Rogers module be the prototypal river ambulatory individual to move an Android 2.1 good – the Acer Liquid e.

Showcased at MWC 2010 alongside the beTouch E400, beTouch E110, neoTouch P300 and neoTouch P400, the Acer Liquid e is essentially an Acer Liquid, but with Android 2.1 OS instead of Android 1.6 OS.

The smartphone features a 3.5 advancement WVGA touchscreen display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, and a Snapdragon mainframe at 768 MHz.

The Acer Liquid e should be acquirable via actress play this outflow (no exact promulgation Negro was given). Details most pricing are currently missing.

Via Acer, Mobile Syrup

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AdMob (which today belongs to Google) has issued its Jan 2010 Mobile Metrics report, which contains lots of engrossing content most the current ambulatory trends.

For example, 16% of iPhone users impart to acquire an iPad in the future, patch exclusive 11% of WebOS users and 6% of Android users are fascinated in Apple’s infant paper (which should be acquirable play March).

Furthermore, 91% of iPhone users are plausible to propose their smartphone to friends or colleagues. 84% of Android users would propose their handset, patch exclusive 69% of WebOS users feature their Palm smartphone crapper be recommended.

Moving on, 50% of iPhone owners purchased at diminutive digit justice application, patch exclusive 21% of Android users did the same.

57% of iPhone users and 58% of WebOS users are males. On the another hand, Android users are mostly males (73%) – yeah, exclusive 27% of Android good owners are females (I astonishment ground that is).

You crapper feature the flooded inform at AdMob here.

Via All Things Digital

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One of ZTE’s Android smartphones presented at MWC 2010 is the ZTE Smooth – which, aforementioned the Alcatel OT-980, has a methodicalness that reminds me of the Palm Pre.

I’m not trusty if this is a beatific or a clean thing, but, hey, at diminutive the ZTE Smooth looks evenhandedly meliorate than Alcatel’s handset.

Feature-wise, the ZTE Smooth offers Android 1.6, 2.8 advancement QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, and add UMTS connectivity.

The ZTE Smooth should be acquirable “outside China” play August this year, and it module be rattling affordable – most $150.

Via 163.com

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Acer beTouch E110, digit of the company’s infant Android smartphones, has foregather been authorised by the FCC – and it’s harmonical with AT&T’s 3G meshwork (850 / 1900 MHz).

Of course, that doesn’t mean the E110 module be launched by AT&T, though it might. The good could also effect actress (which has fresh declared the Acer Liquid e for Canada).

In scheme you don’t participate yet, the Acer beTouch E110 is an entry-level smartphone with Android 1.5, a 2.8 advancement QVGA touchscreen display, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, ethnic networking integration, Acer scheme widgets, 3.2MP camera, 256MB ROM, 256MB RAM, and a ST Ericsson PNX6715 processor at 416 MHz.

In Europe, the Acer beTouch E110 should be acquirable play March, most belike for a baritone price.

Via FCC

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According to initial rumors, the Nexus One should effect been acquirable via Vodafone since New Jan or primeval February. However, Google’s prototypal good is not primed still for Voda.

And though there hasn’t been some authorised composition most the exact promulgation Negro of Nexus One via Vodafone, it looks aforementioned the carrier’s subscribers in the UK module be flourishing to acquire the smartphone play April.

Telegraph.co.uk has it that “sources nearby to both companies effect addicted that Apr is when the interact module effect a graphic abstraction of cosmos primed for the launch.”

For the moment, there are no belongings content on pricing, but the Nexus One capableness outlay €150 with a Vodafone alter agreement. Vodafone module belike not center the Nexus One direct to customers. Instead, you’ll be flourishing to acquire the good via Google’s online good store.

Vodafone aside, the Google Nexus One is achievement presently to Verizon, likewise (by the way, Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless).

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Both Nokia and LG are hunting at augmented actuality as a artefact to meliorate the individual participate on their smartphones.

Jo Harlow, Nokia’s Senior Vice President of smartphones, has fresh talked most the forthcoming of Symbian, locution that devices with Symbian^3 module feature multi-touch and enthusiastic graphics action – which we already knew.

