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Huawei made it known that they were going to be announcing their IDEOS X3 and X7 at MWC. Indeed, they held true to their word, releasing the news this morning that the devices will be available second quarter of this year is various European and Asian markets. Full press release after the break.
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Huawei Introduces IDEOS line – X3 Smartphone and X7 Tablet

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After all the buzz over the first series, DYZPlastic is giving us a sneak peek at their Series 2 Android Mini Collectibles. Each of the three posted designs are said to “have a little surprise of their own,” but we’ll have to wait and see. You can expect this new set to be arriving at the dead zebra shop and a few other shops in early March.

Source: DYZPlastic

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Earlier today, Barnes & Noble issued a press release which revealed that the NOOK line of eReaders has become the company’s biggest bestseller of all time. Furthermore, the NOOKColor was B&N’s top seller this holiday season, even though it was released just eight weeks before Christmas.

The company has also revealed that digital book sales have now surpassed sales of physical books on BN.com. The Android-based reader has certainly been a huge success for B&N, and it will be interesting to see how the NOOK and the Kindle continue to compare to one another in the coming months and years. Continue after the break for the full presser.

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NOOK line becomes Barnes & Noble’s biggest bestseller and top holiday gift

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Here’s a short one for you. According to the official Twitter account of Samsung India, Android 2.3 Gingerbread will be coming to the Galaxy S line. The tweet sent out states:

@jaiber Yes we will get gingerbeard on GalaxyS ^PC

So, if you’ve got a Galaxy S, this could be great news… unless Samsung decides to change their minds again. Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments below!

Samsung India confirms Gingerbread coming to Galaxy S line

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Sharp has been doing some interesting things with their lineup of Android phones, and while they may rely to an extent on gimmicks such as glasses-free 3D, their offerings thus far haven’t looked all that bad. For now, Japan is just about the only place you can get a piece of Android on a Sharp device, and the trend continues with the Galapagos line of tablets announced for the Land of the Rising Sun.

Two sizes were shown off, a 5.5-inch device with a resolution of 1024×600 for 39,000 yen ($473) and a 10.8-inch version with a resolution of 1266×800 at a price of 54,800 ten ($642). The prices might put these slightly out of reach for consumers looking for a more cost-friendly tablet, but we are interested to see what Sharp has to offer.

Plans for a US release aren’t know just yet, but Sharp has expressed interest in extending their Android offerings to the States, so we could see them eventually.

[via IntoMobile]

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According to research group Chitika, The Motorola Droid is the top Android device based on traffic coming through their network. Next up is the EVO, followed by the Droid X and the Incredible. 16% of the traffic comes from 4G devices, which shows that 4G is surging in popularity. As more and more 4G devices become available, I would expect this number to increase substantially.

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EVO and Droid line among the top Android devices by traffic

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T-Mobile UK customers with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 family of devices rejoice, because T-Mobile is pushing through Android 2.1 to your mobile devices next week! It’s been a long wait, and now you’ll finally be able to enjoy Eclair in all its glory. Sure, it’s no Froyo, but it’s a drastic improvement still! I wouldn’t even want to think about how long it may take to get Froyo out, but be happy you’re not on Virgin Mobile UK, cause they still haven’t gotten any word on an Android 2.1 update yet at all.

We don’t have an official date, but when we know, we’ll spread the word!

T-Mobile UK sending out Android 2.1 to Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 line Next Week

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It looks like Amazon is offering some pretty sweet deals on Verizon’s Droid line, including the Incredible for only a penny. The Droid X can also be had for $99, the Droid 2 (regular, not global) is $80, and the Droid Pro is $150.

You have to order between 12 midnight PDT on November 19, 2010, and 11:59 p.m. PDT November 29, 2010, but that gives you plenty of time to decide. All of these deals require a new 2-year contract, so if you’re in the market for a new Droid and need a new contract as well, Amazon certainly has some good deals.

Great deals on Droid line from Amazon

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Harman AKG has released 3 new headphone models under its new Quincy Jones Signature Line.

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Are any of you Verizon Wireless customers looking for a Droid, maybe the Incredible, or maybe the 2? If the $200 price tag makes you want to faint, there is another way to get your Droid on, and it will definitely save you a chunk of change.

Sears is now offering the Droid Incredible and Droid 2 for $69.99 and $89.99, respectively. That definitely beats the $199.99 that Verizon Wireless is offering for both of the devices. Free standard shipping via FedEx is also offered, so if you haven’t pulled the trigger on one of Verizon’s Android devices, now may be the time.

Sears announces lowered prices on the Droid line

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LG isn’t lying down yet in the Android 2010 Market. LG has said that it plans to launch 10 new Android devices by the year’s end. The LG Optimus 1 is launching in September, and the company also has an Optimus tablet planned for Q4. The high-end devices will likely be running on NVIDIA’s Tegra processor. According to LG, the race for LG Android phones “hasn’t started yet.”

Is anyone excited about LG’s Android plans? Tell us what you think in the comments.

