Android users will be happy to learn that after months of waiting, it has now been confirmed that Hulu Plus will be arriving on the Android platform very soon. They say it will be available on selected devices, so we hope that the selection includes a wide range.

There’s no word yet on an official launch date or a list of supported devices, but those should arrive soon enough. Your wait is almost over.

Acer has introduced two new Android-based handsets. The Liquid Mini and beTouch E210 are aimed at entry-level users and both ship with Android 2.2. The Liquid Mini features a 3.2-inch 480×320 touchscreen with a 600MHz processor and a five-megapixel camera.

The beTouch E210 has a smaller 2.6-inch touchscreen, a portrait QWERTY keyboard and a 416Mhz processor. Both are equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and FM radios. You can expect them in April and March in the UK. No pricing or plans for a North American release as yet.

Is it a tablet or a phone? Both. At CES Viewsonic has unveiled its 4-inch Android 2.2 phone, which is an obvious competitor to the Dell Streak. The phone looks like a tablet more than a phone, but it does include calling features.

Whether you call it a phone or a tablet, $549 will get a device with a 4.1-inch display, 1GHz Qualcomm processor, web browser, Swype input, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 3-megapixel front-facing camera. It’s a tabphone. Wait, it’s a Phablet!

You don’t see many radios powered by Google’s Android OS. The Asteroid by Parrot is one of the few to be powered by the Android OS and it also offers three USB ports that allow you to hook up your other devices, including a 3G card or GPS USB device.

You can play music from a variety of sources, like MP3 players or SD cards. Aside from that there’s also Parrot Maps, a service that offers turn-by-turn navigation and traffic and construction alerts. Bluetooth connectivity will give you voice dialing and hands-free calling, as well as voice-activated artist search.

Earlier today Vizio confirmed many of the details of its Rose Bowl tablet teaser. The company is getting into mobile devices and will use Android for the Via Tablet, an eight-incher with a front camera, three speakers and Wi-Fi for Internet access. There will also be a matching Via Phone which sports a four-inch display, a back five-megapixel camera and its own front camera.

We still don’t have many hardware details, but the company promised a ‘blessed’ version of Android with support for the Market. The devices won’t ship until sometime this summer, so the tablet will likely use Honeycomb (Android 2.4) or later. One carrier has been lined already but is unidentified.

HTC’s HD2 Windows Mobile phone has been a popular device for Android ports and now the Dark Forces Team’s MAGLDR 1.09 might make things easier for Android fans. The program lets Android builds be flashed directly to the NAND ROM, which is where the stock Windows Mobile build normally resides.

Current Android ports require a WinCE-based bootloader to run. MAGLDR should be released to the public in just a few days time and Windows Phone 7 should be able to be ported to the HD2 using this tool as well.

We already knew that it was coming to Korea in January. Now we have word that LG’s Tegra 2 Optimus 2X will hit Europe in January of 2011, with it’s 4-inch display and 1080p video recording capability. The news comes from a press release which talks about the inclusion of 25 audio files (including 15 custom ringtones) from film composer Ennio Morricone.

That’s right, the man who scored Sergio Leone’s “Spaghetti Westerns.” Seems like an odd partnership, but hey, those are some darn good tunes.

E FUN has begun shipping their latest Android tablet, the ‘Nextbook Next3′ in the US via HSN’s online store. The tablet is priced at $199.95 and offers an 8.4-inch 800 x 600 touchscreen display, along with 2GB of internal storage and an SD card slot.

You’ll also get WiFi, a USB 2.0 port, a 3.5mm headset jack and it runs Android 2.1 OS. The tablet also comes pre-loaded with the Borders eBook app and 25 free books for those who like to read.

Sony has announced the imminent release of its first official PlayStation app for the iOS and Android platforms. And no, this is not the mobile gaming platform Sony is reportedly working on. Some features of the PlayStation app include: Checking out your PlayStation Network trophies and keeping up to date with your friends’ games and online status. Discovering the latest games, news and hardware for your PlayStation 3, PSP and PlayStation 2. Announcements on the European PlayStation.Blog. And sharing your favorite products or news on Facebook, Twitter or through e-mail.

Sony says that the free PlayStation app will launch “very soon” for the iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices running version 1.6 or later. The app will first be available in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, with other markets to follow.

Looking for some retro gaming on your Android Smartphone? Well, you’re in luck. A new Sega Dreamcast Emulator is currently in development for the Android OS. It’s still in the early stages of development, but it shouldn’t be very long before you are playing the classics on your Android phone.

Can you believe its been 11 years since the Sega Dreamcast was first launched? It was the first console to include a built-in modem and Internet support for online play. Sadly, it was discontinued a few years later, but remains a favorite of many gamers.

ViewSonic’s brand new Android tablet, the ViewPad 7, is now available for purchase in the good old US of A via EXCaliberPC.com. This tablet will cost you $479.

You might remember that the ViewPad 7 offers a 7-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display, a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, 512MB RAM, 512MB of flash memory, a full-sized SIM card slot, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), a back-facing 3-megapixel camera, a front-facing VGA camera for video calling, a G-sensor, A-GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and it all runs on Android 2.2 Froyo.

We recently had a glimpse of the Android-powered Motorola tablet and now someone over in Taiwan claims to have the device, and they have shared a screenshot of a 3D live wallpaper.

According to the source, it will have a 7-inch version and a 10-inch version with the latter being the one we’ve seen already. The device in the picture above supposedly features a 1280 x 800 pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 T20 dual-core chip, gyroscope, 5-megapixel camera, 2-megapixel front-facing camera, 32GB embedded MMC and a microSD card slot.

According to DigiTimes, three new Toshiba tablets are set for their debut at CES in a month. Two of them feature 10.1-inch screens and the third sports 11.6 inches. They each have a different os: Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Google’s Chrome OS and Android.

I guess Toshiba wants to see which one wins the hearts of consumers. At least you will have your OS of choice. We will learn more in a few weeks.

Samsung has announced an interesting handset in China, the W899. This flip phone features Android 2.2 along with dual Super AMOLED touchscreens on the flip portion. Each screen is 3.3 inches and has the same 480×800 resolution.

There’s also the hardware keypad, a 5-megapixel camera that can record 720p videos and in China, it supports both CDMA/EVDO and GSM networks. Then there’s Wi-Fi, a GPS sensor and a microSD card slot.

Not every Android-powered device out there has the latest firmware update. Sometimes that’s due to carrier or hardware restrictions. Now the stats are in and according to the Android Market, Android 2.0 or higher is already on 83 percent of all Android devices with Android 2.2 Froyo already installed on over 43 percent of all Android devices.

That’s up 10 percent since October. Not bad at all. Older versions of Android like 1.5 and 1.6 are still around, but you can expect the share to slowly shrink. With Android 2.3 and 3.0 coming, we hope this chart will be updated soon with those versions.