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  Motorola’s drought of new phones cost them their small market share in India but they’re trying to grab it back with the introduction of Milestone. Milestone is the GSM brother of Droid that sells in US. Milestone is one of the thinnest QWERTY sliders around and features an Android 2.1 OS, 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen [...]

  Hero maybe one of the best Android devices but the non-availability of Android’s latest 2.1 Eclair is a deal breaker since many 2.1 equipped phones are releasing soon. However, if a forum user from XDA-devs is to be believed, European HTC Hero users will get Android 2.1 in April. All the countries won’t get [...]

  Slowly and steadily Google’s Nexus One is spreading its wings. Just yesterday, Google announced Nexus One with support of AT&T and now we’ve got a confirmation from Sprint that Google’s baby is reaching their network too. The pricing and availability is not yet decided but Sprint has confirmed that it be sold only through [...]

  Samsung has announced their first Android phone for their home market, which is also the first Samsung device to run Android OS 2.1. The phone’s known as SHW-M100S and will arrive in March on SK Telecom. M100S comes with an 800MHz processor and sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen (WVGA), 5MP camera with 720p video [...]

  DROID users wanting Android 2.1 do not need to tinker with the system image file anymore. Greek35T from AllDroid has released a stable Android 2.1 ROM for DROID that can be installed by following few simple steps. It claims to run almost everything, including all Google services. However, we should not forget that this [...]

  Want to make your Verizon DROID a bit like Nexus One? Well, here’s a port of the Android 2.1 (Flan) update for the DROID to make it happen. However, before you jump in excitement let me warn you, this ain’t for weak hearted or inexperienced modders. It is a system image file that does [...]