Huawei has shown everyone its first Android device at the MWC without mentioning a lot of important details. So far we know the handset will sport a 5 megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack and WiFi and a large touchscreen. The phone should arrive in late 2009 and T-Mobile might be the carrier to sell it in the USA and maybe in other markets too. That’s all confirmed by a Huawei spokesman but we’re still waiting for the official press release. The phone is rumored to be called the G3 once T-Mobile gets it but that’s still long from being absolutely accurate.

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Tags: Android, G3, Google, huawei, Other Brands, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

From what we hear HP is considering Android for its future netbooks. We’ve seen Android installed unofficially on other netbooks and MID but now it’s different. Satjiv Chalil, the vice president of HP’s PC division said that the company is in the process of assessing Google’s Android capabilities for its netbook line. Besides HP other netbook manufacturers are also rumored to play with Android for now. Asus and Dell might surprise us with new machines capable of running Android in the near future, including MIDs and smartphones.

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Tags: Android, ASUS, Dell, Google, Google, HP, Laptops, Mobile News, netbooks

Don’t get too excited since this is just another rumor, but that Huawei Android devices we’ve talked about during the MWC seems to be scheduled to arrive sometime in Q3 from T-Mobile. According to a source the phone is being tested and then it will be on its way to T-Mobile. The specs are still scarce. A 5 megapxiel camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, WiFi and that Cupcake you were waiting for your Android phone. T-Mobile hasn’t mentioned anything about the Huawei phone so we’ll be waiting for the first leaked shots of it to check for that T-Mo logo.

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Tags: Android, Google, huawei, Mobile News, Other Brands, T-Mobile

China has been waiting for the iPhone for a long while now. And from what we hear the phone will come officially for the Chinese customers via China Unicom. The carrier has posted iPhone specs on its official site without posting prices or actual availability dates. According to unconfirmed rumors, the phone will be launched on May 17th.

The G1 has also been spotted although it still wears T-Mobile branding. We’ll keep you updated on how and when the G1 will be available in China.

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Tags: Apple, China, China Unicom, G1, Google, iPhone, Mobile News, Other Brands

It looks like those Android phones from Acer are happening. The A1 touchscreen Android phone is going to arrive in September according to the Phillipine BusinessMirror. Unfortunately the specs still remain a mystery and we have no details about prices but they should all arrive in due time. Besides the A1 three other Acer handsets are going to be launched but we have no hot details about any of them either.

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Tags: A1, Acer, Android, Google, Other Brands, touchscreen

That first Android device, the HTC Dream has arrived in Italy and it’s going to be available from TIM. The phone will be offered for free for a contract but just in case you want to keep things simple you can also get it with a prepaid contract and it will cost you €429 or around $583. Would you be willing to pay that much for the G1 when the G2 is supposed to come out soon?

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Tags: G1, G2, Google, HTC, HTC, italy, Other Brands, TIM

Besides the HTC Magic which is coming soon HTC will launch at least two more new Android phones this year. And it’s all pretty much official since HTC’s CEO, Peter Chou said that at least three Android handsets are coming this year, including the HTC Magic. He didn’t give us more details to work on so we’re going to be expecting blurry leaks for two more Android phones.

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Tags: Android, Google, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Mobile Software

Samsung’s first Android phone is up in blurry pictures. And it looks like this Samsung special handset will be a candybar with a capacitive touchscreen display, a 3.2 or 5 megapixel camera, a 528MHz processor, microSD expansion, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, email, Internet browser and full Google integration. You’re also going to get quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA 7.2 and HSUPA 1.4 connectivity. Since this is all leaked news, we have no prices or release dates so far.

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Tags: Android, Google, Google, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Samsung, Samsung

Google has introduced a new Image Search results page for both the iPhone and the Android platform. If you live in the U.S. UK or Japan, your Image Searches will be significantly improved. Now you can scan up to 20 images on a single page and you’ll get detailed info with every image. And now images can be filtered by style: faces, clip art, photo content just like on the desktop version. Ready to test it out? Remember to go to the USA, UK and Japan. And iPod touch users relax, the new Google Image Search is available for the the touch too.

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Tags: Android, Apple, Google, Google, Image Search, iPhone, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MP3 Players

T-Mobile USA is definitely launching the G2. Question is when? According to some hot rumor, T-Mobile’s second Android phone is coming officially at CTIA. We’re about three weeks away from the event and we’re already wondering what other handsets we’ll get to see. The G2 was bound to arrive anyway. And by April that Cupcake update should be available too!
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Google has just released Android 1.1 for the unlocked version of G1. It will fix POP3 accounts among other things and it will also get involved in the way you access paid apps on your Android Dev Phone 1. Paid applications will be supported but you won’t be able to access any of them as long as they are protected by Android’s copy protection features. That means you will have access only to those paid apps that don’t come with copy protection. What will you choose then? A totally unlocked G1 with little access to paid applications or a G1 with a contract and with full access to all paid applications?

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Tags: Android Dev Phone 1, application, Google, Google, Mobile News, Mobile Software

What better way to start the week than with rumors about netbooks? Besides an Apple netbook which is said to be in the works, a Google netbook is also rumored.

