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Conspiracy Theory: Verizon Wireless, Motorola Droid and Android 2.0

11.13.2009

In 2007 when the world was first introduced to the Open Handset Alliance and their goal of developing open standards for mobile devices we were thrilled.  Quickly thereafter the OHA’s first product was unveiled, Android, a mobile device platform with the goal of reinventing the smartphone landscape.  Now that Google has been able to develop [...]

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Verizon adds 100,000 Motorola Droid users and counting

11.11.2009

The massive marketing blitz by Verizon Wireless over the past couple weeks has finally paid off for Motorola and the wireless carrier.  Early reports indicate that over 100,000 Motorola Droids were sold over the opening weekend.  Despite the higher upfront cost of $299 before $100 mail-in rebate, the Droid was able to sell a large [...]

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Video: HTC Touch caught running Android 1.5

10.31.2009

We love a good Android port and in the latest YouTube offering we get to see Android 1.5 in action on the HTC Touch or HTC Elf as some of you know the device.  Thanks to the OMAP850 processor and simple cab file you can be off an running Android on your own Wing/Touch/Elf in [...]

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HTC President says no Android-based HTC HD2

10.31.2009

Talk about a way to ruin Halloween Droidfanatics, Peter Chou the president of HTC has confirmed today that there will be no Android version of the HTC HD2.  We have seen images of a rumored Android HTC HD2 set to launch on Verizon Wireless as the third device in their Droid series, but apparently the [...]

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Fring begins Android preview for 25 lucky users

10.28.2009

Whether your are looking to use Skype, Twitter, Google Talk or just about any other messaging client or Internet Voice Service (SIP), Fring is the device of choice for the mobile platform.  Beyond the fact that the software is free and currently available for Symbian, Windows Mobile and iPhone users, the software delivers as promised. [...]

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Is Google planning to release its own Android-branded Phones?

10.28.2009

This evening a foreign website is reporting that Google might be gearing up to release their own brand of mobile phones.  Rather than using Motorola, Samsung or Dell, Google will focus on their own brand much like Apple and the iPhone, but even take things a step further by bypassing the national carriers and selling [...]

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Unreleased Huawei G6600 Android Smartphone Caught in the Wild

10.27.2009

The Bluetooth SIG website has once again proven to be an invaluable tool for those of us who live and breath Android and unreleased gadgets, specifically smartphones.  The website has just listed a new device, the Huawei G6600, and it is expected to be released to Europe, Asia, South American and Africa.  What makes the [...]

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Android App Review Google Voice Search

10.27.2009

Voice recognition has always been an issue for smartphones, but in the our latest user submitted App Review, Billkos has proven that Google Voice Search on the Android platform is raising the bar.  After a quick voice search for “epigenetics new england journal,” the web browser quickly opens and returns the expected result.  For those in the [...]

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Airplay SDK brings cross-platform development to Android

10.27.2009

The solid SDK and attractive business model has lured many developers towards writing applications for the iPhone.  Today, Airplay has created a way for developers with a cost-effect way of creating applications for iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and BREW devices after only compiling their application once to native CPU instructions. Airplay takes care of the vagaries [...]

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Sony Ericsson begins Android Assault November 3rd

10.26.2009

Following the footsteps of Motorola, Sony Ericsson is expected to being parting ways with Windows Mobile in favor of the newer and arguable better Android OS.  Sure at DroidFanatic we might be biased in our ways, but honestly after a batched Windows Mobile 6.5 launch filled with lackluster features what exactly are people waiting for from Microsoft [...]

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