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This Wednesday, Motorola is holding an event to reveal the next generation of DROID handsets. We expect that the Motorola DROID 2 will be one of these devices.

The DROID 2 has already been spotted a couple of times and has now been put through some benchmarking tests to see what it is capable of.

The DROID 2 has a 1GHz processor and runs Android 2.1. It also has twice the graphical processing power than the previous Motorola DROID. [Read more…]

Samsung has announced the Samsung Captivate. The Captivate is an Android OS based smartphone that actually looks like it could be good.

The device falls in to the Samsung Galaxy S class of smartphones and has a Super AMOLED touchscreen measuring 4 inches. Powering the Captivate is a 1GHz hummingbird chip that can shift three times the amount of triangles when compared to a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU seen in devices such as the Nexus One.

A 5 megapixel camera can be found on the Samsung Captivate and it is capable of capturing video at a resolution of 720p. For storage, there’s up to 32GB combined with internal and external. [Read more…]

The Motorola Droid X Android smartphone arrived on the Verizon [VZ] site earlier today with a number of specs revealed.

The Droid X will have a 4.3 inch screen and the screen will be 720p which from what we understand, makes it the highest res screen on the market. iPhone 4’s Retina Display will closely follow although it’s important to note that the iPhone 4 screen is smaller, so the pixels per inch could match or be very close to each other. Update: The device has a 854 x 480 display and can capture in 720p. Verizon has updated the ad.

A HDMI output port is also provided. Geeky Gadgets points out that Verizon could mean there is a 720p output rather than a 720p screen although the banner below makes it quite clear that the screen is 720p. We’ll wait for the specs to get final details of that. See update above. [Read more…]

Reports are indicating that a privacy issue might have hit the HTC DROID Incredible. It is believed to be related to the HTC Sense UI that can take screen shots of your browser session while using the device. The browser session images are then stored in a location where they are hard to get rid of.

The captured images don’t go away when the browser is closed and remain on the device it seems until manually removed. Even when clearing the browser history the screen shots still remain and we also hear after a factory reset is done that they still remain.

The JPEG files are saved to a folder named .bookmark_thumb1 which is located within the emmc folder of the phones internal storage (so you would expect a full factory reset to delete them). We found some screenshots of us logged into Facebook, logged into our online banking website, and viewing several other mundane websites (see picture above) even after having completed a factory reset. We tested this on more than one stock, un-rooted HTC DROID Incredible and replicated it several times.

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Google [GOOG] is working on it’s next version of Android which has been codenamed Gingerbread. We are not sure what version number it will have, ie Android 2.3 or Android 3.0, but what we do hear is that Google will be stopping manufacturers from layering their own UI’s over the top. Layered UI’s include HTC Sense UI, MotoBlur and other similar custom UI’s that get created.

Instead, Google’s main focus for Android Gingerbread is to get a UI to the same level as iOS 4. It isn’t clear if Google will actually put a stop to custom UI’s or if they hope to achieve a good enough UI that manufacturers don’t see the need to do their own. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] has released details of which Android versions are the most popular. This month we see that Android 2.1 has increased in popularity with that version of the OS accounting for 50% of installs on smartphones. Last month Android 2.1 accounted for 37.2%.

Android 1.5 has dropped the most this month from 34.1% down to 24.6%. This is not to say that people have necessarily upgraded, but that Android 2.1 is pretty much standard on new device installs which helps it take more market share as time moves on. [Read more…]

The Samsung Galaxy Apollo was first spotted a few days ago over on the Samsung website. No details about the phone were available at the time and no specifications either.

The Samsung site has now been updated with the details showing us what’s inside the device and what it will run. From what we see, it will have a 3.2 inch touchscreen, a three megapixel camera with autofocus and four times digital zoom.

The software will be provided by Google [GOOG] and it will run Android. No specific version is mentioned but it is expected it will be at least 2.1 with an update to Android 2.2 following at a later date. [Read more…]

Swype has announced that the Swype keyboard is available to download as a beta version from the companies site. The Swype beta download will be available for a few days only it seems and as it’s beta, there are a few limits on what you can do with the keyboard.

We tested the Swype keyboard on a T-Mobile G1 a few months back when the keyboard was previously available as a beta and from what we saw, it worked very well and was actually quite impressive how accurate it was. [Read more…]

Samsung has announced two more Android smartphones. The two models are the Samsung Galaxy 3 I5800 and the Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500.

The Samsung Galaxy 5 has a 2.8 inch QVGA screen and features 802.11b/g wireless networking, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and a 3 megapixel camera. When launched it will run the Google [GOOG] Android 2.1 OS along with the TouchWiz 3.0 UI built by Samsung.

The Samsung Galaxy 3 I5800 is the larger of the two smartphones and comes with a 3.2 inch WQVGA screen. The OS running on the Galaxy 3 is also Android 2.1. A 3 megapixel camera is to be found along with 801.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0. [Read more…]

Motorola is holding an event next week on June 23, a day before the iPhone 4 launch, to show off it’s new and next generation Droid handsets.

Companies involved at the event include Google [GOOG], Verizon [VZ] and Adobe.

It isn’t clear what will be announced just yet although we suspect we might see the Droid 2, Droid X and potentially both handsets. [Read more…]