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Verizon [VZ] have made the DROID Incredible official by way of a press release. The press release confirms all the details we have already seen such as the Android 2.1 operating system from Google [GOOG] along with a 3.7 inch AMOLED screen and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU.

The press release also confirms the April 29 release date with an on-contract price tag of $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate.

The phone it’s self is said to have seamless integration with Exchange ActiveSync and as it’s an Android 2.1 based smartphone, it also gives access to the Google Market Place where you can download from a library of 30,000 apps. [Read more…]

Motorola have outlined their Android 2.1 roadmap to get all their Android handsets current with the latest version of Android, ie, 2.1.

There are currently six Android phones listed by Motorola of which the DROID has already gone through the process of OTA updates to Android 2.1. Next on the list is the MILESTONE that also has had updates pushed out to it and this process “should” be complete by now.

The Motorola CLIQ and CLIQ XT are both pencilled in for a Q3 OTA update and following that is the Motorola BACKFLIP and some country versions of the DEXT. The Motorola DEVOUR however, is under review perhaps due to how recently it launched. [Read more…]

Evan Williams of Twitter announced at the Chirp conference that the microblogging network will be launching an Android app.

Right now it isn’t clear who will create the app, as in will it be built in house or will they acquire a company and work on their app, or if they will even higher 3rd party developers. Either way, the official Twitter Android app will be coming sometime soon.

Saturday just gone, Twitter acquired a company called Tweetie who created a very good twitter application on the iPhone. Now that this has been purchased the application is being called Twitter for iPhone and will not be charged for like it currently is. We are unsure of the time line but we suspect the minor changes to price and a name are just going through app store approval which should be complete by the end of the month. [Read more…]

Verizon [VZ] have published the official specs for the DROID Incredible by HTC on their website.

The specs are as we expected in that it has a 3.7 inch OLED touchscreen that can display a 480×800 resolution (WVGA). The camera on the back is capable of capturing in 8 megapixels. The operating running on the HTC Incredible is Google Android 2.1. The full run down of specifications can be found below… [Read more…]

The Game Gripper is a device designed for the Motorola DROID/MILESTONE that allows you to use the keyboard as a game controller.

The device slides over the keyboard of the DROID and essentially moves the D-Pad that’s on the right of the DROID keyboard to a controller like D-Pad on the left side of the keyboard in a more familiar place.

As well as moving the D-Pad to the correct location, 8 buttons are also added that can be customised for playing games on your DROID. [Read more…]

The lG LU2300 was first spotted back on April 7 at which point it was referred to as the LG Aloha. The phone has now been made official when LG made an announcement about it.

The phone is to be called the LG LU2300 and when launched will run the Google Android operating system. The Android version will be 2.1 from what we have heard.

Feature of the phone include a 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen and the phone it’s self is powered by a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. The phone is a slider phone with a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the side of the device. [Read more…]

Finally last week (March 30), Motorola DROID users in the US finally started seeing OTA updates arriving on their phones bringing the version up to Android 2.1. We expected to see that all DROID’s were updated by the end of the week although it seems like updates are still happening over a week later.

If you are still waiting for an OTA update then we hear that all phones should be running it by tomorrow April 9 as Verizon have commented that updates will arrive by the end of this week. [Read more…]

Android is enjoying some good growth at the moment with a whole range of new phones opting to use Android as their operating system.

This growth rate also has developers excited it seems as in March this year there were 9,308 new applications added to the Android Market which is streets ahead of any previous months and approaching double what it was the previous month.

In fact, numbers have been counted since July 2009 for this particular chart where in that first month 1557 apps were added to the market. Every month since then has been an improvement and looking at the shape of the graph it seems like April’s numbers should easily beat it. [Read more…]

Some pictures of the LG Aloha Android based smartphone have been spotted. The Aloha it’s self is yet to be announced but from what we hear it is to be a high-end phone that will run a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm and have a 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen that has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

The camera on the back is said to be capable of capturing images at five megapixels. From the pictures we also see that the LG Aloha has a slide out QWERTY keyboard that is designed for those who prefer to work with physical keyboards rather than virtual keyboards.

The phone front is black and mostly covered by the screen and appears to have a search and home button on the front along with what looks to be an optical trackball. The keyboard when slide out looks to be brushed aluminium or something similar. [Read more…]