It looks like Google has indeed released that Android Donut update which we were talking about the other day. And some developers have been able to install it on an Android Dev Phone 1 / T-Mobile G1 version already. The version is not exactly that stable and it might crash one too many times but at least some people get the chance to play around with Donut.

Those of you already running Android 1.5 on their smartphone will also be able to switch it to a cooked 1.5 build filled with 2.0 features until a stable Donut version will be officially available. As always, don’t play with any software if you’re not exactly sure what you’re doing.

via Engadget

Tags: Android, Cupcake, Donut, Google, Mobile News, Portable Devices, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

The next Android update is going to be referred to as the Donut and it looks like Google is thoroughly working on it. While there’s nothing official about it, it’s said that Donut will bring you multitouch support, universal search, automated backups, text-to-speech features, a new camera application and a general improved performance.

But you know what’s even more interesting? It looks like Donut brings in CDMA support which must mean Sprint is getting an Android phone after all. Now we need good old Google to confirm all these and we’re especially interested to see if the Hero is going to be indeed Sprint’s first Android smartphone. What do you think?

via xda-developers

Tags: Android, CDMA, Donut, Google, Hero, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Portable Devices, Sprint, Sprint

Leading wireless communication solutions provider Cellular South is reportedly set to unveil a new Android Smartphone within the year, possibly being the first wireless company to offer a smartphone with the latest Android open source platform.

Taking its cue from the growing demand for wireless solutions to date, it seems that Cellular South is setting its sights at overtaking the popular phones in the market, including the popular iPhone from Apple. And their marketing point for this transaction is that of the Android platform which is growing popularity, touted to be the top player in smartphones in the coming years.

Cellular South expects to release more details on the new Android smartphone device soon, including the introduction date, pricing, manufacturer, model and other product features.

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Tags: Apple, Cell Phones, cellular south, cue, Google, iPhone, iPhone, marketing, Mobile News, open source platform, popularity, product features, smartphones, solutions provider, wireless communication solutions

Google is proud to announce that their Google Latitude service is now available through Apple’s flagship handset, the iPhone.

Don’t go looking for it on the App Store, however, as Google notified us that it is a web app only. But why? Don’t we already have the Google Maps software preinstalled on our iPhones? Yes, but Apple expressed concern over people potentially thinking Google Latitude is the preinstalled Maps software.

I agree with Apple, we can’t have people unintentionally stalking eachother, right?

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Tags: Apple, Cell Phones, Google, google latitude, GPS, GPS, iPhone, iphone web app, Mobile Software, software

The HTC Click which we’ve already seen in leaked photos so far is going to be the cheapest available Android phone. This entry- to mid-level phone will cost somewhere from $280 to $336 and that’s the unlocked price. The source for the price is a Vietnamese forum so we definitely have to be waiting for the official HTC announcement to be sure. If all that proves to be right you can expect carriers to offer you the Click free with new contracts.

via tinhte

Tags: Android, Click, Google, HTC, HTC, Price

AdMob has a new report in and this time it’s taking a look at the geographic distribution of the iPhone and its little brother, the iPod touch. It also focuses on the increased popularity of the Android OS over Windows Mobile but let’s take a closer look at everything!

First things first then! Let’s look at how AdMob analyzed everything. The company offers mobile ads and its quite popular with developers. Therefone it analyzed data from over 16.8 million unique iPhones and iPod touch players which browsed over 7,000 web sites and used over 2,500 apps in June.

That’s how AdMob to reach some of the conclusions we have already presented. But let’s start with some numbers! 54% of iPhone and iPod users are based in the USA while the remaining 46% are spread around the globe. France, Germany and the UK have all more than 5% of all iPod and iPod touch units. 38% of the total iPhone OS devices in North America is represented by iPod touch units. Apple has sold over 45 million iPhones and iPod touch units worldwide which means that about 13 million iPhones and 12 million iPod touch players arrived in the USA alone. These are some impressive numbers and we expect them to grow as soon as the iPhone 3GS will hit other markets.

Next is Android, another hot OS which is also gaining momentum. According to AdMob:

Requests from the Android OS increased 25 percent month over month. Android has five percent worldwide OS share and is slightly ahead of Windows Mobile for the first time.

