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Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Unlike other devices in the series, such as the X2 smartphone and the upcoming X10 Android device, the Xperia Pureness mobile phone (pictured above) has been designed to offer fewer features, not more. [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Android smartbook fired up by Qualcomm's Snapdragon
Photo Among the devices on show was this Quanta smartbook prototype (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. The chipmaker said an Lenovo smartbook running Android will launch on US mobile... [20 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New entrants to the market including Google's Android will continue to snap at Symbian's heels, according to market watchers In-Stat, with the company also seeing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo, a... [02 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet It also picked out Android and iPhone as the two platforms where AR, used for personal navigation applications, is seeing the strongest early takeup. The first mobile device running Google's Android OS -... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet Hardware makers have already been showing off their Windows 7 machines ahead of the launch - for example, last week Acer unveiled a dual-boot netbook with Android and Windows 7. Well, Microsoft has said... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo The laptop will feature two OSes: Google's open source Android will sit alongside a choice of either Windows 7 or XP. Here's the netbook running the Android OS. Acer said the advantage of an... [16 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo The hardware is so open it's even possible to run Google's Android on it. However, Android wasn't the first mobile Linux effort by any means: work on open source mobiles by the LiMo... [12 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News Most major smartphone platforms will support the software - Google Android, Symbian, Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile - but Apple has yet to sign up. The company has just announced Flash Player 10.1 which will let users... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Cliq, the first Google Android handset produced by Motorola, was unveiled in September. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic... [02 Oct 2009]
Michael Dell
AS Profile Generating the most excitement among Dell's forthcoming hardware line-up is the Latitude Z notebook, rumoured to have advanced wireless capabilities that possibly includes wireless charging; and Dell's... [30 Sep 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Samsung Galaxy i7500
Photo Samsung has brought some great hardware features to its first Android handset, the Galaxy i7500, like a gorgeous screen, good camera and plenty of on-board memory. Android smartphone... [25 Sep 2009]
Will software be Motorola's saviour?
News Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha wouldn't go as far to say that Motorola is unconcerned with hardware these days, hours after unveiling the forthcoming Motorola Cliq at Mobilize 2009, but the balance has clearly changed with the... [15 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News VMware showed Google's Android system running on a Windows CE mobile phone through VMware virtualisation software (photo credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) Specifically, they showed a mobile phone using Windows CE 6.0 run... [04 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News And last week, it also announced its N900 smartphone, its first Linux-based phone, which is expected to compete more directly with the iPhone and a flood of Google Android phones due to hit the market later this year and... [03 Sep 2009]
Microsoft: First 'Windows Phones' arriving next month
News Microsoft has come under criticism for the rather slow pace at which its software has evolved in the face of competition from the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm Pre. Microsoft is expected to work closely with a... [01 Sep 2009]