The Financial Times last month reported that HTC would be opening their own smartphone app store. Fresh job postings on the HTC website appear to substantiate this rumor. Initially it was reported that HTC’s app store would include staff from Taiwan, but currently their job site includes a considerable number of U.S. openings focused on e-commerce. [...]
Check out Motorola’s website and get in on all the tablet excitement. Sign up there to be the first to find out about their new tablet, which according to the countdown is 15 days away. Let’s see that will put us at January 5th, 2011. Too late for a Christmas gift, but a terrific opening [...]
The smartphone battleground is more open that ever before, and it seems as though each handset has got one thing that it does a little better than all of its competitors. But there is no runaway market leader, and everybody you ask will offer a slightly different opinion on which handset is best. The Samsung [...]
A word from one of our partner sites… The HTC Desire is a smartphone that uses the Android operating system and is supplied with Android 2.2, which is also known as Froyo. The processor is the ARM Snapdragon and runs at 1 GHz, which is twice as fast as most smartphone processors. This means that [...]
Just as Android smartphones have been giving the Apple iPhone a run for its money, the same can be said for the brewing rivalry between the iPad and current and future tablets running Android OS. With more and more Android devices being announced each week, the Apple empire, along with other tablet makers, is facing extreme [...]
While most Android devices have yet to officially or unofficially get their first taste of Android 2.3, Gingerbread, the people over at XDA Developers have just released a ROM for the HTC HD2. What’s significant about this is the fact that the HD2 is a Windows Mobile phone. The ROM is based off the the [...]
Another device has received some Gingerbread love and it’s the one that started the madness: the OG Motorola Droid. It has multiple ROMs available and people are impressed by the performance they are receiving. There are options that include Google Apps and some without. As always, remember that modding your phone could lead to bricking [...]
UK Android consumers will have to wait 2 extra days to get their hands on the new Samsung Nexus S. The device will now see its launch on December 22nd instead of the original release date of Dec. 20th. The reason for the delay, limited supplies for both Carphone Warehouse and at Best Buy outlets [...]
Trillian chat is out and ready to help you keep track of your busy social life! Trillian has been around since 2000 but has just been released for Android. Don’t go thinking this is some quick port job; Trillian has been redone from the ground up to take advantage of all that Android has to [...]
Notion Ink promised that they will show a video of their Adam tablet every day till CES, so here they are with a new video today, where it seems they are starting with the basics of their Eden UI. When Notion Ink first unveiled their tablet’s UI on Saturday, the general reactions were positive, but [...]
The Consumer Electronics show is just around the corner and we’re sure to see plenty of great Android-related gadgets. Among those devices will be plenty of tablets. Earlier this year, NEC released their Cloud Communicator Android tablet in Japan. The tablet features a 7-inch resistive-touch display with a resolution of 800 x 480, a 600 [...]
Zynga, the makers of Farmville, Frontierville, and ZyngaPoker have announced that Mafia Wars will be coming to Android this month. Mafia Wars has been a very popular game on Facebook  (21 million users) and was the winner of the 2009 Webby Award for gaming. It looks like Zynga as finally decided that Android is too [...]
Today we got a new video. Pretty good news, showing off a lot of features we have already seen but that isn’t too bad. Just a few new things, but I want this, it is a great looking UI. Back in October 2010 this was posted about EDEN: I could see the excitement in your [...]
According to a study by The Wall Street Journal of 101 apps they looked, at 56 of them divulged unique IDs to third party companies without the user’s permission. This practice takes place not only with Android apps, but also iPhone apps. Believe it or not, 47 of the apps studied actually sent your phone’s location! Five [...]
Google will again push the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to their cherished Nexus One smartphone first within the coming weeks. Oh thanks Google, as a Nexus One owner I just can’t wait to get Gingerbread. Did you just hit the software update button? Patience is a virtue, and for those of you that wish to [...]
Now we know that Motorola’s upcoming tablet with Honeycomb (Android 2.4) is going to be shown at CES, because Motorola just amazed everyone with a short teaser video that has great music and describes the evolution of “tablets” from thousands of years ago until now. In the video you will find funny remarks such as [...]
We heard that the Android Market would be getting a makeover, and now it’s finally ready for your Android device. If you haven’t noticed the update yet, it should be showing by the end of December, as long as your Android runs 1.6 OS or higher. You can’t do this yourself, it will push onto [...]
Verizon is going for a big 4G push in 2011, and so far has just been warming up with their initial deployment of the 4G LTE network and data plans for laptops. In 2011 we’ll see a lot of other kind of devices taking advantage of their network, with the most important being phones and [...]
