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Today, HTC has announced a few new smartphones. The first up is the HTC Desire HD that we have seen a number of times before in various leaks.

Features of the HTC Desire HD include a large 4.3 inch LCD screen. The processor powering the Desire HD is a Qualcomm Snapdragon running at 1GHz. The OS running on the Desire HD will of course be Android 2.2 Froyo and the device will also run HTC Sense which might or might not be a good thing depending on if you like Android 2.2 in plain Vanilla. It is however, the first phone that will hook up the the HTCSense.com system.

The camera on the back is 8 megapixels and has a dual LED flash. The camera is capable of capturing video at 720p HD. [Read more…]

Verizon [VZ] is launching V CAST Apps. This service is an app store that will be similar in some ways to any other app store such as the Android Market. V CAST Apps is for Android 2.2 OS based smartphones.

The Android Market is a fairly open platform that allows a lot of apps to be published by developers. Unfortunately, there is a lot of junk in there. Verizon want to clean up this junk and has created V CAST Apps which allows developers to submit apps for free. If the apps adhere to the guidelines then they are published in the new app store.

It is expected that V CAST Apps will launch in the next week or so at the Verizon developers conference. [Read more…]

LG today announced a couple of new Android OS based smartphones. These are the LG Optimus One and the LG Optimus Chic.

When launched, the two new smartphones will run the latest OS from Google [GOOG], Android 2.2.

The LG Optimus One will have a 3.2 inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen and will have a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The processor on this device will run at 600Mhz which is a little lower than the norm of 1GHz these days, but hopefully if LG can keep bloatware off the Optimus One, it might run quite swiftly with Android 2.2 installed. The battery on the Optimus One has a capacity of 1500mAh. [Read more…]

Angry Birds for Android in beta form was launched just last week. Talk Android managed to get an exclusive interview with the developers of the hit game to ask a few questions about the Android version of the game and when we can expect it.

The good news is that the we can expect to see the final release of the game in the next 2 – 3 weeks. For now though, if you have managed to get the Beta version, you’ll just need to make do with the 15 demo levels and see if you can get three stars on each level. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] has once again provided details of Android installs across the range of smartphones that run the OS. New numbers reveal that Android 2.2 is getting adopted by many users although the total number of Android smartphones running 2.2 is still less than a third at 28.7 percent.

The largest share goes to Android 2.1 that is currently installed on 41.7% of Android devices followed by Android 2.2 as listed above. Android 1.6 surprisingly still runs on 17.5% of Android smartphones and that is followed by Android 1.5 that can be found on 12% of devices. [Read more…]

Several videos of the Motorola DROID 2 R2-D2 special edition live wall paper have been leaked and posted online.

The special edition DROID 2 will feature four (known so far) Live Wall Papers such as the Millennium Falcon Asteroid Field, Jump to Light Speed, Interactive R2D2 and Space Slug. To activate them you need to shake the phone and at that point the wall papers come alive. [Read more…]

BGR has been informed by a connect that the Motorola DROID 2 on Verizon [VZ] has the lowest return rate of any phone on the same network.

It seems from the details that a number of people are happy with the DROID 2 and wont be returning it any time soon. We also hear that although there is an antenna issue, that the DROID 2 also has the lowest drop call rates on the Verizon carrier. [Read more…]