Are you ready to Backflip into Android on AT&T?

Daniel Carey Mar 8, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us

Are you ready to backflip into Android? If you are, Motorola’s Backflip is now on sale at AT&T for $99.99 after a mail in rebate with a 2-year commitment. Rocking a slightly unorthodox design, the Backflip’s running Android 1.5 with Motorola’s very own Blur interface superimposed above. All-in-all it’s a decent low-end smartphone, however if you’ve got a hankering to run MotoBlur may we suggest looking at the Motorola Devour on Verizon first.

Project Pink to be heading to Verizon?

Project Pink is still being played fairly close to Microsoft’s chest; however, this week Mobile Blogs have seen several pieces of the eluding puzzle come together. Engadget having been tipped by an extremely reliable source, they were told that two Sharp-made handsets would launch exclusively on Verizon -- possibly on the 20th of April.

They’ve also got good word, that Project Pink devices will be aimed towards teens; rumours aplenty it’s been long suggested that Microsoft’s Project Pink is poised to take over the failing Sidekick market. Until launch we don’t have any more information other than Pink appears to be a limited feature phone platform (this jives with the theory of recouping the failing Sidekick market).

On an international level Pink is expected to be travelling to Vodafone, which in lieu of explains the inclusion of a possible GSM variant.

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Video: Thanks Microsoft, the future of Mobile Gaming looks mind-boggling

The future of mobile gaming just got better; with that being said, Microsoft’s Eric Rudder whilst speaking at TechEd Middle East demoed a cross platform game developed by Visual Studio. Using about 90% shared code; the simple Indiana Jones platformer is playable on Windows with a keyboard, WP7S with the accelerometer and touch controls and the Xbox 360 with the gamepad. If that doesn’t impress you enough, this most certainly will. Microsoft included a rather nice feature that allows you too pick up where you left off, no matter which platform you change to.

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Video: HTC Legend unboxing

As you’re hopefully aware, the HTC Legend is HTC’s follow up to the popular HTC Hero. Rocking an aluminium unibody shell, Android 2.1, and HTC Sense, the Legend is well equipped to take on all of your needs. Announced last month at Mobile World Congress, it was due to hit European shelves sometime in the following month. The folks over at Slashgear managed to snag one, and low and behold we’re graced with the first set of HTC Legend unboxing videos and pictures.

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Apple's iPad launches April 3rd, pre-orders commence soon!

The latest news to come out of the Cupertino based company once again focuses around the highly anticipated iPad, but more specifically the scheduled release date. Straight from the horses mouth, Apple said that the iPad is due to launch on Saturday April 3rd  (You may want to pencil that date in your diary). Pre-orders are due to commence on March 12th for the US’ non-3G version, with the 3G version to grace American soil in late April. Those wishing to get their hands on an iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will have to tough it out and wait until late April.

Just in case you needed reminding, below is the iPad’s pricing schedule for the US:

16GB WiFi only -- $499
32GB WiFi only -- $599
64GB WiFi only -- $699

16GB WiFi + 3G -- $629
32GB WiFi + 3G -- $729
64GB WiFi + 3G -- $829

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Microsoft discusses Windows Phone 7 Series Development

With Microsoft keen to work closely with developers, the dominating theme at MIX’10 is bound to be Windows Phone 7 Series development. With GDC in the upcoming week the conglomerate decided that now would be the best time to release several key tidbits of information. During a reception late this afternoon, Charlie Kindel of Windows Phone’s Developer Experience Team pointed out several key items aimed towards WP7S application development.

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Android 2.1 for the Droid, oh yes it's real this time.

When Motorola announced that the Droid would be receiving Android 2.1 via their Facebook page, bloggers and consumers alike were overcome with joy. However, as the week progressed it became apparent that the company had no intention of actually releasing the update within the specified timeframe. If you’re still holding out for Android 2.1 on your Droid, we’ve got good word that an official test build is running ramped in the wild. As of this moment it appears that Android 2.1 for the Droid will feature multi-touch in both the default browser as well as the revamped, re-stylised gallery application. You’ll also notice that the news and weather widgets have made the cut, however, the newer “application drawer” as featured on the Nexus One isn’t included in this build. Hopefully Motorola will be able to release this update soon, but more importantly, release it without any further setbacks.

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