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It’s not all phones running Android; yesterday Archos announced their much-anticipated Android-based PMP, the touchscreen Archos 5 Internet Tablet.  Packing a 4.8-inch resistive touchscreen, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth and a choice of 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of flash storage or 160GB or 500GB of hard-drive based storage, the Archos 5 has a custom UI designed by [...]

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After being, frankly, very impressed at the announcement of Motorola’s first Android smartphone yesterday, we caught up with the CLIQ (aka Motorola DEXT) afterwards for a hands-on demo.  Motorola were being coy with the handset, preferring to run through its capabilities themselves rather than allow a free-for-all in our own hands, but we did get [...]

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HTC dropped a present at our door today: an unlocked HTC Hero, all ready for the official Android Community review.  We wasted no time in shooting a video unboxing and brief Sense UI overview video, together with a few in-hand photos to whet your (and our!) appetites. In case you’ve forgotten, the HTC Hero has a [...]

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We’re not entirely sure where they acquired it – or perhaps who they had to bribe – but CoolSmartPhone have managed to find an HTC Hero for a few days of play.  Their unboxing video inexplicably starts with a brief wildlife watch, and takes place one-handed in a car, but we’ll cut them some slack; after [...]

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Hot on the heels of the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) “Rosie” HTC Sense video demo comes this, HTC’s second Android device, the Magic, supposedly running the official firmware from the upcoming HTC Hero.  Unlike the LeakDroid SuperHERO ROM, this Fatal1ty ROM is tipped as being almost unmodified. In fact, all they’ve apparently done is tweaked it just [...]

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If you fancy a taste of HTC Sense on your G1 or Magic, the regular “Rosie” ROM leaks have already provided a way.  The LeakDroid project has been taking the Haykuro ROMs – which include the new HTC Sense UI – and developing builds for those with earlier devices.  Android HDblog have been playing with the [...]

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We know we’ve kept you waiting for our official HTC Hero hands-on demo video, but we hope you’ll find its been worthwhile.  Android Community dragged one of HTC’s demo team away and made him spend fifteen minutes running through the Hero, covering all the new features in their Sense UI. While it’s still early days, our [...]

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We’re still waiting for our own hands-on demo video of the HTC Hero to finish uploading, so while you’re waiting how about the company’s own video.  The official footage shows much of HTC Sense, the company’s new UI, which increases the number of Android homescreen panes to seven and brings a whole load of new [...]

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Android OS 1.5 Cupcake hasn’t even had its official release onto G1 handsets in the US, but that hasn’t stopped Dell from experimenting with the open-source OS on their latest netbook.  The Dell Inspiron Mini 10v packs the usual mixture of an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard-drive, but Dell [...]

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For a long time now, Android and the T-Mobile G1 have been pretty much synonymous, defining not only form-factor but functionality of what makes a “Google Phone”.  Gatecrashing that arrangement comes the HTC Magic, second Android smartphone to reach the market and the slimmer, prettier sibling to the G1, bringing with it the latest iteration [...]

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