Today Motorola  announced the new, rugged Motorola DEFY Android 2.1 smartphone. The DEFY features a simple slab form factor that is built to stand up to IP67 certification for water immersion and dust. The DEFY sports the same 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen(INFO) display as is found on the DROID 2 (and MILESTONE 2), and manages to keep its thickness down to a relatively thin 13.4mm. The DEFY comes with Adobe Flash ... Read More

Today China Mobile  and Sony Ericsson announced the A8i, a TD-SCDMA 3G device that offers a 3.5-inch 854 x 480 pixel touchscreen, CMMB mobile TV functionality, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, GPS, WiFi, an FM radio, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The A8i runs OMS 2.0, which is more commonly known as China Mobile's OPhone brand operating system, a custom version of Android. The A8i, which measures 117mm ... Read More

The Motorola Droid 2 is not the only hot Android handset in town as Dell has finally decided to make the Streak available to the crowds. Unfortunately the tablet/smartphone will come to AT&T with Android 1.6 which is pretty disappointing for a device that wants to fight the top smartphones on the market. Dell did say that Android 2.1 is coming soon, which is not Froyo but better than Donut. The ... Read More

HTC hearts Android. They've released a lot of droids but still have unannounced phones - the HTC Fiesta and Paradise will pad HTC's portfolio with even more Android. The HTC Paradise seems like an Aria with a QWERTY, while the HTC is a bar touch phone. Found, believe it or not, on Craigslist, those two AT&T samples have only surfaced before as names from UA profiles. Not much is known about ... Read More

HTC has announced the availability of HTC Sync version 3.0, which comes with a new media sync feature that lets HTC smartphone owners sync music playlists (and more) with their PCs, via USB. HTC Sync 3.0 currently works only with the HTC Wildfire (which ships with Froyo in China). But don’t worry, HTC says other devices will get the new version of Sync in the near future – devices running Android ... Read More

A new Android handset is heading to Sprint and this time around it's coming from Motorola. The i1, a PTT phone we talked about before, is going to be available in Sprint stores on July 25. The phone will cost $149.99 with a two-year contract but that's the price after a $50 mail-in rebate. The phone will come with features like a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen display, 5-megapixel camera with flash, Wi-Fi, ... Read More

The talk of the Android world is mostly Froyo updates but there are still plenty of devices that haven't even made it to Eclair. Well, there's hope for some of Motorola's own as the company just revealed its upgrade plans for a number for smartphones. The Motorola CLIQ (or DEXT if you will) and CLIQ XT (a.k.a. QUENCH) will be the first to get a taste of Android 2.1. Their updates ... Read More

The square-shaped Android phone, the Motorola FlipOut, is on its way to Germany. It will arrive a little later than expected, but at least we get pricing info and also which carriers and stores will offer the FlipOut. The Motorola FlipOut became official a couple of weeks ago, with little info on price and regional availability. But the info then said that the FlipOut was to become available in "certain regions" ... Read More

AT&T is getting ready for an Aria with the Three Tenors - HTC, Android and Sense UI. The HTC Aria is a close relative to the HTC HD mini in hardware specs, but it's out with the old OS and in with the new OS when it comes to software. The HTC Aria (formerly known as HTC Liberty) packs the same hardware as the HTC HD mini - a 3.2" HVGA ... Read More

Acer announced a Ferrari special edition version of its Liquid E smartphone. The device sports a glossy red casing with a chrome trim, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, and a "Scuderia Ferrari" shield that has carbon fiber details. Acer also redesigned the microphone to resemble the sportscar's air-intake inlet. Continuing the Ferrari theme, Acer revamped the user interface for fans of the Rossa. There's a 5-page homescreen with a Ferrari wallpaper, and ... Read More