Android Dev Phone 2
Description
Google announced Android Dev Phone 2 based on HTC magic (T-Mobile myTouch 3G).
The Dev Phone uses an unlocked bootloader, which allows developers to install the system image of their choice. Retail Android devices such as the G1 only allow the installation of system images signed by authorised Android software makers. For example, the unlocked bootloader allows developers to install customised builds of the Android operating system, Google said.
| Dimensions | 113 × 55.6 × 14.6 mm |
| Weight | g |
| Network Bands | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz; WCDMA 1700/2100 MHz : BC4; 2100 MHz : BC1 |
| Screen Size | 3.17″ capacitive touchscreen with 320 × 480 (HVGA) resolution |
| Processor | MSM7200A, 528MHz |
| Camera | 3 megapixel camera with auto-focus |
| Bluetooth | Blutooth 2.0 + EDR |
| Wi-Fi | WiFi 802.11b/g |
| GPS | built-in GPS with A-GPS |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Memory | 512 MB ROM; 192 MB RAM; |
| Battery | Li-Ion, 1340mAh |
| Firmware | Android OS 1.6 |
Availability and Sales
You have to participate in Android Market program to purchase this device. Device in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, India, Canada, France, Taiwan, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Poland.
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Popularity: 81%
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Touch Revolution NIMble – Touch Device Development Platform
Description
NIMble™ is an Android Touch Device Development Platform for consumer or commercial devices. NIMble™ Devices have beautiful capacitive touch screens and run the Android application framework, enabling branded product and service vendors to rapidly design and launch cost-e ective Android -based products with advanced touch interfaces.
The NIMble™ Platform enables the custom development of an end-to-end Android solution for branded product and service vendors. The platform consists of development hardware devices and client and server software tools for application development and testing as well as mechanical design and manufacturing support.
| Screen Size | TFT LCD with 4.3”, 7”, 10” Diagonal (Other custom sizes supported) and 480 × 272, 800 × 480 and higher screen resolution |
| Processor | Minimum 600MHz StrongARM |
| Camera | 2MP CMOS Camera, 15fps full resolution video, 30fps 1MP video |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth™ 2.0/2.1 + EDR stereo (A2DP) range of 10 meters |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11 b/g WiFi |
| USB | USB 1.0/2.0 |
| Memory | 128 MB DDR RAM, 512 MB NAND Flash; SD Card Slot |
Availability and Sales
(no official info)
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Popularity: 48%
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Spring Design Alex – Android Dual-Screen eReader
Posted by T-Rex in eBook Readers on November 8th, 2009
Spring Design have just announced an ebook reader. Alex eBook Reader with a 6-inch E Ink panel and a 3.5-inch color touchscreen, based on Google’s Android platform can be great alternative to Barnes&Noble Nook eBook Reader.
Spec wise, the Alex supports Wi-Fi and 3G, and lets you save “Web grabs” to its removable SD card storage. Saved items can also be viewed on the larger monochrome screen. From the sounds of it, this “Link Notes” system also lets you easily annotate clippings.
The touchscreen can be used to browse the web and grab clippings, which can then be viewed on the e-ink panel. Spring Design have also developed what they call Link Notes, a hybrid of traditional ebooks, clippings, multimedia and user notes. Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 47%
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Highscreen Zeus
Description
Vobis Computer announced the beginning of sales in Russia, the Highscreen Zeus phone. Its phone is running on Google Android.
Highscreen Zeus is made in the side slider form factor, it is equipped with sliding QWERTY keyboard.
| Dimensions | 110 × 55 × 15.1 mm |
| Weight | 124.6 g |
| Network Bands | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, GPRS Class 12 (EDGE);WCDMA/HSDPA 2100 MHz, HSDPA/HSUPA; |
| Screen Size | 3.2″ touchscreen (TFT Transmissive LCD) with 240 × 400 (WQVGA) resolution |
| Processor | Qualcomm MSM 7225 |
| Camera | 3 megapixel camera with auto-focus |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.1+EDR |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g |
| GPS | built-in GPS with support of Assisted GPS |
| USB | microUSB slot; USB 2.0 |
| Memory | 256 MB RAM;512 MB ROM; microSD slot; |
| Battery | Li-Ion, 1010 mAh |
| Firmware | Android OS 1.5 |
Availability and Sales
Sales started on November 4th, 2009.
