Verizon Wireless reps will be busy this Veterans Day. According to a tip on DroidLife, on November 11th, Big Red will be launching three new Motorola Android devices we’ve been speculating about. Double Eleven is the day you could pick up a DROID 2 Global, a DROID Pro, or a Citrus/Ciena. Here’s a very brief [...]
Mobilicity, a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider whose name combines the words “mobility” and “simplicity” just so you know, has announced the release of the Google Nexus One. The Nexus One packs Android 2.2 Froyo, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 3.7-inch touchscreen display,and a 5.0 megapixel camera just to name a few. The initial release price without a contract [...]
HTC Desire HD is the first 4.3″ Android phone to arrive in Europe, so if you’re in Europe and you’ve been envious on Americans for having the Evo and Droid X, then this is great news for you. Desire HD will come with Android 2.2, which is to be expected by now, and will also [...]
Above is one of many soon to be hot Galaxy Tab accessories finally having some light shed upon them. Pictured is the keyboard dock for which the Galaxy can rest portrait style while you mull over which item to get next. Up until now everyone has been guessing how much they would be paying for future Samsung [...]
Smile, Drool and dig in my friends, Froyo is here in a big way for the Original (that’s right) the original My Touch 3g, many of us had this phone and it seems almost vintage now compared to what we have today. In reality the phone is not that old, I remember getting the very [...]
Canadians will soon get another very fast Android phone, after Galaxy S. This is the Desire Z and Bell Mobility has exclusivity on it. Canadians can get their hands on it starting November 3 when it launches. Desire Z will have a physical keyboard, 800 MHz new gen Snapdragon, new Adreno 205 GPU, and will [...]
HTC won’t be releasing any tablet soon, because Google has Motorola and LG on their priority list first. They will help Motorola build the first Android Gingerbread tablet, and then will help LG make the first Android Honeycomb tablet. So why is Google leaving HTC for last? Well, maybe the fact that HTC is launching [...]
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They’re in the oven! Google’s partners have been told their engineering samples of the next Android operating system will be ready for testing on tablet computers this December. And some of those partners passed this delivery date on. We still don’t know if Gingerbread will be released as Android OS 2.3, 2.5, or 3.0, but [...]
Well, what do you know! Steve Jobs used Tweetdeck’s graph yesterday at their earnings report, as proof that Android is so “fragmented” that is must be a nightmare for developers to make apps for Android, but here comes TweetDecks’s own CEO and disproves Steve Jobs’ claim. Now, everyone who’s been following Android news lately should [...]
Some info about TinkerDroid: TinkerDroid is an Android community aimed at helping others in the community answer questions. A new user can register, ask a question and seek the support of the community to help find a resolution/answer. TinkerDroid is completely user driven and supported. Answer questions for others and earn “karma points.” You can use [...]
Videotron, a Canadian integrated Telcom company, has announced that pre-orders for the Google Nexus One will begin shipping to customers starting the first week of December. The device was previously available on Videotron’s 3G network, but due to such a high demand, it quickly sold out. This left plenty of customers wondering when and if [...]
Two weeks out of the gate and T-Mobile is making a push to make sure consumers arent blindsided by the next great device in favor of their G2 smartphone. Two new ads have been released to showcase the various features of the HTC G2 and how the Android operating system is above and beyond awesome. With so many options [...]
T-Mobile hasn’t released the T-Mobile myTouch HD, but that didn’t stop someone from tracking down the ROM and releasing it into the wild. If you’d like to try the myTouch experience by sticking it onto your phone, you can find the ROM right here. I suggest if you’ve never modded your phone that you spend [...]
We now know that the Dell Streak will be released on Rogers Wireless in November. Rogers Wireless retailers will begin seeing Dummy models on their displays by the end of October, with the Streak being in stock in the early part of November. For those of you new to the Android World, the Dell Streak [...]
Everyone knows that Google Voice is a great application, but we also know its far from perfect. Us Google Voice users leap at the opportunity to install an update for the application. We always think that’s the update to fix all of our trouble. The most recent update brings with it a big feature – [...]
See that red square to the right in the photo above? That’s where the Motorola DROID 2 used to sit in this Wal-Mart display for Verizon contract phones. But the DROID 2 is no more at Wal-Mart, since their distributor, Brightstar, wants all the unsold DROID 2s back next Tuesday (the 26th of October). Other [...]
Poor Motorola DROID 2. Despite launching with the latest version of Android operating system (Android OS 2.2, or Froyo), it never got the love that its older cousin, the DROID X, received. And it turns out that the D2 is plagued by a an Exchange issue that was already fixed in the DX. Talk about [...]
