{"id":476036,"date":"2010-03-26T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=28499"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:52:14","slug":"ctia-2010-wrap-up-android-android-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/476036","title":{"rendered":"CTIA 2010 Wrap-up: Android, Android, Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/CTIA-630x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CTIA\" width=\"630\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bags have been packed, poker chips have been cashed, and planes have been boarded &#8211; and with that, the mobile-focused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/tag\/CTIA10\/\">CTIA 2010 <\/a> convention in Las Vegas has come to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Each time an event like this blows through town, tech heads do their best to distract themselves from their hangovers by writing monstrous posts on which platform or technology &#8220;won&#8221; the show. When it comes to CTIA 2010, the winner is clear cut and undisputed: Android. They could have called this year&#8217;s show &#8220;Android Week&#8221; and no one would have questioned it.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-28499\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When we said Android went &#8220;undisputed&#8221; above, we meant it in the literal sense. Windows Phone 7 handsets are still too early in development to come out and play. Palm was only showing the AT&#038;T versions of the Pixi Plus and Pre Plus, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/22\/palm-announces-the-pixi-plus-and-pre-plus-for-att-at-50-and-150-respectively\/\">they&#8217;d announced<\/a> in the days leading up to the show. BlackBerry&#8217;s biggest news was that their new Twitter client is launching on March 31st. Apple didn&#8217;t even show up &#8212; not that anyone expected them to, given that these deafeningly noisy shows aren&#8217;t exactly their style.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Android launched on no less than five major handsets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/23\/samsung-outs-the-galaxy-s-android-smartphone\/\">Samsung Galaxy S<\/a> &#8211; The Galaxy S is big, beautiful, and bright as all hell. Really &#8212; I can&#8217;t imagine a screen brighter than this one, a 4.0&#8243; Super AMOLED screen made by Samsung themselves. I&#8217;m fairly confident that it could be used as an impromptu flash grenade, need be. The 1Ghz CPU and 5.0 megapixel camera don&#8217;t hurt, either. See our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/23\/hands-on-with-the-samsung-galaxy-s\/\">hands-on here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/22\/motorola-announces-the-android-powered-i1-with-push-to-talk-for-sprint\/\">Motorola i1<\/a> &#8211; Motorola has finally managed to make a rugged, push-to-talk phone that doesn&#8217;t <em>look<\/em> like a rugged push-to-talk phone. There&#8217;s no absurd bulk here, and no monstrous antenna. We haven&#8217;t put this one through the paces yet &#8211; but if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/22\/ctia-banners-begin-to-unfurl-samsung-finally-learns-to-keep-the-cat-in-the-bag\/\">Mike Rowe says it can take a beating<\/a>, we&#8217;ll believe it. (Fun Fact: Motorola demonstrated the durability of this phone at a private press event by having people play shuffleboard with it)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/23\/ctia-2010-kyocera-zio-brings-high-resolution-android-goodness-without-breaking-the-bank\/\">Kyocera Zio<\/a> &#8211; The big selling point of the Kyocera isn&#8217;t necessarily its specs &#8211; it&#8217;s the price it brings them in at. At a price coming in somewhere between $169 and $220 &#8212; without contract, mind you &#8212; Kyocera has managed to stuff in a 3.5&#8243; 800&#215;480, 3.2 megapixel camera, stereo bluetooth, and the same 600mhz processor as the Motorola Devour. Look for this one to launch on Cricket later this year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/22\/att-to-soon-unveil-android-powered-dell-aero\/\">AT&#038;T Dell Aero <\/a>&#8211; Essentially a reskinned version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/08\/17\/dell-just-unveiled-its-china-only-smartphone-mini-3i-the-first-pictures\/\">Dell Mini 3i that launched in China last year<\/a>, the Dell Aero is AT&#038;T&#8217;s second Android phone, Dell&#8217;s first Android phone in the US, and purportedly the lightest Android phone to date. We spotted this one on the showfloor &#8212; but unfortunately, Dell wouldn&#8217;t let anyone turn it on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/23\/the-htc-evo-4g-is-sprints-first-4g-superphone\/\">Sprint EVO 4G<\/a> &#8211; if we had to declare one handset the winner of the show, it&#8217;d be this one.  We fell in love with this one months ago, when it was known around the rumormill as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/01\/26\/leak-roundup-htc-supersonic-for-sprint-a-wimax-fueled-android-beast\/\">HTC Supersonic<\/a>. Sprint chose to go all out with their first WiMax phone, and it has paid off; with a 4.3&#8243; 800&#215;480 screen, 1Ghz CPU, 1GB of internal storage, 802.11b\/g, HDMI-out, and the ability to act as a WiMax-powered WiFi router for up to 8 devices, the EVO 4G is now the Android handset to beat. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/23\/hands-on-with-the-sprint-evo-4g-with-video\/\">See our hands on here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other news from the show:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/22\/ctia-banners-begin-to-unfurl-samsung-finally-learns-to-keep-the-cat-in-the-bag\/\">Samsung finally learned to stop spoiling their announcements early<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BlueAnt announced a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/22\/blueant-launches-their-text-message-to-speech-android-application\/\"> text-message-to-speech <\/a> app for Android, along with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/03\/22\/blueant-outs-the-rugged-t1-bluetooth-headset\/\">first rugged Bluetooth headset, the T1.<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Sprint announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/23\/sprint-announces-7-more-cities-that-will-get-wimax-by-the-end-of-2010\/\">7 more cities that will get WiMax this year<\/a>, bringing the total up to 15.<\/li>\n<li>AT&#038;T finally announced pricing details for their broadband-powered signal booster, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/24\/att-to-begin-3g-microcell-rollout-in-mid-april-microcell-to-cost-150\/\">the 3G MicroCell<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/24\/skype-on-verizon-launching-on-thursday\/\">Skype launched their app for Verizon Android\/BlackBerry handsets<\/a>, allowing users to make Skype calls over Verizon&#8217;s data network without gobbling up their minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all, folks. If you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m going to go throw my life savings at a man standing behind a green felt table and hope for the best. 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