Google’s Goggles has unbelievable possibilities, but how well does 1.1 work? See a Nexus One try it with two samples: one short phrase and one long paragraph. More »

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Hopeful for an August 18th release (do not hold your breath) nigh $350 is Meizu’s 3.6″ M9, touting to have a 1GHz Samsung C110 processor based on the ARM Cortex-A8. The C110 has the fastest 3D performance of any ARM CPU currently available. More »

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In my estimation, the prettiest Android smartphone on the planet, the aluminum unibody HTC Legend has passed through the FCC’s procedural and is going to Canadian GSM carriers: either Rogers or Bell Mobility. For Americans, AT&T has scored the Legend. More »

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From Ziggytek: After a few days delay, the LG Ally Android 2.1 smartphone (which has a meager 3.2, not 5-megapixel camera as formerly supposed!) and Iron Man 2 promotional website is complete and open for surfers to explore. Are you pumped for one of the biggest summer blockbuster flicks of the year? More »

From Ziggytek: One of my pet-peeves is the misuse of terms like “knock-off” and “fake” to describe something that is merely a lookalike. Zenithink’s iPad “clone” is the latter, although it has widely been misrepresented as the former. Backed by premium features such as Android Eclair 2.1 (no outmoded Donut or Cupcake!) and 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, the Zenithink tablet might be good and could go for under $300. More »

As part of the Iron Man 2 marketing campaign, LG is also holding a contest to give away an “LG Ally and 1 year FREE service contract, 2 tickets to the U.S. premiere of a Marvel movie, 55-inch class LG “Infinia” LED HDTV, and LG Network Blu-ray Home Theater System.” More »

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From Ziggytek: Pertaining to tablets, we have been bamboozled before. We have been fed vaporware and delayed products that were awful when finally released. Who knew that creating a good tablet was so challenging! Here is another hopeful from China. aigo Patriot’s N700 is a 7″ Android 2.1 slate with the brawny duo-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, Flash 10.1, and multi-touch. More »

At a corporate Sprint store in Central Florida, the eagerly anticipated HTC Evo 4G is making a pre-launch appearance. If you are in the area, check out the place and be sure to ask the smartphone for its autograph. More »

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Adobe declares that Flash 10.1 will be previewed at Google I/O in May, and that the public can look for a working release in June…but only if you have an ARMv7 or faster Android 2.1 smartphone, so most of us are out of luck. More »

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Yesterday’s BGR rumor has been ratified. Verizon is indeed getting an LG smartphone that runs Android 2.1, has a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, but it is not named the “Aloha.” More »

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