It looks like Android users like to browse a lot more and use a lot of apps compared to Windows Mobile users.

via Press

Tags: AdMob, Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, iPhone OS, iPod Touch, microsoft, Mobile News, Windows Mobile

Google Maps was great as it was but the latest version of 3.2 adds one more major feature to an already awesome application.  Version 3.2 now provides users the ability to add multiple layers of information to the maps simultaneously such as Latitude friends’ locations, public transit, traffic with real-time updates, Wikipedia, and local search results.  Users can also add their own custom-built routes created on a PC to the map with the My Map layer.  The local search results can then be displayed as tiny red dots for quick access just in case.  Head over to Google Maps website on your Symbian S60 or Windows Mobile-powered handset to download it.

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Tags: Cell Phones, Google, google maps, Mobile Software, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile

It seems that HTC has finally gotten fed up with Windows Mobile as rumors suggest that Android will be powering 50% of all their handsets in 2010.

But before they make the Android switch, HTC will reportedly be running Google’s OS on 30% of their 2009 handsets. I wonder how this is making Microsoft feel.

We’ve already seen the Hero and Click, what’s next?

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Click, Google, Hero, HTC, HTC, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, rumor, software, Windows Mobile

Well folks we have a new Android phone from HTC but I guess that’s not a surprise anymore. What’s interesting about this HTC Click that has appeared in pictures around the web is that it’s supposed to be an entry-level phone. That means you should be able to purchase your first Android phone for an even lower price. No numbers have been mentioned yet and we don’t have any clear data regarding features so we’ll be waiting for HTC to tell us all about the phone soon.

via pointgphone

Tags: Android, Click, entry-level, Google, Google, HTC, HTC, pictures

After we’ve seen the X2 earlier today, now we’re going to take a closer look at the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X3 aka Rachael. The first Sony Ericsson Android phone has some specs available now so let’s see them:

• Quad-band GSM connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Dual-band 3G (900/2100 MHz) with HSDPA 10Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps
• 4 inches touchscreen display with 800 x 400 pixels
• WiFi IEEE 802.11g
• A-GPS
• Bluetooth 2.1
• 3.5mm audio jack
• E-mail (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, MS Exchange)
• MiniUSB
• MicroSDHC card support

Should we assume that Sony Ericsson has purposely leaked the X2 and X3 again? Is the company going to announce them soon? After all we were waiting for this announcement a few weeks ago but it never came!

Tags: Android, Google, Mobile News, rachael, Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Xperia X3

Google has today announced that they will now give Google Earth users the ability to explore the Moon.

Not only will you be able to see the the Moon in all of its glory but you will be able to thumb through a bunch of historic images and videos and tour landing sites as you listen to narration by actual Apollo astronauts.

Couple that with the ability to view 3D models of spacecrafts that have landed on the moon and being able to zoom in and see the actual footprints of astronauts and you have yourself a very immersive experience.

Included after the break is a full video run down of the new software including how to access it and what features it will contain.

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Tags: 3d environemnts, astronaut, Desktop PCs, Google, Google Earth, Laptops, moon, software, space

LG hasn’t announced yet its first Android device but it looks like we might have a name for you. Apparently the GW620 Eve is LG’s first device ready to run on Android. Of course LG isn’t officially commenting on the matter so we’ll have to wait a while for it. Rumored specs of the Eve are an HVGA touchscreen display, a full-QWERTY keypad, WiFi, UMTS and WiFi connectivity and an Android browser. It’s this hint that ruined the surprise and made everyone realize that the Eve could be the first Android device available. Should we expect T-Mobile to just grab it and launch it soon?

via NewMobile

Tags: Android, Eve, Google, GW620, LG, LG

Some recent rumors point to a September release of new Acer smartphones. It looks like the company is ready to release a bunch of phones come this fall. The A1, C1/E1, F1 and L1. We’ve been waiting for Acer to make up its mind and announce at least a couple of the handsets mentioned above. The A1 for example will be an Android-powered smartphone while the F1 will be a Windows Mobile phone powered by that Snapdragon platform from Qualcomm. We’ll be waiting for Acer to confirm the rumors and offer us more details about these hot phones.

via DigiTimes

Tags: A1, Acer, Acer, Android, C1, E1, F1, Google, L1, microsoft, qualcomm, SnapDragon, Windows Mobile

Google has recently announced that they have launched a Google Voice mobile application for the Blackberry and Android mobile platforms.

If you were lucky enough to get an invite to the Google Voice service you should definitely check this out as it will let you place calls and send SMS with your Google Voice number as well as view voicemail transcripts.

