Jun 02

T-Mobiles Next Android Phone Coming This Summer

Posted in: Android, Smart Devices, t-mobile, Today's Chili

Android 1.5 home.jpgT-Mobile will offer their next Google Android phone “early this summer,” according to an e-mail we got from T-Mobile. They say they’ll have more to tell us about the specific device later this month.

Their existing phone, the T-Mobile G1, has been a million-seller for them and recently got a major upgrade to Android OS 1.5. According to T-Mobile, there are now more than 4,900 apps available for download in the Android Market.

We’re pretty sure that the next T-Mobile Android phone will be the HTC Magic, which Google handed out last week at their Google I/O conference. The Magic we got was loaded with 30 days of T-Mobile service and worked on T-Mobile’s unique 3G band. You can read our news editor Mark Hachman’s impressions of the HTC Magic in his Gearlog post.

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Jun 02

T-Mobile USA: next Android set coming “early summer”

Posted in: Android, breaking news, BreakingNews, HTC, t-mobile, t-mobile usa, T-mobileUsa, Today's Chili

By our calendars, “early summer” is pretty much now — so we’re excited to hear that T-Mobile USA has officially announced its plans to release its next Android-powered device in that timeframe. The carrier isn’t saying what that phone is, but if we were the betting type, our money would be on a carrier-branded version of the HTC Magic / Google Ion — possibly to be called the myTouch 3G — especially since it’s been rumored for eons and we now have unlocked AWS versions of the phone out and about. Stay tuned as we find out more.

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T-Mobile USA: next Android set coming “early summer” originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 02

Android goes Canadian: Rogers launches HTC Magic and Dream

Posted in: Android, canada, Google, HTC, smartphone, Today's Chili

We knew exactly when the revolution was coming, and come it did. Just as promised, Rogers Wireless is now selling the Android-powered HTC Dream and HTC Magic, which marks the first official entry of the Google-built OS into the Great White North. Both handsets are ready to dabble in the Android Market and surf on the carrier’s 3.5G network; all that’s left for you to do is hand over $149.99 on a three contract and nab a box of Tim Hortons donuts. Mmm, donuts.

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Android goes Canadian: Rogers launches HTC Magic and Dream originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 02

Video: ECS T800 netbook brings us to our knees with Android on 1GHz OMAP3

Posted in: Android, Features, netbook, texas instruments, ti, Today's Chili

This is quite possibly a better Vaio P… you know, if it actually worked. This non-functional stunner of a prototype is sitting pretty at Computex, an event where OEMs (like Sony, HP, and Dell) shop from the latest ODM (like Foxconn and Compal) designs before tweaking for retail launch. Instead of taking chances with Vista overpowering an Intel Atom processor, however, the ECS T800 on display at Computex is destined to run Android on your choice of 800MHz OMAP3 3440 or 1GHz OMAP3 3450 TI processors. It measures in at 246 x 121 x 20-mm / 800-grams (1.76-pounds) and packs an 8.1-inch display, 512MB of memory, a 2.5-inch hard disk or SSD, and a pair of internal Mini-PCIe slots for WWAN cards. Regarding ports, we’re looking at 2x USB 2.0, a 4-in-1 card reader, and an audio jack for your headset. Hey ODMs, we’re interested (even if the case for Android on a netbook hasn’t been clearly defined) especially if it can be offered for $99 or less through a subsidized carrier agreement. So who’s going to bite first, huh? Maybe you Dell now that your Mini 9 netbook has been discontinued. Video after the break.

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Video: ECS T800 netbook brings us to our knees with Android on 1GHz OMAP3 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 02

Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3

Posted in: Android, breaking news, BreakingNews, intel, netbook, Today's Chili

Acer’s been straightforward with the fact that it’s been dabbling with Android on netbooks. In fact, the entire industry seems to be. Now we’ve got word that Acer will in fact launch an Android-based netbook in the 3rd quarter of 2009. The move was announced by Acer’s global president for IT products, Jim Wong. The Android netbooks will run Atom (sorry Tegra hopefuls) and presumably cost less than Windows XP-based netbooks that require an estimated $25 tithe to Microsoft. Acer will continue to offer Windows-based netbooks along side the Android builds. Whether Android, an OS designed for smartphones, will succeed in gaining back market share lost to Microsoft remains to be seen. But if Microsoft’s boasting about consumers wanting netbooks offering the same OS experience they’re used to is true, well, how can Android succeed where those early Linux distros failed?