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Popularity: 43%
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
Description
Sony Ericsson announced their first Android device - XPERIA X10 which runs Google Android 1.6 “Donut”.
The new phone is fairly similar to the ‘new crop’ of touchscreen phones, packing a super-fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and a 4-inch high resolution screen.
Specs wise, the Xperia X10 has jumped to the head of the Android pack, and has added in a new overlay that’s probably the most comprehensive among other competitors too.
As part of the X10’s interface, Sony Ericsson added two applications, dubbed Timescape and Mediascape, to the Android, following in the footsteps of Motorola, HTC and Acer, which have also tweaked the operating system for their own handsets.
| Dimensions | 119 ? 63 ? 13 mm |
| Weight | 135 g |
| Network Bands | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900; HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100; HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 900 |
| Screen Size | 4.0″ OLED touchscreen with 854 ? 480 resolution |
| Processor | Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor |
| Camera | 8.1 megapixel camera |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.1 +A2DP |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, DLNA |
| GPS | built-in GPS receiver |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Memory | 1 GB storage, 256 MB RAM; microSD (TransFlash) up to 16GB, 8GB card included |
| Battery | Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41) |
| Firmware | Android 1.6 |
Availability and Sales
Sales are scheduled to Q1, 2010. Expected price 775-850 USD.
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Popularity: 44%
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HTC Droid Eris
Description
An interesting piece of news has popped all over the Internet. It looks like the Droid is not just the name of a single phone coming from Verizon but it’s going to be a line of phones. That’s why the Sholes has changed names so abruptly to the Droid. The phone in the picture is supposed to be the HTC Droid Eris also known as the HTC Desire.
The Droid Eris is supposed to arrive on November 6 but evidently we don’t have any pricing for now. We also have to confirm all of these before we get all excited about a new phone line. Because it looks like the Droid might be an Android phone line about to arrive from Verizon.
Following hardware specifications are incomplete.
| Dimensions | 4.45 × 2.19 × 0.51 inches |
| Weight | 4.23 oz |
| Network Bands | GSM 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS 2100 (WCDMA) – unconfirmed |
| Screen Size | 3.2″ touchscreen with 320 × 480 resolution |
| Processor | SoC MSM7200 — MSM7600 528 MHz |
| Camera | 5 megapixel camera with 320 ? 480 (HWGA) resolution |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP |
| Wi-Fi | WiFi 802.11 b/g |
| GPS | built-in GPS |
| USB | ExtUSB 2.0 |
| Memory | 512 MB ROM; 288 MB RAM |
| Battery | Li-Ion, (capacity is unknown) |
| Firmware | Android 1.5 |
Availability and Sales
Sales are scheduled to November 6, 2009
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Popularity: 40%
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SciPhone N19
Description
A new Android powered phone called N19 is rolled out by Sciphone. Packs a Samsung S3C2448 400MHz processor, 128MB ROM and 128MB RAM, Sciphone N19 packs a 2.8 inch touchscreen display with QVGA resolution. Its other feature including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, MicroSD card slot and a 2MP camera.
| Dimensions | 57 ? 106.5 ? 14.4 mm |
| Weight | 120 g |
| Network Bands | GSM900/DCS1800 or GSM850/DCS1900, GPRS Class 10 |
| Screen Size | 2.8″ TFT-LCD with 320 ? 240 (QVGA) resolution |
| Processor | Samsung S3C2448 running at 400Mhz |
| Camera | 2MP CMOS camera |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.0 |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 802.11b/g |
| GPS | no |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Memory | 128MB(ROM), 128MB(RAM); microSD slot up to 8GB |
| Battery | Li-ion 1200 mAh |
| Firmware | Android OS 1.5 |
| Special Features | FM Radio, G-Sensor |
Availability and Sales
Available from October 2009.
