As Vodafone Spain goes, so goes Vodafone Germany, so goes… well, you see where we’re going with this. Voda’s UK branch has issued a press release trumpeting the fact that they’ll be next to sell HTC’s second Android device as of this Friday, May 1 — and as is all too often the case with these guys, you can get it for precisely zero pounds sterling depending on your plan (the lowest is a £35 deal with 600 minutes, unlimited texts, and unlimited data, though if you preorder before the …

We don’t know everywhere that the i7500’s going to land yet — the presence of AWS 3G is still giving us loads of hope that it’ll come to T-Mobile USA eventually — but one place we’re quite sure of is Germany, where O2’s local outpost has now said that it’ll launch in “the next couple of months.” That lines up nicely with what we’d been expecting prior to the phone’s announcement — so now we just need, oh, say, about 20 more announcements around the world and we’ll be good …

We know what you’re thinking: you’d love to see some video of Samsung’s very first Android device — the I7500 — but you don’t want to watch it unless the soundtrack for the clip is foreign hair metal. Well, we aim to please at Engadget, so without further ado, we present this totally bitchin’ flick of the phone in action, replete with the rockingest shred-fest this side of… wherever this band is from. Enjoy!

Anticipated for months, Samsung’s first Android phone is finally a (paper) reality after being flushed through the rumor mill just hours ago. Launching “in major European countries from June,” the 11.9-mm slim quad-band GSM, tri-band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHz) candybar packs a 3.2-inch, 320 x 480 pixel AMOLED touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, 5 megapixel camera with Power LED, 1,500mAh battery, 8GB of storage (plus MicroSD expansion for up to 32GB more), and a standard 3.5mm heasdset jack. Step aside HTC, you had your chance, let’s all welcome Samsung to the Android party. Another picture and …

Were real close to its release date! And the purchase price for this fabolous android device is ZERO dollars on a 18 month contract with vodafone. Too bad its only going to be avaiable for the people on the other side of the pond in the UK!

It’s easy to pass off the rumored Cubic as just another of the seemingly countless Sammy full-touch dumbphones and Windows Mobile smartphones, but hold up a second, there, partner — rumor has it that this might end up being one of the company’s first Android devices. If you’re wondering how the S8000 model number morphed into Cubic, the answer lies not in the cutely cubic d-pad (at least, we hope it doesn’t) but rather in the interface, which could sport the usualTouchWiz with 3D enhancements like we’ve seen on the OmniaHD. Add in HSDPA, WiFi, …