November 3rd, 2009.  Along with the official announcement of the XPERIA X10 from Sony Ericsson, another lesser known device was announced; The SE MW600.  What’s that you ask?  The MW600 is a stereo bluetooth FM receiver that will accept any standard 3.5mm headphones/earphones and includes a small OLED screen for displaying called ID and or music track titles etc.  Also, it supports remote volume control of your phone as well as a few noise/volume enhancing features.  Continue Reading…

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Rumors of an honest to goodness Google Phone, have been circulating for a long time now.  Well, according to Techcrunch, those rumors have come true finally, as many employees and friends of employees are filling Twitter with tweets about the device.  The tweets tell us that the device was given to Google employees at the last all hands meeting of 2009 and their job is to test the device in the real world and try to hammer out any bugs that might pop up before an early 2010 release.  It’s built by HTC, which isn’t too much of a surprise as HTC seems to be building a new Android cell phone every couple hours.  It comes with Android 2.1, which might include some new visual enhancements such as animated home screen backgrounds.

Hardware details are a little scarce, but it will come with a “super high resolution OLED display,” a mic on the back of the phone that helps to eliminate background noise, is “really, really fast,” thanks to a nice snapdragon processor.  This phone supposedly has all kinds of GSM netowork frequency capabilities built in so it should be able to handle just about any network around the world, well, almost any…Verizon and Sprint.

Engadget pointed out that Google even posted about the possibiliy of this Google Phone wandering around the Mountain View area in a post to their Mobile Blog:

We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.

This is definitely makes us happy.  Hope we get to see these things in person sooner than later.

Techcrunch and Engadget

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