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Popularity: 88%
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Philips V808
Description
Philips doesn’t stop innovation therefore Philips mobile phone is now start running Android operating system.The Philips V808 is the Philips’ first Android-based smartphone exclusive for China Mobile. It is being developed under the project OPhone, as well as two phone – Dopod A6188 and Lenovo O1. All these machines are running Open Mobile System (OMS). The China Mobile’s Android-based OS which supports TD-SCDMA 3G standard.
| Dimensions | 115 × 61 × 14 mm |
| Weight | 120 g |
| Network Bands | GSM 900/1800 MHz; GPRS / EDGE |
| Screen Size | 3.2″ touchscreen with 320 × 480 (HVGA) resolution |
| Processor | no official info |
| Camera | 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.0 with A2TP |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g |
| GPS | built-iun GPS |
| USB | minUSB 2.0 |
| Memory | 128 MB RAM; MicroSD up to 8 GB |
| Battery | 1000 mAh |
| Firmware | Android 1.5 |
Availability and Sales
Expected release date – November 2009
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Popularity: 25%
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Hard Kernel ODROID – Android Game Console
Description
ODROID Android is an OS-based gaming device with a capacitive touch screen 3.5 inches. The Android OS is version 1.5.Powering the ODROID is a 833MHz processor and 512MB of RAM is available. Connectivity wise it has 802.11b / g wireless, Bluetooth and is capable of HDMI when connected to a TV. A USB port is included on the device, but for some odd reason, no 3G connectivity you expect as standard on an operating system designed for mobile phones.
| Dimensions | 150 × 76 × 16 mm |
| Weight | 165 g |
| Screen Size | 3.5″ TFT-LCD capacitive touch screen with 320 × 480 resolution |
| Processor | Samsung S5PC100 (CortexA8) 667/833Mhz |
| Input | 4-way direction pad; 8 keys; Virtual Touch Keyboard |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth® 2.X EDR and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11b/g |
| GPS | no |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Memory | ROM: 2GB(TFLASH); RAM: 512 MB(DDR2) |
| Battery | Li-Ion 1300 mAh; Rechargable, Replecable |
| Firmware | Latest Android OS |
| Special Features | Accelerometer sensor; HDMI output |
Availability and Sales
Sales are scheduled to November 2009.
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Popularity: 31%
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ARCHOS 5 – Internet Tablet
Description
ARCHOS, award-winning for its constant technology innovation, now introduces its new ARCHOS 5 Internet Tablet. This product combines all the multimedia know-how that ARCHOS is famous for, with the ANDROID operating system. It offers you an uncompromised Internet, Media and TV experience in a customizable interface. In perpetual evolution with the continuous arrival of new applications, you can personalize your ARCHOS 5 Internet Tablet to perfectly reflect your tastes and needs.
| Dimensions | 143.2 × 78.8 × 10.4 mm (with flash); 143.2 × 78.8 × 20 mm (with HDD) |
| Weight | 182 g (with flash), 286 g (with HDD) |
| Screen Size | High resolution screen, 800 × 480 pixels, 4.8” TFT LCD, 16 million colors touchscreen |
| Processor | OMAP3440 |
| Camera | no |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.0 |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n |
| GPS | no |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| HDD | Hard Drive: 160 to 500 GB |
| Memory | Flash Memory: 8 to 32 GB + Micro SD Slot (SDHC compatible) |
| Battery | Internal: Lithium Polymer battery |
| Firmware | no official info about used version of Android OS |
Availability and Sales
Archos 5 500 GB Internet Tablet with Android is available at Amazon
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Popularity: 27%
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