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Engadget: Sure, we’ve seen some blurry videos and managed a few stolen glimpses when Andy Rubin demonstrated this beast, but now we’ve gotten our hands on a slew of pictures showing off a very real T-Mobile-branded Dream in all its Android-running glory. Not only does this confirm the design spied in those FCC docs as […]

iPhoneAlley: A new patent application filed by Apple
describes a process which would allow users to remotely access music
and videos located on their home computers over WiFi or cellular data
networks. The system works by syncing iTunes metadata to the device,
rather than the media itself. The metadata would list “virtual media
items” which would represent every song, […]

CNET News.com A Dutch company that has squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than other mobile phones–by making a screen that folds up when not in use–says the device will be available later this year.
The 5-inch display of Polymer Vision’s Readius is the world’s first that folds […]

Engadget: Here’s a fresh Apple rumor in the run-up to MacWorld: a TomTom GPS module for the iPhone. We just received this supposed photographic “evidence” of said device from a Dutch tipster. Our take? Might be, might not. TomTom is a Dutch company and a righteous, straight-talkin’ Dutchman would never tell such a fib, would […]

TechCrunch: Deep in the Googleplex there is an engineering team thinking about how to extend Google’s reach into your TV. Its work goes way beyond the Google TV ads currently being tested by EchoStar (and targeted with help from Nielsen). It even goes way beyond the development of a Google set-top box, which has been […]

RCR Wireless News: A group of industry heavyweights—headed by Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC Corp., Qualcomm Inc., and Motorola Inc.—announced a new software platform for cellphones that includes an operating system, middleware, user interface and applications. The alliance said the first phones based on the “Android” platform will be available in the second half of next […]

Daily Tech Rag: Good news for the chatty among us and bad news for the easily-annoyed: the BBC is reporting that mobile calls on airlines could be a reality in Europe by as early as next year. The proposed plan would involve a picocell GSM base-station on the plane that would relay calls via satellite […]

Daily TechRag: We’ve known that Sprint is getting the slick HTC Touch for quite a while now but until today, pricing and availability for the Windows Mobile 6 device remained a mystery. Here’s the full scoop, straight from the horse’s mouth: the Touch goes on sale November 4th for $250 with 2-year service agreement and […]

Engadget: We’re not looking at general availability yet, but those happy hacking cats unravelling the iPod touch have decrypted the ramdisk and are now busy installing applications. Already, Mail, Maps, and other 3rd party apps are up and running on their jailbreaked touches. The race is on between the cat and the mouse to see […]

GigaOM:Is Google (GOOG) Phone fact or fiction? Engadget says Google’s entry into mobile phone business is for real, and the company is going to announce it soon. Scott Kirsner talked to a bunch of folks over who are intimately familiar with the effort and outlined his findings in an article for The Boston Globe.
The story […]