Archive for September, 2010
Motorola i886 – Android-based iDEN with QWERTY – Hits FCC
Motorola’s gearing up to launch their next Android-based iDEN phone as the Motorola i886 just traversed through the FCC in familiar fashion. The FCC filing brought to surface the phone’s user guide which gives us a very clear look at what we’re getting. It’s unique not just because it’s the first Android-based iDEN [...]
Vodafone Announces Android “945” Smart Phone
Yesterday we heard that Vodafone was releasing 3 new phones, one of them the 945 is an update to it’s own 845 launched earlier this year. The phone itself is an self-branded, competitively priced, Android smartphone. Shipping with 2.1, it’s not the most up to date phone software wise but hopefully that will change. The hardware of the [...]
More details surface on Amazon’s Android App Store via Distribution Agreement leak
While Amazon still has not made an official word of their plans stepping into the Application Market, an App Store Distribution Agreement has been sent out. The terms and conditions are pretty thorough and similar to what we heard a few days back. Among them, the royalties for app placement in the store is “equal to the greater of (i) 70% of the [...]
Altek Leo Official with 14MP Camera
Taiwanese digital camera maker Altek, has announced the release of their 14-megapixel Leo handset. According to Altek, and our exhaustive memory, this marks the first device to feature such a high resolution camera. Running Android 2.1 under the hood, the Leo boasts a 3.2-inch WVGA touch display, WiFi, Bluetooth, and HSUPA connectivity. Altek [...]
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Leaked Distribution Agreement all but Confirms Amazon’s Android App Store
Rumors of an Android app store run by Amazon have caused quite a stir, but they have remained merely rumors. But now a leaked Distribution Agreement for the supposed Amazon app store is lending a whole dose of truth to the whispering. It still remains to be seen when we will hear of a formal announcement regarding the marketplace, and there is [...]
Exhaustive List of Droid R2-D2 Launch Party Locations
If you have been ticking the days off the calendar waiting for tomorrow so you could get the Motorola Droid R2-D2 (who would have guessed this day might come before you could land a real girlfriend), anticipating the launch party and hoping it in some way might rekindle the magic of those midnight lines for the new trilogy (or in some cases the [...]
Fido Gets its First Android: the Acer Liquid E
Canadian carrier Fido has just scored its first Android handset, the Liquid Acer E. While the phone may be showing its age a bit, it is available for a price that could never get old. For $30 dollars you can grab the handset on a three-year voice and data agreement. If it has been a while since you heard about the E, a quick refresher of the specs [...]
Vodafone Announces Own-Branded Android ’945′ Smart Phone
Yesterday saw Vodafone announcing the launch of a new Android-powered smart phone that will bear the carrier's branding. The Vodafone 945 which follows on the 845 announced earlier this year, runs Android 2.1, and features a 3.2-inch capacitive multi-touch screen with haptic feedback, a 5-megapixel camera with flash, and 300MB of built-in [...]
Froyo a No Go on the Samsung Galaxy Beam
The Samsung Galaxy Beam had the potential to be a pretty innovative device with it’s built in projector for playing your media nice and big on any surface without the need for TV hookups. To that extent, it accomplished its goal, but its limited distribution gimped the phone from making any sort of larger impact. As it stands the Beam has [...]
