WEEKLY WRAP: This week in mainstream Android news

Here’s a quick look at a few of the bigger Android stories that have been floating around for the last few days. Stories either too old, too irrelevant, or the big ones we missed through not paying enough attention.

BBC: Microsoft offers first Google Android mobile phone app
Android mentioned on the BBC. Google stock up!

Big Phone’s first Google Android defaults to…Yahoo!
We’re not particularly interested in the machinations of AT&T.

Google’s Nexus One is worth sending a colleague to prison for
Utterly TERRIBLE opinion piece from The Times, as was the same chap’s disastrous attempt at saying “Milestone” made him think of minestrone last week. At least they’re mentioning Android, though, right?

nexus one times

A Milestone for Android Mobiles
Mainstream and possibly NSFW UK tabloid The Sun oddly decided to raise awareness of the MILESTONE among its readers this week.

Android-packing house phone makes landlines look cool
Not interested. House phones don’t need to be ‘smart’.

Gowalla Launches for Android
Really not keen on this geo-location micro-trend. Don’t want to get Notifications about which Starbucks you’re currently in. Your life isn’t as interesting as you think.

Xperia X10 Mini gets a competitor: meet the Android Innocomm
Anyone excited about Innocomm’s debut Android phone?

And that’s about all we can take. If you have any interesting Android-in-the-news stories you think we should’ve hurriedly cut-and-pasted this week, chuck them into the comments section below.

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