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• Ricardo Thousand - October 19th, 2009 at 10:11 pm PDT

  Insane, and how long has it been since the official G1 release? Not even a year?

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    David Diaz - October 19th, 2009 at 10:24 pm PDT

    In three days it’ll be a year since the release.

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    not yet - October 19th, 2009 at 10:49 pm PDT

    These phones not released yet. So dont compare announcements with releases.

    Now all phones being same touchscreens, either with or without keyboard, the closing factors of deals would be camera quality?

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      Michael Arrington (@arrington) - October 20th, 2009 at 7:52 am PDT

      we’ll compare what we want to. so there.

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        not yet - October 20th, 2009 at 9:42 pm PDT

        Okey, go ahead. But put the facts as disclaimer.

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          David Diaz - October 21st, 2009 at 12:35 pm PDT

          Umm, pretty sure that “But here’s the complete list of officially announced Android phones, as well as stuff that’s just rumored at this point” means that we did.
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          not yet - October 21st, 2009 at 9:41 pm PDT

          My comment were reply to the Ricardo’s comment, not on this blog post.
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    mankind - October 21st, 2009 at 9:02 am PDT

    ( I am NOT direct/indirect beneficiary from Google/Android)

    What I see happening is the same thing as OS wars on desktops in 90’s.

    iPhone will remain a clear winner at the top 20% and eventually, Android will take remaining 60% with others in 20% range.

    Why? Here it is-
    All fundamentals are aligned for Android-
    1. It is based on good OS kernel (Linux)
    2. It is new OS in a very fragmented space.
    3. At a minimum cost to the OEMs BUT all the FREEDOM to customize
    4. Great and successful company behind it (Google)
    5. Vision of open services model very suitable for users. Not tided to a service like Danger or Apple. This is very important for masses.
    6. When OEMs make money, Google gets more revenue in their core business-search. Big companies always value that.
    7. Can build very viable eco-system of OS provider, OEMs, MOs, App builders and USERS.

    The whole aspect is good for mass scale adoption.

    Another point-Even if few models fail, there is no stigma as new OEMs can launch other phones which are successful.

    Andy took a page from Microsoft to allow a great platform others can make money on while supporting Google core business.

    I was a lone voice in my earlier company saying that Android will become big (where the so called experts disregarding it as a no-event).

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      Dan Udey (@danudey) - October 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 am PDT

      Google’s core business is advertising, not search.

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        Mark - October 22nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm PDT

        That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard someone say. Google obviously makes their money on advertising in their SEARCH results. If their search results sucked, no one would use them and, therefore, no one would see the ads.

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      JimD - November 18th, 2009 at 10:49 pm PST

      Kind of agree. Android is going to be to the Iphone what Windows was to MAC OS. Apples closed source single control non licensed approach always end them up in the smaller percentages in the long run. You would think Apple learned that lesson by now. Plus I’m sure MS Mobile 7.0 will be no slouch.

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  silicon valley dropout - October 19th, 2009 at 10:12 pm PDT

  i didnt know there were so many

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  Sri Raghavan (@seventhapollo) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:13 pm PDT

  …some data for the Sprint Hero does not exist…

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    fireashes - October 19th, 2009 at 11:48 pm PDT

    What do you mean by some data. I have android HTC Hero from sprint. I dont see any data missing. Do I need to be concerned? Am I missing something.

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  Michael - October 19th, 2009 at 10:15 pm PDT

  Great writeup. I just sent this to my girlfriend, she’s been looking for a new phone (and I tried to get her an Iphone, but she wouldn’t have it).

  So you think Droid is the winner. Is Verizon a good service? We’ve been at&t for a while (with mixed experience). My brother loves T-mobile.

  http://www.trad...spx?symbol=goog

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    Michael Arrington (@arrington) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:19 pm PDT

    get the droid unless you need to use the phone internationally.

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      Michael - October 19th, 2009 at 10:28 pm PDT

      No we don’t go international. Looks like a couple more days . . . til we get to try it out if your rumor is correct

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      Robert Oschler (@roschler) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:53 pm PDT

      “These are not the Droids you are looking for.” (obligatory Star Wars reference).

