HTC today introduced an enhanced HTC Sense experience that will be available on two new smartphones that take Android to the next level, the HTC Legend and HTC Desire.

HTC SENSE
HTC Sense is a user experience focused on putting people at the centre by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. This experience revolves around three fundamental principles that were developed by observing and listening to how people live …

NPR announced two major mobile launches — a redesigned and expanded mobile NPR.org for users of web-enabled devices, and an NPR News app for Android, to be available soon. The Android app, named “NPR News” has completed the development phase and will be available to Android users later this month.

The new NPR Mobile Web offers easy access to hundreds of live and on-demand NPR and NPR station programs, and offers a …

AdMob examines the major mobile Operating Systems and the distribution of requests across top devices that run on them in the October 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. The iPhone, Palm and RIM OS’s all run exclusively on devices manufactured by those companies, while the Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile OS’s run on devices from a variety of manufacturers.

New devices from RIM are generating an increasing percentage of the total number of …

MIPS Technologies and Sigma Designs are bringing a full high-definition (HD) experience to the Android platform.
At the DIGITIMES Tech Forum Multimedia Day in Taipei on August 27th, the companies will demonstrate an Android-based system displaying 1080p video on a full HD flat screen display. This HD video demonstration is a major milestone toward the creation of a reference platform for an Android-based set-top box (STB)-a goal that Sigma and MIPS have …

Samsung unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.

“Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most innovative Android mobile phone,” said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in …

SLG Mobile, Inc. announced today an upcoming release of BeamReader for Android, a full fidelity (original quality) native PDF reader for the Android platform. All document rendering will be completely native to the Android device without the need for server side pre-processing and the user’s phone does not even need to be connected to the network.

The hallmark of BeamReader is its ability to render actual fonts embedded in a PDF …

Hop-on nnounced today that they will demo live, Interactive Gaming in real-time from its Android OS phone at the CES 2009 in Las Vegas in January. Players will be able to interact with live dealers in real-time. Hop-on will be licensing this technology to companies abroad.

Recently, online video viewers reached more than 119 million people, more than 8.5 billion streams, and nearly 3 hours of viewing per user in the U.S. …

Kogan is introducing the revolutionary Kogan Agora mobile phone powered by Android™ software.The first mobile phone in Australia to feature Android ™ – the ground-breaking new open source mobile phone operating system.

Featuring fast 3G wireless technology, web browsing, and a host of Internet applications, this is the must have mobile phone.

Pre-installed software applications provide access to many services including GMail ™, Google Calendar ™, Google Maps ™, Google Talk ™, and …

Veveo today announced the launch of its WikiTap application, now available for both the iPhone and T-Mobile G1 (Google Android). WikiTap lets iPhone and G1 users quickly and easily search Wikipedia to get the most relevant results from the first keystroke. The WikiTap application also allows users to actively enhance and expand multimedia content relevant to an entry by uploading photos and videos. It is the first Wikipedia application …

Part of the reason why people are getting so excited about Google Android is that the smartphone platform is completely open to development from all sides. In this way, you would think that just about anyone can create fun and useful applications for the new mobile operating system and you would think that the major players would want to develop for Android. Apparently, this isn’t the case with mobile web browsers.

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Today RealEstate.com announces the addition of iPhone and Google Android compatible Web sites to its growing mobile phone suite called RealEstate.com Mobile. The new mobile Web sites are free for iPhone and Google Android phone users and provide access to more than two million home listings nationwide. Visitors can search homes for sale nationally, and also have the ability to view home estimates from RealEstate.com’s Home Price Check(R) tool, which …

Last month I outlined some details around Android Market. Today, Android Market launched for users to download applications along with the first Android-powered phone—the T-Mobile G1.

With Android Market, users can easily download apps to their Android-powered phone. Users can also rate the apps they’ve downloaded and leave comments. These users’ ratings along with anonymous usage statistics help determine how apps are ranked and presented within Android Market.

If you’re a developer, you …

Google has an Android phone working already and it has an Android Market waiting to be filled with applications. Google’s Android SDK v1.0 has been released so developers can go wild creating some applications.

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T-Mobile today announced the international launch of the world’s first Android™-powered mobile phone in partnership with Google. Available soon only for T-Mobile customers spanning two continents, the T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a mobile Web experience that includes the popular Google products that millions have enjoyed on the desktop, including Google Maps Street View™, Gmail™, YouTube™ and others.

“We are proud that T-Mobile is the …