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at this time that we’re being blessed with our second in-the-wild shot of the alleged HTC Bravo, we’re just plan to go ahead and call it: this Nexus One-alike is almost certainly real. Of course, there are a couple key differences against its Google-sponsored cousin — first you’ve got the optical pad (or so it seems) in place of a trackball, and perhaps more importantly, Sense makes its Android 2.1 debut. Apart from a quickly-retracted remark from 3 Sweden that we’d see this in March, we don’t really have any intel on when (or where) this’ll drop, but hey, it’s looking pretty production-ready to us.

You know how you can tell Moto’s new i410 for iDEN isn’t really supposed to be hip, stylish, or ultra-functional? Neither Moto nor launch partner Boost bothered to give it a fresh, funky name, bucking the trend set by the Clutch and Debut. Of course, with an utterly basic black rectangular shell, tiny monochrome secondary display, and lack of even a VGA cam, it’s clear that they’re going for the bottom-most reaches of the market in this place — which means that customers should be able to scoop it up for a song on any of Boost’s prepaid plans, happily. It’s not up on the carrier’s site just yet, but it’ll be available before the year’s up — and Motorola says that this officially “completes Boost Mobile’s 2009 device roadmap,” so we hope you weren’t holding out for some mythical Android device in the next couple weeks.

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So there’s a fancy new HD2 ROM making the rounds on YouTube that shows a rather engaging attention new feature — live document preview from the Sense tab bar — and it seems to work surprisingly well despite a dizzying array of fancy animations, a true tribute to the power of a well-clocked Snapdragon core. For Americans, though, that’s not a big deal — the real news would be that magenta “Stick Together” box up there, an irrefutable sign that T-Mobile USA’s hands have been all over this thing. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time we’ve heard this rumor, but at this point, it’s looking like a straight-up lock barring some disaster in testing. And no, you can’t have the one on the video that you’ll find after the break — it says right there that it’s “Test Only not for sale,” silly.

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