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      Artem Russakovskii (@ArtemR) - October 20th, 2009 at 1:06 am PDT

      The Sony X3 spec looks even more amazing than the Droid’s.

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      David - October 20th, 2009 at 8:01 am PDT

      What do you mean by that? Go international?

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        Ducky - October 20th, 2009 at 8:56 am PDT

        He doesn’t travel internationally. Thus, he has no need for a “world phone”, which the Droid isn’t.

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        corey - October 20th, 2009 at 8:56 am PDT

        for example, the sprint hero can’t be used outside the cdma technology, which is limited to us/canada i believe. the rest of the world uses gsm technology (sim cards) in their mobile phones.

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          Anirudh Dewani (@#anirudhdewani) - October 22nd, 2009 at 7:18 am PDT

          India has both CDMA and GSM .
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      ceibajuan - October 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am PDT

      Would need to see the Droid in action, afraid of power hungry huge screen and I would have liked the directional buttons on the left of the keyboard, seems more suited for possible games.

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  Spencer Schoeben (@netspencer) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:15 pm PDT

  Very helpful. I was thinking about getting an Android phone.

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  Jay Cuthrell (@qthrul) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:16 pm PDT

  There is no iPhone in this list.

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    Spanky Spangloid - October 21st, 2009 at 6:18 am PDT

    Well observed, sir.

    “Android Avalanche: A Complete List Of The *Android* Phones So Far”…

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  David K (@tehdik) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm PDT

  I only have one test for Android phones: open the contacts list and swipe.
  If the scrolling is not as smooth as the iPhone’s then I refuse to buy it.

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    Pilot - October 20th, 2009 at 12:27 am PDT

    You forgot the second test: lick the screen, if it is not as smooth as iPhone’s then do not buy it.

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  • Jonathan Frederickson - October 20th, 2009 at 3:22 am PDT

    So if the phone is amazingly better than the iPhone in every other aspect, you wouldn’t get it because of the SCROLLING?

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      Yongho Kim (@yonghokim) - October 20th, 2009 at 7:42 am PDT

      a slow speed in something as simple as scrolling means it will be slow for everything else. proof: g2/hero

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        Somebody - November 6th, 2009 at 11:54 am PST

        You are an idiot.
        And obviously don’t comprehend the concept of multitasking.
        Crapapplephone has (for the most part) *disabled* multitasking in order to make a smoother UI. The side effect of this is that there is NO MULTITASKING, i.e., it can only do ONE THING AT A TIME, and the UI (of all stupid things) is on a real-time thread!

        In other words, when you scroll the contacts list on a crapapplephone, that is *ALL* it is doing, which means that it isn’t doing anything ELSE, unlike an android phone, which is doing whatever you told it to do in the background. Checking for software updates for example.

        To put that into words that are easier for the comprehension of the mentally inferior: crapapplephone is *shiny and cute*…. ONLY.

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      Mattan Ingram (@mattaningram) - October 20th, 2009 at 8:38 am PDT

      Please show me a phone in this list that is somehow amazingly better than the iPhone (not talking service here, talking about functionality and usability).

      Only one that looks decent is the X3. The droid is ugly and has that damn physical keyboard (I hates the physicals).

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        John Barker (@barkerja) - October 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm PDT

        Once you pull the iPhone out of your ass and whipe the shit off, I will gladly show you over 50 reasons why Android is better than the iPhone.

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          hmm - October 20th, 2009 at 5:38 pm PDT

          There’s an app for that?
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        Somebody - November 6th, 2009 at 11:55 am PST

        ALL of them are infinitely superior to crapapplephone in ALL regards, except possibly fagginess.

        I’ll let you have that one.

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    corey - October 20th, 2009 at 8:58 am PDT

    seems pretty smooth to me on my sprint hero…

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    Andro - October 23rd, 2009 at 9:42 am PDT

    I only have one test for iphone: open an app, than open a second app without closing the first one.
    If multitasking is not existing on the iPhone then I refuse to buy it.

