Our trusty Verizon source has given us a little bit of info that might get you Motorola Droid owners excited. We already know that the original Droid will be getting Android 2.2 , or Froyo, next week , but we’re hearing that the roll-out actually begins on Monday, August 2. Right now, we’re taking this with a grain of salt as our source was pretty confident with this date, but couldn’t give us the 100% assertion we needed. Even then, the update likely won’t hit all handsets at once. Just like the Android 2.1 update that hit the Motorola Droid a few months ago, this one is likely to be…

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Sony Ericsson’s newest Android smartphone, the Xperia X8, will be hitting store shelves in September with O2 UK. The X8 is an Android 1.6 powered smartphone that sports a compact 3-inch touchscreen display, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The X8 will ship with white and blue covers. Pricing and exact availability have not been announced at this time. Read the full story here.

Samsung is really taking the world by storm with their Galaxy S line . An international version, plus four US variants, an upcoming Android media player, and their much wanted Android tablet, dubbed the Samsung Galaxy Tab . Recently Samsung has gone to developers and asked them to fix up their apps to run perfectly on their upcoming Android tablet. If you had any doubt that Samsung was going full steam ahead …

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Today Verizon Wireless informed us that its first Android powered smartphone, the Motorola DROID, will receive an over the air update to the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system next week. Android 2.2 adds new functionality to the Android platform and greatly improves the speed of third party applications as well as the web browser. Sprint announced just yesterday that its HTC EVO 4G will also receive a Froyo update next week.

Owners of the Motorola Droid, the original Verizon Wireless Android smartphone, will start to see the Android 2.2 update on devices next week. Verizon Wireless has confirmed that FroYo will start rolling out to the Droid after the weekend. … (follow link to read)

It looks like Motorola has a heart after all – the manufacturer has released the source code for their best device to date, the Verizon Motorola Droid X . This is pretty exciting if you’re a developer or hacker, but there are a few hang ups. It looks like some of the code that is needed to successfully make a perfectly functioning third-party Android ROM for the Droid X is missing from the source code. While some code …

According to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, Nokia Siemens Networks is talking to buy-out firms in hopes of securing a minimum of $1 billion in cash. The company has been in talks with a handful of firms, … (follow link to read)

A small and sexy music slider – that’s what the Zylo is. Nothing more, nothing less. Sony Ericsson are probably hoping to start bringing up the next generation of loyal users. You know, give a kid a walkman and they will be coming…

Documents recently published on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group web site confirm some details about an unannounced handset from Samsung. The SGH-i917 Cetus will run Windows Phone 7, and is among the first handsets confirmed to have the unreleased … (follow link to read)

The LG Vu Plus is a QWERTY messaging feature phone that is equipped with a touchscreen display and support for AT&T’s mobile TV service. It offers users an auto-focus camera, a mediocre web browser, and solid messaging support. Watch the video here.

So that was the Nokia C7-00 after all. It took half a dozen of leaks but the identity of the Nokia prototype is now finally confirmed. And what’s even better, most of its specs got confirmed, too, so we know what to…

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