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LG is launching its first Android smartphone for the Korean market, the KH5200, on South Korean carrier KT.  But don’t get too excited, this isn’t really anything new. In fact, this just appears to be a re-badged GW620, which we’ve all seen before.
It features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a small’ish 3-inch HVGA resolution touchscreen display, [...]

For those that were not aware that Gigabyte make anything other than motherboards, think again. Within Asia they are familiar with the mobile phone manufacturing industry and are now looking to get their hands dirty with Android. Expected for release in north America, the ‘Codfish’ is set to land with Android 1.6. Despite the clear [...]

Every time I read about a new Android device, I cast my eye over the vital and make a decision about how excited to get. Due to my preferences and what I perceive the market wants, for me this always includes OS version, camera, but most importantly, processor. You will understand then when I say [...]

The HTC Incredible looks to be Verizon’s first Android 2.1 device. It offers the amazing Snapdragon CPU and 256MB of memory to support the newest version of Android, which has HTC’s Sense UI overlaid successfully on top. An interesting addition to the device is what appears to be an optical pointer, and camera enthusiasts can [...]

This video is far more interesting than my last post’s.  Here we have Todd Haselton of our sister site MobileBurn.com checking out the new Motorola DEVOUR that Verizon sent him yesterday.
The DEVOUR is an Android 1.6 device that is very much like the Motorola CLIQ for T-Mobile in terms of basic specs and functionality.

Don’t get too excited.  For one, this video is just showing the actual firmware update processes – for those that are curious.  Secondly, the update itself is not that interesting, either. A new app for moving contacts to or from a SIM card is available now, and imeem is gone, but otherwise there’s not much [...]

It appears that a new update for the Motorola CLIQ, 1.3.18, is starting the process of being distributed to T-Mobile’s Motorola CLIQ users now.
The update promises further improvements to the phone’s battery life, better Bluetooth support, and better touchscreen accuracy – all things I’m personally in need of.  There’s also some corporate mail updates, a [...]

While we were covering the 2010 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona last week, I had Russ Jefferies run over to the Acer booth to get some hands on time with the “new” Acer Liquid e.  I use quotes around new because this device is basically a regular Liquid that got an OS update and [...]

Rick Osterloh, VP of Android Software & MOTOBLUR services has been caught seemingly in his own cubicle, showing off the Motorola Devour in a nice 7 minute long video.  The video shows the attractive form factor and well spaced keyboard along with features of MOTOBLUR and Motorola’s new Moto Phone Portal.  The portal allows you [...]

Russell and I spent a few minutes checking out the T-Mobile Pulse mini at the 2010 Mobile World Congress event.  The Pulse mini is an Android 2.1 smartphone with a QVGA resistive touchscreen display that is also marketed as the Huawei U8110 (it is made by Huawei).
Check out the video to see the interesting homescreen [...]