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According to the latest numbers from Admob, Android has crossed iPhone in China . The numbers state 725,358 iPhones and 882,384 Android phones in China in April. The United States was the leading country (75%) in unique devices on the Android platform, followed by China (8%), the UK (3%), France (2%) and Germany (2%). The top three Android devices in China were all from HTC: the HTC Hero, HTC... więcej

Here is your cool Sunday Android treat. A commercial from South Korea. It features HTC Desire, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and Samsung Galaxy X devices. Nice way to promote Android devices there. Check out the video below.

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Sprint has released the first TV commercial for HTC Evo 4G. As Sprint is betting big on the device, the commercial also seems to prove that point. According to this commercial, the HTC Evo 4G is akin to the invention of the wheel, the motor car, television and rockets into space.
Check the commercial video:

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Last month at I/O, Google released Android 2.2 aka FroYo. On Monday, Apple shot back by making its latest mobile operating system iOS 4 official. Read on to see how the latest versions of the two operating systems stack up.
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Today, we have brought three funny Android related commercials from Korea. Check them out below.

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“In Q3 2010, the Xperia X10, X10 mini and X10 mini pro smartphones will be upgraded to run on the Android 2.1 operating system.”

Sony Ericsson just confirmed that all the Xperia X10 series phones will be updated to Android 2.1 in the Q3. This announcement came at the the launch of Xperia X8 Android phone. So, get ready for the update, it is coming soon.

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Samsung today launched the Android powered Galaxy S smartphone in India. This the third Android phone launched by the company in the country. Other two models are Galaxy and Galaxy Spica. Galaxy S is one of the most advanced and powerful smartphone today available worldwide.
This feature filled smartphone comes with Android 2.1 on-board. It has the Touchwiz 3.0 UI. Talking about the... więcej

Barnes & Noble today launched Wi-Fi-enabled Nook offering that will give consumers a more cost efficient e-Reader compared to 3G enabled. With the launch, they have reduced the price of original 3G Nook to $200.
Just head over to B&N and grab your e-reader now.
Finally, for those of you who already own the device, you can now download firmware version 1.4. This update will... więcej

L&T Infotech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Larsen & Toubro, announced that it has joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). OHA is a partnership of more than 65 global mobile industry leaders who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile technology and to offer consumers a unique, simplified, less expensive and better mobile experience.
L&T Infotech’s... więcej

At the Droid X launch event today, Google vice president Andy Rubin announced that 160,000 Android devices are being sold per day. That is a big increase from 100,000 devices from last month’s Google I/O.

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Droid X’s awesome live wallpapers are now available  for download.  Tested on Droid Incredible & Droid.

Links for Download: GREEN | RED | GOLD | CYAN | BLUE

Instructions for Installing…

1. Download your color of choice.
2. You may need to download via PC and transfer over through USB ( Works from phone too)
3. Open... więcej

Google made mobile search on Android more useful today. From today, the search results on Android phones will content relevant application results from Android Market also. However, Mobile application search results are available today in the US, with other countries and devices planned for the future.

Details from Google Mobile Blog:

As of today, if you go to Google.com on your... więcej

Samsung Galaxy Tab

We are planning to launch a table computer called “Galaxy Tab.” It will be launched no later than the third quarter of this year.

- J.K. Shin, president of Samsung’s mobile division
So this is coming officially from Samsung now, so they are working on Android tablet and it will not sport any funny name like... więcej

The latest from Android platform version report from Google states that now around 50% of total Android devices are running on Eclair (Android 2.1). Which is in a way good news as well as bad for developers. As there are still a large chunk of devices running on older versions, they have make their apps running for them too. While, on the other hand the problem eased a bit with Android 2.1... więcej

After a long wait a decent Android phone is going to hit AT&T, while other networks in United States have all the Android beauties lined up for them. AT&T has been struggling with the not so-good Backflip, there was nothing spectacular about the phone except the strange flip design.
Keeping aside the past, HTC Aria turns out to be a pretty nice phone. Aria is much the like... więcej

After their 20 long patent case against HTC, Apple has again sued High Tech Corp. This time it involves four patents, two fresh, two resubmitted.
The case reinforces Apple’s intent to clamp down on HTC, which many believe is ultimately a proxy target the company is using to get at Google and curb the growth of Android.
The patents in question are:

* 7,657,849:... więcej

Engadget has got of some T-Mobile training material about one Android powered Motorola Charm. This is a candybar style QWERTY phone. It runs Android 2.1 and enhanced Motoblur.
Not much is known about the phone. Check out phone in pics below.

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Galaxy S launch was not only limited to national carrier like Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon, even regional one like US Cellular got it.
Samsung will also be launching Galaxy on US Cellular network without any name change as happiness with other operators. It is the same device as other Galaxy S variants, same specs: four-inch Super AMOLED touch screen display, Samsung 1GHz... więcej

HTC Finally release the Android 2.1 update for sim-free and unlocked HTC Hero handsets in Europe. Reporting were coming from several countries like UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Serbia that the OTA update was being carried out.
For users that have not received the initial OTA update, HTC has also posted the image file on its website.

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Sprint and Samsung today announced the launch of Epic 4G. We have brought you everything ab0ut the phone in this post.

Samsung Epic 4G, a Galaxy S smartphone, is the second 4G capable handset from Sprint, a Galaxy S smartphone and Samsung Mobile’s first 4G Android-powered device. It is part of a new breed of Samsung smartphones offering the very best in screen, speed and content... więcej