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Entourage eDGe dual-screen Android ebook reader gets video hands-on

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 1 Comment

The Barnes & Noble nook will – when it finally starts shipping – be the first dual-display ebook reader that we’re aware of, but over in Taipei Entourage have been showing off their own version of a dual-display machine, the eDGe. Their form-factor is strikingly different from the nook – it looks like a particularly chunky book – with two similarly sized displays, e-ink on the left, a color touchscreen on the right, and NetbookNews grabbed some hands-on time with the working prototype recently.

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Android 2.1 plus HTC Sense ROM leaks

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

Remember the leaked screenshots of Android 2.1 complete with HTC Sense running on the esteemed Hero? Well now you could recreate that yourself, thanks to a leaked Hero 2.1 Eclair ROM over at xda-developers. The software is classed as alpha, which means you probably don’t want to necessarily trust your everyday Android handset with it; for instance, there’s no Google synchronization support right now.

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HTC Touch.B – aka HTC Rome – leaks

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

Live shots of a new HTC smartphone have leaked, supposedly the quietly rumored HTC Rome. The HTC Touch.B has a daftly punctuated name and runs Android, according to MobiFrance, and looks very much like the Windows Mobile powered HTC Touch2.

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T-Mobile USA in talks for LG Android smartphone?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

lg gw620 official 8 540x388 We’re not the sort to deal in scandalous rumor-mongery, but have T-Mobile USA officials been clandestinely meeting with LG Electronics at the latter’s Seoul headquarters? That’s the talk out of TelecomsKorea, who peg the US carrier as one of LG’s potential lifelines for turning around its drooping market share in North America.

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Zii TRINITY 3.5G ZMS-05 dev smartphone announced

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

ziilabs zii trinity 1 As promised last month, the ZiiLABS team have revealed their first smartphone development platform, the Zii TRINITY, based on the company’s StemCell ZMS-05 processor and throwing in quadband GSM and triband WCDMA/HSDPA. As before, 1080p Full HD is supported together with accelerated OpenGL ES 3D graphics, while up front the TRINITY has a 3.1-inch 800 x 480 OLED capacitive touchscreen. In the future, ZiiLABS say, there’ll be a 4G version supporting the even higher-speed mobile networks.

The Zii TRINITY also squeezes in WiFi b/g, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and a 5-megapixel autofocus camera (plus a front-facing VGA camera for video calls), along with a microSD card slot. Wired connectivity includes micro USB 2.0, mini HDMI and composite video output. The battery is a 1,130mAh pack, and the TRINITY will run both Creative’s own Plaszma OS or Google’s Android platform.

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Inventec N18 Android MID supposedly just $350 [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

Rumor may have it that Inventec have slashed R&D for MIDs, but that doesn’t appear to have prevented development of this clamshell Android device. The Inventec N18 (on the left) is a 250g mini-notebook running Google’s Android OS, with a 528MHz processor (the same as inside the HTC Hero, we’re told), a 4.8-inch WVGA touchscreen and WiFi.

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New B&N nook orders delayed until January 11th

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

Barnes and Noble can’t seem to get a break with the nook ebook reader: having confirmed yesterday that the Android-powered dual screen device would only see limited in-store availability, the online listing now suggests that new year shipments won’t begin until January 11th. That’s a week later than the January 4th date B&N told us yesterday.

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Android Developer Challenge 2 winners announced

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

android adc Google have announced the winners of the second Android Developer Challenge, with the three top apps being SweetDreams, What the Doodle!? and WaveSecure. Decided by a combination of public vote and Google’s own say, the full list stretches to 200 apps and ranges from gaming through utilities to social networking apps.

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Official Google Phone supposedly spotted again: launch “a certainty”

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

After the last batch of "Official Google Phone" rumors, now comes Gizmodo with a source of their own to quote. That unnamed source claims to have seen the device themselves, describing it as "Google-branded hardware running a version of Android we haven't yet seen". As for that hitherto clandestine OS build, not only was it spotted running on a smartphone but on a laptop as well, and the source is convinced they weren't looking at Google Chrome OS.

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Motorola MILESTONE gets video unboxing

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

Shipments of the Motorola MILESTONE began in Germany a few weeks ago, so it's a little surprising that we've waited this long for an unboxing video. jkkmobile picked up one of the Android 2.0 handsets - known as the Motorola DROID in the US - and promptly opened it up on video. Video unboxing after the cut