LG Optimus line will have 10 devices by the year’s end

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Product: Streak

Manufacturer: Dell

Wired Rating: 7

Ed. note: Dell has not announced a price for the Streak.

Here’s what you need to know about me. I spend more time checking e-mail, playing with apps and browsing on my smartphone than actually talking on the device.

So what if there was a gadget that had an enormous screen that also focused on apps and reading. Oh, with a phone feature, too.

That would look a lot like the Streak, a 6-inch slab of glass and electronics running the Android operating system — except it bills itself as a tablet. Streak is targeted at smartphone users who crave a larger display but still need a device that’s portable and could potentially replace their phone.

The Streak isn’t there yet. It is a bit of everything — a brilliant 800 x 400 display, a 5-megapixel camera, a reasonably capable phone, a solid browser and access to Android apps. But it doesn’t blow you away with any of the features. There was nothing about it that made me want to abandon my current phone or tablet.

The Streak’s 5-inch touchscreen display is just a tad bigger than the latest crop of Android smartphones (HTC Evo and Droid X each sport a 4.3-inch touchscreen) but significantly smaller than the iPad’s 9.7-inch display. That puts the device in this awkward middle ground: too big to be a real phone, too small to directly take on the tablets.

Despite a gargantuan screen, the Streak sure doesn’t suffer from obesity issues. It weighs 7.8 ounces, so it won’t rip a whole through your pocket nor will you feel too silly holding it up to an ear.
It’s also just 9.9 mm thick — almost on par with the iPhone 4 (though the iPhone is much smaller with its 3.5 inch display.) The tapered edges and rounded corners means it’s as svelte as Zoe Saldana, but don’t expect to cram it in a pair of jeggings anytime soon.

The device is also locked into landscape mode on the home screen. Sure, when you access an app you can switch over to a portrait configuration, but this feature is a little confusing at first.

Dell hasn’t extensively reskinned the Android 1.6 OS for the Streak, preferring to add just a few widgets and some user-interface enhancements. Some of it works pretty well: Two nice touches are the shortcut at the top of the screen that lets you click applications and the addition of a numeric pad next to the alphabets on the virtual keyboard.

But with the Facebook and Twitter client, Dell has taken two extremely popular tools and created versions that are … pretty unusable. For instance, you can’t check direct messages or @replies with the Twitter client, or photos and your inbox with the Facebook one. Instead of Dell’s widgets, we recommend you download the apps from the Android market and use them.

Also missing are little UI touches that would have made the device go from good to great. The ability to directly delete widgets off the touchscreen — as with the iPhone — rather than having to press a separate menu button to do it is just one example.

The Streak uses version 1.6 of the Android OS, which should be familiar to any Android phone user. The 1-GHz Qualcomm processor — pretty much a standard fixture on premium Android smartphones — keeps the device zippy.

But the older version of the OS (major smartphones are expected to update to Android 2.2 Froyo this summer) also means features are missing, such as support for Flash or multiple Gmail accounts.

The browser works beautifully on the larger display. Web pages feel more spacious on the screen, and the pinch-to-zoom feature makes it easy to handle. What would have helped is a little kickstand (as in the HTC Evo) to make watching videos on the Streak easier.

Dell isn’t offering its battery life spec, but the Streak’s battery lasted about eight hours of a heavy day’s use — using Google Maps’ turn-by-turn navigation for about 30 minutes, downloading eight or so apps from the Android market, checking e-mail, making a few calls, and playing with the browser. After flogging its capabilities all day, it finally went kaput around 8 in the evening.

Ultimately, that’s what we think defines the Streak. It is not a device for multiday use like the Kindle or the iPad. You will still have to plug the Streak in at the end of the day to keep it juiced.

Really this is a device that looks, acts and even quacks like a phone. Sure it’s a tad large, but it sure is capable. And after all, big is beautiful.

WIRED Sleek, slim design fits right into the pocket or a tiny purse. Simple UI makes for an easy-peasy experience.

TIRED Shutter lag makes photography difficult, Android 1.6 OS is so last-year. No Flash or tethering.

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The odds are, unless you attended Disney Consumer Products’ presentation at the 2010 Licensing International Expo, that you have never seen Wayne Newton sing the Perry the Platypus theme accompanied by a chorus line (wearing Perry-inspired costumes) and huge Disney walkaround characters of Phineas, Ferb, and Perry. Well, perhaps “seen” is the wrong word — how about “experienced?”

Either way, you can now fill that terrible void (that you probably didn’t know existed until a few seconds ago) in your life, through the magic that is YouTube:

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As we mentioned earlier, today’s keynote at Google I/O 20210 was almost all about the FroYo, now officially Android 2.2. All of the rumored improvements proved to be true, with the speed and performance components bringing the biggest wow factor. Here’s a rundown of what’s new:

Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound code vs. Android 2.1 according to various benchmarks.

New enterprise capabilities: We’ve added Exchange capabilities such as account auto-discovery and calendar sync. Device policy management APIs allow developers to write applications that can control security features of the device such as the remote wipe, minimum password, lockscreen timeout etc.

Faster, more powerful browser: We have brought the V8 JavaScript engine to the Android browser as part of 2.2. This has resulted in a 2-3X improvement in JavaScript performance vs. 2.1.

Rich set of new APIs and services: New data backup APIs enable apps to participate in data backup and restore, allowing an application’s last data to be restored when installed on a new or a reset device. Apps can utilize Android Cloud to Device Messaging to enable mobile alert, send to phone, and two-way push sync functionality. Developers can now declare whether their app should be installed on internal memory or an SD card. They can also let the system automatically determine the install location. On the native side, a new API now gives access to Skia bitmaps.

Additions to Android Market: Android Market provides Android Application Error Reports, a new bug reporting feature, giving developers access to crash and freeze reports from users. Developers will be able to access these reports via their account on the Android Market publisher website.

Home screen: New Home screen tips widget assists new users on how to configure the home screen with shortcuts and widgets and how to make use of multiple home screens. The Phone, applications Launcher, and Browser now have dedicated shortcuts on the Home screen, making it easy to access them from any of the 5 home screen panels.

Camera and Gallery:  Gallery allows you to peek into picture stacks using a zoom gesture. Camera onscreen buttons provide easy access to a new UI for controling zoom, flash, white balance, geo-tagging, focus and exposure. Camcorder also provides an easy way to set video size/quality for MMS and YouTube. With the LED flash now enabled for the Camcorder, videos can be shot at night or in low light settings.

Portable Hotspot: Certain devices like the Nexus One can be turned into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot that can be shared with up to 8 devices. You can use your Android-powered phone as a 3G connection for a Windows or Linux laptop by connecting their phone to the computer with a USB cable. The connection is then shared between the two devices.

Languages: Multi-lingual users can add multiple languages to the virtual keyboard and switch between multiple Latin-based input languages by swiping across the space bar. This changes the keys as well as the auto-suggest dictionary.

That’s a pretty hefty list, and that’s only for the front-end. Backend features for developers have also been greatly enhanced, which we’ll detail in another post.

So now the last big question remains: When will 2.2 be released? On Twitter, Google I/O has already stated Nexus One will be the first to get the upgrade “In the next few weeks”, and 2.2 going to device manufactuers and the open source community “in the coming weeks”. Developers can already download Android 2.2 SDK and NDK revision 4 at Android.

It looks like Nexus One isn’t so dead after all.

[Souce Android, Twitter]

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If anyone ever doubted HTC was at the top of their game (and at the top of the industry as a whole) then they’re always there with impressive numbers to shut anyone up. In April alone, the Taiwanese manufacturer raked in $571.9 million US dollars. Combined sales from the beginning of January 2010 puts them up to $1.8 billion US dollars so far.

Compared to this same period last year, HTC’s enjoyed a near 30% increase in revenue. Undoubtedly, they’ve been gaining steam with a large number of smartphone introductions since the beginning of 2009 – leading the pack with best-in-class offerings – and the rest of 2010 can be just as good, if not better thanks to the heavily marketed HTC Droid Incredible and the upcoming game-changer HTC EVO 4G.

[via Androinica]

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Engadget has nabbed information on Dell Windows Phone 7 phones and Android talbets, expected this summer and fall.

The Phone 7 Lightning device is a “portrait slider” device that houses a Snapdragon processor and a 4.1-inch display based on thin and bright OLED technology. It has a five megapixel autofocus camera, 1GB of flash with 512MB RAM, plus 8GB of storage on a MicroSD card. It also has GPS, an accelerometer, compass, FM radio, and full Flash support including video playback.

Though the phone will apparently will tap into AT&T and T-Mobile 3G networks when it arrives later this year, Engadget says Lightning could also receive an upgrade that would let it run on faster emerging 4G so-called “LTE” networks, shorthand for Long Term Evolution.

The Thunder handset carries similar specs but uses Android 2.1 with a similar 4.1-inch WVGA OLED screen. It apparently ties into Facebook and Twitter for social networking, and taps Swype for a touchscreen keyboard replacement

Dell’s Mini 5 is now called the Streak and due shortly. The 5″ Streak features an 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display (with multitouch zooming), WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G WWAN connectivity, all riding atop an Android 2.0. It may launch with an Amazon content partnership.

Dell’s 7-inch and 10-inch Streak tablets were also leaked. They will compliment Dell’s 5″ Streak. Dell’s Streak line will bump up to Android 2.1 in September.

The Looking Glass is a seven-inch big brother to the Streak 5. It is expected to run Android 2.1 on a Tegra 2 processor, with an optional TV tuner module so you can watch ATSC or DVB-T programming on the seven-inch 800×480 display. There’s a 1.3 megapixel camera, 4GB RAM, with another 4GB of flash for storage, and an SDHC slot for up to 32GB of expansion.

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