Is Verizon Wireless ahead of the curve, by marketing all of its Droid phones as one brand? There’s the Motorola Droid, the HTC Droid Eris, the HTC Droid Incredible and two more Motorola Android phones that Verizon will add to its franchise next month. With so many products, all powered by Google’s Android software, is the strength of each manufacturer’s brand diminished, or is the benefit of joining forces so enormous that it doesn’t matter?

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Now that Apple’s Steve Jobs has confirmed the previously leaked details of the company’s new iPhone 4, the question is, can a merely upgraded iPhone stave off a wave of Android smart phones?

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Let’s start things off with a disclaimer – I love Android phones. Last year I left the iPhone and switched to Android largely because of the amazing usefulness of Google Voice, and only Android devices truly let you take over your phone with a Google Voice app and have the perfect experience. I have extensively tested nearly all Android phones to date.

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Next August, it will be 2 years since Google first announced Android Market, its mobile application store. First opened to users in October 2008, the company needed until February / March 2009 to add priced application support to Android Market for both developers and users in the US and the UK.

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When Android first debuted on the HTC Dream (also known as the G1) back in October of 2008, it was deemed an “iPhone Killer.” While it didn’t quite slay Apple’s handset, it was the first step in a revolution against the tyrannous iPhone. The initial Android platform bested the iPhone OS on several levels, but lacked some key functionalities that the iPhone could provide. Since then, Android has grown – not only meeting all of the functionalities of the iPhone, but besting it in nearly all aspects from an extensive list of devices to a growing Android Marketplace.

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Andy Rubin, chief architect of Google’s Android platform, recently sat down and discussed the future of Android. The biggest topic of the conversation was fragmentation. Rubin’s answer on the subject is spot on.

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Android has officially hit the big time now that sales of its devices exceeded the Apple iPhone over the past quarter. Android’s rise is fairly remarkable for an operating system that only just launched in the fall of 2007.

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With the dropping of the Google Nexus One plans for Verizon and Sprint, it is pretty obvious that Google’s phone store experience had rather limited success. Today Andy Rubin posted on the Official Google Blog that Google is moving the Nexus one to retail locations (no actual stores yet announced) and will eventually stop selling handsets via the web store.

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Some time ago, there was no question that the iPhone was the hands-down most compelling smartphone on the market. Today, with Android phones hitting market hard and fast, the iPhone isn’t as appealing a smartphone as it once was. Android has the potential to give Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) a serious run for their money. The latest Android phone of this bunch comes from Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless and it’s called the Droid Incredible. We have one in our hands and we thought we’d give you a more in-depth look at HTC’s latest and greatest.

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We’ve witnessed reports suggesting that Android consumption is on the rise while iPhone use is slipping, and it’s easy to see why: every other week a new Android phone hits the market, while Apple makes iPhone users wait a year or more to see new hardware.

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Google may have a shot at outshining the iPad if it can come up with a design for a robust tablet that’s capable of doing a lot more than providing entertainment, suggested 451 Group analyst Chris Hazelton. “Kindle was 1.0,” he observed. “iPad is 2.0, while Google needs to be 3.0, where the tablet is a computing device, not a media device.”

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MOBILE RESEARCH FIRM Flurry has confirmed Google’s botched launch of the Nexus One smartphone with its latest figures.

The analytics firm acquired the data for its latest report, rather worryingly, from having its code embedded in 80 per cent of applications on both the Iphone and Android platforms. The figures that use the Iphone’s benchmark of one million devices sold in 74 days make uncomfortable reading for Google.

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The New York Times Technology section recently posted this article, “Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal”, which discusses the feud between Google and Apple and their places in the mobile computing market. It’s a great article, and I highly recommend reading it.

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AT&T’s foray into Android phones seems almost like it is a marketing campaign for Apple’s iPhone. It certainly doesn’t seem to be very friendly to Google, anyway.

Last week, it was announced that AT&T was replacing the market-leading, Google search on the Google Android-powered Motorola Backflip with Yahoo’s search. WHAT?

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According to special-interest blog Android and Me, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is about to unify the Android experience. I’m not so sure that it’s a good idea, even if it’s true.

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It is highly unlikely that the new Google Shopper app for Android (as it is now), will change the way in which mcommerce is conducted on smart phones. Some people are enjoying the new app, which seems to be a hybrid between Google Goggles and a Barcode Scanner.

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Prestigious fashion house Dolce & Gabbana is planning to stream live coverage of two of its major shows to be held in Italy later this week to mobile devices including the iPhone. The D&G and Dolce & Gabbana Women’s Fall shows, to be held in Milan, will stream live to mobile devices in a move which according to the fashion house demonstrates that they have “always been a pioneer in the technological experimentations of the digital communications market.”

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LG plans to ship its new LU2300 Android phone with augmented reality services built-in, according to Telecoms Korea.

The phone, which is expected to ship in the second quarter of this year, will display information about objects shot with its camera. For example, one could aim the camera at a building for more information about it and its history.

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Android has been a pretty popular mobile OS for Google, and it’s been a hit with customers, developers and cell manufacturers, too. However, it’s hard to imagine that it’s this popular. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, giving a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, mentioned that Google and their OEM partners are shipping 60,000 Android phones a day.

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