Motorola event: Motoblur

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Motorola's Sanjay K. Jha acknowledges that mobile broadband has become ubiquitous and he even expects more growth worldwide. Well that's surely agreeable, but what role does Motorola see for itself in these developments? Well Motorola has a line of devices coming up, but has only announced a single device during the keynote on the event. That device is the Motoblur, an Android device that merges all of your information streams to make it accessible when and where you like. Motoblur actually seems like an HTC Hero interface. It has live widgets like the Hero and home screen is customizable. In addition, during the event, T-mobile announced the Click, a Motoblur Android phone.

Pretty dissappointing so far if you ask me. This phone is definitely not the long awaited Sholes which will probably be announced in a few weeks. If at all that is. Because I don't really see why they would wait with the announcement. So that could mean that all of the exciting rumours in the past months may have been bogus. Let's hope not though.

We'll keep you posted!

HTC Hero coming to Sprint

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"Sprint and HTC Corporation today announced the upcoming arrival of the much-anticipated HTC Hero™ from Sprint, the first wireless device offering the combination of the open and innovative Android platform with the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network1 (EVDO Rev. A.) Offering a rich mobile Internet experience, the much-anticipated HTC Hero offers synchronization for built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, and YouTube™ as well as access to thousands of applications built on the Android platform."

So here it is, finally customers in the US have clarity on where to get the beloved Android phone. Availability is set on October 11th. Oddly the phone will look very different from the European version, as can be seen on some leaked pictures from the web. I wonder what Americans will like better though. I also wonder what version of Android will ship with the US Hero, as Android 1.6 was announced today. It would make sense for the update to be preinstalled but I guess you just never know.