From Ziggytek: Google co-founder Larry Page accuses Steve Jobs of “rewriting history” when the Apple CEO says that Google followed Apple into the smartphone market. Page insists that Google had been developing phones long before Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007. Although Google did buy out a small firm called Android a few years prior to the 1st generation iPhone launch, early prototypes of Android shown in late 2007 were reminiscent of BlackBerrys. More »

Making room for the shamefully overpriced $179.99 HTC MyTouch 3G Slide, T-Mobile is giving away the MyTouch 3G for free online when customers sign up for a 2-year contract. Inexplicably, the G1 is being listed at $99.99, but who would buy one now? 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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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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The programming geniuses over at OpenEclair have come a long way since the first version of its open source Eclair 2.1 ROM was released on January 28th. Now in build 1.2.2, OpenEclair is generally regarded as the best, fastest (and certainly the most promising) Android 2.1 ROM for the HTC Magic and Dream (myTouch 3G and G1 respectively). Check out the videos below to see how well the ROM runs on a Dream (G1). More »

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All of these exploits are courtesy of hobbyist hackers who seemingly care more about their smartphones than the carriers that sell them. A few days ago, Cyanogen released his ROM for the newly rooted Nexus One, adding multi-touch to Browser. Although no other application works with multi-touch yet, Cyanogen vows to implement the highly coveted feature to the rest of Android. Also, HTC Magic (myTouch 3G) and Dream (G1) owners might be happy to know that their phones can currently run hacked versions of Android 2.1 thanks to Manup456, whose Eclair ROM installs on the aforementioned models and functions nearly flawlessly. More »

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HTC’s entire Android based smartphones line-up for America presently includes the Droid Eris, T-Mobile G1, myTouch 3G, Hero, and the Nexus One:

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