AT&T’s latest Android smartphone, the HTC Aria, has dropped in over at Android Community, and they’ve been sharing some first impressions and a hands-on photo gallery.  A compact 3.2-inch HVGA smartphone running Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense UI, the Aria has the same distinctive style of the HTC HD mini and apparently runs fairly decently on its 600MHz processor.

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I’ve definitely come to rely on Google’s turn-by-turn voice navigation to guide me through some twists and turns of California’s coastline. Starting Wednesday, Canadians and some Europeans will similarly be able to ditch their satnav systems and fire up their Android phones instead.

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KT, the second-largest mobile carrier, announced it will release a Google-designed smartphone, the NexusOne at the end of June and it will have a porting of the latest Android operating system, “Froyo,” which was first introduced on May 20.

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Smartphones running Google’s Android operating system have begun outselling Apple’s iPhone both in Korea and overseas.

A total of 28,900 Android-powered smartphones were sold in Korea in the first week of this month, according to handset makers and telecom providers on Tuesday.

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Google has announced that from today begin sales of the Nexus One also for Canada. Not only that, Google also announced the availability of a new version of Nexus One that bridges the compatibility issues with the 3G network of AT & T in the U.S. (due to different frequencies) and allows the use of the apparatus with the Rogers Wireless Network in Canada.

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Android OS continues to grow and prosper

Android users and prospective buyers received plenty of good news this week.  Both Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and the beta of Opera’s Mini 5 mobile browser will be making their way to at least some Android handsets.  Handset makers also continue to advance with plans to step up Chinese sales of Android handsets.

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LG Electronics Inc., the world’s third largest mobile phone manufacturer, released its first smart phone that runs on Google’s Android operating system in South Korea, the company said Wednesday.

The Andro-1, featuring a QWERTY keypad, enables users to easily search the Web, email and other Google services, while giving access to its application store “Android Market”, LG said in a press release.

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IDG News Service - Google’s row with the Chinese government has led it to cancel an event for Android developers in China next week, according to a person familiar with the situation, in the latest show of the dustup’s effect on Google operations in China.

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In early December Virgin Mobile launched the Acer Liquid just made its appearance in India.
Liquid is the first Android smartphone marketed by the manufacturer Acer. The terminal EDGE / HSPA has a touch screen Wide-VGA 3.5”(800 x 480 pixels), a 5 megapixel camera, a memory of 256 MB of RAM and 512 MB ROM, d a microSD slot (2GB card included) and broad connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi 802.11 b / g, and an A-GPS module.

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The scope of Google’s battle of wills with China is widening, and more companies are finding themselves in the arena, whether they chose the fight or not. Google will not launch two Android phones this week in China, as planned, which could have a ripple effect on manufacturers Motorola and Samsung, as well as China Unicom, the intended carrier. Yahoo has taken Google’s side, but it could be costly.

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The Android phone has arrived in Korea. Motorola on Monday introduced the Motoroi, a smartphone that runs Google’s Android mobile operating system and is considered a strong rival of the Apple iPhone.

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Kolkata, India (GaeaTimes.com) - Google’s Nexus One is creating stirs in the whole gadget world and India is no exception. Mobile Phone lovers in India also want to get their hands on the latest Android Device engineered by Google and manufactured by HTC.

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The most controversial subject to the mobile industry around the globe will be the launch of Nexus One, the phone released by Google. Nexus One is generating various issues for debates such as the potential division or expansion in the Android group.

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