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Solar smartphones… now why didn’t I think of that. Oh wait- I did. And I’m sure we all have at some point. But let’s be realistic, just how often do you spend you time outside in the sunlight? 3? Maybe 4 minutes out of the day? The rest of your time is spend underneath the [...]

It takes a ballsy phone tester to decide a prototype handset’s 4.5-inch qHD display is just a bit too big for them and put the prerelease device up for auction on eBay, but that’s exactly what one HTC Holiday guinea pig did. Aside from the large screen, the listing confirms the 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 8MP [...]

We’ve long known about the United States’ ARMY’s plans to bring smartphones to their soldiers in the field, and we knew they were leaning toward Android, but nothing solid had ever been confirmed to be in the works. Things may finally be underway, though, as they reportedly have a prototype in the pipeline. The device [...]

apad.tv Quick Video Preview of the new Orphan Electronics M16 Tablet PC. Running Android 2.1 and capable of full screen HD video. 10.2 inch touch screen, lighter than iPad and can also run Windows CE 6.0. aPad iPed Droid iSlate.

Engadget finally said “Enough of the blurrycam crap: get us a Dell Thunder prototype,” and thus came to light this extensive hands-on look at the prototype of the very same Dell Thunder they leaked to the world months ago. Taking a deeper look into the hardware (as the software is pretty much stock Android 1.6, [...]

Yay, blurrycam! This morning, the Dell Thunder – which we last heard about after a series of big Android-based Dell leaks back in April – has finally popped back up in video form. Not much is shown here – a quick closing of the application drawer and a swipe of the homescreen were all we [...]

Modu’s not made much noise in the Android world, but they’re still working to change that. Their Android-based handset – which we’ll conveniently call the ModuPhone, for now – is pretty interesting. It’s a blockish looking device that seems to enjoy pure plastic bezel. The screen isn’t entirely square (think Motorola Charm’s screen rotated 90 [...]

Yesterday, we reported on a great movement by the non-profit organization One Laptop Per Child to focus on providing affordable tablet devices to under-privileged children. After seeing that these tablet devices would initially be offering Android as their operating systems, we immediately took notice. One thing we couldn’t find, however, was a picture of how [...]

Are you tired of hearing about Flash on Android and not having it on your phone yet? I know I am and with that being said here

Ok, we really need to slow down on these tablets, now! The latest comes from a Web 2.0 event that was being held in San Francisco last night. Android wasn’t be to be left out, though, and as such, an interesting tablet device made its way to the show floor. What’s interesting about it isn’t [...]