While Verizon is preparing to launch their next super phone from Motorola next week, Engadget has got a hand on the phone and release an early preview of the phone. The Droid X has a big form factor – a huge 4.4″ screen with may be 854×480 resolution.  It comes with a new Motoblur skin and 8 mega pixel camera which is capable of recording 720p video.  And it comes with a multi-touch keyboard!  Performance wise, there [...]

As expected by everyone, Apple announced the new iPhone 4 during the WWDC. Hardware wise, it is still using GSM/UMTS radio, and that’s probably why it is not called iPhone 4g.  It has a front facing camera that does video calling, and a rear camera of 5 mega pixel with LED flash.  The camera can do 5X digital zoom and can also record HD video at 720p / 30fpsThe display doubles the pixels in each [...]

Finally, HTC has announced at it’s Chinese Pluck account that Android 2.1 update for HTC Hero is being pushed out on 4th of June. The translation of the announcement: “From 4th of June, HTC Hero will start receiving OTA update.  The main new function is Android 2.1 upgrade.” Wow, a brand new HTC Hero, finally.  However, it is not Froyo Asia users should been getting the update by now.  Anyone?

The developers at XDA-Developers never sleep, and they have done it once again:  FroYo is now working on HTC Magic and Dream. If you are an owner of HTC Dream or Magic, and you want to try the latest OS from Android, waste no time, download and install it from here. Enjoy!

Has Google started to push the OTA Froyo update for the Nexus One owners? Reported by Techcrunch, they have received the Froyo update from Google on their Nexus One already.  They are some people on Twitter reporting the same as well.  But majority of the people have not received the update yet.  And it is still not confirmed whether this is true. The official statement from Google a while ago was that the Froyo is [...]

Google has made the announcement for Android 2.2 – FroYo on the second day of Google I/O.  With lots of expectation, here are the list of enhancements for FroYo: Speed – with the new JIT compiler, the speed of applications on Android will run 2 – 2.5 times faster, and could be even faster for some applications App data backup Improved Enterprise / Exchange Support (remote wipe, Exchange calender, etc) Push services – “Android Intent”, [...]

Google started to sell its first Google branded Android phone, Nexus One, directly from its web store in January 2010.  Although Google had regarded this as viable business, but the sales figures (not official, but from many other sources) are just not satisfactory to continue it. Google had just announced that the Nexus One not be available from the web store anymore.  Instead, Google will work with the carrier to sell the phone through their [...]

Surprise! Surprise!  HP buys Palm.  And it costs HP 1.2 billions USD. We knew Palm was looking for people to buy them but HP was never in the picture.  However, this is a deal now and HP is looking to complete the deal by 31st July. “Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobility strategy and create a unique HP experience spanning multiple mobile connected devices,” said Todd Bradley, executive vice [...]

This is a bit crazy, the police of California actually got a warrant and raided Jason Chen’s house. Jason Chen is the editor of Gizmodo who reported the details of the loss iPhone 4g from an Apple employee. The police actually broke the door of the house and went in to do the search while Jason and his wife went out for dinner.  And they also seized 4 computers and 2 servers from Jason house. [...]

The next generation of the iPhone has leaked and found its way to Gizmodo.  They have examined it thoroughly and concluded that it is the real thing!  They are unable to boot it but they are still able to get a lot of information out of it. From the unit they have found, it has a front-facing video chat camera, improved regular back-camera, camera flash, micro-SIM instead of standard SIM.  The display is improved as [...]