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General Mobile

Don’t Be Fooled: General Mobile’s Touch Stone Runs Android (Not WebOS)

by Rob Jackson on February 18th, 2010 4 Comments

I appreciate that General Mobile decided to go a more refined route when naming their second Android handset. Their first was called the DSTL1 and it didn’t exactly “stick” – but the 2nd attempt does a little bit of piggybacking on another mobile-tech device by calling itself the Touch Stone. The company had this on [...]

General Mobile’s 2nd Android Phone: The COSMOS

by Carl Channon on January 2nd, 2010 10 Comments

Well here’s another interesting beginning to the new year. A new Android handset by General Mobile titled the COSMOS. Android Authority received some pictures and details of the new Android-powered handset. This is GM’s first phone with Android 2.0 and successor to their first Android handset the DSTL1. Check out some images below: Reported specs [...]

General Mobile Storeoid App Store

by Rob Jackson on December 22nd, 2009 15 Comments

Marketing folks pushing Android products love to tack on “Droid” or “Oid” to the end of their descriptors, giving a familiar word an Android twist. Unfortunately for General Mobile, the name of their new Android application store sounds like it has an unfair advantage “Jose Canseco” style: Storeoid. I’m not sure if General Mobile has [...]

General Mobile DSTL1 Unboxed, Reviewed

by Rob Jackson on September 2nd, 2009 17 Comments

It isn’t an Android Phone by a major carrier and the distribution channels are few and far between, but that doesn’t make the General Mobile DSTL1 any less of a phone!  Michael Oryl from MobileBurn just got his device, unboxed it and did a pretty thorough run through all of its features: So what is [...]

Dual SIM Android Phone: DSTL1 From General Mobile

by Rob Jackson on January 27th, 2009 19 Comments

Introducing the General Mobile DSTL1, a Dual SIM Phone that according to GSMArena, will be Android enabled and will be presented at the Mobile World Congress in February: First things first… we took a thorough look at General Mobile’s DSTL1 product sheet, overview and specs and didn’t see a single mention of Android. That’s not [...]