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AT&T officially announced what most had anticipated for months: the Motorola BACKFLIP would land on their network for $99 the following month. It marked the moment all four major US carriers had an Android handset in their lineup. The BACKFLIP featured a 3.1-inch touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera with flash, HSPA...

HTC unveiled the successor to last year's Hero handset at Mobile World Congress. Called the Legend, it delivered on just about everything expected. It carried a similar form factor to the Hero with its slight chin, but got an overall performance boost. If last year's handset stood out with its...

The official HTC announcements came and went at Mobile World Congress 2010, leaving us a few Android handsets in their wake. First up was the new flagship, the Desire. Long touted as the Bravo, it came with a large 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA display, an optical joystick, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor,...

Chinese handset maker Huawei came to Barcelona not just to observe, but to announce. They pulled the curtain back on four brand new Android handsets: the U8300, U8100, U8110, and U8800. In addition, they also announced an Android-based internet device, the SmaKit S7. Here's a quick look at each. U8300...

The CLIQ's slimmer sibling, the CLIQ XT, was announced by Motorola at Mobile World Congress. The CLIQ XT is a touch-only device, bearing many of the same features as the original CLIQ including screen size, resolution, camera, MOTOBLUR, and Android 1.5. Upgrades include an LED flash, dual microphones for noise...

Sony Ericsson officially announced their Xperia X10 mini and X10 mini pro handsets at Mobile World Congress. Both are smaller versions of their forthcoming Xperia X10 and run Android 1.5 on a 600MHz processor. Although slower than the Xperia X10, they are still slightly faster than the first generation of...

After more than a year of waiting, Garmin set out to show off their newly announced nuvifone A50 at Mobile World Congress. As it turned out, the device was more GPS than phone. Surprise! The Android-powered A50 featured a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen, 4GB of built-in storage, Microsoft Exchange support,...

We were pretty accurate when we said that "any day now" we'd get something official about the Devour. Motorola has just announced the first Verizon handset to feature MOTOBLUR. Based on Android 1.6, the Devour was expected in the first quarter of 2010. Assuming you might be new to Android...

After months of speculation, Dell confirmed at CES that it was launching an Android handset for the US market. The carrier behind the launch was AT&T, the iPhone's own home network. No hardware specifications, pricing, or availability details were announced, but prior rumors pointed to a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen at...