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Filed under: Software, HTC, Android

Step aside, JAC Hero, there’s a new firmware in town. Fatal1ty (that Fatal1ty?) and nk02 have not only managed to obtain the HTC Hero’s new (and almost final) Sense UI-infused firmware, but have spruced it up for consumption by HTC Magic / Dream users. There’s naturally a bit of glitchiness — apparently WiFi and Bluetooth don’t work at the moment, and the camera is all funkified, but the real treat in this place is the first implementation of Flash 10 on Android, even if it is a bit “laggy” on the RAM-starved G1. The widgets are also on display, and other than Flash the general experience is apparently pretty snappy. Naturally, the xda-dev folks won’t be leaving well enough alone, and we should be seeing refined versions of this and future Hero firmwares leading up to and after the release of the actual device.

[Via xda-developers forum; thanks Jeremy W., screenshot by johnnylicious]

New HTC Hero ROM leaked, Flash 10 already chugging along on a few lucky G1s originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, ATT

The previously rumored Motorola portrait QWERTY slider Iron Man has popped up again, this time as the AT&T-bound Heron, with listed specs being a 2.8-inch touch screen, 3 megapixel camera with flash, aGPS, 3G, and a big red “subject to change” notice since the device has moved to (drumroll, please) Android OS. Planned availability is said to be November 2nd in this place, but we suspect these slides are a bit dated and that may ultimately be wholly off target. Also on the menu is another portrait slider, the Sawgrass. This one may in fact be Alexander, and if that’s the case, at least we’ve got a cleaner press shot to put on its tombstone. Then again, we hear from Boy Genius Report that it’s reincarnated under the name Somerset. The information you (probably) seek is in the gallery below.

Motorola’s Sawgrass, Android-powered Heron do the vertical slide onto AT&T? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 24 May 2009 22:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android

Okay, we think we’re starting to get a good picture for how T-Mobile’s Android plans for the year are plan to play out (naturally, this is all subject to change — we doubt the manufacturers know precisely when they’ll be ready with this stuff, much less the carrier). That seemingly leaked roadmap has at this time revealed its final Android-based treasure, a Motorola “Morrison” that looks a heck of a lot like the device we’d seen leaked through some Wal-mart docs. Granted, there’s a silver bar at the bottom in this place that isn’t present in the earlier picture, but they could easily be different generations of rendered mockups, so we’re not putting too much weight on that discrepancy. The roadmap currently has the Morrison pegged for the holiday season, so there’ll be plenty of Android devices available to you before you get a crack at this one — which probably isn’t how Moto would like to see it work out, but hey, them’s the breaks.

Motorola “Morrison” rounding out T-Mobile’s 2009 Android offerings? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 20 May 2009 15:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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