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Verizon flirts with Apple, but Android is already girlfriend material

There’s been lots of speculation that Verizon, the largest U.S. phone network, is flirting with Apple, with the idea of introducing an iPhone on Verizon’s network next year.

Verizon is building out a new fourth-generation network, based on Long Term Evolution (LTE), which is why interest in this is high.

There are plenty of reasons why Verizon would court Apple, which has so far signed an exclusive deal with AT&T within the U.S. market. Foremost among them:… Continue Reading

Google releasing public Android SDK today? [Confirmed]

It appears that Google is currently releasing the public Android software development kit (SDK), which lets developers and manufactures build on its operating system for upcoming phones.

[Update: This is confirmed. The code has now been released.]

The move comes as HTC prepares to release the first Google Android phone. HTC also just won approval from the FCC for the phone.

We found out about the new SDK, because Google is changing and updating several files and permissions… Continue Reading

Sources: HTC’s Google Android phone is “weeks away” from launching

Over the past few days, we’ve gotten multiple confirmations from reliable sources that the first phone built on Google’s Android platform will launch in the next several weeks. It will be an HTC phone, likely the HTC Dream, and will be launched internationally on the T-Mobile network. A window of between Oct 15 and Nov 30 is most likely, according to these sources.

Around mid-July we received some information that T-Mobile had started its preparations for… Continue Reading