Of course, the more interesting bits are in the frequencies that were tested, since these generally tip off which carrier could support such a phone. In this case, it’s AT&T (s t) thanks to the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz tests for 3G connectivity. Theoretically, you could use an Acer Liquid on T-Mobile’s U.S. network for voice, but you’d only see dismal EDGE speeds for data. And with a 21 Mbps mobile broadband network coming from T-Mo, you wouldn’t want a “slow” phone, now would you?
Early looks at the Liquid show the 1 GHz processor under-clocked to 768 MHz and minimal additions to the stock Android 1.6 experience. Arne Hess offers an excellent overview of the Liquid and its included software, so if you’re on AT&T, you might want to do some early research now.
Google (s goog), Motorola (s mot) and Verizon (s vz) are all feeling pretty good about the Droid today. Time has rated the Droid as the top gadget of the year, The editors of Time gave big props to the Droid’s physical (although not great) keyboard, and loved the nice display on the phone.
Ever since the WinMo-powered HTC HD2 started to drip, drip onto our pages in the form of leaked images and details, we’ve been asking ourselves one question: where’s the Android version? And while we’ve heard whispers of a supposed Snapdragon-based Dragon device running Android ever since early October, we’re left to rely on Motorola’s Droid / Milestone to fulfill our Android 2.0 dreams this holiday season. And if DigiTimes is correct, that picture likely won’t change until early 2010. Taiwanese DigiTimes‘ sources have its Taiwan-based neighbor launching its Passion handset running Android 2.0 (or even 2.1 by then) on a 1GHz Snapdragon chipset with 3.5-inch multitouch OLED display sometime in early 2010 (not 2009 as previously tipped) as HTC continues to tweak the device’s software. And if previous rumors are true then this CDMA variant of Dragon will be making its debut on Verizon at that time. DigiTimes‘ sources also claim that HTC will announce a QWERTY-toting Android device, possibly named Espresso, at the huge Mobile World Congress event in February. Of course, all this is rumor for now so hold tight as HTC’s roadmap unfold
I hope that the app will be worth the investments, because, I’m not into shopping and gadgets stuff. Also got a 512mib of RAM for my laptop. The android emulator is very resource intensive. See you soon with the app, until then, checkout the web and PC version of Wowd at http://www.wowd.com
When Google (s goog) recently shared its progress and plans for the Chrome OS, one tidbit left out was the names of hardware partners. We now know one of them and it’s no surprise to me that Acer has stepped forward. The company told DigiTimes that it plans to offer the first Chrome OS netbook in the second half of 2010. Why isn’t this shocking? Early this year, Acer was the first top tier hardware company to adopt an Android strategy with netbooks. That effort was an on-again, off-again affair, but in the end, Acer did bring a product to the table. The netbook changed from an Android only device into a basic XP netbook that first boots into Android, but the objective was met. I didn’t see much merit in it at the time and I’m not hearing about any sales records for the device either. But now I’m at a crossroads for where Google fits in the netbook space, even if Acer isn’t.