I guess Sunday wasn’t soon enough! The Motorola XOOM has only been out in its 3G+Wi-Fi flavor for a month, but the Wi-Fi one just couldn’t wait to show itself. The pic above is from my brother, who couldn’t wait until Sunday and nagged a few local Staples stores until one broke under the geek [...]
Color Photo-Sharing App Makes it Social The latest craze for apps is to be socially active in group settings. Color, an app available on iPhone and Android that shares photos with other users within a 150ft radius of you, is no different. The free app was released Wednesday and they were given $41 million to make [...]
Pulse is the most fun RSS reader out there. It beautifies what is usually miles of text that you quickly look at, then determine if you want to click to see more. When Pulse first hit, it pretty much revitalized RSS reading! 2.0 brings updates to enhance your experience even more. Now you can have [...]
Motorola Xoom Makes April Appearance at Cellular South Get ready to Xoom on over to your nearest store, Cellular South has recently announced they will be carrying the Motorola Xoom. No actual launch date as of yet, but they will be selling the Xoom for $599.99 when purchasing the Mi-Fi data package. Along with the [...]
HTC Thunderbolt: Can’t Turn 4G Off? Some Solutions As mentioned in Engadget’s previous review, there’s no option provided in the settings to switch off 4G (Fourth Generation) (LTE (Long Term Evolution)) and force the phone to operate solely on 3G (EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized)). I am with AT&T, and I heard a lot of talk about [...]
If you have AT&T and you are one of the millions or tried to get Angry Birds Rio or one of many other games from the new Amazon App Store this week, then you already know that the Amazon App Store does not support AT&T since they block installation of all third-party apps (non-Android Market). [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab on Rogers for $149.99 With the latest wave of tablets headed to Canada in the coming weeks, Future Shop has began offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab for the reduced price of $149.99. Is this a static price or will this be a limited offer? That remains unknown, but for now if your [...]
HTC isn’t happy with only having a 7 inch tablet that runs Android 2.4. No, the Taiwan based company, like most Android tablet manufacturers, wants to lead the charge of the infant Android tablets. The two new tablets set to release mid-2011 will most likely feature larger screens than the current Flyer that hasn’t been [...]
Today the Samsung Mesmerize is the latest phone in the Galaxy S lineup to finally receive its Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) update. Now everyone rocking a Mesmerize on US Cellular can now take advantage of the new update with the full Adobe Flash support, tethering, and a load more features. To upgrade your device, head over [...]
Got Samsung Galaxy Tab? Getting Honeycomb Sooner than you Think The people over at XDA Developers have done some amazing things, such as hacking, porting operating systems, and a whole load of other things. Now user Spacemoose1 seems to have a fully working port of Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb) almost ready to go. You [...]
Samsung Pushing the Tablet Envelope Looks like Samsung is taking this tablet thing very seriously. Despite showing off the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 both running Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb), which also the thinnest tablets, Samsung has decided not to rest on their laurels. Samsung Moves Ahead on LCD and Display Technology Showing off [...]
Motorola DROID X to Get Android 2.3 Upgrade? The title is exactly what it is. According to our friends over at Droid-Life the Motorola Droid X will start to receive Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread) starting Sunday (for Business users) and to everyone else the following week. This is very sudden but according to one tweet [...]
Xperia X10 Gingerbread Is More Than A Pleasant Surpirse Sony had previously stated that the popular Xperia X10 would not receive an update past Android 2.1, The AT&T model is till running 1.6 and that is a travesty for such a capable device. Its not so pleasant to hear about an exciting new app head over to [...]
Analysts Say AT&T to Divest Piece of T-Mobile to Sprint While it seems likely that AT&T is purchasing T-Mobile, at least in part, to block Sprint from doing the same, analysts are suggesting that the deal may actually put part of T-Mobile in Sprint’s hands. According to a research note from Citadel Securities on March [...]
HTC Incredible S Will Have Locked Bootloader and Recovery Image HTC Incredible S: Hands off that Bootloader Custom ROM aficionados will have to add the HTC Incredible S to the ever-growing list of Android devices whose bootloaders are signed and locked. Like the Motorola Droid 2 and Droid X, Milestone and Atrix 4G, and the HTC G2 [...]
Motorola XOOM at Costco A lot of people have been waiting for a Wi-Fi only Android tablet since they first started coming out, and it looks like Sunday is the day for the Motorola XOOM. Even though the Samsung Galaxy Tab came out first, it looks like Moto is coming out of the gate for [...]
Samsung Nexus S Goes Global Google has revealed that their original 3G version of the Samsung Nexus S has just been launched in 17 more countries. In addition to the US and the UK, Ireland, Australia and the majority of the European continent have received the Nexus S. This comes shortly after Google announced the [...]