To download the Android application just head to the Android Market and search for Google Voice. However, on the Blackberry just point your browser to m.google.com/voice and you’re good to go.

Tags: Android, Android Market, application, BlackBerry, Cell Phones, Google, Google Voice, mobile app, Mobile News, MP3 Players, Research In Motion, SMS

Visual voicemail has been out for some time now on phones such as the iPhone, Samsung Instinct and various Blackberry models. However, most handsets running Google’s Android operating system haven’t gotten the same love.

Luckily, T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G will in fact include visual voicemail and the TmoNews has been kind enough to demo the software for us. You can view 3 videos of the service, here.

Once this software is up and working, the question remains if it will be ported to other Android devices. I guess only time can tell at this point.

via EngadgetMobile

Tags: Android, Cell Phones, demo, Google, HTC, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MyTouch 3G, software, T-Mobile, video, visual voicemail

Have you seen the last Palm Pre ad? Well just play the video above. “Go With The Flow” is the name of this simple ad campaign and it will not surprise you with anything. The Pre is a very dependable device but the ad doesn’t really let you see all that magic. Would you buy the Pre after viewing just that single ad? That’s of course assuming that you haven’t heard about the phone so far! The commercial is following that first Palm Pre ad, entitled “Flow”, which was more alive and definitely meant to make an impression. “Go With The Flow” will not be the kind of commercial you talk about with your friends. Nothing really happens in it.

On a different note, it looks like Palm wants to indirectly promote Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Is that the purpose of this ad? Will Google or Apple react in any way?

via PreCentral

Tags: Ad, Apple, Apple, Bing, Commercial, Google, Google, microsoft, microsoft, Palm, Palm, pre

If you’ve been dying to give Android a spin ever since it was announced to be a working PC OS but don’t want to sacrifice any of your files or time installing it, nows your chance.

LiveAndroid version 0.2 has recently been released to the public. This software is a LiveCD that will allow users to run the operating system without installing anything. All you do is download the LiveAndroid ISO, burn it onto a CD, reboot your PC and then run it.

Furthermore, the LiveAndroid team notifies us that you can also run the software in a virtualization app such as Microsoft Virtual PC or VirtualBox.

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Tags: Android, Google, Laptops, live android, microsoft, microsoft virtual pc, Mobile Software, operating system, software, virtualbox, x86

When Google announced their forthcoming Chrome OS a few days ago people wondered if it would go on to replace Android as Google’s mobile OS as well.

However, Google’s VP of Mobile Engineering Platforms, Andy Rubin, recently told the community that there is nothing to worry about and that Android is here to say. He elaborated by saying a mobile OS has much different priorities (such as network protocols and cell tower communication) than those found from a desktop OS.

So Android adopters, you can lay your worries to rest, Chrome OS and Android will exist together without replacing one another. However, I can see some very deep integration of the two within one another, don’t you think?

via OverclockersClub

Tags: Android, Andy Rubin, Cell Phones, Chrome OS, community, Desktop PCs, Google, Mobile News, Mobile Software

Remember the Google Chrome OS screenshots we showed you yesterday? Well we have some bad news for you. It looks like these screenshots were doctored. In fact the new OS hasn’t been leaked yet and we can assume Google is safely guarding it for now. We can also assume that other so-called leaked shots will appear in the future so don’t trust everything you see!

The creator of the fake screenshots has gone ahead and declared the following:

I am sorry if you beleived it. It was a really bad attempt. You all are smart people. I never planned on it getting this big. But it did. (Come one, I know the Google logo. I am actually a graphic designer, I just wanted to see reactions if it was a crappy back.)

Oh, right, I also DO know CSS and HTML. Just clarifying that. I never was going to let this go on longer than 12 hours.

Disappointed?

via chromeosleak

Tags: Chrome OS, Fake, Google, Google, leak, Mobile News, Screenshots

What kind of phone would you expect Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, to use? An Android powered phone, right? Or at least an iPhone given the companie’s close alliances. Well, if you guessed either of those, you’re wrong

As you can see from the above picture, Mr. Schmidt would much rather opt for a BlackBerry rather than an Android powered handset or even an iPhone.

But wait, at least he has a Google sticker on the back so he isn’t doing all wrong.

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Tags: Android, BlackBerry, Cell Phones, CEO, eric schmidt, Funny, Google, iPhone, Research In Motion