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  simran (@ringlerun) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm PDT

  your prices are carp! surely you should be giving the price of it at the end of a contract if you want to show its true cost!

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    Charbax (@Charbax) - October 20th, 2009 at 12:00 am PDT

    Yes, you need to add the minimum price at the end of the contract and between parantheses show the conditions in terms of fees if you break the contract. Also you should display the price to purchase it unlocked if it is available unlocked.

    Otherwise those prices are really bogus in terms of actual cost to the end consumer!

    I mean, comon folks! We are not supposed to buy into this marketing trickery! We are above that! Let’s just state the true minimum cost of the whole contract.

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• Brian Hendrickson - October 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm PDT

  the Lancaster and the Droid are dead sexy

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  luis - October 19th, 2009 at 10:23 pm PDT

  Wow, this growing list could potentially be Androids downfall! Where is the differentiation or innovation? Real winner here is Facebook, Twitter, myspace, gmail ect……..

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    Michael - October 19th, 2009 at 10:29 pm PDT

    Maybe it’ll end up like Windows Mobile . . . plenty of mediocre phones.

    Of course, I haven’t really given Android a fair try yet. Hoping the gf gets one, so i can compare it to my mighty iphone.

    http://www.traderbots.com

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      Somebody - November 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am PST

      Mighty?
      In no way whatsoever.

      No multitasking,
      No ability to install non-nazi apps,
      etc., etc., etc.

      Did you by any chance see the iDon’t commercial? Yeah, that stuff.

      And FYI: You can have the most superior hardware of all, but if you put wimo on it, it will end up being a mediocre to POS phone anyways.

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  • Jonathan Frederickson - October 20th, 2009 at 3:25 am PDT

    TouchWiz, Sense UI, etc. That’s where the differentiation will be. The manufacturers can change the UI as much as they want as long as it’s not a Google Experience phone.

    It’s also in the hardware. Slide-out keyboard, touch keyboard, LCD screen, AMOLED screen… the list goes on.

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    EJ - October 20th, 2009 at 7:16 am PDT

    Exactly. A lot of mediocre products (and, yes, anything on a 528 MHz A8 is going to be mediocre by the standards of the Pre or 3GS) might even hinder the few standouts.

    That said, I would definitely try a few of these if AT&T wasn’t viable in my area (I actually have great service and network speeds here in Michigan).

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  Matt Stone (@matthieu_stone) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:26 pm PDT

  My goodness.. that’s quite a bit.

  One worry is that it looks a bit fragmented. Having developed mobile apps before; biggest headache is the different hardware behaves slightly differently, so many, many versions and crud in code causing bloat.

  Hope Android solves all that. If so.. I’m in with an app!

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  Alexey (@agilefusion) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:26 pm PDT

  Hopefully Android will not follow the fate and fragmentation of API’s and special special features that bogged down J2ME.

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• Nishant Singh - October 19th, 2009 at 10:30 pm PDT

  What about the Garmin Nuvifone?
  Does that suck badly

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  Leo - October 19th, 2009 at 10:32 pm PDT

  Maybe it’s a good idea to note which of these device are official “Google Experience” devices?

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    Sweet Profiling - October 19th, 2009 at 10:47 pm PDT

    All of them… will track the hell out ouf you.

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  Alex Hawkinson (@ahawkinson) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:34 pm PDT

  It is great to see the list in one spot. What an onslaught! The real issue for most of these is going to be maintaining comparability with and access to core apps. Windows Mobile had a ton of devices from various manufacturers a few years ago, and that didn’t help them as Apple put the whole package together.

  Ultimately it just takes one breaking away from the pack to inspire others and introduce healthy competition with the iPhone. From the screenshots (http://bit.ly/1DLCny) coupled with Verizon’s network and sales might, seems like Droid has got the best shot.

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  Frank - October 19th, 2009 at 10:54 pm PDT

  Couldn’t help to notice that almost all these phones comes with practically zero internal memory…why?

  Only the Lenovo phone comes with 8GB, the rest under 1 GB. Shouldn’t they all be in 32 or 16GB as standard by now? They can still add the external option.