Alltel Announces Pre-orders for HTC Merge The HTC Merge has had some hype behind it. Maybe not as much as the HTC Thunderbolt, thank god, but the Merge was originally rumored to launch back on November 18th for Verizon. Since then this phone was rumored for this spring with Alltel and now it’s finally back [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook Gets Android App Love It has been rumored for some time that RIM would enable the BlackBerry PlayBook to run Android apps, and with this latest announcement its official. The ability for the PlayBook to run Android apps is a major asset as their new platform will definitely be lacking in specific apps when released. [...]
Wish you could call and text people while 30,000+ feet in the air while stuck on an airplane? ASiQ has your solution with a new app being developed caled SafeCell to enable calling and texting all over Bluetooth. ASiQ Limited Australia announced this past Monday the release of the Android version of SafeCell, the world’s [...]
Google has stated for sometime that they would focus more on the UI elements of Android and eliminate the need for many OEM UI customizations. With Android 3.0 Honeycomb the tablet version of the OS the UI has received a major revamp, and has an elegant 3D interface that stays consistent throughout. At a recent [...]
Commercials certainly have a way of getting stuck in our heads. I’m sure when most people hear the company name “Carfax” they think of the carfox from their popular tv spots. But who needs a fox when you have an Android? Carfax has just announced they now have a “Carfax for dealers” app in the [...]
Steam coming to Android? That would certainly bring the games! Steam is an online distribution “store” where you can download games on your PC or Mac. They have such notable games as Half-Life and Portal. They are a staple in computer based gaming, and would make perfect sense on Android. While it’s completely set in [...]
If you don’t know, VLC is a high quality media player. An Android version of VLC could be released as early as April, according to VLC developer Rémi Duraffort, who told German website Handy-Sparen.de that “most of the components are working but we must work to make them fit together.” Duraffort told the site [...]
Xperia Play Gets A Beautiful Exclusive Title Gameloft has announced an exclusive game for the up and coming Xperia Play. The game is set in the 18th century, a tale of revenge on a Caribbean Island. Gameloft tells us that BackStab will have a mixture of action and adventure with an open free roaming 3D [...]
Galaxy S II Hands On Video Gotta love phone demos. Samsung’s Galaxy S II has been caught on video by the team over at gagadet whom were able to snag a pre-production model of the dual core beast(code named, Seine). Mind you it isn’t in english, but if your like me, just the visual [...]
Samsung Denies Recent Galaxy Tab Price Cut Rumor Recent rumors state that Samsung has a stockpile of Galaxy Tabs and that the 3 million units it sold since launch last year haven’t been enough to get the device out of overstocked warehouses. Samsung spokesman James Chung states that these stockpiles and the idea of [...]
The T-Mobile G2x Superphone Heading To T-Mobile The LG G2x is the T-Mobile version of the Tegra 2 powered Optimus 2x and it boast stellar performance numbers. The good news is it will utilize 14Mbs HSPA+ network that T-Mobile likes to call 4G. They introduced the handset at CTIA running on Android 2.2 Froyo, it [...]
Despite some current commercials that try to say Apple has the only phone with your music and books on it, iPhone does one up Android in that it can edit video on the device. That is, until muvee strikes a deal with a phone manufacturer willing to pre-load their device with muvee’s video editing software. [...]
A number of users over at the XDA Developers forum have stated that Kies, the desktop software for Samsung devices is currently being updated. The updates are supposedly rolling out to owners of the Samsung Galaxy phones. The rumors along with this is that the updated Kies is being put into action so that the [...]
A few weeks ago you may remember that the Oscars was all over the TV, not that i pay much attention to it although i was glad to see The Kings Speech picked up a few awards. You may also remember that Motorola in a rather great bit of PR handed out a Motorola Xoom to [...]
Sidekick 4G news from CTIA. T-Mobile’s upcoming Samsung Sidekick 4G is an Android 2.2 Froyo messaging-centric phone. Samsung and T-Mobile worked together in designing this phone so that it would retain styling of the older Sidekick-branded phones, but still be contemporary. You will soon be able to grab this phone for $99.99 (after $50 mail-in [...]
Fresh after the news from Sprint that there is a successor to the Evo phone, a new ad appears. The ad is for the much anticipated Evo 3D, and the promo itself boasts the new devices 3D recording and playback capabilities. How come the ad itself isn’t in 3D? CTIA is still underway, and it [...]
The new season of F1 is just around the corner, the Australian Grand Prix is this coming weekend and theFormula 1 app is in the Android Market. Features include push notifications of every aspect of the race. You’ll also get push notifications that alert you when a race or session is about to begin,news, session [...]
Best Buy has been doing a lot of work when it comes to be the exclusive retailer in the US to carry new mobile technology. Now, another product they’re adding to their portfolio is the Wi-Fi only HTC Flyer tablet. This is the same tablet that was announced by Sprint under the name EVO View, [...]
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