Articles Tagged “Rumor”

Amazon Android Tablet To Have Video Streaming?

by Aerol Bibat on Jun 15, 2011 2 Comments">2

Recently, everyone’s been talking about Amazon’s planned line of Android tablets. Being one of the world’s biggest companies, and arguably one of the best-positioned to introduced a new product to a market, there are a lot of rumors flying around about what exactly these tablets will bring to the table. After all, the tablet market is currently one of the most crowded places for a product to be nowadays. However, Amazon’s already available offering, the Kindle, may offer a hint. What Amazon did with the Kindle was provide a ready-made source for digital items that you can use on it, …

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HTC shelves its Android and Chrome OS tablets

by Susan Ellery on Jan 19, 2010 0 Comments">0

Remember the Android tablet from HTC that was supposedly going to debut at CES? The tablet and its super-secret unveiling never materialized and now we may know why. According to Anthony Petts, Australian Sales and Marketing Director for HTC, both the Android and Chrome-based tablets are being shelved so the company can focus on a new crop of smartphones. Disappointing news for the tablet fans in our midst but not surprising. With the Apple tablet rumors reaching a crescendo, many potential tablet manufacturers may be taking a step back to see what Cupertino has to offer first. [via wmpoweruser and …

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Android WordPress app in the works?

by Chuck Zich on Jan 03, 2010 2 Comments">2

Bloggers rejoice! There may be an official WordPress app in the works for Android devices. The Blog Herald has discovered that WordPress has created a blog subdomain at android.wordpress.org. If this is any indication of foreshadowing then let it be known that they did the same thing when creating apps for the iPhone and BlackBerry. Speculation has it that the app will launch around the Nexus One hoopla around January 5th so be on the lookout. Right now this is only a strong rumor but as soon as we have more information or details we will let you know. [via …

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Motorola to introduce two new Android handsets with OLED displays at CES 2010?

by Susan Ellery on Dec 30, 2009 0 Comments">0

CES 2010 is coming fast and the rumors about what will be announced next week at the industry’s largest trade show are starting to flow. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry jumped on the Android rumor bandwagon by predicting that Motorola will debut two new Android handsets with OLED displays during its pre-CES press conference on January 6th. One handset will be a Google experience phone (i.e., no MOTOBLUR) with a QWERTY keyboard and is headed to AT&T, while the other will debut with Verizon Wireless and will feature a soft keyboard. It will be interesting to see how this …

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HTC Incredible headed to Verizon Wireless?

by Susan Ellery on Dec 18, 2009 0 Comments">0

Engadget dropped a short but sweet rumor that would interest Verizon Wireless customers. According to a trusted source, the HTC Incredible is real and is headed for Verizon Wireless. As a reminder, the HTC Incredible was one of the names uncovered in the leaked HTC Android 2.1 ROM from a few weeks ago. No other details were revealed so we are left wondering if this rumor is indeed true and left imagining what might constitute a phone worthy of the name “Incredible”. Any guesses?

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Google phone headed to T-Mobile in January 2010?

by Susan Ellery on Dec 05, 2009 3 Comments">3

T-Mobile was the first US carrier to jump on the Android bandwagon, releasing the G1 when the Android platform was in its infancy. It only seems appropriate that the carrier is the first to be rumored to be getting the mysterious “Google phone“. According to a completely unsubstantiated rumor from a trusted source at TmoNews, the Google phone is supposedly codenamed Passion and will launch sometime during the first two weeks of January 2010. With only a few weeks left before we ring in the New Year, we should know the truth about this esoteric handset soon enough. Until then, …

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The Google phone, a Google-branded handset, a reality?

by Susan Ellery on Nov 30, 2009 1 Comments">1

Rumors out of Gizmodo suggest that the Google phone is a real, honest to goodness phone. According to a trusted but anonymous source, a Google-branded handset running a not-yet-seen build of Android is in the early prototype stage. These early prototypes, which feature large LCD displays, are expected to be disseminated over the next few weeks to employees at Google’s Mountain View campus. To add mystery and intrigue to the rumor, the source claims that the version of Android that we are rocking on our phones is not the “real” Android. If what we have currently is not the “real” …

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HTC now predicting over 1 million in T-Mobile G1 sales for 2008?

by Michael Oryl on Dec 22, 2008 0 Comments">0

It appears that today is a DigiTimes kinda day. The Taiwan based site is now quoting the Chinese language Economic Daily News website as providing some new information from Peter Chou, HTC’s CEO. According to EDN, via DigiTimes, Chou says that it will have sold more than 1 million T-Mobile G1 Android based smartphones by the end of this year, which is right around the corner. DigiTimes provided this text as being a translated quote from EDN: While there are slightly conflicting rumors circulating that either T-Mobile is going to launch an Android-based G2 handset in January and HTC is …

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