Verizon Wireless spokesmen today said that the Motorola Droid phone, Motorola’s first Android-powered phone, could be tethered (means users could use the Droid phone as a wireless modem for a laptop to browse the Internet) starting in the first quarter 2010. Wait a second. Before you jump and down celebrating, there is a catch for that. There is a $15 dollars fee for this service, and you could only get up to 5GB of data per month. Verizon Wireless didn’t say what is the penalty if you use more than 5GB of data per month.

Motorola’s first Android phone, Motorola Cliq with MOTOBLUR™, is available at T-Mobiel stores beginning today. The selling price for the phone is $199.99 with two-years contract agreement. Although the Cliq phone might have been overshadowed by the launch of Motorola’s Droid (Android 2.0), it is still worth taking a look at this Motorola Cliq.

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I guess what Eric Schmidt said was right – Google’s Android strategy is ready to explode. In this month, we are going to see launches of several Android-powered phones right before Thanksgiving holidays. Here are the official launch dates compiled by our partner, Simplexity.

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Google today announced that Android 2.0 OS is now available for developers to program their apps, a few days after Google released the Android SDK supports for Android 2.0 OS. New features of Android 2.0 OS include multiple email accounts (Google and Exchange), improved virtual keyboard, camera enhancements, and improved browser. Complete list is below as copied from Android website here.

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The struggling cell phone maker, Motorola, is rumored to release a hybrid GSM / CDMA android-powered phone in China. The codename of the phone is “MOTO Zeppelin”, which we doubt Motorola will use the codename as the official name of the phone. Besides having a cool name, the Zeppelin phone also has amazing features and specifications, including a 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen, 5-megapixel digital camera with LED flash, HDMI output, and Video recorder that record high-definition 720P videos. Besides that, the Zeppelin phone also has other standard smartphone features, such as GPS, Wi-Fi, Stereo Bluetooth, and 3.5mm headphone jack.

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This leaked information is from Expansys retail site. According to the site, Sony Ericsson is ready to launch its first Android-powered cell phone, named Xperia 3. The phone has candy-bar shaped design and is equipped with a 4-inch full touch-sensitive LCD screen.

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HTC today unearthed the HTC Hero in London. HTC Hero is another Android-powered touch screen phone, after HTC G1, and HTC Magic. Features and specifications of Hero include a 3.2-inch TFT touch screen (320 x 480 pixels), a whopping 5-megapixel digital camera, 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A processor, 512 MB ROM, 288 MB RAM, 3.5 mm headphone jack, HSPA on the 900 and 2100 MHz bands, quadband GSM/EDGE, WiFi, GPS, compass and microSD slot. Video of HTC Hero after jump.

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Today, Samsung announced its first mobile phone powered by Google’s Android Operating System. This is going to be the first phone for Samsung to test the water of Android OS, and how well the market like Android-powered phones versus Windows Mobile, and Samsung’s in-house platforms.

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Nokia, the world’s largest cellular phone maker by revenues, criticized Google’s Android system is not an open system despite Google launched Android’s source code last year.

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April 8, 2008 – Android is the newest mobile brainchild of Google. It has been six months since they make their initial announcements to enter the mobile industry but we have heard very little from them since. The new Linux-based service that Google plans to offer users was also pretty reserved in what details they chose to release at CTIA Wireless conference last week, leaving interested parties frustrated and without much information. It is especially strange that we have heard so little from Google about their Android service since the first supporting phones are supposed to make the stage in a few months. Google has expressed, however, that the reason they are releasing so little information is that they want everything to be perfect before they move forward and release inaccurate information.

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