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Images and specs leaked to DroidDeveloper begin to unravel the mystery surrounding the rumored MyTouch Slide, a QWERTY-packing side slider headed to T-Mobile. The MyTouch Slide appears to be standard slider with an ARM11 CPU (rumored to be the same 528MHz Qualcomm processor seen in the Magic), a 320 x 480 display, an optical trackpad, [...]

We stumbled upon a little known Android handset from Korean manufacturer OCOSMOS whose specs rival that of the Nexus One. The OCS5 features a 1.0 GHz processor, a 3.7″  AMOLED /24bit(16MP) color / 800×480 touchscreen display, a 5MP camera, T-DMB mobile TV, WiFi, GPS, twin stereo speakers, and the Android OS with Omos interface. OCOSMOS [...]

DigiTimes is reporting that Micro-Star International (MSI) will release an Android based tablet later this year. The as yet unannounced device will offer a 10’’ screen with a rather chunky bevelled boarder but in typical DigiTimes fashion, there is no name to accompany the device as yet. At least they have not conjured one up [...]

According to a German Mozilla community website, the mobile version of the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser Fennec, may be due to arrive on Android in February 2010. The German speaking website camp-firefox.de reported that a first beta version of Firefox for Android is functioning and that most of the critical work has been overcome. [...]

Michael Dell was caught in Switzerland briefly showing off his new toy in red.  The quasi-tablet/phone has an astounding 5″ screen and looks to fit comfortably in his hand, yet when sitting next to an iPhone, it looks gigantic.  We posted a hands on video a few weeks ago of the device as well as [...]

HTC may have been the first, but they are not the only handset maker to partner with Google to produce a “Google Phone”. Speaking to analysts during Motorola’s Q4 2009 earnings conference call, Co-CEO Sanjay Jha revealed that Motorola will be working with Google to produce a handset which will be sold directly to the [...]

DROID owners that don’t mind voiding warranties can head over to areacellphone.com and following the nine step process to overclock your DROID. The process requires you to root your device and flash your phone with the aptly named evilboot8.img to overclock your DROID to 800MHz, evilboot9.img to reach 900MHz or evilboot1g.img for blazing 1GHz. As [...]

Rumored to be announced at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain, the phone to the right is going by the codename of “Zeppelin”.  This makes little sense as this phone has also been going by that name and has been made very official as of late (although since ditching the Zeppelin title).  For [...]

In the midst of all the iPad news today, Google has quietly made available the desktop dock for it’s flagship device, the Nexus One.  For a mere $45 you get the black molded plastic to the right and the following features:

Check the local time and weather
Set and clear alarms
Watch a slideshow of your photos
Play music
Dim [...]

Last week we brought you video of the Motorola MOTOROI in action in an extreme closeup of the phone on YouTube.  Another video of even more length has been uncovered from a South Korean press event showing off more of the phone’s unique features, including the HDMI video playback on a large screen.  The quality [...]