And it’s all in the words of Google’s CEO Erick Schmidt:

What’s particularly interesting about netbooks is the price point. Eventually, it will make sense for operators and so forth to subsidize the use of netbooks so they can make services revenue and advertising revenue on the consumption. That’s another new model that’s coming.

Are we going to see an Android-based Google netbook soon? Is Google planning to make some extra money off the netbook business? What would you choose between an Apple or a Google netbook?

Tags: Android, Google, Google, Laptops, Mobile News, netbook, Portable Devices

A recent rumor is spreading around the Internet saying that T-Mobile might be more interested in Android phones for its future. Windows Mobile is said to be the one to suffer in all this as the OS will be dumped in favor of Google. Reinhard Clemens, board member at Deutsche Telekom has recently said that “Android will be a Windows of future”. This is just speculation here but the guy is simply saying that T-Mobile will have lots of Android phones in the future. Should Steve Ballmer worry? Will other carrier adopt similar positions?

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Tags: Google, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile. Android, Windows Mobile

The Dream is about to be launched in France and Orange is the designated carrier. Starting March 5 the Dream will be available for €99 when purchased with a 2-year contract and the Origami Star Plus plan.

Do you actually fantasize aboutOrange offering you the HTC Magic instead? What if I told you Vodafone was bringing the Magic in France soon? Which HTC Android phone would you choose?

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Tags: Android, Dream, france, Google, HTC, HTC, Magic, Orange, Other Brands, Vodafone, Vodafone

Despite the fact that the iPhone has already been jailbroken and unlocked, it doesn’t mean that others shouldn’t try it out. As a matter of fact, there’s a contest which will award the best iPhone hacker $10,000. Pwn2Own is going to be available at the CanSecWest security convention in Vancouver, Canada from March 18-20. Hackers will be given various other phones to play with. They will have to choose from Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhone and they will be able only to exploit “general actions a normal user would take while using the device.”

Besides the handset hacking, the contest also includes a web browser division. A Sony Vaio running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8, Firefox and Google Chrome and a MacBook running OS X and Safari and Firefox will be waiting for contestants to hack them. Every successful bug will get the hacker $5,000. Any hackers going to Vancouver to get some money hacking stuff? Let us know how it all works out for you.

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Tags: Apple, competition, Google, iPhone, jailbreak, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Portable Devices, Pwn2Own, Research In Motion, unlock

Is the HTC Magic coming via T-Mobile USA? Well besides Google telling us that, we now have FCC playing with the HTC Magic. However the Magic unit they doesn’t seem ready to support T-Mobile’s 1700MHz AWS band yet. That must only mean we’re expecting another HTC Magic version to arrive for the U.S. Android-friendly customers. Or is T-Mobile preparing a totally different HTC Android phone for later this year?

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Tags: Android, fcc, Google, HTC, HTC, Magic, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Vodafone

The Kogan Agora hasn’t been launched yet, but it seems that the folks behind it are working hard to make it happen. The phone is not ready to be commercialized just yet and it seems that Kogan is considering that full QWERTY keyboard with a touchscreen. That’s going to be a large, 3.8-inch screen ready to welcome your fingers. There’s still no official release date of the Agora but we’re going to keep you posted on its development.

via Gizmodo

Tags: agora, Android, Google, kogan, Mobile News, touchscreen

T-Mobile will bring a second Android phone to its subscribers later this year but is the HTC Magic we’ve seen over the pond at Vodafone’s going to be it? According to Google’s demo of Mobile Gmail in offline mode, the HTC Magic will wear the T-Mobile logo. If that’s what Google has shown us it must be close to real right?

The photo here is blurry but the T-Mobile logo is from the USA. It has one less dot left to the T than everywhere else in the world. There’s no good reason for T-Mobile not to launch the HTC Magic as the G2. Unless they have something even better up their sleeve.

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Tags: G2, Google, HTC, HTC, Magic, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Vodafone

Haier came boldly at the MWC with various MIDs named “NetBooks”, a mini-laptop and not one but two Android phones. We’ve seen plenty of MIDs and netbooks so far so we’d be more interested in the Android phones. Weirdly enough the two devices are called the G1 and the G2 but we have no official specs so far. The phones do exist but there’s no telling when they’ll hit the market. One thing is clear though, Android will only grow this year as everyone is getting in on the action. We’ve seen future Android phones announced before and during the MWC, so all we have to do is sit and wait.

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Tags: Android, Google, Haier, Laptops, MID, Mobile Software, MWC, netbook, Other Brands, Portable Devices

We’ve talked about the HTC Magic and about Huawei’s non-working prototype, both Android handsets shown at the MWC. Now it’s time for the DSTL1 which is General Mobile’s Android smartphone.

And the DSTL1 is a dual-SIM phone ready to impress us. It has a WQVGA screen, a 5 megapixels AF camera, 4GB of internal storage upgradeable via microSD and on-board FM. What won’t impress you is the lack of 3G connectivity. The DSTL1 will only be available in two tri-band EDGE versions. Still waiting on release dates and pricing. What do you think? Will it be a hit?

Tags: Android, DSTL1, dual-sim, General Mobile, Google, Mobile News, Other Brands