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Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, said it has no current plans to distribute Google Inc.’s Nexus One phone, focusing instead on other handsets that use the company’s Android operating system.
“Obviously, if they want to do business with us or sell the device, we’re open to that,” Verizon spokesman Marquett Smith said. Google’s Web site directs Verizon customers seeking Android phones to try the Droid Incredible, made by HTC Corp.

Google had said in January that Verizon would eventually provide service for the Nexus One. The carrier has broadened its smartphone line as it vies with rivals like AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. for a shrinking pool of new customers, with more than 9 phones for every 10 people in the U.S.
Carriers have turned to smartphones as more consumers seek devices that can function as pocket computers, surfing the Web and playing video. Smartphone sales probably will climb 46 percent this year, more than triple the pace of the overall handset market, according to Gartner Inc.
Google representatives Mistique Cano and Oliver Rickman didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment.
T-Mobile USA Inc. already carries the phone, while Sprint, the third-largest mobile carrier, has said it will debut the device as well. Mountain View, California-based Google also makes a version of the phone that will operate on AT&T’s network.
Verizon Communications Inc., which co-owns Verizon with Vodafone Group Plc, fell 9 cents to $28.96 at 9:32 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The New York-based company’s stock had declined 12 percent this year before today.
Vodafone said today it will sell the device to customers in the United Kingdom on April 30.
Bloomberg

Orange has come out with its own branded Android device, but it looks like we have with us Gigabyte GSmart/Codfish, while some reports suggest Foxconn of Taiwan is the manufacturer, but we think its Gigabyte.  

The carrier is preparing to release it in Spain, the UK, Poland and Romania from 16 April. The “Boston” touch-screen handset, which will not be offered in France initially, will sell for EUR 1(Virtually Free) with a subscription plan, as Orange pushes to accelerate the adoption of the mobile internet and puts its mobile apps into more users’ hands.
Produced in China, the Boston only costs EUR 120 to manufacture, half as much as most of its competitors, and the operating system is free.  Talking about the specs, Boston comes with 3.2 inch touch screen, 5 MP cam with flash, 512 MB internal memory with sd card support, GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi. 

via Telecompaper & Movilzona

After Apple yesterday demonstrated what’s new in iPhone OS 4, its time again for us to compare what the three Mobile OS have to contend with each other. Folks over Redmond Pie did the following head to head comparison between iPhone OS 4, Android 2.1 and Windows Phone 7 will help you answer most of your questions.

via Redmond Pie

Well, it has been delayed. Verizon Droid users are a poor lot. The Big Red has been planning this Android 2.1 update for quiet long but never got it on time and today when it was the date of reckoning, it has been delayed.
BGR just now reported this with the following screenshot which makes everything clear, so wait again for a date.

If you were waiting for HTC Incredible, you might be in luck here as sources over Verizon have hinted for a upcoming release within two weeks.
According to various leaks till now, the phone will have a 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250 Snapdragon ARM CPU and 512 MB of RAM. CPU will be underclocked to 768 MHz . The phone also has a 8-megapixel camera with a noticeably larger lens.  It is rumored to come packed with a 6 GB of flash, a microSD expansion slot, and an FM tuner. 
Presumably running Android 2.1, Verizon’s new HTC Incredible is similar in design with Google’s Nexus One. Since it’s running the latest Android iteration, the handset will allow you improved pinch-to-zoom in the browser, better voice-to-text support, animated wallpapers, and tweaks to Google Maps.
via Dailytech

Verizon just posted details on the Droid’s upgrade to Google’s latest and greatest Android version, and you’ve got the expected host of goodies including the new 3D Gallery app, voice-to-text, news and weather widgets, pinch-to-zoom support, “improved” pattern lock, and  live wallpapers. The update will be rolled out in batches of 250,000 starting this Thursday.

HTC Supersonic was seen again, this time whosoever was in possession of this much talked about device, took a video and uploaded it on Youtube. With a 4.3-inch display and WiMax (4G) headed to Sprint, the Supersonic is definitely going to make quite a splash. We have more on HTC Supersonic here.
via MobileCrunch

With the all the Holi Celebrations going on in the background, When I was going through various Chinese websites, I came across this Digi.QQ.com report which suggested the LG and Samsung could use the FX 3D UI in their upcoming Android phones, While they were skeptical about the the use by Samsung, which has its own TouchWiz UI.

FX UI on Nexus One

FX UI on Nexus One

Report went on to say that both of the companies are very interested in the UI and we could see phones running on it soon.

FX UI was first seen at the Mobile World Congress last month but went unnoticed except a few reports here and there. Unwired View posted a report on the UI, saying that this could come to both Samsung ans LG phone running on Android, Windows Mobile or any other OS, like Bada.