Since skipping the MWC09 Android party everyone has been wondering what Samsungs Android handset designs would look like. At a dealer event in Amsterdam an image appeared in a slideshow presentation - it showed a large display device bearing the usual clock-and-seaview default Android wallpaper with a touchscreen and a suitable complement of front buttons.

Conventional wisdom shows that when you have hit rock-bottom the only way is up. Knowing when you are actually there is a skill all stockbrokers would give their right arm for, or a at least a promise to bear it in the future. Motorolas painful fall from grace over the last few years, and the major surgery which followed, might just be showing some green shoots. Thats if Oppenheimer analyst Ittai Kidrons analysis is right: he is advising clients to take another look at Motorola (NYSE: MOT), who is convinced H2 2009 will be when it rockets back up to the big league.

Android 1.1 includes fixes for voice search, viewing paid apps in the Marketplace, the alarm clock  and POP3 email improvements. There is a catch though - owners of the Android Dev Phone 1 will not be able to install any paid apps which use Android’s copy protection.

This is due to the Android Dev Phone 1 being rooted out of the box and thus able to read and write the folder protected applications are stored in. So although the Dev Phone 1 can access unprotected apps this probably will only be a handful.

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Broek op Langedijk, the Netherlands – RS TechMedic B.V., a Dutch based company with eight years experience in medical device development, today announced the release of their G1 Android telemedicine Application. With this application, physicians can monitor vital signs of ambulant and home-care patients at anytime from anywhere around the world.