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Motorola Droid, not iPhone, is the Best Smartphone

7. November 2009

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Michael Arrington calls the Droid a phone “that is as close as we’ve come to the Platonic ideal of a smartphone. Its very existence ensures that the next iPhone will be even better than it otherwise would have been.” And he concludes that “Droid is the Alpha phone. And I will love it and only [...]

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Sears Sells Motorola Droid for $149.99 Off the Shelf

6. November 2009

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No mail-in rebate for Sears customers buying the Motorola Droid. Instead, Sears will drop another $50 is you purchase one. The Droid will comes with a 2-year Verizon contract of course. In other places, you will need to part with $300 from your wallet and wait for that mail-in rebate. Sears thinks you deserve a [...]

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LG Snapdragon Android phone due in Q2 of 2010

6. November 2009

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If you found LG GW620 Eve a little bit too tame for your taste, then we’ve got good new for you. Word is that LG is prepping a follow-up to their maiden Android release with one that packs a Snapdragon chip as its processor. Yup, that’s the same speedy Qualcomm chip that can be found [...]

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MOTO Android 2.0 AMP: OLED touchscreen MID for Developers

6. November 2009

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Joining the Motorola Droid in the Android 2.0 scene, Moto has just unveiled their new collection of Android-based MID products. Called the AMP, short for Android Media Platform, these are actually targeting developers who want a portable solution to test their Android wares out before unleashing them into the market. The only AMP version available [...]

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HTC Droid Eris now official on Verizon, $99 (after $100 MIR) on a 2-yr contract

5. November 2009

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Confirming everything we’ve already reported in the past, Verizon, together with HTC, has just announced the HTC Droid Eris, the new sibling of the Motorola Droid. It will indeed be released available beginning tomorrow, November 6, for $99 after a $100 mail-in rebate is applied on a new 2-year contract bundled with an email feature [...]

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Motorola Droid Commercial: Stealth Attack

3. November 2009

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If iPhone conquest and mobile domination isn’t in the agenda of Verizon’s Motorola Droid, I don’t know what is. Droid is without a doubt the best featured Google Android phone to date and the next big thing in touchscreen cellphones. Droid is dropping November 6. Just as Joshua Topolsky of Engadget showed Jimmy Fallon last night, [...]

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Android phone now Official

3. November 2009

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Just as promised in the teaser video, Sony Ericsson today launched their first Android offering, the XPERIA X10. Prior reports called this touchscreen beauty the Rachael and XPERIA X3, but now that it’s official, everyone can call it the XPERIA X10. Aside from its 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4-inch scratch-resistant touchscreen, 8.1-megapixel autofocus camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, [...]

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Multitouch: Motorola Milestone, not Droid (Jailbreak Again?)

2. November 2009

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You can use pinch to zoom on the Motorola Milestone (the European version of the Droid) but not on the Droid itself that Verizon will be offering. We have no idea why the Europeans get a multitouch Motorola but the Americans cannot as Android 2.0 software already supports multitouch. Engadget tells us some people suspect [...]

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Dell Mini 3iX spotted in Brazil, Includes WiFi, 3G

2. November 2009

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The last time we talked about the Dell Mini 3i Android phone was way back in August when it debuted in China. That particular model was only limited to the Asian country and sadly lacked both WiFi and 3G connectivity. That was 3 months ago, but today, a Dell Mini 3iX Android phone was spotted [...]

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O2 Motorola Milestone is the iPhone Killer of Germany

2. November 2009

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I like how the Verizon Motorola Droid rolls out of my tongue. In Europe, they messed with the Droid’s nae and made it the Milestone. Nothing wrong with that at all. The Milestone has also become a GSM phone. O2 Germany will release the Milestone on November 9 or three days after its American debut. [...]

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