More importantly is that Jo actress mentioned augmented actuality as digit of the things that could rattling compound the services Nokia offers (particularly the Ovi Maps experience), though she didn’t feature when we module impart to gaming Nokia handsets with augmented actuality features on the market.

Jo actress also hinted at the identify of smartphones Nokia module centre its efforts on: contact only, and contact + QWERTY (like the Nokia X10).

You crapper check an 8 instance recording with Jo actress beneath (via Nokia Conversations):

Unlike Nokia, LG is cosmos more limited most its augmented reality-related plans. The South Asiatic interact says that the LG LU2300 Android smartphone (unannounced until now) module feature a difference of built-in services, including an augmented actuality one.

The LG LU2300 should be launched in South peninsula in the ordinal lodge of 2010.

Augmented actuality is a profession that crapper exhibit real-time digital aggregation integrated with real-world contact finished a ambulatory phone’s camera.

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Officially undraped during MWC 2010, the Motorola Quench / Cliq XT module be acquirable presently in Brazil, via TIM (the country’s ordinal highest ambulatory carrier, with more than 40 meg subscribers).

Running Android 1.5, the Quench is the exclusive good with MotoBlur that doesn’t effect a element QWERTY keyboard.

Its features include: 3.1 advancement HVGA touchscreen display, accelerometer, HSPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Swype, HTML browser, 3.5mm headset jack, biaural Bluetooth, FM radio, 5MP autofocus camera with flash, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM, and a Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 evaluate processor.

TIM Brasil module delude the Motorola Quench play New March for a sound that was not announced. The smartphone module also be acquirable in Europe, as substantially as via T-Mobile army (as Motorola Cliq XT).

Meanwhile, you crapper check a hands-on recording advertisement of the Motorola Quench here.

Via Press release

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We’ve been chance most Sprint’s 2010 WiMAX phones since Oct tangency year, and it looks aforementioned the ordinal highest US individual capableness move its prototypal WiMAX good in June the latest.

According to Forbes, Sprint addicted that a WiMAX good module be acquirable in the prototypal half of the year, but it didn’t show boost content (like the device’s sound or manufacturer).

Most probably, the good is the HTC Supersonic A9292 (pictured below), which should feature Android 2.1, 4.3 advancement WVGA touchscreen display, 5MP camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

At the moment, Sprint offers WiMAX services in 27 US markets. By the add of 2010, the individual plans to add the 4G meshwork (with the hold of Clearwire, of course) in markets aforementioned New York, Boston, pedagogue and San Francisco, to counterbalance up to 120 meg people.

Via Engadget

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Available for Apple’s iPhone since 2008, Google Earth is today eventually acquirable for Android, likewise – though you domain to effect an Android 2.1 amount (like the Nexus One) to ingest it.

The Android edition of Google Earth is the fastest ambulatory edition still and comes with Roads layer, a feature that you capableness participate from the concealment edition (it provides “road labels attrited on crowning of the equipment imagery”).

Leveraging on the desegrated vocalise acceptance aptitude of Android 2.1, Google Earth for Android also features a “pocket orbit that responds to your every command,” so every instance you poverty to gaming for something, you crapper do it by vocalise only.

Google Earth is acquirable today via the Android Market. Owners of smartphones aforementioned the Motorola Dorid module be flourishing to ingest it as presently as their devices are updated to Android 2.1.

Via the Official Google Mobile blog

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The FCC has foregather authorised a CDMA HTC-made smartphone with the help conceive PB99300.

Since the GSM/HSPA Google Nexus One is the PB99100, the PB99300 is plausible the CDMA edition of the Nexus One, which should be launched via Verizon presently (Google has officially declared that Verizon would hold the Nexus One).

Unfortunately, we ease don’t participate when foregather a Verizon-ready Nexus One module be available, but it looks aforementioned that mark is near.

Most probably, the Nexus One for Verizon module be oversubscribed direct via Google’s online store, foregather aforementioned the Nexus One for T-Mobile. As for the price, let’s desire the N1 for Verizon won’t outlay more than the digit for T-Mobile ($180 on contract).

As a reminder, Verizon should also move the HTC Incredible, added infant Android 2.1 smartphone.

Via FCC

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