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    Stack - October 20th, 2009 at 6:52 am PDT

    I would much rather be charged $20 for an 8GB microSD card from amazon, than $100 from the vendor.

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      Dan Udey (@danudey) - October 22nd, 2009 at 10:59 am PDT

      Except in cases where the storage is deficient. Case in point, the G1, which can’t install anything past cupcake because there’s no space for the OS on the internal storage.

      I’d rather have 16GB of internal storage at twice the market price than 512M of internal storage that will limit me down the road.

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        Dave - October 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm PDT

        It’s true that the G1’s internal storage limits the apps you can install (unless you start using file management apps to swap apps to the memory card).

        However, my G1 is definitely running Donut, the OS update after Cupcake, with no problems.

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  My Locator (t m) - October 19th, 2009 at 10:54 pm PDT

  let the phones fall where they may. differentiation will become weak to the point where if it aint one touch screen mobile phone its another. pricing will plummet due to competition. soon it will be difficult to give these things away.

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• Robb Lewis - October 19th, 2009 at 10:59 pm PDT

  Will be interesting to see if this can change the slope of the iPhone adoption. How many iPhone devs have said they would port / build on Android?

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    Florent V. - October 19th, 2009 at 11:40 pm PDT

    I’m not sure. Right now, high-profile examples for the Android platform include Google products (doh), Facebook, Pandora, Spotify, and a few others. The Android Market is definitely not as big as the iPhone App Store.

    My personal needs are mostly covered (i would like a Dropbox client, and one might come in the future, but it’s not vital and i’m not sure it would be that useful for me). I suspect iPhone users that have grown accustomed to a handful of apps may be reluctant to switch if they’re not available on other platforms, though.

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    mankind - October 21st, 2009 at 9:17 am PDT

    I dont think the iPhone adoption as such will have a big dent as it will saturate around 20%.

    What this will do is to get 60% of the remaining 80% market.

    That is the game Android is playing.

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• Mohak Gambhir - October 19th, 2009 at 11:08 pm PDT

  Oh wait, did a Numerologist sell an idea to Eric and he considered changing his name to “Erick”?

  …Google CEO Erick Schmidt stated emphatically during Google’s most recent earnings call….

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  Tom Wood - October 19th, 2009 at 11:11 pm PDT

  Never, ever, never, put your phone in your shirt pocket and then decide to work on the swimming pool…

  Some time with a hair dryer, an afternoon in the sun on the car dashboard, and three trips into a warm oven, my old Razr is still working. I just needed it to keep working until the end of the month, for Droid.

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    Chefweems - October 20th, 2009 at 8:43 am PDT

    HaHa. Was loading the smoker with brisket one time and my old Razr shot out of my pocket into the bloody brine! Kept going for another 6 mos. Razrs were amazing like that.

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  Ivo Jimenez (@ivotron) - October 19th, 2009 at 11:13 pm PDT

  Finally someone gathered all the sparse info and put it in one place

  Bookmarked XD

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  Benedict James - October 19th, 2009 at 11:13 pm PDT

  The HTC Click and Tattoo are the same device no?

  And the Lancaster was scrapped a long time ago.

  The Galaxy Lite is now called Spica.

  If you’re gonna include phones from China which use a Linux system (Ophone) shouldn’t you include ShenZhen ones which will run actual Android (i.e. Broncho A1, SciPhone N21) as well?

  Sorry but it seems like this article wasn’t researched enough.

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    David Diaz - October 20th, 2009 at 2:11 am PDT

    The Lancaster was rumored to be scrapped, which we noted in the article; however there was nothing definitive which we found. The reason we put the Dell mini on the list was because it is rumored that there will be a US version coming out.

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      anonymous - October 20th, 2009 at 9:58 am PDT

      Can you fix the tatoo/click mistake?

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        David Diaz - October 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am PDT

        The Click was re-branded as the Tattoo and then released. They are the same device.

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  Ammar (@mardawi) - October 19th, 2009 at 11:13 pm PDT

  amazing list!

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  Takeshi (@takeshiyoung) - October 19th, 2009 at 11:17 pm PDT

  Wow, that’s a damn confusing list. No wonder Apple’s phone is so popular– it’s so much simpler than “Philips V808″ or “Samsung Galaxy Lite”.

