to skip the gallery format, click here. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-smartphone-oses-a-beginners-guide-5472971 iPhone OS 3.x The third major release of the iPhone’s software, and the second…

Tech News John Herrman

What Wired Will Look Like on the iPad

Over the last several months, Wired has been reimagined with depth and motion for tablets in a new digital product called Wired Reader. Here’s a demo of the experience, and it’s a definite feast for the eyes/fingertips. Click to view Teaming with Adobe, Wired built this new rendition of their magazine (due this summer) through…

Tech News Mark Wilson

HTC’s New “Helicopter View” Shown Off In Desire Video

A new feature that’s making its way onto all of HTC’s Android phones via its Sense overlay is the “helicopter view,” as they call it internally. It’s like Mac OS X’s Exposé function, letting you see all homescreens instantly. Recombu has shot a hands-on video of the Desire, which specs-wise is identical to the Nexus…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Desire: A Premium Nexus One Without the Google

Inspired by the Nexus One (which HTC made), the Desire—or Bravo, if you prefer—has a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen with multitouch, with 480 x 800 pixels. It’s the best display I’ve seen on a phone for a while. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-pic-of-htc-bravo-and-details-of-htc-legend-break-5458214 Internally, a 1Ghz Snapdragon chip, 512MB of ROM and 576MB of RAM, 1400 mAh battery, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The HTC Legend Traps Android 2.1 in Unibody Aluminum

Not only is HTC’s Legend their best-looking Android phone to date, I’m going to throw my hat in the ring and say it’s the best-looking Android phone period. Created from a single piece of aluminum, it’s more than MacBook-esque. Running Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, it’s got a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with 320 x 480…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Ultra-Stylish T1, S1 and E1 Phones From Lumigon Promise European Class and Android 2.1

Have you ever heard of Lumigon? Me neither. Apparently they’re a Danish company who’ve spent two years working on these three ultra-stylish Android phones. You can tell they’re European, right? Though saying that, Nokia is European too… The three T1, S1 and E1 models all run Android 2.1, and have TFT capacitive touchscreens, A-GPS, 720p…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

If Android Was Born Today, This Is What It Would Look Like

The Astonishing Tribe, the design firm that more or less defined the look and feel of Android the first time around, has built an entirely new homescreen interface for the OS, in 3D. It’s alternately beautiful, gratuitous and bizarre. What you’re seeing in the video is a recording of a live demo; TAT Home is…

Tech News John Herrman

Bug Labs Build-Your-Own-Gadget System 2.0: Hello, Android

BUG 2.0, the second version of Bug Labs’ Lego set for hardware hobbyists, is here, and it’s two things the first one wasn’t: blazing fast—and powerful as a Droid, to be specific—and ready for Android. The newest version of the BUGBase, the brain and nerve center of any and all BUG-based Frankengadgets, has been upgraded…

Tech News John Herrman

Android Phones Are Now Compatible With Omnifone’s MusicStation App

Omnifone’s MusicStation music download store—which is pre-loaded on all HP laptops—is also getting an Android launch if you’re looking for another way to download music on your Nexus One. [Business Wire] https://gizmodo.com/hp-to-take-on-itunes-with-pre-loaded-laptop-music-downl-5456121

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Acer’s Android 2.1-Powered Liquid e May Be The Ecstasy You’ve Been Looking For

Acer’s updated its Android range of phones with the Liquid e, running Android 2.1 and built using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 768 MHz processor, so isn’t quite as zappy as some others we’ve seen recently. https://gizmodo.com/acer-lets-slip-the-liquids-custom-android-interface-wh-5383180 While we don’t have images of the Liquid e yet (seen above is the previous Liquid model), it has a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorola’s Eighth Android Will Be Called Cliq XT in US, Quench In Europe

A follow-up from the Cliq, called the Cliq XT—or Quench, depending on where you live—has been shown off running Android 1.5 (which is a shame when most companies are looking at 2.1 now), and has MOTOBLUR. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-cliq-review-5381995 Whether that’s for better or worse, I’ll leave up to you to decide—but in the meantime it has…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Adobe AIR for Smartphones Wants to Be One Platform to Rule Them All

Adobe’s launching AIR, its cross-platform runtime, for smartphones. Why’s that a big deal? It theoretically means developers can write an app once, and it’ll work on tons of OSes—at least any that support AIR. Oh, and the iPhone. Android’s the first to get AIR, but WebOS, BlackBerrry and Windows Mobile are slated to get it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Samsung to Debut I8520 “Halo” Android 2.1 AMOLED Projector Phone

Buried at the bottom of Samsung’s MWC press kit was mention of an I8520 “Halo” projector phone. Sporting Android 2.1, a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, and 720p video (to name a few), the phone will be officially revealed tomorrow. The phone will also support an eight megapixel camera, with flash; DivX/Xvid playback; Bluetooth 2.1; 802.11b/g/n…

Tech News Jack Loftus

New iPhone vs Android App Development, Over Time

A mobile analytics firm named Flurry assembled this chart, plotting the percentage of newly registered iPhone and Android app projects over time. The rise and fall of each platform feels like a blow by blow of major product announcements/launches. The January Apple app development boost, for instance, is attributed to the iPad (despite it being…

Tech News Mark Wilson

HP Compaq Airlife 100 Is the Netbook that Apple Never Released

Not only does the 10.1-inch HP Compaq Airlife 100 look like an scaled-down MacBook Pro, but it runs Android and has a touchscreen and a webcam and an SD slot. In other words, an iPad for the Apple haters. HP Spain—the only country when it would be released for now—says that it will last 12…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

AT&T Finally Gets Android: Motorola Backflip Arrives March 7

HTC Legend, Desire and HD Mini UK Pricing and Availability

Swipe Gesture Passwords Maybe Aren’t Such a Good Idea

The Swiss Army SIM: SK Telecom Squeezes Storage, CPU and Android OS Onto One Card

Firefox Mobile for Android Could Be Available By End of the Year

All the Smartphone OSes: A Beginners’ Guide

What Wired Will Look Like on the iPad

HTC’s New “Helicopter View” Shown Off In Desire Video

HTC Desire: A Premium Nexus One Without the Google

The HTC Legend Traps Android 2.1 in Unibody Aluminum

Ultra-Stylish T1, S1 and E1 Phones From Lumigon Promise European Class and Android 2.1

If Android Was Born Today, This Is What It Would Look Like

Bug Labs Build-Your-Own-Gadget System 2.0: Hello, Android

Android Phones Are Now Compatible With Omnifone’s MusicStation App

Acer’s Android 2.1-Powered Liquid e May Be The Ecstasy You’ve Been Looking For

Motorola’s Eighth Android Will Be Called Cliq XT in US, Quench In Europe

Adobe AIR for Smartphones Wants to Be One Platform to Rule Them All

Samsung to Debut I8520 “Halo” Android 2.1 AMOLED Projector Phone

New iPhone vs Android App Development, Over Time

HP Compaq Airlife 100 Is the Netbook that Apple Never Released

This Winter Fly Is Doing Something Scientists Didn’t Think Was Possible

Acer’s Mac Mini M4 Docking Station Drops to an All-Time Low, Supporting Up to 8TB Storage

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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