Rejoice, the satnav fairy brings you blessings! For those of you in the lands of Google Maps Navigation and 1.6 or higher device have probably been using Google’s own turn-by-turn navigation. If not, you should. Only last month they added new functionality for a bunch of European countries and Canada in addition to the already [...]
Aircell is one of the world’s leading provider of inflight connectivity, aims to carve a nice, big smile on your face if you are a frequent flier who cannot live without Internet connectivity even if you’re flying up in the air. Most airlines still do not offer Wi-Fi connectivity outside of the US while you’re [...]
Up until now if you were a contractor or in some other type of work that would be tough on your phones you were limited to a very few “dumb” phones to accomplish your tasks. Well thanks to Motorola and Sprint those days are coming to a close. With the introduction of the Motorola I1 [...]
Well, well…what have we here? I’ve just received an email from Barnes and Noble asking me to (for a limited time only) start my eReader collection for free by downloading several books from their classic collection. This, of course, is not news in and of itself, but upon scrolling down to the bottom of the [...]
It was by no means easy for Android hackers to break down the walls surrounding the HTC Droid Incredible, but the task was accomplished. If the whole process of rooting your Incredible the old-fashioned way is just a bit too much to wrap your head around, Unrevoked has now made their one-click root method functional [...]
Google CFO Patrick Pichette said the Android operating system is not material in answer to a financial analyst’s question about how the company sees its investment in the platform paying dividends. “Android is not material to the company,” Pichette said on the second quarter earnings call July 16, noting that Google had no hand in the launch [...]
Astute reader Dominic was just minding his business, hunting for hints in the Droid Does website source code, when what should he allegedly discover but an entire Droid 2 spread inside an Shockwave Flash file. To our knowledge these may be the first official images of the Motorola A955, though of course we’ve already seen it [...]
Sony Ericsson finally seems to be on the right track. The mobile phone maker earlier Friday reported its second quarterly net profit in a row following several quarters of falling market share and heavy losses, helped by cost cuts and successful launches of new premium phones. The handset vendor recently ramped up its high-end presence [...]
Apple’s Friday press conference may have left a bad taste in some rival handset manufacturer’s mouths, but not all of them are taking Cupertino’s derision of their devices seriously — HTC’s Droid Eris was arguably the most affected by the grip of doom, its bars dropping to zilch when held, but the Taiwanese company’s keeping [...]
Interestingly enough, the country that first had froyo pre-installed on new Nexus Ones still doesn’t have access to paid apps on the Android Market. A statement issued by Google stated quite clearly that Korea was to receive paid apps, was taken off their blog an hour later. Many users and media outlets were left confused, [...]
One of our sources working in the cellphone industry sent us this photo of the HTC Wildfire being used for a current in-house Bell Canada Promotion for agents that clearly displays the HTC Wildfire in a current promotional Ad.While their has been no official announcement of the HTC Wildfire coming to Bell Canada this photo [...]
Google’s open-source phone platform has plenty of quality free apps for your phone. Google’s Android OS is now a major player in the smartphone world. The Motorola Droid was the hot phone when we first released our “Top 100 Free Apps For Your Phone” list in 2009. Now we’re seeing “super phones” like the HTC [...]
In the early days of Android, most devices featured the same 528 MHz ARM11 Qualcomm processor and their performance levels were pretty comparable. It was not until Verizon launched the Motorola Droid that we began to see the next generation of chipsets being used, which offered new features like enhanced graphics processors. Fast forward to [...]
Just when the Behold II begins to disappear from our minds and it seems that T-Mo and Samsung are going to satisfy the outcry of their customers, another bombshell falls. And yes there has been another explosion. there was a promise to push out an update, and they did…well kind of. The update that began [...]
Some pretty scary/neat stuff, actually. Verizon Wireless made two terrific videos. The first one was a teaser, and was released the day before the Droid X launch. The second is the ending for the teaser. If you haven’t watched the first one, I recommend doing so before the finale. Amazing marketing on the part of Verizon Wireless. [...]
Android Police have unboxed the Samsung Vibrant, and they’ve even managed to compare it to the Samsung Captivate. Another device in the Galaxy S lineage, launching on AT&T. As we are all already aware, there are many similarities between both devices. They both have a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, and mostly the same specifications. But, [...]
Now that it is commonplace for Android devices to have fast processor on fast systems-on-a-chip with great graphics processing, we should be seeing great 3D games for Android, right? If you look in the Market, such games are few and far between. So where are they hiding? Recently, Gameloft, maker of many successful games for [...]
