“Don’t you wish you had” the promo asks “a robot sidekick that moved at light speed, could get you out of any problem and lived in your pocket?” That’s what Verizon are offering with the Motorola Droid, and the carrier has kicked off a major pre-launch campaign setting the iPhone firmly in its sights.
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Michael Dell confirms Android device coming to America
Dell has been offering an oPhone-based Android-powered smartphone in China for a bit now and rumors have been swirling that the handset would come to America too. Michael Dell has now confirmed that the handset will indeed be coming to America early next year.
Acer unveils Liquid Snapdragon Android smartphone
Acer went all official today and announced its new Liquid A1 smartphone that will be the first Android device to run the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The device sports a touchscreen and HSPA connectivity.
HTC Tattoo gets unboxed & played with at SlashGear
The entry-level HTC Tattoo has arrived on our test-bench, and over at SlashGear we’ve been putting together some first-impressions and the customary unboxing video. HTC’s latest smartphone may have a lower sticker price than its bigger brothers, but it still gets the HTC Sense UI, 3G HSPA, WiFi b/g and GPS. However the touchscreen uses a [...]
Samsung Moment Android phone announced
Sprint have outed their first Android smartphone, the Samsung Moment. The Moment has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen running a 320 x 480 resolution, together with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth and EVDO Rev.A. There’s also a 3.5mm headphones jack and microSD card slot. There’s also GPS with turn-by-turn Sprint Navigation, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus [...]
Android lags behind iPhone in customer satisfaction according to survey
It’s hard to gauge customer satisfaction with mobile phones with any real accuracy. There will be lemons among the devices that hit the market and how well the user knows how to use the device will also affect the satisfaction. A new survey from the CFI Group has ranked mobile phones by customer satisfaction.
Acer A1 up for preorder on Expansys
Apparently, at least for a while today retailer Expansys had the Acer Android powered A1 smartphone listed for preorder on its website. At the time of this writing, the website says the page can’t be displayed when you visit it.
Motorola DEXT Orange launch event: hands-on [Video]
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After Vincent spent some playtime with the Motorola CLIQ last week, shortly after the company announced their first Android device, Orange and Motorola UK invited us to the launch event for the Motorola DEXT. Same device, different name; that means the same 3.1-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen display, the same wireless connectivity and the same 5-megapixel [...]
Archos Phone Tablet upcoming Android smartphone/PMP hybrid
The Archos 5 PMP was undoubtedly the star of the French company’s launch event yesterday, but they couldn’t help but tease with another new device. The Archos Phone Tablet is, as the name suggests, a PMP/cellphone hybrid; in this case, it runs Android on a 1GHz ARM Cortex CPU, with integrated 3.5G for voice and [...]
LG GW620 Android smartphone gets official
LG’s first Android handset has made its official debut, in the shape of the LG GW620. A slider device with a pull-out QWERTY keyboard and 3-inch touchscreen, LG’s press information for the GW620 doesn’t confirm many of the exact specifications; however, they do make clear that they will be supporting Android as well as – [...]
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