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Google announces Voice Actions and Chrome to Phone for Android

Google announces Voice Actions and Chrome to Phone for Android

13 August, 2010 | comments (57)

Google announced the new Voice Actions service for the Android smartphones today. Along with that the Google dev team released the Chrome to Phone extension, which is quite similar to the iPhone-compatible Firefox Home. The Firefox Home, to...

Tags: Android, Touch UI


Eclair-serving Dell Thunder prototype caught on video

Eclair-serving Dell Thunder prototype caught on video

12 August, 2010 | comments (16)

A while ago we spotted a bunch of quite interesting Dell smartphones, which to this day haven't been announced officially. But don't worry the project isn't abandoned and the company is working hard on getting them on the market. The proof comes...


China-bound Motorola XT806 does both CDMA and GSM, 720p video

China-bound Motorola XT806 does both CDMA and GSM, 720p video

11 August, 2010 | comments (13)

The Motorola XT806 is bound for China and is one of the few remaining flip phones - but it's no ordinary flip phone. It runs Android, has dual-mode CDMA/GSM support and captures 720p videos with its 5MP camera. A feature that is very important to...


Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini and X10 mini pro go pink and gold

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini and X10 mini pro go pink and gold

10 August, 2010 | comments (36)

Every now and then a golden version of some phone comes out. Then there are the pink versions just in time for Valentine's day. Sony Ericsson does both and offers new paint jobs for the XPERIA X10 mini and the XPERIA X10 mini pro. We know, it's...


Sony Ericsson teases with countdown and an XPERIA device

Sony Ericsson teases with countdown and an XPERIA device

09 August, 2010 | comments (80)

Sony Ericsson is trying their hand at the whole countdown teasing, but they haven't got it right quite yet. The mysterious device hiding in the dark is quickly revealed to be an XEPRIA, maybe an XPERIA X10. Update: It looks like that 13 hour...


WP7-based HTC Schubert and Froyo-loving Desire HD leak

WP7-based HTC Schubert and Froyo-loving Desire HD leak

09 August, 2010 | comments (35)

We're still a few months away from the official Windows Phone 7 launch but a bunch devices based on it have already made their way to the cameras and then to the web. We are now looking at the next portion of live photos, featuring the WP7-running...


Google Nexus One now available, yet again, for Android devs only

Google Nexus One now available, yet again, for Android devs only

06 August, 2010 | comments (19)

If you couldn't manage to get yourself a Google Nexus One and still want to give it a try, today might be your lucky day. You only need to be a registered Android developer and to have some 529 US dollars in the piggy bank. As you might have...


Samsung Galaxy S lands in two more countries, Brazil and China

Samsung Galaxy S lands in two more countries, Brazil and China

05 August, 2010 | comments (46)

Samsung Galaxy S made it to Brazil and it seems that along the way it has picked up a strange appendix pointing from its top. Yup, it's a digital TV antenna. Unlike the other Galaxy S versions spread around the globe, the Brazilian Galaxy S comes...


HTC Fiesta and Paradise surface, go holidaying on Android island

HTC Fiesta and Paradise surface, go holidaying on Android island

05 August, 2010 | comments (3)

HTC hearts Android. They've released a lot of droids but still have unannounced phones - the HTC Fiesta and Paradise will pad HTC's portfolio with even more Android. The HTC Paradise seems like an Aria with a QWERTY, while the HTC is a bar touch...


HTC Aria breaks the AT&T chains, lands in Taiwan

HTC Aria breaks the AT&T chains, lands in Taiwan

04 August, 2010 | comments (27)

We aren't huge fans of mobile phones that are exclusive to a limited number of carriers, so this one sounds like very good news. The HTC Aria is no longer available at the AT&T and Telstra only. So rejoice the rest of the world, you are about to get...

Tags: HTC, Android, Touch UI


Motorola MILESTONE to finally get to taste Froyo, this September

Motorola MILESTONE to finally get to taste Froyo, this September

03 August, 2010 | comments (28)

So, the Motorola MILESTONE will get to taste the Froyo a.k.a. Android 2.2 after all. And we don't mean any custom hacked ROMs but an official update that, according to O2 Germany, is on its way and should to arrive sometime in the middle or at the...


Nokia N8 to hit it off in Spain and UK too, a white Galaxy S as well

Nokia N8 to hit it off in Spain and UK too, a white Galaxy S as well

02 August, 2010 | comments (168)

Nokia N8 is coming soon. Apparently, the phone will start selling at the end of August in the UK and maybe even sooner in Spain. In the meantime, the Samsung Galaxy S is getting a white paint job. Who saw that coming? A white color version of the...


Smartphone market grows in Q2 2010, Android steams ahead

Smartphone market grows in Q2 2010, Android steams ahead

02 August, 2010 | comments (57)

Android continues to proliferate as the smartphone market grows. The smartphone market grew 64% in Q2 compared to last year and all indications point to sustained growth. All major companies are experiencing growths in the numbers of shipped...


O2 UK lands the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 in September

O2 UK lands the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 in September

01 August, 2010 | comments (25)

O2 has just confirmed that starting next month it will be offering its customers the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8. That means the mid-ranger will make it for a market release only in the last month of the promised Q3. O2 are still hesitant to...


Rumor: HTC Ace to be named Desire HD, Vision - Desire Z?

Rumor: HTC Ace to be named Desire HD, Vision - Desire Z?

01 August, 2010 | comments (19)

New rumor coming from Germany puts marketing names next to some Android code names - the mysterious HTC Ace for Vodafone Germany will be called Desire HD and the HTC Vision will go by Desire Z. We don’t know all that much about the HTC Ace - it...


Euro HTC Desire to get Froyo this weekend, 720p video capture too

Euro HTC Desire to get Froyo this weekend, 720p video capture too

30 July, 2010 | comments (147)

HTC will serve some cold Froyo to help European HTC Desire owners fight the heat wave sweeping across Europe. The update will start rolling out this weekend and will bring 720p video recording, iTunes syncing and a couple of other treats as...

Tags: HTC, Android, Touch UI


Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.2 Froyo update leaks

Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.2 Froyo update leaks

28 July, 2010 | comments (93)

The Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is expecting its Android v2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo) update sometime in September but if you're too eager to taste the Froyo, you can do it right away since an official Galaxy S test firmware packing Android v2.2 has just leaked....


Pricing details on Dell Aero and Streak for AT&T surface

Pricing details on Dell Aero and Streak for AT&T surface

28 July, 2010 | comments (13)

Pricing details have been released about two Android powered Dell phones - the Dell Aero and the tablet wannabe Dell Streak. Aero builds on the Dell Mini 3i while the Streak is trying to carve out a whole new niche of voice call capable mini...


First China-loving HTC-branded mobile phones released today

First China-loving HTC-branded mobile phones released today

27 July, 2010 | comments (23)

HTC has just announced its partnership with China Mobile but that isn't the only news on the company. As of today HTC starts shipping the first HTC-branded devices across China. Up until now its products have been wearing the Dopod...

Tags: HTC, Android, Touch UI


Rumored Samsung Galaxy Q packs Froyo, 8MP cam, QWERTY

Rumored Samsung Galaxy Q packs Froyo, 8MP cam, QWERTY

27 July, 2010 | comments (44)

Standby for the latest breaking news from this side of the Galaxy - rumor has it that Samsung is working on a Galaxy Q phone. Details are a bit murky but a 3-inch SuperAMOLED, a QWERTY keyboard and Froyo treatment are enough to get our...