We just mentioned a couple of days back that the Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Fascinate, will be available for pre-order on Best Buy beginning August 29 and Best Buy seemingly hasn’t disappointed us and the Big Red Fascinate hopefuls as well. Fascinate is indeed available for in-store pre-oder which just confirms the belief that the release is ever so near.

The grapevine is that Verizon will not hold back the Fascinate availability after September 9 which means that the long wait is finally coming to an end. It will also be a personal landmark for Samsung as the Fascinate availability will imply that the four big US carriers are all selling the Samsung flagship Android handset.

The e-book reading application from Amazon, Kindle, is now available on most big gadget brands but the Android users have still not been able to relish the app on their devices. The same is destined to change soon as Android users will get to read their e-books on the Android devices hopefully after the end of this summer.
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This surely proves that the ones who miss to watch the popular The Engadget Show or the ones who never heard of this show yet are always one step behind the ones who watch the show regularly, Erick Tseng, the latest guest star on the show has dropped a shared an exclusive fact and knowledge with everyone on the show. He said that the Android’s next biggest iteration or say in simple words, the next version of Android will be called “Froyo”.

And why this weird word “Froyo” you think? Well it just is a short for “frozen yogurt” and suits the trend of zany naming that has already been under delivering of Donuts, Cupcakes and Éclairs till now. And well if you thought Flan would be the next thing to join the list in the alphabetical order, then you sure will be disappointed, sorry for that! Sad to say that not much information, about how much updated and further will Froyo be compared to Android 2.1 or what update will be implemented, could be got from Google man at present. However lets be content with the fact that we have got the name of it and this is quite plenty for us to get started a wonderful journey speculating and expecting things along.

Some of the greatest inventions have been the modified version of a failed one or another successful one. The Mobile01 people have recently sent out two pictures recently which they named it as Motorola Shadow, Please don’t confuse this one with T-Mobile Shadow because both are different ones and not the same. This looks like a Deoid or a Milestone; this has a white colored key board and also a wrist strap. The most interesting things are that this could be the next flagship device of Google. The lovingly so called Nexus two.  The main question that can arise is that is this all feasible? Why not, all those things which are products now are once questioned the same.

The best way to complement the Nexus one is that with a physically present QWERTY keyboard. The best company in this whole world who can create such a device in the increased platform and super speed is Android 2.0. This company has got a CEO who is interested to signify the support for a competitor’s product even if it’s a product launch function. The best thing that can come is the one which has the combined features of many products, that’s what people want an All in One product at the cost of one product.

(via engadget)

Engadget has published some pictures of the newly announced Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.

Google wants to celebrate the release the launch of Android 2.0 “Eclair” much in advance compared Verizon. Tomorrow, its Verizon’s big day. Verizon will be announcing SDK support also.

They will also be announcing some new changes such as Support for multiple Google and Exchange accounts, Third party sync adapters which allows apps to tie in to the phone’s sync services, Quick services menus for fast access to specific key pieces of contact information, Unified email inbox, SMS and MMS search, Text message auto-delete after a user-defined thread size is reached, improved camera controls with white balance, macro, effects, and more, Improved keyboard layout, dictionary, and algorithm which is based on multi-touch support, double tap zoom in browser, support for HTML5, Bluetooth 2.1 support with addition of OPP and PBAP profiles and better graphics acceleration.

We are all very excited about the changes made by Google and let us all hope for the best.

The members present at the Android and Me had a great time getting acquainted with other members on their sojourn through CTIA and MotoDev Summit. To be very specific, there were three people with whom they spoke. One of them is a Sprint developer who claimed the first 4G or the WiMAX. Next person was the Samsung executive who intimated them not to expect the Android 2.0 “Eclair” until Q2 2010.

And our third individual is the head employee of INQ who wants their handsets to make way to the US markets by 2010. What we understand is that this year you cannot expect the LG android phone, the Tom Tom app, Google Maps navigation software. There are many such rumors from the Android which we cannot digest. Let us look forward to a good future with better android phones.

HTC officially announced the Hero that is the company’s third Android smartphone (the G3). Like the Magic (G2), the Hero is boosted by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz processor. The Hero has a 3.2-inch 320×480 touchscreen LCD display, a trackball with enter button, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera and integrated GPS receiver. It supports Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR/A2DP and WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity. The smartphone packs also G-sensor, microSD/SDHC card slot and digital compass.

HTC Hero’s media player supports MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and WMA9 audio files and MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, WMV9 video formats.

Hero will be released in Europe in July, Asia in Summer and N. America later this year.