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Phones
HTC Android Family Portraits: G1, MyTouch 3G And Hero
10:30AM Matt Buchanan | Ever wondered what it’d be like to get three generations of Android phones together—G1, myTouch 3G and Hero? If you think that’s kind of kinky, oh man, I hope you have a clean pair of pants lying around. More »
Software
Two More Android Updates This Year
5:43AM Jason Chen | In addition to the one minor and one major (Cupcake) update Google rolled out, there’s going to be two more updates for the 2009 year. One’s minor and one’s major (Donut). [Mobile Crunch]
Music
Creative “Zii” Moniker Resurfaces On Touchscreen Media Player
8:35PM John Herrman | Creative hasn’t really been doing much at all for the last year. Except this, apparently: here’s an FCC filing for a Zii touchscreen PMP, which shares a name their mysterious system on a chip from January. More »
Design
Google G0 Android Smartphone Concept: If Only The G1 Was So Slick
11:20AM Dan Nosowitz | Tryi Yeh’s Android smartphone concept, cheekily dubbed the G0, is a touchscreen slider, but the slide-out section isn’t a hardware keyboard. Instead, it’s got a camera and four customisable smartkeys. Still, we like the design, and it looks fairly realistic. More »
Phones
Nokia Commences Mating With Android, Handset Due In September
6:36PM John Herrman | From London’s Guardian, we get this surprising report: Nokia, (recent) full owner of Symbian, is making an Android touchscreen phone, set for unveiling at a conference in September. This rumour! It’s strange! More »
Phones
LG Making IPhone Competitor, Android Phone And Prada III
8:30AM Jason Chen | It would be amazing if LG could make an iPhone competitor, an Android device and a Prada III that’s one single device, but somehow I don’t think that’s what LG’s president means. More »
Software
Android Market Update Notifications Are Broken
4:39AM Matt Buchanan | This confirms what I suspected this weekend: Android Market’s automatic update notifications are broken. In the meantime, if you’re affected, you have to go to individual app pages to see if there’s an update for the app. At least, that seemed to work for me. [Phandroid]
Music
Dell’s First Android Smartphone Ain’t A Phone
2:40AM Matt Buchanan | The Wall Street Journal chimes in on talk of Dell’s Android smartphone with the bit that it’s not a smartphone (yet), but a media player with Wi-Fi, a la iPod touch or Zune HD. If Dell doesn’t kill it. [WSJ] More »
Software