I wish this beautiful device was in my hands but it isn’t. This unboxing is done by a few guys from the Sony Ericsson team that run the company’s product launch blog.

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Google’s Android is slowly taking over the cellphone market, now it sets it’s sights on your television. Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp. How will Google search be utilized in your cable or satellite set-top box?

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Coming off their recent deal with Skype, Verizon has now put together a short video discussing all the great things you can do with Skype Mobile. Starting this month the Droid, Droid Eris, and Devour handsets will come loaded with the “new” feature that allows for calls anywhere in the world without using minutes. Skype Mobile will surely be added to every upcoming Android device from Verizon.

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Motorola will launch their second Android phone on T-Mobile, the CLIQ XT, on March 10 for $129 with 2 yr contract or $329 off contract. At only $129, this will be the cheapest debut price of any T-Mobile Android phone. The specs of this phone are exactly the same as last year’s T-Mobile CLIQ and it even features the same Android 1.5 with Motoblur.

AT&T’s first Android device is coming down the pipeline next week, the Motorola Backflip, for $99 on a 2-year contract on March 7. Other than being disappointed with the industrial design of this device there might be something else to complain about. A recent hands-on by Engadget’s Chris Zeigler found that all of the default Google search was taken out of the device and replaced with Yahoo search (which will use Bing soon enough). Let me repeat that; all Google search is taken out of AT&T’s Android device in favor of Yahoo search.

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We discussed in the past the possibility of a second Archos Android Tablet, looks like the rumor has come true. Archos has just confirmed that there are plans for an Archos 7 and 8. But the Archos 8 will be a photo frame outfitted with Android.

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Cryptographically secure phones has been around for quite sometime now but the use of such devices are highly underutilized due to their high cost and low user support. Android is now being used by Guardian Project in an effort to bring these types of devices to the masses. Android-compatible handset will be updated with new firmware release that would add an anonymous browser, encrypted email, secure voice calls and secure data sync, along with various other security related things.

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It’s not to say that the stock web browser found on the Nexus One and Motorola DROID aren’t bad, but the two handsets were recently seen running Mozilla’s Fennec mobile browser. Mozilla has been in the web browser game for quite some time and really knows how to make the experience impressive for its users, but it’s slowly coming together for the Android platform. The Mozilla team provided some teaser photos of the mobile browser at work on both handsets on their Facebook page – still, there is no confirmation regarding the time line of when a public build of the mobile browser will become available. Even if it does take some time to come around, it’s going to have to compete against some other well known browsers on the platform that already proven themselves to meet the needs of handset owners.

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As soon as the FCC cleared the Google Nexus One with CDMA sauce, news came out from Neowin’s source that Verizon will release the device on March 23rd. This will mark the second major carrier to market the Google flagship Android 2.1 Smartphone in the US.

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Want a tablet computer sans all the brand loyalty drama and eye-opening prices? Haleron’s got just the thing for you with its iLet Mini HAL. Its humble spec brings only a 600MHz VIA CPU and 128MB of DDR2 RAM to the table, but it runs Android 1.6 and if all you want is a tablet to access the web with, do you really need more? Additionally, the onboard 2GB of flash storage is augmented with 10GB of cloud storage and the cheap expandability that’s on offer via flash memory cards or USB drive

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