The mysterious HTC supersonic, rumored to be headed to Sprint and running on their 4G WiMax network was caught on film briefly. Slim details are known other than that it’s running Android, it will be blazing fast, and sports a 4.3 inch display. Check out the video clip and start drooling.
Here’s a juicy little tidbit courtesy of Boy Genius. Take it for what it’s worth, but don’t complain if the info’s not accurate. But the Motorola CLIQ, still running the now antiquated 1.5 should be getting the 2.1 treatment sometime next month. Hopefully we’ll hear something official from T-Mobile in the next couple of weeks, our fingers are crossed. Thoughts?
Android version 2.1 for the Motorola Droid is in testing phases over at Verizon, with a rollout coming soon, but no defined date. Here’s the details on the upgrade from Engadget:
This could be the next Android handset coming to Verizon Wireless customers. Said to be running a 1Ghz SnapDragon processor, Android 2.1 with Sense, 256MB of RAM, a 3.5″ or 3.7″ WVGA screen, also a dual LED flash on the camera. Specs equivalent to the Nexus One, but with CDMA love. There is also what is described as an “optical mouse pointer” near the bottom of the device. Hit the link for a few more pictures and a video.
[via PocketNow]
This is one of the first pictures of the rumored HTC device for Sprint’s 4G network. Codenamed the HTC Supersonic, it features a 4.3-inch touchscreen and 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Sense UI like the HTC Hero, and of course Sprint’s WiMax 4G bands. It’s unclear if this is supposed to be a prototype or a production model, but we can only hope an official announcement is around the corner soon.
Sprint users, you excited to trade in your Hero or Moment for this baby?
You’re looking at a chat transcription between a Cliq owner and what appears to be a Motorola rep about 1.6 coming to the Cliq. The rumor seems that it’s in development and should be released next month. Of course, with no official announcement, it’s still in the rumors section. Seems about time for an update, or is Motorola hoping everyone forgot about the Cliq when the Droid came out?
Thanks Rezzenonne for the tip!
At CTIA, Kyocera has announced that they have plans to bring an Android handset to market. They didn’t get into specs or details, but we can expect it sometime next year. And it will be a higher end offering than previous Kyocera phones in the US, as they mostly stick to low end phones from smaller carriers going for quantity over quality.
On the other side of the coin over at the Nokia booth, a Nokia rep was overheard as saying that Nokia will never put out a handset with Android. Nokia has a lot invested in Symbian and Maemo, but their recent attempts to penetrate the US smartphone market have been “just the tip” at best. Maybe as Android grows bigger in the coming months they may change their attitude.
BGR got their hands on a supposed Verizon marketing/merchandising calendar that shows a Oct 30th being a potentially important date for the first Android powered phone coming to Verizon. Not sure the difference between the “marketing” and “merchandising” dates, but we’ll keep an eye out for the Verizon Blackberry Storm 2 on October 14th and the HTC Imagio on the 20th to see what happens. But this is still in the rumors section for now. What do you think? Is the announcement coming this soon? Are we still believing the supposed December release date?
It’s been a heck of a week for Motorola lovers and Verizon customers. Let’s see, first the Motorola Sholes/Tao gets approved by the FCC, then we started seeing pictures emerging and hear about the name possibly being Tao instead of Sholes. And now today BGR and AndroidAndMe got their hands on loads of new info. And another possible name change to the Motorola Droid. I’m sure most people anticipating this handset don’t care about the name, they just wanna get their hands on it. Here’s most of the specs and info so far (from both sources):
And as always, none of this is solid confirmed, but most of it seems pretty believable. We’re hearing the official announcement may come next week or the week after. I’m gonna procede with caution and guess the 2nd week of October for something official. Overall this is shaping up to be one of the nicest Android phones you can buy, but only on the Verizon network. What do you guys think? Anyone considering a switch to Verizon for this?
[via BGR and AndroidAndMe]
All cheesy post titles aside, TmoNews is reporting that T-Mobile US is starting to deliver OTA Donut (Android 1.6) updates to select G1 handsets as of midnight last night, and select myTouch handsets later on tonight. As with the previous Cupcake update, it’s very slow at first, presumably to catch and issues before everyone can be affected. And if all goes well, everyone (excluding rooted, custom ROM phones) will get a delicious box of Donuts in their inbox. It comes as no surprise since they updated the My Account application just last night to be Donut-compatible.
Drop us a comment if you have gotten an update yet, or if you haven’t and just want to share your excitement. And we’ll keep you posted once we dig up a link to the official firmware for those wishing to do manual updates.
And in case you’ve been under a rock, here’s what the update brings:
[TmoNews]
*UPDATE* There’s now an official announcement on the T-Mobile forums.