Mozilla has been making some noises about porting its Firefox web browser to Android. Until fairly recently this wasn;t do-able given that Android applications ran on Google’s Java virtual machine, but with the release of the NDK 1.0 (Native Development Kit) apps can run on Android itself. Mozilla had previously commented that because of the [...]

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HTC’s first Android phone, the Dream (or T-Mobile G1), was ostensibly pitched as an “iPhone killer” but was really an alternative to a legion of lookalike Windows Mobile phones. The Magic — called the myTouch 3G in the US — encroaches much more directly on Apple’s territory. It’s thinner, sleeker and the first Android device [...]

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T-Mobile this evening officially launched the Dash 3G. The new interpretation of the HTC Snap has native support for its carrier’s 1,700MHz 3G network but replaces the stock Windows Mobile 6.1 phone’s Inner Circle feature with MyFaves for free calling to five US contacts. It otherwise has the full feature set, however, including the 2-megapixel [...]

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Troubled Motorola has more bad news for industry analysts as its first quarter results don’t look too rosy. The manufacturer fell just short of its goal of $5.62 billion in sales with sales of $5.4 billion. Motorola’s handset division accounted for $1.8 billion of that figure with 14.7 million handsets having been shipped, which gives [...]

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Today Samsung announced the i7500, its first phone running Google’s Android platform. The i7500 will have a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, and 8GB of built-in memory. It also has a microSD clot for additional storage (up to 32GB). The i7500 is quad-band GSM/EDGE, tri-band 900/1700/2100MHz HSDPA 7.2Mbps [...]

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Less than two weeks after the early-look Android 1.5 SDK was launched, the Android Dev Team has now unleashed the Android 1.5 SDK, release 1.
Also known as Cupcake, the Android 1.5 SDK can be downloaded from here.
Of course, since the SDK is targeted at developers, simple Android users are still not able to upgrade their smartphones [...]

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G1 Android phone users have been waiting for the longest time on when the Android 1.5, or better known as the Android cupcake update, will be released, but thankfully, T-Mobile in Germany has finally spilled the beans on its availability as they have posted this teaser page up on their website. Mentioning the inclusion of [...]

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Android 1.5 has had some changes to its UI, minor changes it has to be said, but changes nonetheless. The new default look may not be groundbreaking, but the changes are enough to potentially cause problems for some existing apps. This is due to the minimum button size having been reduced from 44×48 to 24×48.

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Sony Ericsson fans awaiting the release of the company’s first Android powered handset won;t see it any time soon according to Sony Ericsson President Hideki Komiyama. Mr Komiyama didn;t say when the company would produce an Android handset, just that it will take some time to develop.

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Vodafone UK are taking pre-orders for the HTC Magic, the world’s second Android powered handset. The blurb on the Vodafone order page says that pre-orders should be delivered by 5th May.
The handset is available for free if you sign up to at least a £30/per month 18 month contract, the £30/month presumably including an online [...]

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Google announced that it has updated Gmail and Google Calendar for mobile – more exactly, for iPhone and Android.
The new Gmail for mobile uses browser technologies like HTML5 and Gears, thus it’s “a lot faster” when it comes to opening emails, searching and navigating. Also, even though your network connection is slow or non-existent, Gmail [...]

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Alright, we have no idea why Lenovo’s phone division is suddenly pumping out copycat handsets, but these supposed shots of the Android-based oPhone’s UI look awfully familiar, don’t you think? Combine that with the equally-fishy rip of Samsung’s TouchWiz UI found in the recently-announced X1, and it more or less seems like Lenovo’s running a [...]

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Currently, there is only one Android-powered device on the market - that being the HTC G1, which is exclusive to T-Mobile. Several other companies, such as LG, and Motorola, have announced intentions to release Android-powered handsets. It’s being that Samsung’s first Android-powered device is to be available sometime from July to September of this year.

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T-Mobile have said the Cupcake firmware update for their Android-powered G1 handset will be available next month. The new update will bring with it a host of new features. It’s said that the launch of the Cupcake firmware update will coincide with the launch of HTC’s Magic - which is exclusive to Vodafone.
The Magic should [...]

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LG have confirmed that the company’s KS360, which was released last year, is to be re-released, pre-loaded with Google’s Android OS, making it LG’s first Android-powered device. Specification-wise, the KS360 remains the same as last QWERTY keyboard. year’s offering, such features include a 2MP camera, and a slide-down QWERTY keyboard.

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