Loopt is a GPS enabled app that helps you find friends, deals, and night life near you. There recent update to version 4.0.1 has brought some new features for Loopt users. They have also Streamlined the app to make it easier to find friends near-by. A couple of the new features are notifications that inform [...]
We know how Netflix has been complaining of lack of DRM at the OS level in Android (as if that’s a bad thing) and they said will only bring their app to certain devices, where the manufacturers themselves can offer them strong DRM protection. Well, that’s fine, because it seems Google wants to start being [...]
Google TV officially launched just a few short months ago with devices available from Sony and Logitech. While early reviews were mixed, (Nilay Patel of Engadget said, “Google TV feels like an incomplete jumble of good ideas only half realized, a unoptimized box of possibility that suffers under the weight of its own ambition and [...]
Imagine that your wireless carrier started charging you a monthly rate to access YouTube or use Skype. Sounds like the end of Net Neutrality, doesn’t it? However, if this report via Engadget is correct, that’s exactly what might be on the way. At a marketing webinar hosted by Allot Communications and Openet, it was suggested [...]
The more that today’s smartphones progress, the more they the large touchscreens become the focus, and the more delicate fragile devices they are. Motorola is combating that with tough phones meant to stand up to the abusive of normal uses and even on places like a construction site you no longer have to baby your [...]
It may not seem like big news now that Gingerbread — and to a lesser extent Honeycomb — has been announced, but if you’ve been stuck on Android 2.1 or earlier for a while, any news about an OS update is good news. According to Sprint, owners of the Intercept should start seeing Android 2.2 [...]
Adam G from XDA Developers has recently dropped Gingerbread Oxygen 2.0, a Gingerbread ROM for the HTC Desire. While the ROM is still pre-beta, it’s said to be very stable with virtually everything working save for some slight graphical issues. Everything is expected to be buttoned up once the Nexus One gets its official 2.3 [...]
The much anticipated rumor of Telus mobility bringing the HTC Desire HD to Canada has come true. Although Telus announced the Desire was coming it gave no specific launch date, possibly in January or February 2011. The Desire HD presents HSPA, GPS, WiFi, 4.3 inch WVGA SLCD multi-touch display, Dolby Mobile sound, 8 MP dual-flash camera with [...]
According to mobile news site YouMobile, the Samsung Galaxy S series of devices will be getting the Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade sometime in February 2011. This news comes after a recent post on Twitter by someone with Samsung Mobile India, who said that the devices would indeed receive the upgrade. I know what you’re thinking, Gingerbeard is awesome. I [...]
It appears the Froyo update is behind the problems with the Bell Samsung Vibrant, and Samsung Canada is temporarily pulling it as a download from Kies. The Samsung Galaxy(aka Vibrant) from Bell Mobility is having an excessive rate of breakdown with the internal SD storage. Many Vibrant owners saw their SD card become unreadable, unmountable, [...]
Not yet Gingerbread (Android 2.3), but tons of bug fixes are coming your way for Motorola DROID 2. It will fix those nasty bugs, and boost device performance. This will be a fairly large update at 15.6 MB, and ought to be version 2.4.330. Here’s a list of enhancements you can look forward to courtesy [...]
We all know the excitement when a new version of Android is released, especially within the developer community. They just can’t wait to hack it on to as many devices as they can manage. Developer supercurio of XDA Developers managed to get a gingerly (no pun intended) working build of Gingerbread (Android 2.3) running on [...]
Gingerbread has been on the mind of Android fans ever since the statue went up at The Google Complex in November. However, the SDK wasn’t released until Dec. 16th along with the also long anticipated Samsung Nexus S, Google’s new lead device. The average user was left looking at a couple of months wait for [...]
Nowadays you don’t see quite often a company that will update all its Android phones. It seems  HTC wants to take that roll, and at least update the phones that were launched this year. After updating all their high-end phones to Android 2.2, and recently the mid-end one HTC Legend, it’s now Aria’s turn to [...]
Next month at CES 2011 NEC will introduce a dual-touchscreen version in their LifeTouch series of tablets now out in Japan. If you like touch screens, how about two 7-inch ones that can run separate tasks on both screens at the same time! We can’t say how the screens will be arranged until we can [...]
The news has been rolling in like crazy about the LG 2X. Â Now we get a yet another piece of great information. Â A very reliable source has said that the LG 2X will drop on T-Mobile. Â The NVIDIA dual-core processor toting super-phone will make a fast and great addition to T-Mobiles line-up. Â We have no [...]
Not long ago Google launched it’s Google T.V. project without much fan fare. For those “in the know” it is a very very cool idea. The internet on your T.V. with Google search to pull up listings and videos via the web of what every it is you want to watch. Unfortunately Google T.V. quickly [...]
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