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Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 02

Video: Tegra-based Mobinnova élan running Windows CE rocks our world

Posted in: Android, breaking news, BreakingNews, NVIDIA, tegra, Today's Chili, video, Windows

To quote our Engadget Chinese editor, Andy Yang, “Tegra really rocks!” Our team in Taipei grabbed a video of the 8.9-inch Mobinova Elan in action and came away seriously impressed. NVIDIA is really pushing the HD playback and gaming capabilities of this Tegra-based netbook smartbook machine. In fact, we saw it running a 1080p trailer as smooth as silk. Now we know what you’re thinking, Windows CE… ugh. Remember, CE (and Android for that matter) runs on the ARM-based Tegra whereas XP, Vista, and Windows 7 won’t. Besides, NVIDIA was showing a custom UI with an OS X-like application launcher along the bottom. No word on price yet or availability but we’ll update you when we’ve got more. Video after the break.

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Video: Tegra-based Mobinnova élan running Windows CE rocks our world originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 01

Hands-On With the Google Ion

Posted in: Android, HTC, Smartphones, Today's Chili

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Webmonkey editor Michael Calore went to Google’s I/O developer conference last week and triumphantly returned with a new Android phone (dubbed the Ion) in his mighty paw. The handset is essentially an HTC Dream — the next-generation version of the T-Mobile G1 — with a few cosmetic tweaks and loaded with Android 1.5 software. It wasn’t fully baked yet so we did a preview on the device and didn’t assign a rating to it. From Mike’s preview:

Google’s developer device is loaded up with Android version 1.5. This build is much improved over the G1’s software. Configuring things like ringtones, wallpapers, alarms and behaviors is a breeze, and direct access to the Android Marketplace makes installing apps a no-brainer. The notification system — a bar you pull down from the top of the screen — makes it easy to switch between active applications without having to go back to the main screen.

You can read the rest of our take on the Google Ion right here.

Photo by Jim Merithew for Wired.com


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Jun 01

Video: Eee PC Running Google Android

Posted in: Android, Google, mobile, netbook, Notebooks, OperatingSystem, qualcomm, snapdragon, Today's Chili

The video above demonstrates a prototype of an Asus Eee PC netbook running Google’s open-platform mobile operating system Android. Spotted by TweakTown at the Computex conference in Taipei, the netbook is shown playing 720P high-definition video. The device is based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform, which is powered by a 1GHz processor.

Running a smartphone OS on a computer sounds peculiar, but here’s the kicker: Because the platform is designed to consume very little power, no cooling is required. That presents an opportunity to create even thinner notebooks than the ones we see today, such as the MacBook Air. And it would also substantially extend battery life.

Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist for research firm In-Stat, told Wired.com in May that he expects Google Android to receive support from netbook manufacturers. He explained that it’d be appealing for netbook companies, because they’d be able to distribute an open-source OS backed by a big brand.

Netbooks have plenty of room to grow in terms of software. Currently, the most popular OS among netbook customers is Windows XP. However, XP is several years out of date and not optimized for mobile performance. Therefore, if Google fails to win over consumers in the smartphone space with Android, perhaps it will focus on tweaking the OS for netbooks.

Sounds intriguing — a Google-powered, ultra-thin netbook that can stay awake longer than I can? I’d buy one, wouldn’t you?

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Jun 01

Video: fanless Eee PC running Android on Snapdragon hands-on, oh my

Posted in: Android, ASUS, breaking news, BreakingNews, Features, hands-on, HandsOn, snapdragon, Today's Chili

Now we’re talking Computex. We, along with Tweaktown and JKK Mobile just spotted an ASUS Eee PC netbook smartbook prototype running Android on a 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. Now get this: the design is fanless due to Snapdragon’s low power consumption. The result should be a device with oodles of battery life and $0 Microsoft licensing tax if this thing ever goes production. The prototype runs the 1GHz version of the Snapdragon chipset and is thus capable of 720p HD Video and everything else already spotted in Toshiba’s TG01 smartphone. But as we saw this morning, beefier Snapdragon chipsets running at 1.3GHz with enhanced graphics and 1.5GHz with dual-CPUs are on the way. Check the video after the break.

[Via Jkk Mobile and Tweaktown]

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Video: fanless Eee PC running Android on Snapdragon hands-on, oh my originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 29

Video: HTC Hero with ‘rosie’ Android UI leaked?

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After making a brief appearance on YouTube this morning, what seems to be a promotional video for the HTC Hero has been resurrected courtesy of Android Community. Not only do we see Hero in 7 different colors, but we get another glimpse at HTC’s purported “rosie” Android UI already seen in that supposed tutorial video a few weeks back. So sit back and click on through, don’t cost nothin’ but 89 seconds that you were just going to dither away anyway.

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Video: HTC Hero with ‘rosie’ Android UI leaked? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 May 2009 08:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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