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Jun

27

2010

Motorola Charm may be coming to T-Mobile, bringing Android 2.1 and enhanced motoblur

by Dustin Karnes
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Reminiscent of the Motorola Q9, it looks like the Motorola Charm will be headed to T-Mobile. While this little guy has some interesting design choices invested into it (like the keyboard to screen ration), it should also be packing Android 2.1 and a new, improved version of Motoblur. According to the picture above, it seems that [...]

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Jun

25

2010

The other Android tablet comparison

by Chris Moor
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Everybody loves an underdog story, don’t they? Slumdog Millionaire, Gandhi, Rocky, those special kids on American Idol – we are suckers for them all. Giant killings are also a personal favourite of mine. I once killed three giants in one go, with my good hand tied behind my back, because one of them stole my [...]

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Jun

23

2010

Android based Huawei S7 Tablet on presale, ships in 10 days

by Dustin Karnes
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If you just can’t wait to get your hands on an Android based tablet that doesn’t look bad, the Huawei S7 tablet may be your weapon of choice. A little while back, Huawei unveiled their S7 tablet at Computex, and now it looks like they will be re-announcing it in Australia tomorrow to make it official. [...]

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Jun

21

2010

HTC Desire sim card free for £385.60 at Amazon.co.uk

by Chris Moor
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This phone was previously on Play.com at £399, but has now dropped to the more attractive price of £385.60 at Amazon in the UK, sim free. While it’s still a decent amount of cash to part with, it is sim-free to be fair. Those who are looking to upgrade at the end of their contract, [...]

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Jun

21

2010

HTC Wildfire available sim card free for £229.99

by Chris Moor
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Seeing as the Wildfire is likely to set you back a  few quid on an 18/24 month contract anyway, this deal at Play.com may be of interest for those of you in the UK. Though £229.99 isn’t exactly the spare change, fluff and button found in the depths of your trouser pocket, it does represent [...]

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Jun

21

2010

Toshiba’s new AC100 Android netbook

by Chris Moor
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This funky looking laptop is Toshiba’s latest device to feature Android 2.1; also known as Éclair. It’s a tiny (border-lining netbook size here) laptop with a 10.1″ LED screen with a resolution of 1024×600 and has a 1Ghz Nvidia Tegra 250 mobile  processor under the hood. To add to the performance; Toshiba have added 512mb of DDR2 [...]

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Jun

10

2010

HTC Wildfire – pre-order on Vodafone UK

by Chris Moor
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Quite appropriately named, the HTC Wildfire is marketed as a phone suitable for gossiping social networking. Latest word is, thanks to Tech Watch, that the Wildfire is now available for pre-order on Vodafone in the UK. Sporting a 3.2″ touch-screen, 32GB internal storage as well as WiFi, 5MP camera and a 500MHz processor, the Wildfire [...]

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Jun

7

2010

HTC Hero – Android 2.1 upgrade for UK – truth or tease?

by Chris Moor
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It would seem that the long-awaited Android 2.1 upgrade may be making the journey towards the West sooner rather than later – if recent reports are to be believed. After reports last week of the 2.1 update being made available to customers in Asia, Pocket Lint has reported that a statement advising a June arrival [...]

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