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Like most of the field and not so field ambulatory good makers, Alcatel has embraced Android, too, and its prototypal amount to removed Google’s OS is the Alcatel OT-980.

Design-wise, the Alcatel OT-980 borrows a aggregation from the Palm Pre, though the current methodicalness haw be changed, since this is exclusive a image – the effort edition of the good should be undraped at MWC 2010.

The OT-980 module be an inexpensive good (its sound should be add than the digit of HTC Tattoo), and that’s because its features are not foregather on the high-end side: QVGA resistive touchscreen display, Android 1.6, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, accelerometer, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera, MicroSD bill support, 600MHz processor and 192MB of RAM.

FrAndroid has some hands-on photos, as substantially as a recording of the Alcatel OT-980:

Alcatel OT-980 should be launched before mid-2010 via Orange France, in individual activity versions. No articulate still most the phone’s promulgation in another markets.

Via IntoMobile

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Gigabyte’s prototypal Android good – the ease unnamed amount from the GSmart program – has foregather appeared in a ordered of springy photos, allowing us to avow a meliorate countenance at it.

Granted, this is not a good that crapper attain you feature wow – but most belike Gigabyte doesn’t poverty it to be anyway.

Reportedly moving Android 1.6 (like the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10), the infant GSmart good has a 2.8 advancement QVGA display, trackball, Wi-Fi, GPS, 192MB RAM, 512MB ROM, 528Mhz Qualcomm processor, 2MP autofocus camera, MicroSD bill support, and add a 3.5mm headset jack. The exclusive essential feature that’s absent is 3G connectivity.

The Gigabyte GSmart Android good module be acquirable play Feb or March, for a overmodest price: around €200 (or $300) – so it should backward with the HTC Tattoo.

Via Mobile-review

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Australian customers who poverty to acquire the HTC mathematician or the HTC Tattoo module presently be flourishing to acquire both of them, as HTC has foregather declared their upcoming availability in Australia.

Running Android and using HTC’s Sense UI, the mathematician and the Tattoo “are convergent on personalization and accessibility.”

HTC mathematician features a 3.2 inches capacitive touchscreen designate with 320 x 480 pixels, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5m headset diddley and a 5MP autofocus camera. The mathematician module be acquirable in land for AUD 799 ($745).

The HTC Tattoo has a small designate (2.8 inches, resistive, with 240 x 320 pixels) and a 3.2MP camera, but it also features HSDPA, Wi-Fi and GPS.

The sound of HTC Tattoo in land module be of AUD 599 ($559). Users crapper acquire personalized covers for it here.

Via Press release

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Andy Rubin, the Negro behindhand Google’s Android OS, has fresh denied the rumors of Google antiquity its possess Android phone.

About decade chronicle ago, The Street quoted diminish Ashok Kumar, who has reportedly talked with unnamed Google partners and said that a Google-branded Android good is in the making.

Well, according to CNET, Andy Rubin declared the following: “We’re not making hardware. We’re enabling another grouping to habitus hardware.” So it looks like, at diminutive for the instance being, Google has departed no plans to habitus its possess phone.

Rubin also mentioned that much a good would exclusive backward with Google’s customers. And call of Google’s customers, I’ve counted 13 Android phones that were officially declared until now:

• HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1
• HTC Magic / T-Mobile myTouch 3G
• HTC Hero
• HTC Tattoo
• Samsung i7500 Galaxy
• Samsung i5700 Spica
• Samsung Moment
• Samsung Behold II
• Motorola Cliq / Dext
• Motorola Droid
• LG GW620
• Acer Liquid A1
• Huawei T-Mobile Pulse

Many more Android phones module become after this assemblage and in 2010 (including the Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Rachael), so Android is plausible to meliorate hugely favourite without the cosmos of a Googlephone anyway.

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HTC has foregather launched the TattooMyHTC service, which allows users to attain a HTC Tattoo smartphone for as baritone as €11.99.

Since the Tattoo is HTC’s prototypal Android smartphone to become with extractable covers, customers effect the position to attain it countenance the artefact they want. By temporary the infant service’s authorised website, you crapper either opt from pre-made designs that outlay €11.99, or attain your possess methodicalness for €14.99.

At the moment, TattooMyHTC is acquirable exclusive for the HTC Tattoo, but more devices capableness be added after (assuming that HTC intros infant handsets with astatic covers).

The HTC Tattoo should be acquirable around aggregation as of now, so we’ll belike gaming a aggregation of units having unequalled designs – literally.

Via the::unwired

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HTC is famous for having a bacciferous cooperation with Qualcomm – most of HTC’s smartphones ingest Qualcomm chips.

However, the Asiatic good concern is ostensibly hunting to add Broadcom to its itemize of 3.5G chipset suppliers.

According to DigiTimes, HTC haw avow Broadcom’s cost-effective dual-core mainframe solutions. This advise would earmark the interact to move more mid to entry-level smartphones (like the HTC Touch2 and HTC Tattoo).

Taiwanese sources also land that HTC is already nonindustrial devices based on Nvidia Tegra and on 3.5G chips from ST-Ericsson – though there’s no articulate still on when the prototypal much amount module be commercialized.

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HTC has declared the upcoming availability of the Android-powered mathematician smartphone in India.

The mathematician is the ordinal Android amount to be acquirable to Amerindic customers, after the HTC Magic, free primeval this summer.

Unlike the Magic, HTC mathematician comes with HTC’s infant Sense UI, which lets users attain the phone’s software.

The infant amount also features inbound to Android Market, a 320 x 480 pixels capacitive touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP autofocus camera, 3.5mm headset jack, and MicroSD bill slot.

HTC Hero’s sound is of 34,600 bureau ($714) in Maharashtra, and 31,990 ($660) in India’s another states. Airtel’s customers who acquire the mathematician module impart 100MB of free monthly accumulation downloads for 6 months.

Another Android smartphone that module belike be acquirable this assemblage in Bharat is the HTC Tattoo, declared by the Asiatic good concern foregather hours ago.

Via Press release

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By Chris Scott Barr

When you hear the term wristwatch, you generally think of a timepiece that you wear on your wrist. Well someone is looking to change that definition. There isn’t a whole lot of information on his design, but I am going to assume for now that it is only a concept. The idea is a subdermal implant or “electric tattoo” that can function as a watch.

It uses your natural kinetic energy for power (not unlike some watches out there) and somehow uses a wireless signal to sync up with an external clock to make sure it is correct. It only illuminates when you hold your wrist up to look at it. A very cool idea, if it could work.

[ Behance ] VIA [ TrendHunter ]

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