Android Authority

Rumors and gossip about Android devices and software.

A Business Week article by Olga Kharif is reporting on recent statements by Moe Tanabian at IBB Consulting, who claims to have seen the first Android phone for T-Mobile. Tanabian has said that the new phone will support the rumored T-Mobile App Store, which we expected, and that the initial device, at least, will [...]

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HTC Dream from FCC documents

Well, the cat has been let out of the bag, it seems. HTC’s Dream has popped up on the FCC’s website, and it appears to support 3G connectivity on the 1700MHz AWS band that T-Mobile has just recently started rolling out in the USA. As Engadget has also pointed [...]

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It looks like the New York Times is getting into the race for Android rumors.  They have just posted a new T-Mobile/HTC Dream rumor that everybody will run with like a dog that has stolen a bone off the kitchen table. The story from the Times is located here, but feel free to read [...]

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This is far from a sure thing, but a device that could be the HTC Dream has been caught on video running Android. This white smartphone in the video looks the part of what we have been led to expect from HTC’s Dream - a slide-up display that reveals a QWERTY keyboard and [...]

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Just say no to idiots

You may have noticed that I haven’t been covering every single instance of some random analyst claiming to have sources that say that Google or HTC will or will not be ready in time for a promised Q4 Android launch date. I also feel no need to get all journalistic [...]

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Today mocoNews put up a story that cites “multiple sources” as informing it of T-Mobile USA’s plans for an open application store for all of its platforms, including Android. The new application store would replace the carrier’s currently closed deck that its customers are restricted to.
Supposedly the plan is to do something similar to [...]

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Information week is reporting that analyst firm J. Gold Associates is saying that it expects Nokia’s newly open sourced S60 UI and Symbian OS and Google’s Android are going merge starting in the next “three to six months.”
J. Gold states that the merger makes sense because they are both open source and the move would [...]

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The Wall Street Journal

According to a story posted today by The Wall Street Journal, Google is experiencing some delays that will cause some of the upcoming Android based phones to be pushed back a bit for release. From the start Google has said to expect new devices in “the second half” of 2008, so [...]

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A couple of videos have shown up on YouTube that claim to show Android running on a Nokia N95 smartphone, a device that normally runs the Symbian OS with Nokia’s S60 user interface.
Android has been sucessfully ported to Nokia’s Linux based N810 Internet Tablet, as well as a number of HTC smartphones that run Windows [...]

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Google has responded to Gary Krakow’s story that there would be no Gphone announced by the end of the year by stating that they are, indeed, on track for Q4 Android based devices, and that a few “partners” have promised as much.
But is it just me, or is this not what Gary (or his source) [...]

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