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Ever since the WinMo-powered HTC HD2 started to drip , drip onto our pages in the form of leaked images and details, we’ve been asking ourselves one question: where’s the Android version ? And while we’ve heard whispers of a supposed Snapdragon-based Dragon device running Android ever since early October , we’re left to rely on Motorola’s Droid / Milestone to fulfill our Android 2.0 dreams this holiday season. And if DigiTimes is correct, that picture likely won’t change until early 2010

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HTC Passion runs Android on 3.5-inch OLED and Snapdragon in Verizon’s early 2010?

No sooner do we get brief corner glimpses of the supposed Motorola Sholes tablet do we get tipped off to this writeup from Androidin.net which has a number of pictures of an eerily similar keyboard-less handset with a 3.7-inch screen, Android 2.1, FM radio, and interestingly enough, only a 5 megapixel camera — last we heard it was going to be 8. Also debatable is a HDMI port, since the image that would show it is a tad too blurry. Otherwise, it seems to be about in line with what we expected, and it also seems destined for China Unicom as the XT701 (analogous to China Mobile’s Motorola Android device ).

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Android 2.1-equiped Motorola Sholes tablet spied in China as XT701?

Love him or hate him, it seems destined that the FCC’s Julius Genachowski will leave as big of a mark on the agency he’s leading — if not bigger — than his predecessor Kevin Martin did, because he’s hell-bent on shaking up the wireless airwaves and landlines he oversees in some pretty huge ways. Pushback from broadcasters is apparently quite strong , but he’s reiterated at a conference today that he intends to investigate freeing up TV spectrum for to make room additional wide-area wireless services , a move that certainly seems to make sense on the surface considering that universal broadband to the home — which could carry all the TV you’d ever need — is also high on Genachowski’s to-do list. The Universal Service Fund, which every American phone subscriber pays into and partly finances rural landline telephone operations where profits are harder to come by, is looking like a ripe target for renovation to bring broadband into the fold, theoretically making high-speed data more accessible to folks of all demographics and geographical affinities

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FCC boss keeps driving home the ’spectrum, spectrum, spectrum’ message for wireless broadband

We told you we had a feeling this thing was happening — less than a day after GE consolidated ownership of NBC Universal in preparation to spin it off and sell a controlling stake to Comcast, CNBC is reporting that the deal is actually done and will be announced Thursday morning. As rumored from the start, Comcast will now own 51 percent of NBC to GE’s 49 percent, and the new company will fold in Comcast’s various content assets, which means the new NBC will rival Disney in size. That’s a big enchilada, and it should make the future of Comcast intiatives like TV Everywhere extremely interesting.

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Comcast deal to buy NBC is done, will be announced Thursday

Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide ! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season. So your music-loving grandma wants a PMP, huh

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Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: PMPs

We’ve got an old-fashioned Sony Ericsson-gate developing this winter with some clarification and new information on two of the company’s highest-end phones of the season, the Aino and Symbian-powered Satio . First up, as we’ve updated in our original post , the Aino was never pulled from shelves — we’ve been able to confirm this with Sony Ericsson spokespeople directly, which also satisfactorily explains why it was never pulled from the US SonyStyle site. Secondly, good news for Satio owners affected by the phone’s issues : there’s a new firmware out there for unbranded units, which suggests that units that are already in the field might not need to be recalled despite Sony Ericsson’s admission that the power-down problem can’t be fixed over the air.

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Sony Ericsson’s Satio gets new firmware but not yet back on sale, Aino never affected

The days of OLED wallpaper are still some years away, but you can finally start thinking about replacing those tired light fixtures with something a little more two-dimensional. After testing the waters with its Early Future lamp and then boosting efficiency of its product, OSRAM is announcing availability of Orbeos OLED panels for general consumption

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OSRAM Orbeos OLED lights are small, flat, right behind you

Ready to start lusting after a new smartphone? If Creative has its way , you’ll soon be enjoying Full HD video on a 3.5 / 4G device, with built-in WiFi, 5 megapixel autofocus camera, accelerated 3D graphics , and mini-HDMI and Composite video outputs. The newly announced 3.1-inch, multitouch-capable Zii Trinity has been designed by Creative subsidiary Ziilabs, and will be licensed out to clients who’ll be able to customize a Zii-optimized Android install and Plaszma interface

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Zii Trinity mobile platform packs 1080p punch, looking for OEM love

Apparently us Yanks have been spoiled by the warm embrace of Google Maps Navigation , forgetting that our friends in the UK don’t have the same luxury. Leave it to Electricpig to connect worlds, finding a somewhat hack-induced way to bring the app upgrade to British Android 1.6 devices . Instructions are pretty easy, so if you’re game, don your DIY hat and click over

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Google Maps Navigation makes trip across the pond, thanks to some hackery

It looks like some Droid buyers are receiving these wearable gifts in the mail today, but let’s be honest — a shirt with “Droid Does” on the front and a huge picture of the phone in the back makes for a pretty cost-effective ad campaign for Big Red. Hey, is that Hanes, Fruit of the Loom or American Apparel? [Thanks, Justin T.] Verizon passing out Droid shirts to turn owners into walking ads originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:33:00 EST

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Verizon passing out Droid shirts to turn owners into walking ads