PHOTO SAMPLES: Shots taken with a Samsung Galaxy i7500
We feel a bit emotionally involved with the poor Samsung Galaxy i7500, what with the phone and its users seemingly given a rough ride by Samsung, Google and the mobile operators, and finding itself lumbered with Android 1.5 with no likelihood of an update to Android 2.0 or even 1.6… Read the rest
HTC given a rave write-up in Wired, Android singled out as major reason for success
Slick geek magazine SLASH web site Wired has just published an extremely glowing article on HTC’s recent successes, pointing out that the heavily-into-Android smartphone maker is now the fourth most popular mobile company in the world, after Nokia, Research In Motion and Apple… Read the rest
GOOD APP: BHTrans Cameras
What an absolutely awesome idea for a phone app – BHTrans Cameras v0.2.2 lets you browse the feeds from Brazilian road traffic CCTV cameras… Read the rest
The best Android Twitter apps #10: Seesmic
Crikey, Seesmic is good. It’s puzzlingly low-profile on the Android Market, though – the reason we’ve not used or reviewed it yet is because the app doesn’t come up when you do a generic search for “Twitter” on the Market… Read the rest
AndroidZoom launches UK Android Market app tracker
Android Market browser Androidzoom, which we love and think is one of the best, has added a UK-specific section to its comprehensive listing/scraping of what’s available for download in the Android Market – see it now here… Read the rest
Seesmic Twitter app updated to v1.1, now with Lists, Search, social sharing and more
The Seesmic Android Twitter app, which we haven’t reviewed yet for some odd reason, has today been updated to version 1.1 – bringing shedloads more features to what already looks like a very solid and well-polished Android Twitter app… Read the rest
EXPENSIVE APPS: NDrive satnav arrives for European Android phones
Fresh from recoiling in horror at the amazing price of CoPilot Live Navigation Europe, we bring news today of another unbelievably expensive GPS app for Android mobiles – NDrive… Read the rest
Someone has a *boxed" Nexus One now
Bloody hell. This phone is going to be in Argos before Google gets around to admitting its existence. Here’s a new shot of the Nexus One Android phone, which, unsurprisingly, appeared on Twitter last night… Read the rest

INQ’s Android phone is an interesting “boutique” piece of hardware, packed with unique interface customisations that go far beyond the headline Facebook integration. We like it a lot.