The Motorola MILESTONE, previously only available in the UK SIM free, or via online independents, is at last going to be available on the UK high street as part of a mobile contract. Carphone Warehouse will be offering the phone as part of a 24 months at £30 contract.
It’s a little late to the party seeing as the MILESTONE was released in mid to late December last year, but we’re glad to see that it’s finally arrived.

There are some doubts being cast on the authenticity of the Haleron iLet Mini HAL which we posted about a few days ago. It seems that there are people who have investigated Haleron and have been left unconvinced that they even actually exist.
Haleron have announced the release of a number of tablets and netbooks over the past few months, so, if this is a scam, it’s surprising that it’s only coming to light now.
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South American tech manufacturers Haleron are set to follow up the  iLet Mini, a tablet running Windows CE, with the Android 1.6 powered iLet Mini HAL.  The iLet Mini HAL will sport a 600MH processor, 128MB of RAM, a 7-inch 800 x 480 WVGA display, 2GB internal storage with an SD memory card slot for up to 32GB of additional storage and connectivity to external hard drives via two onboard USB ports.  There are also the obligatory Ethernet and Wi-Fi connections.
The device also has onboard stereo speakers, with additional audio …

Samsung unveiled their latest Android handset at the Mobile World Congress this week, the Samsung i8520 “Beam”. It’s running Android 2.1 and has some impressive specs, but it’s biggest selling point is the built-in pico projector that the phone will be rocking. Click the link to find out more.

The much anticipated HTC Desire will be winging it’s way to the UK at the end of March. T-Mobile, Orange and Vodafone have all confirmed that they will be offering the device from 26th March. We’re expecting big things from this modified version of the Nexus One, here’s hoping it lives up to it’s billing.
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Acer raised a few eyebrows at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week by unveiling a new, updated version of the Acer Liquid. But what changes and improvements can we expect in this new version? Click the link to read more.

Pocketnow have managed to get their hands on some leaked images of the HTC Incredible.    There’s not a lot of info other than the images so far, other than the phone will be carried by Verizon, has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, Android 2.1, 256MB RAM, HTC Sense, dual LED flash and an optical mouse pointer.  The phone will either have a 3.5 or a 3.7 inch WVGA display, which may possibly be AMOLED.
It all sounds pretty powerful and enticing, but I really hope the name is just an internal codename …

Archos released an Android driven Archos 5 tablet last year which, whilst receiving mixed initial reviews, still sold fairly well. Now, the Archosfans site have gotten word that Archos will be releasing an Archos 7 tablet running Android sometime in March. They’ve somehow managed to get an image of how it looks as well as a current spec-sheet. Click the link for more.

There are a number of rumours doing the rounds at the moment that suggest that the HTC Bravo and Sony Ericsson X10 are to be released in the UK around March time. Click the link for more.

It looks as though Gigabyte will be adding an Android handset to their GSmart smartphone lineup. See the first images and the technical specs in the full article at the link below.