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Acer said that stronger-than-expected sales of its Android phone Acer Liquid have led to shortages of the device.

“Liquid is doing much better than our expectation,” Gianfranco Lanci, president of the Taipei-based company, said in an interview yesterday. “This is why we’re a little bit short of supply.”

Acer Liquid was unveiled in October and came recently to India. Acer expects to ship at least 250,000 Liquid handsets by the end of this quarter, compared with initial expectations for 150,000 to 200,000, Lanci said.

via Business Week

After reviewing this internal flier sent from T-Mobile, which was sent to retail partners, we now know that the previously rumored “Motorola Zeppelin” will be known as the Motorola CLIQ XT. CLIQ XT will most likely be carrying Android 1.5 with MOTOBLUR upon it’s release on March 10th.

via TMONews

After one month, the Nexus One has only sold a reported 80,000 units, roughly one-eighth the number of units the original Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone sold in its debut month, according to analytics group Flurry Inc.
The slow sales figures highlight the challenges Google faces as it attempts to establish a new model for pricing, marketing and distributing mobile phones.

Huawei said it will unveil Android smartphones and “home-use Internet devices” at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, later this month.
The company however did not reveal any additional details or what exactly “home-use Internet devices” are. The company currently has one Android device on the market, the T-Mobile Pulse, which T-Mobile UK has been selling since the fall.

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Vodafone UK today said that it will follow other operators and launch Sony Ericsson’s first Android smartphone, Xperia X10. It will be hitting Vodafone stands in April.

Xperia X10 features a massive 4.0″ WVGA (480×854) scratch-resistant capacitive screen, a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, a 8.1 megapixel camera to name a few.

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Gizmodo Brazil posted some new pictures of the Motorola Zeppelin which is likely headed to T-Mobile, While Androidandme says that the device has support for T-Mobile USA 3G bands and TmoNews is reporting a launch date of March 10, 2010.

Rumored specs of the Zeppelin include:

• Qualcomm MSM7201 528 MHz CPU
• 512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM
• 3.1 inch capacitive display HVGA (480×320)
• 5 megapixel camera with autofocus
• WiFi 802.11 b/g, GPS, Bluetooth
• Android 1.5 with Motoblur

Motorola finally announced the availability date for Motorola Devour. It will be up for sale in March with Verizon, making it the first Motoblur sporting device coming from Verizon.

Key features:

• Touch-sensitive navigation pad
• 3.1″ capacitive touch screen
• Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk™, YouTube™, Google Search™ and Google Maps™ with Google Maps navigation.
• Android Market
• Happenings Widget – MOTOBLUR automatically pushes status updates, wall posts and photo updates from popular social networking sites to the Happenings Widget on the home screen. Customers can flick through the latest updates and fire back responses using the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.
• Universal Inbox – MOTOBLUR gathers texts, social network messages and e-mails into one home screen widget for quick response.
• 8 GB microSD™ card pre-installed

Motorola DEVOUR(TM) Brings MOTOBLUR(TM) to Verizon Wireless’ 3G Data Network

MOTOBLUR Service Gives Customers Home Screen Access to Content and Contacts

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the availability of Motorola DEVOUR™ in March. Motorola DEVOUR will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature MOTOBLUR™, Motorola’s unique Android™-powered content delivery service created to make wireless phones more personal and customizable.

MOTOBLUR is the first solution to sync contacts from work and personal e-mail services, including Gmail™, with posts, messages, photos and more from popular sites such as Facebook®, MySpace and Twitter. With MOTOBLUR, content is automatically delivered to the home screen and fed into easy-to-manage streams.

Key features:

* Touch-sensitive navigation pad
* 3.1″ capacitive touch screen
* Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk™, YouTube™, Google Search™ and Google Maps™ with Google Maps navigation.
* Android Market™ gives users access to more than 20,000 applications.
* Happenings Widget – MOTOBLUR automatically pushes status updates, wall posts and photo updates from popular social networking sites to the Happenings Widget on the home screen. Customers can flick through the latest updates and fire back responses using the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.
* Universal Inbox – MOTOBLUR gathers texts, social network messages and e-mails into one home screen widget for quick response.
* Back-Up and Security – Contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, e-mail and social network messages are backed up automatically on the secure MOTOBLUR portal. The portal also allows customers to use the phone’s fully integrated aGPS to help locate the phone if misplaced. Remote wipe easily clears information from a lost device.
* 8 GB microSD™ card pre-installed
* Bluetooth® profiles supported: A2DP, HID, HSP, HFP, AVRCP and GAP

Service plans:

* To get the most from Motorola DEVOUR, customers will need to subscribe to a Nationwide Talk or Nationwide Talk & Text plan and a Data Package for smartphones. Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 monthly access, and Nationwide Talk & Text plans begin at $59.99 monthly access. A Data Package for smartphones is $29.99 for unlimited monthly access.

Alcatel’s OT-980 Android handset reminds us of the Palm Pre with Android in its heart. The OT-980 will be a base line entry-level device with a price point cheaper then the HTC Tattoo. It boasts an apparently very responsive on screen keyboard as well as a slide out hardware keyboard.

Specifications of OT-980

• Android 1.6
• Resistive QVGA Touchscreen
• 600 MHz processor
• 192MB RAM
• 2 megapixel camera
• Compass, Accelerometer, WiFi, A-GPS, 3G
• microUSB
• microSD memory card slot

According to FrAndroid, the OT-980 will land on Orange at some point within the first half of the year.