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    Florent V. - October 19th, 2009 at 11:29 pm PDT

    How is “Apple iPhone 3Gs” simpler than “Samsung Galaxy Lite”? Any language student or even any person with a bit of understanding of language will tell you that “galaxy lite” (two common words, one spelled with a simplified orthograph that is quite common) is simpler than “iPhone 3Gs” (an invented trademark that ads an equivocal “i” to the common name “phone”, and an acronym with an added “s” that stands for, hum, something).

    Your point is somehow valid for product numbers like “V808”, though “3Gs” comes close.

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      Dan Udey (@danudey) - October 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am PDT

      Here’s the difference:

      What’s an Apple iPhone? Sounds like a phone.

      What’s a Samsung Galaxy? Sounds like… well… anything, I guess.

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  Florent V. - October 19th, 2009 at 11:21 pm PDT

  Hello,

  The picture for the HTC Hero is wrong. I know, i saw it when browsing TechCrunch on my… HTC Hero.

  If you want to find product pictures for that phone, just go to htc.com or Google Image Search or something.

  By the way, it’s a nice phone. In some ways Android is not completely there yet (waiting for 2.0…), especially on usability, though it’s quite decent and the trouble is mostly with third-party apps with nice or ok features but poor UI. I like the multi-tasking though (Spotify + web browsing + another app in the background…). The hardware is nice. Not as powerful as an iPhone 3Gs i see from the specs, but enough for my needs even with some multi-tasking. The build is great and i find it more comfortable to hold it in the hand than the iPhone, but it’s mostly a personal preference.

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    Steve - October 20th, 2009 at 1:05 am PDT

    It’s the correct picture for one version of the Hero. Sprint’s version of the device is the sleeker, rounder model as depicted here, whereas the “European” device is the original, hard-jawed device.

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      snogglethorpe - October 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pm PDT

      It’s a shame that sprint started screwing with the design, because it’s very clear they haven’t any taste — the original hero was striking and actually made me want it, but the sprint version has a vaguely unfocused and generic look that just says “meh, what else is available.”

      They seemed to have missed the lesson that one of the reasons the iphone (along with apple products in general) is so successful, is simply that it looks cooler and more striking than any of its competitors. Sprint’s hero certainly does not.

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  Charbax (@Charbax) - October 19th, 2009 at 11:52 pm PDT

  The Archos 5 Internet Tablet does VOIP on WiFi and using 3G tethering, is available today 8GB MSRP $249 (street below $200), 500GB hard drive version MSRP $499 (street below $400) no contracts needed.

  I’m writing this on my Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android 32GB MSRP $369 (street to be below $300).. You may not categorize it as a “phone”, but who cares about “phones”, we want pocket computer tablets with full freedom to run our VOIP Android apps instead of signing voice and sms contracts like most of the phones on this list require.

  Archos 5 Internet Tablet has the best screen of the list, 4.8″ 800×480 screen is by far the best compared to all others on this list. And no, 4.8″ screen device is not too big, it’s like saying a 47″ HDTV is too big for the living room, that one should only use a 32″ analog quality one. The Archos 5 is smaller than any average sized wallet or passport, so no reason to say it’s too big. And the added 2x larger screen size area compared to most 3.5″ smartphones on the market, really gives a much better Internet, E-Reading, Video and Apps experience.

  I’d much prefer an Archos with built-in 3G modem and VOIP-enabled 3G sim card pre-paid only with no voice and sms contracts whatsoever. We have countries here in Europe that have $20 per month pre-paid only data plans on 3G networks that offer up to 10GB or 20GB monthly bandwidth and no restrictions if the connection is used for VOIP and IM instead of minute-based voice and sms payments.

  Archos also has the best processor of the list with OMAP3440 by Texas Instruments, real ARM Cortex A8 available in a real product today. With 720p Android experience on your HDTV with the HDMI output of the Archos docking station, with mouse and keyboard support using either USB or Bluetooth, with 720p MKV high profile h264 video playback support full codecs DivX, Mpeg2, and later Flash 10.1.

