TECH BUZZ: A $399 version of the Google Android phone is now available for developers only. A custom black G1 phone will be shipping soon — you have to sign up as a developer first to be eligible.

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1. Android Dev Phone 1 surfaces for $399
2. Sign Up For the Developer Phone At The Android Market

TECH BUZZ: Blackberry’s newest phone features a clickable touch screen. With all of RIM’s enterprise features — edit Excel spreadsheets! works with Enxchange! — and a nice bright screen, this looks like yet another iPhone killer.

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1. Verizon Officially Debuts RIM BlackBerry Storm
2. Blackberry Storm Gets A Full Review From Gizmodo
3. Big Blackberry Storm Feature: The Clickable Screen
4. Blackberry Storm Teaser Commercial
5. Photos: Hands On With The Blackberry Storm

TECH BUZZ: T-Mobile announces the God/Jesus/Holy Ghost/Buddha phone: The G1. $179, available on October 22. Features gChat, Google Maps, customizable home screen, blah blah blah. And iPhone holdouts who’ve been waiting for a slide-out keyboard can now feel like they’re market niche is being paid attention to.

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1. First G1 Ad
2. Hands-On With T-Mobile G1 Android Phone
3. Meet the T-Mobile G1
4. Video: Watch The T-Mobile G1 Google Press Conference

TECH BUZZ: T-Mobile has officially announced that the first phone running Google’s Android mobile operating system, the HTC Dream, will be unveiled in late September and in late October. It ain’t as purdy as the iPhone, but it sure does have a nifty keyboard.

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1. Official: First Android Phone on September 23rd
2. HTC Dream’s “Late October” Release Date
3. Live Google Android Demo

Grainy shots of what might be the HTC Dream, or G1, the iPhone killer that’s a Google/Sidekick mash-up. Those of you who’ve been hoping the iPhone will finally release a version with a physical keyboard, your patience may have paid off — as long as you’re willing to keep waiting until September (if you’re a T-Mobile customer) or December (at the latest). The heavy breathing here is creepy.

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1. Unofficial Word on the Google Phone Release

TECH BUZZ: The first pictures of an (apparently) functional version of Blackberry’s touch-screen device have shown up on the web. The Thunder is Blackberry’s response to the iPhone, and they’re hoping to make the touch screen typing experience way better than what Apple offers — the screen will provide tactile feedback when you press a key, and there’s a lot more screen real estate dedicated to the keyboard.

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1. Exclusive First BlackBerry Thunder Pics!
2. The Blackberry Thunder Will Be Exclusive to Verizon
3. Wall Street Journal Says the BlackBerry Thunder Will Be Out by September

TECH BUZZ: Samsung’s new smartphone (for Sprint) is flying off the shelves. Tech sites hail it as the first true iPhone competitor — plus it comes with live TV service built-in.

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1. Samsung’s Instinct is Selling Out
2. The Instinct is the Only Reasonable iPhone Competition Out There
3. Instinct Review: Samsung’s Best Phone
4. Samsung Giving the IPhone a Run, But No Wi Fi
5. Very Handy Video Review Comparing the Samsung Instinct, iPhone and LG Vu

TECH BUZZ: New trio of Verizon LG phones (the Dare, Chocolate 3, and the Decoy) will go on sale as soon as June 16th. For those of us who can’t get excited about the iPhone because we’re chained to Verizon for the rest of our lives (I say this as I look at my co-editor’s iPhone wistfully), LG is offering a new touch-screen phone that’s like the Prada phone, only better.

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1. Verizon’s Most Daring, Wildest Phone (Which Isn’t Saying Much)
2. See Live Shots of the LG Dare at the PhoneArena
3. The Dare Has Friends!
4. Get Pricing and Specs on New LG Phones
5. The Verizon Press Release

TECH BUZZ: Pictures and rumors about Nokia’s response to the iPhone - codenamed Tube - are percolating online. Sure, it doesn’t have a multitouch screen, but it will apparently have a camera, GPRS, GPS, WLAN, and will run on Symbian. Don’t hold your breath, it may not be out until next year.