Today, at the earnings call, Steve Jobs talked about how iPad is selling 4.1 millions per quarter now, which was a little less than what analysts expected, but he also ripped into upcoming tablets like Galaxy Tab and RIM’s Playbook. He thinks that since people already have a smartphone in their pockets for mobility, they [...]
Even if HTC is launching high-end phone after high-end phone, they are not forgetting about the people who can’t afford a very expensive phone in Europe, and Gratia is going to fill that need in the market, along HTC Wildfire. Gratia will have Android 2.2 Froyo, but it won’t have the new version of Sense [...]
Copilot Live is one of the most popular mobile navigation apps out there, and it’s now being offered in the Android Market for only $4.99. That’s quite an amazing price considering a couple of years ago, an app like this would’ve been sold for twice as much. Google’s own Gmap Navigation must have had a [...]
Video-calling is starting to be used by more and more people. It has real benefits and now we have the platforms and infrastructure in place to do it almost flawlessly. But there still aren’t that many video-calling apps that work across iPhone and Android. And even though there have been a couple, like Fring or [...]
I hope you read our detailed discussion of Gingerbread (the next Android operating system) that came out yesterday, because now we’ve got some real nibbles from Quentyn Kennemer at Phandroid. And what’s really cool is that many of our speculations fit right in with this first look. So we’ll discuss what seems to be baked-in to [...]
We just reported that Bell has exclusive rights to sell the HTC Desire Z in Canada. Now we have a release date, or at least a release week. Look for the Z to be zipping into into the country sometime during the second week of November. That’s the word from our tipster. The above picture [...]
Not different from most companies that have embraced Android in the last period, Sony Ericcson is showing a profitable quarter, making $68 million in profit after it lost $164 million last year. Android has helped not only Sony Ericsson, but also Motorola which was saved from bankruptcy by android. HTC has also posted record after [...]
Archos has released or is in the process of releasing five different Internet Tablets, and none of them can access Android Market. The Market could be sideloaded, but it no longer functioned with Archos’ versions of Android 2.x. But fear not! User m4rk3t at ArchosFans Support Forum has an app that should enable Android Market [...]
Ah, another blurry picture of a leaked prototype! This one supposedly bears the monicker Motorola DROID X SE. And since it was leaked by a Verizon tipster, plus the Verizon logo on the lower right, it’s definitely got the right heritage to be heading to Big Red. SE could stand for either Special or Silver [...]
Boy, the rumor mill has been working over-time churning out tidbits of information regarding the Droid 2 Global for a while now. This is one of the more confirming tips we have gotten. It seems that Verizon has information and training up on VZ-learn for their employees to complete. No hints as to a release [...]
The good folks over at XDA intercepted the latest leaked RUU for the HTC Lexikon/Merge. Now nothing new was found, we assume that BING! is still the default search engine. There was also nothing to indicate whether or not it will have the latest HTC sense that is found on the Desire Z. It is [...]
That’s Rovio Mobile’s twitter page above, maker of the smash-hit game Angry Birds. How much of a smash is it? The free Android version went live on Friday at GetJar.com, the world’s second largest app store (after iTunes). GetJar got the exclusive through a deal with Glu Mobile, where GetJar provides free, no-ad versions of [...]
Now, it has been confirmed that the Motorola Droid two has a security flaw. Although, it is the kind of flaw that will brick your phone out of the blue but it is still a pretty serious one. Apparently, even though when the phone is locked with pass codes, the voice command still works. Holding [...]
Well the wait is almost over for those of you die-hard Cliq owners. Android 2.1 is rumored to be coming in the middle of November. According to TmoNews, our friends at T-Mobile will be starting their training for the update on Nov. 7. We expect the OTA roll-out shortly there after. Finally a little love for those [...]
Earlier in the week I wrote about Sony’s Internet TV. I originally stated that the Google TV-equipped devices would be available in Best Buy stores starting October 24 but early arrivals being reported at various Best Buy stores, they could very well be available before the 24th. Gizmodo had a tipster send in some photos [...]
The Flipout is here my friends and this little compact Android Device is available starting today at AT&T Retailers. Now unless you managed to get the leaked the ones that were on Ebay, I suggest going and getting yourself this toy at an actual store now. The phone will cost $79.99 on a two-year contract, [...]
Gingerbread is the nickname for the next release of the Android operating system. Rumors have been flying all around on whether our Android smartphones can move into the Gingerbread house in time for Christmas. Supposedly the software development kit (SDK) will be released within days. Here’s what we know, what we’re speculating on, and what [...]
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