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Spotted at Twitter is supposedly the first image of the now infamous Google phone. This handset is a mirror of the HTC Passion image that was leaked back in October. The only thing missing is the HTC logo on the top bezel, an omission that is consistent with this being a Google-branded phone. Take this one with a pinch [...]

The dust is finally settling after Archos officially released their 4.8’’ 800×480 resolution touchscreen Internet tablet that boasts 16 million colours. In what better place to tantalise the taste buds of prospective buys and technology enthusiasts and let rip the news that more is on the way. This time, it’s a ‘Phone Tablet’. A what [...]

Taiwanese electronics company Universal Microelectronics, or UMEC for short, has an interesting looking videophone on display at IFA 2009. This is certainly something different for Android and a break in the mold for UMEC. The device offers a beefy ARM Cortex A8 processor along with a 10.1’’ capacitive 1280 x 720 pixel touchscreen. Naturally, there [...]

Having finally sorted their website, news from the Geeks’phone camp is starting to come smooth and steady. What’s more, we have somewhat of an exclusive to show you here. Below are a couple of pictures of the official prototype taken at their manufacturing plant in the Far East. After a closer inspection, it is clear [...]

Not so long ago we bought you the news of the Geeks’Phone “ONE”, an Android product from a new start up in Spain. When we first saw this device, we had little information about the company and even less about the product itself. At first, we will admit that we were sceptical, but having caught [...]

As you may remember, last month we revealed how the Android Dev Phone did not have access to the paid applications from the Android market place. This was primarily because of the fact that this version of the HTC Dream provided complete root access to the device, and therefore offered read, write and copy access [...]

According to the Spanish Engadget reporting from Barcelona at the MWC, Acer are set to launch 2 ‘secret’ handsets this year running Android. This is on top of the 8 other handsets running various operating systems (primarily Windows Mobile) that they have already announced. Unfortunately, we have no second source to back up these claims, [...]

Over at the Boy Genius Report, the rumor mill is churning over leaked pictures of an (allegedly) upcoming Acer handset to be announced at the Mobile World Congress in a couple of weeks. The BGR speculates that this device could be an Android smartphone, but we think otherwise due to the lack of hardware keys [...]