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January, 2010 Articles

Samsung Moment First Mobile Phone To Demonstrate Mobile TV Chip

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 7th, 2010

The Samsung Moment was used yesterday to demonstrate a new mobile TV chip that allows the phone to pick up local broadcast stations, “including prime-time network programs, local news and sports and emergency alerts.” An excerpt from the press release: Moment was selected because of its 3.2-inch AMOLED display screen, which delivers crisp colors, bright [...]

WIND Trying To Bring Nexus One To Canada

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 7th, 2010

WIND Mobile has said they are trying to get the Nexus One to Canada, and are in talks with the big G to make it happen. This would be great news for both Canadian Android lovers and WIND – as this could really help propel them up the ranks a bit. I would ask if [...]

Motorola Announces Ridiculously Ugly Android Home Phone

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 7th, 2010

Home phones? Those things are still around?  Eh, I suppose they’re still useful.  At any rate, Motorola showed one off at CES that AndroidandMe have reported on.  They say it should launch Q2 2010 for around $150. Since I’m just not a home phone type of guy maybe it’s silly of me to comment on [...]

Saygus Announces “Competitive Pricing” Video Phone

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 7th, 2010

Saygus has announced the VPhone – it’s Android flavored video conferencing phone that can do 2 way video conferencing on 3G and even Edge networks.. without tearing up bandwidth.  It’s a sleek looking phone, that’s for sure. (full size high resolution pictures on their site) Some of the features listed: Smartphone/PDA/Handset PIMS (Personal Information Management [...]

Lenovo Announces Android Phone: LePhone

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 7th, 2010

At their press conference yesterday during CES Lenovo announced an Android phone: LePhone.  I don’t like LeName – seeings how it’s headed toward China and not France but you know – whatevs! Seems to be a nice enough device. The candybar phone has a 3.7 inch 480X800 display, front and rear facing cameras, and a [...]

Sony Ericsson’s ‘Robyn’

by Carl Channon on January 7th, 2010

Some photos have appeared on the web of Sony Ericsson’s new upcoming Android handset the ‘Robyn’ which also seems to feature SE’s own custom UI. The same as on the X10. As you can see it does look very similar to the Xperia X10 but obviously much smaller. Not much is known about the ‘Robyn’ [...]

Motorola Backflip Officially Announced!

by Rob Jackson on January 6th, 2010

We were one of the first to score pictures of the interestingly unique Motorola Backflip and now Motorola has made it official in a just-published press release. The Backflip gets its name from a reverse QWERTY keyboard unlike any other you’ll find on the market. It also comes with MOTO BLUR – Motorola’s custom designed [...]

Nexus One Naked

by Carl Channon on January 6th, 2010

You have a brand spanking new $529 “superphone”. One of the latest hottest handsets, what do you decide to do? Well I know what I wouldn’t do with it…. take it apart into pieces. Luckily you or I don’t have to (unless you really want to) because iFixit has stripped the Nexus One, prodded inside, [...]

Nexus One Coming To Vodafone ‘in a few short weeks’

by Carl Channon on January 6th, 2010

Here’s some news bound to excite those drooling over the Nexus One in Europe, specifically the UK for now. A Vodafone spokeswoman said: “I can confirm that Vodafone is the first operator to partner with Google to offer the Nexus One in Europe, starting soon in the UK, in a few short weeks” Yes! Only [...]

Rhapsody No Longer Giving Android the Blues

by Anthony Perez on January 6th, 2010

For those of you out there that have been itching to get your hands on some iTunes like application for your Android device, Rhapsody has officially announced the release of a public beta program. Check out the official release: If you’re up on all the latest tech news, then you’ve already heard of Google’s brand [...]

AT&T Android Phones From Dell, HTC and Motorola Coming Soon!

by Rob Jackson on January 6th, 2010

The last major American carrier will finally be offering Android Phones – AT&T today announced that in the first half of 2010 they will launch 5 Android Phones from Dell, HTC and Motorola! This is amazing news for American consumers who until now have had limited Android options on only select carriers. For quite awhile [...]

Google Effs the iPhone (NSFW)

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 6th, 2010

Thanks to Gizmodo Google’s second new device has been brought to our attention! Here’s an exclusive video from LandLineTv that was just too good to *not* pass along to our readers. Enjoy! (but not around your boss or kids – language.) I thought it was pretty hilarious. [ Gizmodo |  LandLineTV ]

Adobe Flash Shown On Nexus.. Mixed Feelings?

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 6th, 2010

So a video has surfaced of Adobe showing off Adobe Flash 10.1 on a Nexus One in need of a charging.  This is something an awful lot of us have been waiting very patiently for, but as Engadget points out, is it really going to increase our experience enough to make up for what we [...]

Rogers Confirms Magic To Get 2.1, Dream Users Are To Dream On

by Talton "Phases" Pettigrew on January 6th, 2010

Mjschmidt from our forums and BGR both are reporting that Rogers has confirmed a 2.1 update coming to the HTC Magic. This is a slight u-turn considering not too long ago Rogers had said it was to stay at 1.5. Apparently in the next few weeks the Dream and Magic are both going to see [...]

Google Nexus One Event Recap

by Rob Jackson on January 5th, 2010

Unfortunately I didn’t attend the Nexus One event today and instead I’m sitting in my Vegas hotel room reporting on it as I wait for CES to begin tomorrow. I’m guessing you didn’t go either? Well if you want a recap of the event in bullet form we thought we would catch you up to [...]

Apps Running From SD Card Coming (They’re Working On It)

by Anthony Perez on January 5th, 2010

Some more great news coming from the Q & A section of today’s Press Gathering for the Nexus One pertains to Application Developers and Application Storage. Currently, most Android devices only have 256MB of app storage - unless you have a rooted device and an application that allows you to run stuff from your SD card (AppsToSD). [...]

A New Era Of Mobile Phone Buying?

by Rob Jackson on January 5th, 2010

In the Q&A, Andy Rubin just suggested that he doesn’t think people will abandon their current mechanism of purchasing phones. But Andy just seems like the nice guy that doesn’t like confrontation… in reality he expects their latest announcement to be a disruption to the industry. Want proof? Check out the Official Google Blog where [...]

Android 2.1 Coming to Other Devices Too!!

by Anthony Perez on January 5th, 2010

For those of you who were lucky enough to attend the Google conference today, or were watching the live video feeds/ blogs and paid attention during the Q & A section you heard some great news! Once 2.1 is open source everyone will get a piece of the newest version/action that for now is only found [...]

Nexus One Now Available… For Verizon/Vodafone Too (SOON)!

by Rob Jackson on January 5th, 2010

Google just made their new portal for purchasing phones live – check out http://google.com/phone and you’ll see exactly what we mean. You can begin purchasing the phone NOW! It turns out that the GSM-only rumors were wrong… at some point you’ll be able to buy this bad boy for use on both Verizon Wireless and [...]

WATCH LIVE: Nexus One Event!

by Rob Jackson on January 5th, 2010

Want to watch the Nexus One event live? It’s still happening and Carl just found a link to LIVE VIDEO. Enjoy watching and hopefully you were able to find this before the event ended! Short and sweet! GET AT IT!