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It’s not the first handwriting-recognition solution we’ve seen for the Android platform, but Vision Objects’ MyScript system still finds itself with little company.  MyScript recognizes all manner of individual characters, hand-printed and cursive handwriting in around sixteen different languages, and is happy with you using a finger rather than a stylus to trace out letters [...]

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It’s not all announcements regarding long-off devices at Computex 2009: General Mobile have brought along a working prototype of their DSTL1 Android smartphone.  Snapped by Zol.com.cn, the DSTL1 has a 5-megapixel camera, 3-inch touchscreen and 4GB of onboard storage. Under the particularly glossy hood there’s a 624MHz processor that, last we heard, was a Marvell PXA [...]

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Samsung’s first Android device (and the first non-HTC Android device) got previewed by PhoneArena.com. Their impressions are definitely positive, especially of the beautiful 3.2-inch capacitive AMOLED touchscreen with an ambient light sensor to control the screen brightness. Samsung has been pushing to expand their AMOLED portfolio, and I’m thrilled to see them releasing an Android [...]

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Game developers orangepixel have released their latest title for Android handsets, Mechanics Touch.  Seemingly a blend of Lemmings and classic 2D platform games, Mechanics Touch requires you to guide the roaming mechanic sprites through the levels using different tools to bridge crevices and avoid traps. Of course, it’s never so simple as just to create a [...]

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Could Archos be planning to announce their Android-based Internet Media Tablet phone on June 11th?  That’s the leading interpretation of the company’s new press conference invite, which confirms an event in Paris, France in less than a month’s time.  While there’s no written hint of what Archos may be announcing, the shadowy large-format MID/PMP device pictured [...]

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Move over G1 – the HTC Magic has landed, and it’s every bit the slick, sleek Android smartphone we’ve been secretly wishing for.  HTC and Vodafone delivered the Magic over to us this morning, and we’ve promptly unboxed the whole thing on video for your viewing-pleasure. Of course, since the HTC Magic comes preloaded with Android [...]

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Rogers Wireless have announced that they will be offering the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) and the HTC Magic in the Canadian market as of June 2nd.  The two Android smartphones will be the first to run the Google open-source OS to be official on-sale through a carrier in Canada. Rogers have been economical with their [...]

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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s live video, the Samsung I7500 shows up again for a quick photo shoot.  Higher quality than the first set of smudgy pictures we saw, this new set leaves no inch of Samsung’s first Android smartphone unseen, including all the ports, hardware buttons and a shot of the battery compartment. One [...]

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Smudgy pictures be damned: what we want is HQ footage of the Samsung I7500 to a storming foreign-language rock track.  Happily just such a thing has dropped into our laps, courtesy of Tinhte.com, showing off the I7500’s 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen to perfection. The smartphone also looks decidedly thin, and the design of the hardware buttons at [...]

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A two-part video demo of the Skytone Alpha 680 netbook running the Android OS has been released.  The Alpha 680 is intended to be a budget netbook with a target price of $250; for that, though, you’ll at least get a touchscreen. Unfortunately the touchscreen is pretty much the start and end of any decent specs, [...]

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