Remember that London Press Event we told you guys about? The one happening on June 24th where no one has a clue what's going to be released. Well, we're getting reports from the Economic Daily News that it may be an announcement for BOTH the HTC Hero and HTC Lancaster. Yeah, two Android devices launching on the same day!? Crazy!

But if you remember correctly, the HTC Lancaster was leaked as AT&T's first Android phone. That note is important considering that AT&T is supposed to have timed exclusivity with the HTC Lancaster, which brings into question the location of the press event: London. Why in the world would the press event be in London if it was for AT&T's big Android launch?

It doesn't really make sense to us. Combine the fact that the EDN didn't cite any sources, this is beginning to sound like a stab in the dark. Hey, they could very well be right and we wish for them to be, but this sounds too good to be true, for now.

What do you guys think? Could two Android Phones be announced the same day?

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We've all been in that situation before: You're in a new city, you have no idea where anything is, you need help. Thankfully, we can now all fire up Google's 'Places Directory' application on our Android phones to solve the problem. Places Directory conveniently uses GPS and Google Maps to help locate the 'places' around you that you may need to find. The 12 categories include: Attractions, Banks, Bars, Coffee, Gas Stations, Hotels, Medical, Movie Theaters, Parking, Restaurants, Shopping and Taxis.

We can definitely envision ourselves using Places Directory in the near feature!

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Our good friends at PreCentral.net just published their full review of the Palm Pre and have come away impressed. For those who've been living under a rock: the Palm Pre is most definitely the most exciting smartphone release since well, Android. Our main man Dieter really stepped up and delivered a magnificent review of this much ballyhooed device and we're excited to welcome a new competitor to the fold.

If you ever wanted to know anything about the Palm Pre, PreCentral.net's Review should serve you fine. Over 200 images. 12 videos. Yeah, they do it right.

It looks like the uber-popular ShopSavvy application is missing for some users. The creators of ShopSavvy have received multiple reports of ShopSavvy not displaying in Android Market and are wondering how widespread the issue is. ShopSavvy displays just fine for us (open up Android Market, go to all applications, sort by popularity, it should be 4th).

If ShopSavvy is missing on your Android phone, head over to their site to see how to help!

Starting June 5th, T-Mobile is going to drop the price of the T-Mobile G1 to $149.99 with new activation. This is a $30 price drop from the $179.99 price point the G1 launched with. Could this be a sign of clearing out inventory for the next onslaught of Android devices?

And though it's a significant discount from T-Mobile, we still recommend any potential G1 customer to head towards Amazon: they're still offering the T-Mobile G1 for $97.99 with new activation.

[via tmonews]

T-Mobile USA has just confirmed that their next Android phone will be released in 'early summer'. If we're looking at our calendar right, that means today at the earliest or at the very latest: the next few weeks. The next Android Phone from T-Mobile is expected to be the HTC Magic (rebranded as the MyTouch 3G). Cupcake is trickling down to G1 Users and the Google Ion (aka HTC Magic) was deemed primetime enough to give away so yeah, the HTC Magic is probably ready to release.

[via engadget]

We had long ago reported that Garmin was interested in bringing an Android phone to the market, 6 months later it looks like they have the intention to do so...6 months from now. Though no exact specifications or pricing has been set, we can assume that it'll include a heavy brand of location based services.

We'd love to sit down and play with a Garmin-ASUS Android phone, if only to see if this relative newcomer in the smartphone game can create a compelling device. It'd be great to see what Garmin can cook up.

[via pcworld]

Fresh off the news that Acer is joining the Open Handset Alliance and releasing an Android phone in Q4 2009, we have reports that an Acer Android-powered Netbook will be coming earlier than that: in Q3 2009. Details are predictably sparse but a real live Android netbook should garner some interest, especially if it releases as early as July.

Though we're still unsure about how Android will translate to the netbook scene, we're more than excited to find out. Hopefully we'll get more details soon!

[via wsj]

No one really has any clue what the London HTC Press Event on June 24th will be about. Our friends over at WMExperts are pulling for a Windows Mobile device but here at Android Central, we would love to see the HTC Hero pop up live and in living color. Our Windows Mobile brothers and sisters do have history on their side, the Touch Diamond was released at a similar event a year ago. But don't give up hope yet! Nothing has been confirmed.

Cross your fingers and hope to see the HTC Hero!

We know we weren't the only ones drooling over the HTC Hero Rosie on the T-Mobile G1. If you saw the video tour, it was just mind-blowing, gorgeous, and to die for. Luckily, haykuro over at XDA developers has just made it available for download and though we don't think we're going to port this to our personal T-Mobile G1 yet, we suspect a few of you will.

Obviously, if you don't know what you're doing...stop right there and just enjoy your Cupcake. This process is a bit more difficult than just load and pop. For full instructions, check out the thread here.

Maybe if we can find some free time over the weekend, we'll give it a go...

[via engadget]