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A great little idea from Android And Me, some awesome Android-themed wallpapers for your favourite Google phones! Some spooky Halloween efforts, from bats to ghosts!

Download the Halloween Android wallpapers from here!

They should be compatible with whichever Android phone you have from the HTC Magic to the original G1, although the resolution may be wrong for the new HTC Tattoo…

Simply save them to your PC or Mac, and transfer them over to the handset’s memory stick. Simples!

The Android handset which we have dreamt of has arrived, and from a slightly unlikely source…

Acer’s Liquid A1 is easily the most powerful Android device yet seen, promising a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU (last seen wowing audiences in the HTC HD2 and WinMo-powered Acer F1, less so in the Toshiba TG01), pre-loaded with Android’s ‘Donut’ interface with some propietary fiddling.

With A huge 3.5″ capacitive WVGA touchscreen, the Acer Liquid continues to wow with the biggest Android display yet seen, and the featureset does not fail to disappoint either.

The smartphone load-out is present and correct: HSDPA, Bluetooth, USB, stereo FM radio and Wi-Fi, as well as GPS and a microSD card slot. The camera is no slouch neither, with a 5 megapixel lens doing the honours…

A release date remains elusive, and the pic is courtesy of @LeilaMakki…more details as soon as we get them!

So exciting, and a hardcore Android handset is long overdue! Now, how to get the HTC Sense UI on there…

Despite HTC having a BFF relationship with Microsoft, word has it that the Taiwanese manufacturer will be shacking up with Google’s platform in 2010. A lot.

HTC currently has 26 Windows devices on its European website and only 2 on Android, but have been the only company to truly back the device with head-turning handsets from the T-Mobile G1 to the Magic.

With a third of HTC phones coming to market running on Android in ‘09, it looks like next year could see a range of devices that don’t have Ballmer’s seal of approval…

Source: Engadget