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 [...]
Acer Liquid Passes FCC with Both AT&T 3G Frequencies
The Acer Liquid, the Snapdragon powered Android lovin’ cell phone, has passed through the FCC now with both AT&T 3G frequencies of 850Mhz and 1900Mhz. This doesn’t mean it’s necessarily coming to AT&T, but that’s a very good indication it might be heading their way. The Acer Liquid A1 looks to be a very nice [...]
Qualcomm Looking Ahead
Qualcomm announced two interesting things today. The first is a new chipset family for multimedia heavy smartphones. The MSM7x30 series will feature the same Scorpion CPU that is found in the current Snapdragon chipsets. Scorpion? Snapdragon? Qualcomm has come good names. Let’s take a look at the specs.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Announced
Sony has come clean this morning, finally unveiling their much rumored and videoed XPERIA X10. For those that don’t remember, this was once called the X3 or possibly even the Infinity. Well, here it is, in all it’s press shots glory. It comes with a 1Ghz Snapdragon cpu from Qualcom, none of that 768Mhz whimpyness [...]
Acer Liquid – 768Mhz Not-so-Snapdragon?
Revido.com has a nice snapshot of a presentation given about the Acer Liquid showing the snapdragon will be running at 768Mhz. Some people feel this is a mistake, but honestly, I cannot lean one way or another. Maybe 768 for the snapdragon is plenty of power for Android. Maybe not. Maybe it’s worth the lower [...]
Sony Experia X3 – Maybe
Sony Ericsson has an event scheduled for Nov. 3rd and all sources are saying it’s the release of their Android powered X3 running the Rachael UI that makes SE’s Android so special. The linked doorstep website has numerous references to Rachael in the coding (view page source to see). It’s likely to have a 4″ [...]
Verizon and Android 2.0
Verizon may have yet another Android 2.0 before the end of the year. This time it supposedly comes with a 1Ghz snapdragon and it’ll be called the HTC Passion…though I’m thinking if the reports that Droid is a series of phones and not just one phone, then it’ll be something more like Droid Passion? It’s [...]
First a netbook and now Liquid!
Acer’s netbook showed up on Amazon yesterday and today they have a press release about their first Android powered smart phone, the Acer Liquid. It’s a snapdragaon powered Donut sporting (Android 1.6) smart phone with a nice Wide VGA screen, presumably 800×480. I guess this would fall into the definition of “Large” screen for an [...]
