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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, O2, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android The big Android news today is all out of London and New York today, but if we move a bit eastward, there’s some cool stuff going on in Deutschland, too: Samsung’s i7500 Galaxy is now available.

Here it is in living color: the HTC Hero/Sense UI walk-through .

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, EV-DO, CDMA Is it cooler than Sprint’s Snap? That’s for you to judge, but whatever the case, Verizon has now announced its own version of HTC’s latest WinMo Standard handset. The so-called Ozone features WiFi, global roaming capability, VZ Navigator and visual voicemail support, a QWERTY keyboard (which feels great if it’s anything like its cousin’s), and a beefy 1500mAh battery that we’re betting will keep this thing going all day and then some

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Android We’d already pretty much figured that HTC’s London event tomorrow would have something to do with Android — the invite for the shindig playfully teases us with a rose in the picture, after all, which is probably a reference to HTC’s Rosie UI that’s been circulating in leaked ROM form for a while now. Indeed, Pocket-lint points to a fellow journalist whose “colleague” has apparently played with the new hardware and gives it a “rave review,” so we’re excited to find out what it is exactly that HTC’s got brewing — and as we’ve said before, it certainly lines up nicely with T-Mobile UK’s promise of more G1 Touch details “soon.” At any rate, we’ll be on hand to find out what’s good as it happens, so stay tuned for all the HTC news that’s fit to print starting at 6:30AM ET, 11:30AM London time

Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA, Acer As Windows Mobile devices go, it’s virtually impossible for an entrant in the game not to be compared to HTC, and Acer’s M900 is a prime example — the specs look great on paper, but it’s pretty much got to stand toe-to-toe with the Touch Pro2 to get any time in the limelight. Pocketnow did the honors with the landscape QWERTY slider, finding that the screen’s great — what’s not to love about a 3.8-inch WVGA display, after all — and the Samsung processor blazes, but the firmware load is buggy (not to mention downright crappy-looking compared to TouchFLO), free RAM’s hard to come by, and virtually everything about the hardware feels cheap.

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, LG, Samsung, Sprint, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA You’ve been able to find the Exclaim and Snap for a while now if you’ve dug through third-party retailers hard enough, but Sprint’s finally selling them directly from its own site. The Snap — which we’d already known would hit this week — is a portrait QWERTY handset running Windows Mobile 6.1 with support for HTC’s Inner Circle functionality to block out email noise when you feel like you’re about to lose your mind; it runs $149.99 on contract after rebate

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, Android Unless the box art’s been scrapped at the last minute, we’re still expecting T-Mobile USA to use the myTouch 3G branding for its version of the HTC Magic in the US — but over in the UK, the local division just dropped some knowledge that its second Android device will be known as the G1 Touch. We already had a hint of this from a Dutch rumor, so it doesn’t come as much of a surprise; problem is, we still don’t know what the G1 Touch is.

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android Call it an announcement of an announcement, if you will — not quite as detailed as we’d like, but it’s one small morsel of information on the long road to the US’ second Android handset. Perhaps in response to the Wall Street Journal ’s suggestion that T-Mobile would be releasing details on its next Android phone next week, a company spokesperson has said just that: “Next week, T-Mobile will share more details about its next Android-powered phone, the follow-on device to the T-Mobile G1 with Google.” No mention is made of what that phone will be, but the odds-on favorite has to be the myTouch 3G, seeing how it’s already launched in the form of the Google Ion — it just needs a T-Mobile logo, some packaging, maybe a gently tweaked firmware, and it’s ready to rock. T-Mobile confirms next Android phone will be announced next week originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:49:00 EST

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, Android You know what’s a better name than myTouch 3G?