  See more on my http://forum.archosfans.com

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  admin - October 20th, 2009 at 12:04 am PDT

  Motorola’s DROID may help it come back from the dead. Motorola created the mobile phone market and then lost it to competitors.

  Will its stock may move up from here to reflect it? We’ll see. In my opinion it is all a matter of market timing.

  Yes, stocks have become much more expensive,and may consolidate a bit from where they are now.

  However, using a good market timing system can help an investor profit both from the upside and downside of this market.

  Consider http://invetrics.com

  Its daily DJIA index trading signal is up a respectable 64.84% for the year (as of October 19, 2009) and it is free of charge for individual investors.

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• Tom Allason - October 20th, 2009 at 12:26 am PDT

  wow that is a lot of phones, perhaps getting pre was wrong decision… a ton of touch-screens with real keyboards. how does Android hold up against Web OS for multitasking?

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    Mardix (@mardix) - October 20th, 2009 at 3:25 am PDT

    IMHO, WebOS is the best in multitasking.

    You can: be on the phone, browse the internet, send a message, take and save a picture, sms, and all that while you are on the phone.

    Android, it won’t let you do all that. And Palm Pre Card is awesome.

    Just go with Pre, it’s stylish, does everything that Droid said iPhone can’t do.

    It’s just Pre didn’t want to label itself as an iPhone killer. But it’s a killer.

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      scorintha (@scorintha) - October 20th, 2009 at 5:06 am PDT

      @mardix; I would like to know how you’re so sure that Android cannot do these things, since I just executed that same sequence of actions you just described on the G1 with no problems and no delays.

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      nico - October 24th, 2009 at 2:22 am PDT

      Sprints Palm Pre can’t do voice and data at the same time. CDMA network won’t allow it.

      An Android on a GSM/HSPA network can surf the web while in a call and write a text while streaming music. It won’t be able to surf and talk on a CDMA network.

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  Sy (@sytaylor) - October 20th, 2009 at 12:51 am PDT

  It really bugs me that I’ve been locked into an 18 month contract on a blackberry 8900 curve since June. That is defintely not a cool move by the carriers. Lost major cool points from me.

  It will be interesting to see if all those phones generate a bunch more Android apps.

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  jonas - October 20th, 2009 at 1:12 am PDT

  The HTC magic is available in Japan with Docomo, since… august?

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    Jonathan - October 21st, 2009 at 1:08 am PDT

    July 10th. Got it the day it came out.

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  Lior - October 20th, 2009 at 1:31 am PDT

  I like to follow new android phones releases on http://www.androphonez.com it really keeps the info up to date

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  electro - October 20th, 2009 at 1:39 am PDT

  Cool phones. I noticed that they are all touch screen phones.

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  Thomas - October 20th, 2009 at 1:45 am PDT

  Apple needs to find a way to open up, otherwise it will be the same as the war between mac and windows.

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    mankind - October 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am PDT

    Exactly, and see my other posts. Happy someone else sees this like I do….

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  timjones17 - October 20th, 2009 at 2:10 am PDT

  I just renewed for 2 more years with VZW and got the WinMo 6.1 Samsung Omnia i910. In 2 yrs when I’m up again, I’ll see how Android works out in VZW and maybe then.

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    mankind - October 21st, 2009 at 9:28 am PDT

    Too bad @timjones, you may regret this 2 years contract.

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  Priit (@atirip) - October 20th, 2009 at 2:19 am PDT

  “Our bet is that the upcoming Motorola Droid will be the breakout winner…”
  C’mon, get serious – there’s zero GSM, potentially sold worldwide, by tens of carriers, in millions units, phones on that list – they are all loosers.

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  jkforde - October 20th, 2009 at 2:43 am PDT

  The N97 has native FM transmission which is vv handy in the car…. not a Android deal breaker for me but ……anyone in HTC? can’t be that intensive to incorporate.

