Since it is a slow news day, I thought that I would highlight an inexpensive (equivalent of $278 USD) Chinese Android smartphone that, not coincidentally, resembles the HTC Hero but is thinner at 10.7 mm has a newer 600MHz Qualcomm 7227 processor. More »

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Android fragmentation was inevitable. This is the nature of open source projects that have lax guidelines and include manufacturers from so many different nations. Unlike stern Windows Phone 7, Android’s hardware specifications are much wider, and because of this, smartphones bearing Google’s logo have widely varying features and technical abilities; ergo, app fragmentation was always going to happen. Flash 10.1 will not run on any North American machine not named the Droid or Nexus One (though the Incredible and Evo 4G will join that prestigious class). Android App Market splits were also unavoidable due to the number of nations involved. Vodafone has announced that it is opening its own App Store in select European countries. More »

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No other smartphone manufacturer has sown its seeds as broadly as HTC. Motorola is banking solely on Android. Samsung, Sony (though with plenty of Symbian history), and LG are fairly new entrants to the smartphone OS market. Apple, Palm, RIM, and Nokia (though not for long, when Symbian becomes fully open source) are closed systems with their own proprietary software. All this time, HTC has been backing Windows Mobile and Google Android like no one else. With Palm’s devastating fiscal revelations serving as the backdrop, new speculation has surfaced that HTC might be interested in buying Palm and thereby gaining a third smartphone OS to its stable. More »

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Furthering confirming the Radio Shack snapshot indicating that HTC’s myTouch Slide is inbound at any moment, here is an FCC file that proves T-Mobile is getting the G1 successor. Compare the FCC’s picture of the Slide’s back with the one that Droid Developer posted in January… More »

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The Japanese are a high-tech people. Droves usually gravitate to buy whatever new piece of gear is launched. Pictured here is a long line-up for the Sony Xperia X10 at a Docomo store. More »

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“Montana Man” on Android Forums is legitimate after all. Best Buy documents show that the big, blue store will have HTC’s Incredible on April 29th. Also, “Anonimac,” from the aforementioned forum, has posted the Incredible’s 200+ PDF manual. More »

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Has the iPad met its match? Stuff.TV takes us on an exclusive hands-on fondling of ICD’s Gemini Android tablet, a sibling to the Vega that was demoed at CES. The Gemini is not just a large tablet, but it is also a smartphone too, with a SIM card slot. More »

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The higher ups at Sprint are supposedly throwing around June 13th (and June 6th) as the date that the world’s first WiMAX smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G, will become available. Meanwhile, hearsay on Android Forums indicate that Verizon’s HTC Incredible is scheduled for launch on April 25th and will be stocked by Best Buy, while Android and Me is reporting April 29th. More »

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Getting sick of these sketchy screen grabs? Appearing on Radio Shack’s Wireless Direct2U’s database, bearing SKU 1705596, is the previously leaked HTC myTouch Slide (successor to the G1, aka Dream). More »

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Samsung’s original Moment still runs prehistoric Android 1.5 Cupcake (which stopped being sweet a long time ago), but the sequel could be on Sprint’s roster soon. More »

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