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Rumor: T-Mobile USA training employees on HTC Desire

Someone I follow on Twitter claimed that his friend – a manager at a T-Mobile store – was being trained on several phones slated to come to the carrier this year. Among those phones was a little device known as the HTC Desire. I reached out to a couple of contacts I have at T-Mobile retail [...]

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Rumor: Google set to open an Android Market for business? Probably not.

A few people have sent in tips about Google releasing an Android Market geared towards business users. The rumor suggests that the new Market would be a way for Google to highlight Android’s enterprise capabilities, drawing attention away from an app store full of games, soundboards, and “sexy lady” apps. A new market sounds good in [...]

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Dell Mini 5: Awesome new details emerge

A few weeks ago, Androinica had a short post about the Dell Mini 5 tablet. We speculated that the machine would be a competitor to the iPad, but details were scarce and Michael Dell only confirmed a few features in the brief video shot by Tech Crunch. These included the fact that the machine would [...]

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Rumor: Google Nexus One coming to a Verizon near you, March 23

According to Neowin and "sources close to the matter" (ie. un-named Google employee) the Google Nexus One will be dropping on Verizon Wireless on March 23, possibly during CTIA. This is by no means confirmed by Verizon or Google.

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Google Rumor Roundup for the week of 2/12 – 2/19

Just a handful of news and rumors collected from around the web about our favorite non-evil company. Google will not buy T-Mobile and give us all Nexus Ones, but they will make Star Trek fans happy Source: CEO Eric Schmidt at the 2010 MWC Too bad for us. CEO Eric Schmidt put an end (maybe) to rampant internet [...]

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Watch out Android tablets: iPad may have a secret…

A recent Apple Insider post states that a repair company has discovered that the default iPad housing contains a space for a front-facing camera that has exactly the same dimensions as the iSight found on many Apple laptops. Pictures and the story can be found here. This is big news for Android tablet fans. My co-writers [...]

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Dell Mini 5: Take that, iPad?

A video posted by TechCrunch on YouTube shows Michael Dell using the Dell Mini 5 Android tablet. He swipes the home screen a few times and says simply that it will be coming out “in a few months.” Notably, the device on the video is extremely responsive, has a 5MP camera, 3G, and of course, [...]

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Nexus One will NOT go on sale at Walmart, says spokesman

Despite what everyone thought earlier today, it turns out that Walmart will not be selling the Nexus One. Several people expressed excitement at the possibility of Walmart selling the N1 for as little as $99 with contract, but that has been proven false according to a statement from the company’s spokesman Ravi Jariwala. Though the Warlmart [...]

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Seven new HTC handsets, all leaked by HTC

It looks like HTC has leaked some details on seven of their upcoming Android handsets. The details are pretty light, but do give a few interesting details such as the names, display size and whether of not they will have physical keyboards. Ok, its really more of a teaser. Unfortunately, they managed to keep some of [...]

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Google’s Nexus One: What’s the Plan?

After the unveiling of the first and only Google-sold cell phone yesterday, many of us still have more questions than answers. In reading comments on various forums, I keep seeing the same topic over and over: What does Google gain by offering its own phone? Andy Rubin claims that the Nexus One is an opportunity to [...]

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