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Tired of your woeful selection of Android devices on AT&T? We hear you. Now buck up Mr. Sad Britches ’cause Samsung’s riding to your rescue. AndroidGuys has a purportedly leaked Samsung handset it’s calling the i897 that looks very similar to the Galaxy S specwise: 4-inch AMOLED display, Android 2.1 (for the moment anyway), and 5 megapixel camera. It’s built around a Snapdragon processor apparently, and even goes well with chicken. Now hit up the source for a few more pics.

Samsung i897: the answer to your AT&T Android dreams? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 01:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola‘s been making good with Verizon as of late, and according to the Wall Street Journal, the two just signed a deal to “ensure some of its upcoming smartphones will be heavily promoted” by the carrier.” The article goes on to say that Motorola is planning to launch a pair of such devices on VZW this year, with the obvious platform choice being Android for both. Our best guess would be the 4.1-inch Shadow / MB810 for one, but as for the smartphone? No clue. Even with great choices like the Incredible and EVO 4G on the market, like we said on last week’s Engadget Show, there’s never been a better time to wait on a new mobile purchase. Better yet, does this mean we can finally start retiring the original Droid from television? Thanks.

Motorola to launch two smartphones on Verizon in July, says WSJ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 21:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It isn’t just Verizon’s Lowell McAdam with fascinating commentary at this Barclays Capital tech conference going down in New York this week. Ron Spears, who leads up AT&T’s Business Solutions division, had some notable things to say about enterprise mobility — specifically, the iPhone’s role in taking businesses to the road, a magic trick typically associated almost exclusively with BlackBerry over the past ten years. Basically, Spears says that he’s seeing extraordinary uptake on the business side with the iPhone since 2008 and the introduction of the platform’s first enterprise-focused features; in fact, he claims that “four out of every 10 sales” are to enterprise users these days and that it has all but caught up to BlackBerry for the kind of modern, tight, full-featured security that your average IT department needs. On a related note, Spears says that he hasn’t “seen the Android platform yet in the enterprise space,” but that he figures it’ll evolve over time to become “hard to ignore” to the enterprise segment. Of course, considering that AT&T has virtually no presence in the Android market at the moment, we’re not surprised that he’d take a lukewarm tack — so here’s hoping that changes fast. Follow the break for more highlights of Spears’ comments.

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AT&T: 40 percent of iPhone sales are enterprise, Android ‘built with a very specific focus to consumers’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 17:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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On Thursday, Acer announced the Stream Android smartphone – although it’s unlikely that U.S. consumers will ever get their hands on it.

The Stream is a now-conventional slab-style Android phone running Android 2.1. While a press release issued by Acer doesn’t indicate the type of touchscreen used, the WVGA AMOLED screen measures 3.7 inches.  The phone is 11.2 mm thick.

Inside is a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, currently the high end of the market, 512 Mbytes of RAM, plus 2 Gbytes of internal flash memory and a bundled 8-Gbyte microSD card. The camera also includes one 5-Mpixel camera.

Connectivity options include 7.2-MBit/s HSDPA and 802.11n Wi-Fi, plus Bluetooth.

Some of the standout features, however, include an external HDMI cable, also a feature of the Sprint EVO 4G, Dolby Mobile sound, and the ability to record video up to 720p in resolution.

Acer has also included a redesigned multitouch interface, which the company promises will be common to most if not all of its new products, including laptops and all-in-one PCs. On top of that, Acer has added a custom phone UI, with a status bar that “appears as an innovative divider between logical spaces. It shows all
the essential information, providing shortcuts to most frequently used
settings and its position allows a very easy access to the settings or
notifications.”

Acer has also bundled Spinlets, a free music streaming service that connects to “major labels,” the company said.

Sounds neat, right? Unfortunately, Acer probably won’t bring to the phone to the U.S.