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It looks like those on Rogers will soon have another Android handset to pick from when making a purchase. And that handset is the Samsung Galaxy, or the Samsung Spica depending on who you may been talking with.
Either way though, the Samsung Galaxy Spica has recently been revealed in images sporting the Rogers brand [...]

It’ll be a cold day in hell before you catch an executive talking bad about their product. Case in point: Google CFO Patrick Pichette, who was talking up the Nexus One at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in San Francisco.

At the event, Pichette called the Nexus One "a benchmark-setter" and said "It’s raising everybody’s game." Such cheerleading is expected from a CFO, but he reportedly also said that the mood at Google has been "electric" and "we’re absolutely delighted with the results" of the Nexus One launch. [Wall Street Journal]

The company F-Secure, “the leader in protecting mobile devices” announced their mobile security offering for Android. F-Secure has had some success on Symbian and Windows Mobile, and because of the growing Android market share they decided to offer their software for the OS. According to F-Secure’s Patrik Sallner, F-Secure has been in the mobile device [...]

We’ve got some good news and some bad news about those waiting to receive Adobe Flash 10.1. The good news is that it’s expected to be released on Android phones coming "mid year".  Now the bad news is that the HTC Hero will not be supported.

“The HTC Hero will not be supported [because] it does not have the correct Android OS version and its chipset is not powerful enough. We require a device an ARM v7 (Cortex) processor. Examples include the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets and TI OMAP3 series.”

We’ve seen Flash being shown off already on the Droid and the Nexus One.  We already knew this was coming, given that Flash is a processor hog even on desktop systems, but thank you for stating the obvious. [androinica]