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1. Is This Nokia’s Tube?
2. iPhone Killer? From Nokia?
3. Has It All (Except Multitouch)
4. Nokia Starts Bragging ‘Bout the Tube

TECH BUZZ: Google’s new software platform for mobile phones is called ‘Android’ and will debut this week in its prototype form at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s going to take a lot of work to make a phone as pretty as the iPhone, but the open source nature of the Android platform has got the geek sector pretty amped.

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1. “Open Source” Android Means Crazy New Things for Mobile Communications
2. Open Source Technology Allows Programmers Much More Flexibility
3. This Is of Equal Importance to the iPhone!
4. View the Android Photo Gallery
5. Android ‘will outsell iPhones’
6. Read a News Article, Look at the Slideshow
7. Android Debuts with Prototype Handsets
8. T-Mobile to have 3G by Summer, Android handset by end of 2008
9. People Are Pretty Excited, Even Though These Phones are Fugly
10. Android Not Ready for Prime Time

TECH BUZZ: Nokia’s latest addition to its high-end mobile line is getting a lot of attention. Just unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2008, the N96 sports GPS, an accelerometer, 16GB of storage, a 5MP camera, DVD-quality video, a 2.8-inch screen, Wi-Fi, and a handy kickstand for desktop viewing.

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1. Hands-On Video of the Nokia N96
2. The Nokia N96 redefines “high-end” - Engadget
3. The Nokia N96 Super Cellphone is Official: Gallery and Specs Here
4. N96 Official Site
5. N96 Buzz on Google Trends
6. Nokia N96 Unveiled

TECH BUZZ: Garmin, a company that makes GPS devices, enters the smartphone ring with the Nuvi. The one thing this touch-screen celly holds over the iPhone is that it’s not an iPhone.

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1. Ballsy Move on Garmin’s Part
2. Official Website of the Garmin Nuvifone
3. GPS-Maker Also Makes Cell Phones?
4. I Love Garmin, But What Does This Have that My Blackberry Doesn’t?
5. Garmin unveils Nuvi Phone
6. Garmin Nuvifone is the Phone of My Dreams
7. SURPRISE! We’re Making a Phone!
8. No Buddytracking?

TECH BUZZ: The latest mobile phone from Verizon is getting a ton of buzz. It’s the latest hopeful in the “iPhone killer” category, sporting both an Apple-esque touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard.

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1. Verizon’s LG Voyager Heads Up The Fall Lineup
2. Verizon’s LG VX10000 Voyager Revealed and Groped
3. Verizon Voyager Fansite
4. Sign Up Here To Find Out When The Verizon Voyager Is Coming Out
5. Premier Source for Tweaking and Troubleshooting Your Verizon Voyager
6. YouTube - Hands On With Verizon Voyager
7. Full Verizon Voyager Specs Leaked
8. “An Amazing Combination of Technology in a Compact Package”
9. Verizon’s iPhone Rival
10. Voyager User Reviews
11. Video: Nerd Unboxes Voyager
12. Verizon LG Voyager ON FIRE at Google Trends

TECH BUZZ: Much buzz about Google’s reported next project: The Google Phone. Google has apparently been showing a prototype of its phone to manufacturers - though many people don’t think it’s an actual phone, but a set of related services.

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1. “HTC Insider Confirms Existence of the Google Phone”
2. Seth Godin imagines the gPhone: free, open, ad supported, and location-aware
3. Fake Steve Jobs: “We have seen the gPhone, and yes, it scares us”
4. Free services like gPhone help Google lock in and infantilize customers
5. Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market
6. Stop praying for a GooglePhone — you already have one
7. Google Phone Prototypes
8. Google phone incoming!
9. Google Phone Coming Soon, ‘Not As Revolutionary’ As The IPhone
10. Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile
11. Google phone won’t be about “voice ads”
12. Google still creating self-branded phone?

TECH BUZZ: OpenMoko’s Linux-based anti-iPhone is now available. The Neo 1973 is for sale to developers only right now - commercial sales start in the fall. It has many of the same features as the iPhone, but it’s not as cute. It’s based on open source principles, though, so the geeks will love it. Who will win?

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1. Open. Mobile. Free.
2. The Anti-iPhone Ships On July 9
3. I’m Waiting For The Neo 1973
4. Neo 1973 To Ship Commercially In October
5. Here’s Your Unlocked iPhone (Minus The iPhone Part)
6. Drop That iPhone!
7. iPhone Versus Neo 1973