Good news Android lovers! T-Mobile is ready to send the new Android OS update to your G1 or myTouch 3G. Today it’s G1’s turn and tomorrow myTouch 3G phones will get the Android 1.6 Donut. All you have to do is make sure your T-Mobile phone has access to a fast speed network and enough battery juice left to receive that over-the-air upgrade. Once that’s done you can enjoy all the new features of Android 1.6. If anything goes wrong with your G1 or your myTouch 3G during the upgrade don’t forget to tell us about it also!

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Fortunately for Android fans there’s another phone coming your way from HTC that’s going to run Google’s OS. The Desire is the phone in question and it looks like the handset have been blessed by the FCC. The phone might be heading to Verizon soon and it could become the first Android phone to be sold by Big Red. Besides being approved by the FCC, the phone has also received WiFi certification from the WiFi Alliance. And that’s all the news there is to it. Hopefully the Desire will be at least as hot as the Hero and we envision it coming with Donut on and HTC Sense UI on top. What do you think?

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The last we heard, the Acer A1 was set for a release this month and while don’t see the device on the shelves yet, it is at least available for preorder now from Expansys Germany, a good sign.  The device, as we already knew, comes with Android but specs sheet up on the retailer’s site reveals that the A1 will come with Android 2.0 (Donut) preloaded and a 768MHz processor, which is no Snapdragon but faster than the rest of the Android smartphones out as of now.  Expansys has it priced at $571, but that should change when it is picked up a carrier in the near future.

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Tags: A1, Acer, Android, Cell Phones, Donut, Expansys, Google

The HTC Tattoo is no Hero, but it still has the Android factor, which in itself is a selling point right now.  Vodafone has announced that its UK customers will have the first go at this 2.8-inch touchscreen device and according to the press release, it will be packing a few treats when it is released.  Riding alongside its 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5mm headset jack, GPS, and microSD support will be an FM radio and Android 1.6 operating system.  That enough for you to buy this device? If you said yes, go ahead and reserve yours now!

Tags: Android 1.6, Cell Phones, Donut, HTC, tattoo, UK, Vodafone

A few days back, speculations were rising that Google would be releasing the Android v1.6. Well now it is all official! Google officially launched the Android v1.6 (also known as the “Donut”), armed with a wide array of features that should make Android developers all jumpy and curious. Among the new features of the Donut include CDMA support and better resolution which bump screens all the way up to 800×480 thus providing support for better images for higher end-screens.

Other enhancements include a new “Quick Search” box and a battery usage system. These and a whole lot more of enticing features are what the new Android promises to provide developers. Google expects first sanctioned appearances on devices to start popping out by October.

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Android 1.6 or Donut might be on its way soon since it has already been spotted. It looks like Google is doing some house cleaning and fixing some important issues in the Android Market. Google has been working on a new interface and most importantly, it has announced that developers will now be allowed to add screenshots and improvements to the descriptions of their apps. This is quite a big deal and the new Android Market will be available together with Android 1.6 Donut.

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Tags: Android 1.6, Android Market, Donut, Google, Google, Mobile Software

As all of you Android users already know, the Android Market isn’t the most attractive app store available today, but that all may change soon enough

The above screen shot was sent to CNET from an anonymous tipster who says the new Android Market look will make its first appearance in Donut. The fact that it is to appear in Donut raises the question over whether or not the T-Mobile G1 will see the new design as it was said the device will not be getting updates past Cupcake.

As of now this is far from confirmed but from the looks of it it looks pretty legit. The fact that it

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Here’s an announcement that is sure to piss off T-Mobile G1 owners everywhere — It was recently made known that the internal flash memory of the T-Mobile G1 is not big enough to support Android updates past version 1.5 (aka Cupcake).

However, G1 owners won’t be left in the dark as their OS will get continued support through tweaks and security fixes. However, a full OS update would be impossible considering the device’s internal memory is stock full, as I mentioned above.

Quite the bummer, don’t you agree?

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, G1, Google, HTC, Mobile News, Mobile Software, OS, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

Motorola is trying to keep its Android work as secret as possible but more and more details seem to unexpectedly leak to the public. And Motorola’s future Android phone, the Shules seems even hotter than initially expected.

The phone will apparently run on Android Eclair as it will skip entirely the Donut version. Does that mean that the Shules is going to be the first handset running on Eclair?

A different rumor says that the Shules will a device made for gaming as it will come with ARMv7 architecture and 3D graphics support.

The phone will apparently be available from Verizon and AT&T and/or T-Mobile. That’s right, a GSM version is also in the works and AT&T and especially T-Mobile should be interested in the Shules.

With so many rumors on our hands, we have to wait for Motorola to start spilling the beans. Is anything of what we’ve just said true?

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Following up on all this Donut excitement we’ve seen over the last couple of days we hear that the Donut might not be Google’s Android 2.0 version. In fact, an Android team member, Romain Guy, said that Donut is not 2.0 but he failed to describe exactly what this update is. Guy went on further to say that Donut will not come with multitouch support so we’ll have to wait for some other Android version to bring us that feature.

On the other hand Cupcake wasn’t exactly 1.5 since 1.5 came from the Cupcake code branch. Should we assume that Donut is just another code branch that’s currently developing Android 2.0? What about Eclair and Flan?

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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.

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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?

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Google’s own Andy Rubin has confirmed at a T-Mobile and Google event that we’re going to have more Android OS updates in the near future. Donut is already in the works with the Eclair and the Flan coming out later. He didn’t mention any arrival dates and specific features but we do know that these new Android OS versions will be centered on social internetworking. That means your future Android phone will be able to integrate Facebook updates when receiving incoming calls from some of your contacts. You’ll be able to see the current pictures and latest updates of that person in the contact list that’s currently calling. And hopefully we’re going to have even more social networking services integrated with the new OS.

We’ll be waiting for Google to further detail all these new internetworking features and dazzle us with even more new interesting additions. In the mean time we’re expecting more Android phones to arrive this year, as that earlier estimate of at least 20 phones this year has been confirmed again by Andy Rubin.

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Not to be left off the Google OS wagon, Sony Ericsson has now announced that it wants a piece of the Android cake too.  And not just a Cupcake, but a Donut.  The company already has its fingers in quite a few pies already with Symbian and Windows Mobile handsets, and the addition of an Android 2.0 devices to its future lineup should dispel any rumors that it is thinking about bringing down the number of operating systems on its smartphones.  According to Peter Ang, Vice President of Marketing, Asia Pacific, the reason for the leap to Android 2.0 bypassing the current 1.5 Cupcake is that the 2.0 version “will provide more multimedia support” than the previous versions.  By the way, did everyone on T-Mobile receive their update yet?

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