Archive for 'Devices'

Free Droid phone from Google at ADL2010

I am attending Android Developers Lab (ADL2010) at Cambridge Massachusetts right now and today all attendees received a free Droid phone with one month service from Verizon. Unfortunately it is not unlocked as the IONs @googleio-2009, but hey  - it’s a free Android phone

Google advertises Nexus one on its homepage and all over its AdSense network

Google is really pushing the Nexus One hard. Check out how the homepage is looking. Yes – they advertise it right on the homepage!
I have been spotting a LOT (and I mean really a L-O-T) AdSense advertisements for Nexus one on the web in random places. What does it mean – google pushing Nexus One [...]

Who will rule the mobile market in 5 years?

From one of the discussions titled very similar, came this (in our opinion) very insightful comment by Alex Pakka
BlackBerry will have a major chunk of the corporate market for a while. The simple fact is, no one can come close to the infrastructure and this level of relationship with each individual carrier that fast. No [...]

Sneak preview of Sony-Ericson Android phone codenamed Rachel

I just wrote about how I am impressed by the Palm Pre (and yeah I am mainly impressed by Palm Pre’s UI) and I am concentrating lately on UI design, so I am simply living the UI design lately and I was so much more impressed by palm than iPhone. But I still have a [...]

Bright Future for Android powered HTC device – HTC Magic more than 1 million units to be sold

Taiwan-based HTC Corp expects worldwide sales of the HTC Magic handset, its second Android phone, to hit 1 million units within one or two months, said CEO Peter Chou, the Taipei Times reported on Friday.
HTC and Chunghwa Telecom Co yesterday launched the HTC Magic in Taiwan. HTC and Vodafone Group Plc unveiled Android-powered handsets in [...]

Android market share to grow 900% in 2009

Android market share is prognosed to grow somewhat mighty 900% in 2009 compared to its debuted year — 2008. The platform is definitely still receiving a lot of interest and attention both among the consumers and developers, but with only one headset on the market it tool about 6 month to reach 1 million units [...]

Yet another Android powered tablet PC

We have posted about a tablet PC running Android previously and there were also couple other prototypes we didn’t cover, but now it seems that there is finally a tablet PC running Android that will be mass produced.
Seem like almost from nowhere, the world’s first Google Android netbook has appeared from a Chinese manufacturer, Guangzhou [...]

Android based Dream to be sold in France

It seams that HTC dream will soon become available in France through Orange. It may beat to the punch the reported release of Dream running Androidn in Spain that we reported earlier. There are rumorred to be 4 different plans starting quite low and ending quite high. Interestingly enough, Orange is not a member of [...]

Modified HTC Dream will be soon available in Spain

It looks like Spain will soon be getting an Android-based handset to call their own. The handset will be released by Telefonica carrier and will carry the HTC Dream name (G1 is actually HTC Dream). Aside from having the “original HTC name” and not Google rebrended name G*, is also appears to have received a [...]

Interesting take on Google vs. Apple battle over multitouch

Quite an interesting take has Steven Musil from Cnet news, where he  have posted an article today having an interesting and seems quite personal take on Android vs. Apple battle over multitouch. Oh yeah, there is also the Palm Pre in the picture. The mixtures of those phones makes it interesting to see what king [...]