The Android-powered HTC desire will be hitting TELUS soon. Yesterday we found hidden prices in the source code of the TELUS Desire web page… but today we’ve got a retail inventory screenshot of the 3-year contract price. How does $79.99 sound to you? If this is the actual price that TELUS will be releasing the [...]
Everyone loves a good benchmark, right? Benchmarks are great, but they tell you anything about real world usage. For example, the Nexus One running 2.2 blows everything else away in benchmark tests because of Froyo’s great JIT compiler. We have heard that the 1 GHz Hummingbird in the Samsung Galaxy S phones is the best [...]
The Motorola Droid. No single other phone can be touted as the “Bringer of Android to the Masses” more than this one. Verizon launched an amazing marketing campaign before and during the launch of this phone. There were more units sold in the first 74 days than with the original iPhone (1.05 million vs 1 [...]
According to AndroLib, the Market has over 100,000 apps. Unfortunately, Google disputes this in their earnings call, saying there are about 70,000 apps. Regardless, this is up from 30,000 in April. I would still say that it is quite impressive growth. To put this in perspective, it took from October 2008 until April of this [...]
It’s no surprise that Google makes buckets of money in advertising revenue. Everywhere you look these days you see a Google Ads section on a website. And although Google says that they’re focused on developing the Android platform for the sake of contributing to the good of the smartphone world, it must have crossed their [...]
Is it possible that the new Dell Streak will be in stores next week? Well, Engadget is reporting exactly that. We might just see the Dell Streak in AT&T Stores as early as next week. Rumor has it that AT&T has corporate stores locked down and have put up a new product display and have [...]
Want streaming video of the hot ladies from BabesChatLive? Head to http://mikandi.com/splashPage.php and check out all they have to offer. The app comes from MiKandi and is the first live video sex chat app for Android. You will get strreaming video over 3G and Wi-Fi connections and you can get this app FREE from the [...]
Knocking Live Video today announced that over 2 million users are broadcasting live video between iPhone and Android devices as the company expands its business by adding several veteran media executives. Ty Braswell, a former Sony Corp. and Virgin Records executive is joining Knocking’s advisory board along with David Honig, an early investor in Aviary, UrbanDaddy, and [...]
Official Word from Google. Update: Nexus One changes in availability Earlier this year, we announced that we will be closing the Nexus One web store. This week we received our last shipment of Nexus One phones. Once we sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be available online from Google. Customer support will [...]
There’s no special engineering going on here, just an Andriod app and an extreme case of cleverness. If you own a Samsung Galaxy S, you can download Samsung’s custom Android app called Road SMS. It’s a simple text messaging program, but instead of the dull metallic backdrop of your average mobile OS, Road SMS pipes a [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs led a news conference today to explain what he’s now dubbed “Antennagate” — and he called out a couple of other smartphones to show that the iPhone 4 isn’t the only one to drop signal strength when held. On the Android side, Apple chose the HTC Droid Eris, which has since been replaced [...]
Vlingo continues to improve its voice-activated apps and the Android version will now include a “SuperDialer” to make calling easier. Vlingo SuperDialer is sort of like the Genius button on the myTouch 3G Slide on steroids: tap the widget and then tell it what you want to call. Voice dialing is nothing new but this [...]
A couple of days ago, there were rumors about an OTA update for the Droid Incredible, which would arrive on July 16th. There were plenty of people out there saying it was just a rumor and nothing more, but it looks like the naysayers have been silenced: the update is real. Droid-Life is reporting that [...]
The folks over at Qik have announced that they will continue to allow the free use of premium services through the month of September. They acknowledge their “rocky start” and in return are throwing all of us using the HTC Evo 4G a bone: Heya Android Qikkers – with the launch of the new Android client and [...]
Okay beta testers, it’s time to check out another Android application. This time it’s for a social music service called Rdio (pronounced r-dee-o). If you haven’t heard of the service, that’s alright. Neither did we until this week. Looking at their website, we learn that Rdio plans to help change the way we discover and [...]
The unrEVOked team has released a one click root/recovery tool for the Droid Incredible that makes the process pretty seamless. Well, once you have proper drivers and other prep steps taken care of that is. So while we had a few minutes today (sounds weird on the Droid X launch day right?) we decided to [...]
Gameloft, a world leader in downloadable games for all platforms announced that Let’s Golf HD will be available for free download on HTC EVO 4G and Nexus One smartphones. Let’s Golf HD, as well as Gameloft’s other HD games on Android, take full advantage of the impressive touch screen and processing power of the HTC [...]
Take this as you will now (the HP/Palm merger is already complete, and none of these companies are ever going to fess up to losing a bidding war) but Business Insider is claiming to have an inside scoop on how the bidding war for Palm went down — and which companies lost out in the [...]
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