It’s a near-weekly occurrence: HTC, or Motorola, or someone releases a brand-new Android phone . There are a ton of them! But really, there are only a few worth buying. Here are the best Android phones on each carrier. More

Specs? Leaked . Carrier? The VZW . Release date? It’s the 29th

The HTC HD Mini is to the HD2 what the iPhone Nano would be to the original iPhone. It’s well-built and charmingly small, but its OS is too dated to ever enjoy very much. More

It’s one of the leakiest phones of the year , but it looks like BGR has the official specs, courtesy of a well-placed source at Verizon—rumored to be the exclusive carrier for this Android phone. More

Moribund Palm is up for sale, says Bloomberg. Who is in the short list of potential bidders? It’s not Google , but close enough: HTC. And it makes total sense, because buying Palm could save HTC’s ass in the Apple lawsuit. More

It’s no secret that Palm’s Hail Mary of 2009 — webOS and the launch of the Pre — hasn’t been the rousing success that the company so desperately needed. Profitability is a distant dream, Verizon isn’t giving the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus the marketing support they need to rise to the top, some analysts suggest that the cash in the bank is only enough to last for another year or so, and the choice of Sprint as a long-term exclusive launch partner continues to be a pesky monkey on the back. All of these realities have led Palm to become a near-constant source of takeover speculation in recent months. Name a company — any company — and odds are they’ve been caught up in a rumor at one point or another: Nokia, Dell, RIM, Microsoft, Google, Nintendo (yes, Nintendo), the list goes on. Of course, not all of these deals would make much strategic sense, and only one — if any — will ultimately happen.

Could it be a phone, a netbook or even an ereader/tablet like the Microsoft Courier ? The above patent has surfaced via HTC, showing both screens working as one, or split so one is a virtual keyboard, the other, the UI. More

Verizon Wireless sure is busy. Word on the street is that they’re preparing to launch seven new phones, in addition to wrangling an iPhone deal if you believe everything you hear. HTC’s next Android wonder-phone, the Incredible, is next apparently. More

HTC’s got a patent application for a technology that’ll use accelerometers to detect when a device is shaking, and adjust the orientation of the video accordingly. No more motion sickness! Well, video-related, anyway. More

This one’s fairly light on specifics, but HTC CEO Peter Chou has given an interview to The Wall Street Journal where he dropped a few interesting tidbits, the most notable being that HTC’s growth in the US is apparently “faster than others.” Exactly what that translates to in actual numbers is unclear, but Chou did say that HTC expects to ship more than the 5.5 million to 6 million smartphones it shipped in the US last year. That growth is apparently due in large part to support from Verizon and T-Mobile, which Chou says “started treating us as their first-tier suppliers last year” and gave the company some “strong momentum.” Chou also went on to confirm that HTC will be introducing six new models for China in partnership with China Mobile this year, and that it’s aiming to ship four to five million units to China annually by 2011. HTC says its growth in the US is ‘faster than others’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink