Angry birds are all the rage. The new Angry Birds Rio game was announced back in January. The game is based on the new animated film RIO and Rovio mobile has just announced that the Android version will be available exclusively through Amazon’s App store.

The Angry Birds Rio game is a collaboration between 20th Century Fox and Rovio Mobile. It will be available for Google Android and there will also be a version available for Apple’s ios devices. Google Android devices will have two versions of the game available, a free version which is supported by advertisements and a paid version which wont come with any advertisements.

Hulu’s Hulu Plus plans for Android are getting closer with a new teaser in its device list. The teaser shows the Plus service “coming soon,” but not for all devices. Only certain ones. Use of the TV streaming will require “select Android OS 2.2 phones,” according to the company.

Pretty odd since the photo shows the Nexus S, which runs Android 2.3, but maybe they are preparing to change the image. As for why the access is limited, it is likely due to Android fragmentation. Netflix knows first hand that the platform has wildly varying DRM support in most versions and it would have to write too much code to support most or all Android devices. So support is coming, but there is a price. It will shut out a large portion of the Android community. Hulu, who is very keen to guard against stream ripping also faces this barrier. One day though, we hope to have Hulu Plus on all of our Android devices. The question is when?

It took awhile, but ViewSonic’s dual-booting ViewPad 10 is finally coming to America. The dual booting Android 1.6 + Windows 7 tablet features a 10.1-inch touchpanel (1024 x 600), 1.66GHz Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera.

There’s also a microSD slot and a copy of Windows Home 7 Premium (with a 16GB SSD) or Windows 7 Professional (with a 32GB SSD). It will cost you $599 and $679. That’s too bad about the ancient version of Android on board.

Sony has posted a teaser ad stating that “A smarter Walkman phone is coming soon”
which hints at a possible Android Walkman phone. We heard rumors about this awhile back and back then it was to be an average Android 1.6 phone, with a 2.6″ display, and a 5 megapixel camera.

The rumor fizzled out and things got quiet, but this new teaser has those rumors going again. We don’t have any other images or details yet, so feel free to speculate until we have something more concrete.

CeBIT will start soon and we are sure to see many more Android tablets. One such tablet will be from a company called TazTag, who has announced that the TazPad will be seen at CeBIT for the first time. It will run Android, but other than that we don’t have all the details.

We do know that the tablet will have a 7-inch screen with multitouch and it has full HD capability and HDMI output, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC and ZigBee. It will be the first tablet with NFC and Android. The device also features a camera and GPS. No word on pricing, but the TazPad will ship in Q2.

We have been hearing about the HTC Merge for a while now, and now HTC has made it official. The HTC Merge will be available from several North American carriers this spring. It will come with Android 2.2 Froyo, and features a 3.8 inch touchscreen display, a slide out QWERTY keyboard, and a five megapixel camera with auto-focus and built in Flash.

The 5 megapixel camera can record HD video in 720p. Also on board is GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G. This is HTC’s first CDMA world phone, so feel free to roam around the world on GSM networks.

Gmail users with Android phones have some good news today. Google has updated their Gmail app for the Android operating system. The update brings some new features and also fixes some bugs on the app.

Gingerbread devices will now be able to copy text with a long press, and all users will be able to sync custom label colors. While there isn’t anything earth shattering here, the ability to copy text with a long press is something that was very needed. Get thee to the Android Market to download it for yourself.

You’ve probably been jealous of all of those iPad users reading The Daily on their iPads, right? Well, you won’t have to be jealous for long since it looks like News Corp’s tablet-only magazine could be heading to Android, maybe as soon as this spring.

The team has gotten a lot of help from Apple on the development side and as you know they were the first to use Apple’s new subscription service, so why wouldn’t they be ready for some Android? Hopefully this rumor has some truth to it.

Android 3.0 Honeycomb is the tablet-optimized version of Google’s mobile operating system. Check it out here, outside of the tablet environment. Specifically on an HTC Desire HD phone. Most phones have too small of a screen to make Honeycomb usable, but that might not be the case with the Desire HD, which has a 4.3″ display.

Performance is fine. Could be better, but with the larger display, using Honeycomb on a phone becomes a lot more manageable. Performance won’t be the best of course, but at least they proved a point.

When you want to know all there is to know about a device, you can usually find out with the manual. And if you want to know about Motorola’s upcoming Xoom Android tablet, you can consult the manual, thanks to the peeps over at Droid-Life have gotten their hands on it and have posted it online for everyone to enjoy.

The manual has plenty of color screen shots and instructions so that you know how to operate the device. So if you want to know all of the Xoom’s secrets, head on over to Droid-Life and get to know it before it arrives in Verizon stores next week.

Another day, another tablet. SmartDevices has been busy showing off their latest Android tablet at this year’s Mobile World Congress. It’s called the SmartQ Ten. This tablet is packing a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 touchscreen IPS display, a 720MHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, and a Mali 400 graphics card.

Some other features include 512MB RAM, 8GB of flash storage, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and it runs on Android 2.2 OS. Sadly we don’t have any word on pricing or a release date just yet.

NEC has just announced the LifeTouch Note, an Android powered netbook that comes with Android 2.2 Froyo and features a 7 inch LCD resistive touchscreen display and a QWERTY keyboard. The NEC LifeTouch Note also includes an NVIDIA Tegra 250 2-core 1GHz processor, 8GB of built in storage, and a two megapixel camera.

The NEC LifeTouch Note also features 802.11 b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, GPS, an SDHC card slot, a USB 2.0 port, and 3G connectivity.

I know. We can’t believe there’s finally a Digital Copy that’s compatible with Android. It’s about time. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced that “Unstoppable” will allow Android users to watch the movie on their Android mobile device.

It’s the first time that this has been possible with Google’s mobile OS, but just realize that you will need the disc itself, a WiFi-connected BD player, Android 1.6 or higher and the free PocketBLU app. Both the movie and app can both be downloaded today.

Adobe announced today in Barcelona at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona that Flash 10.2 will be hitting Android smartphones and Android tablets within just a few weeks. What this brings you is more frames per second and better graphics in Flash animation on your devices, just on the heals of the 10.2 release for Windows and Mac.

Adobe says that devices with dual-core processors such as Snapdragon they are scaling 1080p resolution video and seeing it at 30 frames per second. All this combined with a lower hit to battery life when viewing the video. Pushing the new, faster and more efficient version of the Flash player out to more handsets is a big move for Adobe to bring more popularity to website using Flash technology. Users might not necessarily choose a devices based on its Flash-playing capabilities, but it is something that those producing the devices can add to their list of features to bring more popularity.

Sony Ericsson has unveiled another addition to the Xperia line in the Xperia neo. This one is ergonomically designed to “fit perfectly in the user’s hand”. Not to qoute Neo from the Matrix and say “Whoa”. Taking photographs with it is said to be super easy.

It features Exmore R technology for perfect pictures in any condition you find yourself in. It also has a reality display with the Mobile BRAVIA Engine and HDMI output. Gingerbread (Android 2.3) is running the show and you get access to over 100,000 apps from the Android Market. The phone comes preloaded with the usual Google services that you know and love. Nothing on price yet, but we know that the Xperia neo will be available at the end of Q1.