  And Dell should chop the top and bottom off their contender, would look better! (I presuming the image above is cropped)

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  Rakhi Chowdhary (@Rakhi_Chowdhary) - October 20th, 2009 at 3:10 am PDT

  Thanks!!! Good write up with details of latest phones. My sis is going to buy and is looking for 3G mobiles.

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  hmz - October 20th, 2009 at 3:14 am PDT

  Where is General Mobile DSTL1.. 1st dual sim android? i use that phone..

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    Joby (@jobyone) - October 22nd, 2009 at 5:32 pm PDT

    What do you think of the DSTL1? I’ve looked into it a little bit and it sure looks promising.

    At the moment I’ve got no use for dual SIM, but it looks like a well built piece of hardware.

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  doink123 - October 20th, 2009 at 3:31 am PDT

  Remove HTC Click from the list. It was renamed and released as HTC Tattoo, which you already have listed.

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  fatmonkey - October 20th, 2009 at 3:31 am PDT

  Snif snif, I smell something burning… Ah! It’s Apple’s market share!

  Tell S.J to watch the Seinfeld episode about the shrinkage.

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    mankind - October 21st, 2009 at 9:33 am PDT

    I completely disagree fatmonkey, it will have no other impact than eventual saturation.

    What it will do is to kill WinMO and Pink project from microsoft.

    WinMO, BREW, SYMBIAN, RIM phone will suffer the most.

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  Dexter - October 20th, 2009 at 3:51 am PDT

  it seems that google will have a big succes with android

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  Daina Thomas (@blogger_au) - October 20th, 2009 at 4:02 am PDT

  Well some of those are out .. and some of those are not released yet .. but I really liked Sony Ericsson Xperia X3.. it s nice .. the look , the camera ..

  Best,
  Daina

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• Erik Gaius Capistrano - October 20th, 2009 at 4:23 am PDT

  HTC Dragon looks hot~ ^^

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    Jim Wright - October 20th, 2009 at 6:13 am PDT

    It might be literally hot. My Hero sometimes is a bit warm against my face when talking on the phone…I’m wondering what kind of heat a 1GHz processor will put out. The flames coming from that dragon’s mouth might be an indication.

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  Jan Michael Hess (@mobiliser) - October 20th, 2009 at 5:54 am PDT

  It looks like a big list but Android still has way to go to optimise the usability and be able to compete against the iPhone.

  We will develop an iPhone client first before we consider other mobile platforms such as Android, Windows or Symbian. The reason is: super usability and high penetration of iPhones in the early adopter and trend setter target group which is important for us.

  Question is: How many happy Android customers vs. how many happy iPhone customers do you know?

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  Karl - October 20th, 2009 at 6:11 am PDT

  I personally prefer Hero to Droid if you remove the OS version difference. I’m a big UI fan and Motorola has never performed well in that regard, while HTC has. I have high hopes for the Dragon too.

  I do agree with another poster however: people want storage, and you need to compete with the space the iPhone offers.

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  KJ - October 20th, 2009 at 6:29 am PDT

  Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 FTW!

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  Chris DeLashmutt - October 20th, 2009 at 6:40 am PDT

  Fantastic! I was just trying to find a list of released/possibly upcoming Android handsets and couldn’t seem to get that info anywhere. Thanks for putting this together!

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  Riles - October 20th, 2009 at 6:56 am PDT

  Why didn’t the Sholes/Droid Tablet make the list? Was that rumor not credible enough?

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• Cameron Judd - October 20th, 2009 at 7:52 am PDT

  Isnt HTC Click and Tattoo the same thing???

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  KJ - October 20th, 2009 at 8:04 am PDT

  Man, that’s a lot of iClones.

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    Riles - October 20th, 2009 at 9:48 am PDT

    Good lord you’re dense. Man that Iphone sure was a knockoff of my Dell Axim, just a big screen with a couple buttons. All they added was a gsm radio. What the hell form factor do you expect a handheld touchscreen device to take?

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      Kevin - November 19th, 2009 at 3:24 pm PST

      Dude, clearly if it doesn’t look like crap Apple was and always will be the only pioneer in that field and everyone that to use a similar design and pulls it off better than Apple is actually ripping off Apple’s wonderful, trend-setting design.

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