Bell Canada’s Motorola ATRIX ushers in a new era in mobile Computing Introduction Today we will review the Motorola Atrix from Bell Canada that was released earlier this spring. This phone its one of the world’s first dual-core Android Smartphones. Motorola has put together a fine device that anyone shopping for new phone must [...]
Verizon to Issue Software Update for HTC Thunderbolt, 3G and Messaging Fixes As we continue to marvel at Verizon’s 4G/LTE woes, at least we catch them doing the sensible thing and fixing the 3G connectivity problems on their first 4G smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt. There were big problems switching from 4G to 3G during the [...]
How Does The Acer Iconia A500 Stack Up To The Competition? The Acer Iconia A500 is one of the four different Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets available in the market today and more are on the way. It contains the same baseline hardware of the other options being a 1 Ghz dual core Tegra 2 and [...]
Sony hops on the Honeycomb tablet bandwagon in a big way Sony is one of those companies that is beginning to benefit from using Android in terms of market share and seems to have jumped aboard the Android train for the long haul. Enter the S1 and S2 Honeycomb tablets that have shown up on [...]
News just in thanks to globaldirectparts.com, reseller of OEM parts for smartphones and tablets. By some freak, they’re selling replacement parts for a phone that hasn’t even been officially announced yet! A replacement LCD and digitizer assembly for the Motorola Droid 3 appeared yesterday on their site, and while it gives quite a few hints [...]
Who’s ZTE? Not sure if many of you know about ZTE. A Chinese company known for making smartphones and tablets for the Eastern Hemisphere. Well it looks they want to bring their expertise over to the other side of the globe. Their goal? To become one of the top 5 Android manufacturers in North America. [...]
I, just like all of you, have been waiting ever so patiently for Netflix to debut on Android. Well we have our hopes fulfilled…soft of. Netflix is going to be streaming your way courtesy of the LG Revolution on Verizon. Androidcentral forum user, nick1020, was able to snag a photo from an official “Your Guide” book [...]
Some pictures just surfaced showing off the top half of what looks to be the Droid 3. I say top half because it should be a slider of course, following in line. But there are some weird things about it that confuse us. One is that it is rather early for these to be showing [...]
HTC Kingdom Its full steam ahead for HTC. Not content to rest on its Evo 3D/Sensation laurels it seems HTC is working on a few new devices for our consumer torment. 911 Sniper got their hands on a few leaked pics for two unknown HTC phones. The picture you see above is for the HTC [...]
Motorola Q1 Earning Call Today Motorola held their Q1 earnings call and spoke directly about the delays to the Droid Bionic its improved features and gave details about the Xoom’s 4G LTE upgrade. Also discussed were actual number of Xooms thats have shipped and their plans for the summer. It’s some pretty interesting news so lets get [...]
Previously when benchmark tests on the Samsung Galaxy S2 were taken they barely touched 3,000 in Quadrant. One of the first proud and luck customer to own the Galaxy S2 (which was launched yesterday), received an enormous score of 3,500! The owner’s average scores were over the 3,300 range, which is extremely amazing. No word has been [...]
The picture above is taken from Adobe’s website. You might notice in big letters it says T-mobile on the screen, and what you eagle-eyed readers may notice is the little Samsung Galaxy S2 also being their. While this is nowhere near proof that T-Mobile is getting the Samsung Galaxy S2 (its more than likely [...]
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) has been out for a bit now, and now little crumbs are starting to leak out for everyone. Now the Samsung Epic 4G’s Gingerbread build has been leaked and is now rooted and ready to be flashed to your device. But with every leaked ROM there is bound to be bugs, [...]
fring Gives us Cross-Platform Video Group Chat fring a mobile communication service has done it again, bringing the world’s 1st Group Video Calling with version 3.01.5 for Android and version 5.0.0.52 for the iPhone. You can now keep in touch with up to four people via video across Android phones and iPhone/iPod/iPad. Readily available via [...]
Motorola Mobility released their Q1 results yesterday, and while less than impressive it shows that improvements have been made. Revenues are up, losses are down, shipments are up and they are beginning to accumulate some cash at the end of their balance sheet. From the Moto Mobility Investor website: First Quarter Financial Highlights Net revenues [...]
The Boost Mobile Samsung Galaxy Prevail won’t stack up very well against it’s Galaxy siblings, but if you are looking for a low point of entry for an Android device this phone looks like a deal. Boost Mobile is a Pre-Pay carrier that is owned by Sprint and they are known for their low plan [...]
Verizon Removes Newest Samsung Droid Charge Ad, Where Did We See This Before? Verizon released a new Samsung Droid Charge ad, but I can’t share it with you. It’s been pulled, no doubt along with the phone itself. The Droid Charge was supposed to be released yesterday, but its launch was quietly aborted. There’s no mention [...]
Get Ready for Video Chat on Your Nexus S with Android 2.3.4 Update! Yesterday we told you that Google had announced Video Chat for Google Talk Mobile, which would be delivered with the Android OS 2.3.4 update, and that the Samsung Nexus S would get it first. At the time we thought it would be [...]
Seattle T-Mobile Stores Issue $1000 Speed Challenge: Galaxy S 4G Faster than iPhone This weekend, Seattle T-Mobile stores are challenging iPhone owners to take on their Samsung Galaxy S 4G in a download speed test. If your iPhone, on either Verizon or AT&T, can beat the Galaxy S 4G in 2 out of 3 [...]
Android OS 2.3.4 Update Going to Nexus S within a few Weeks, Provides Video & Voice Chat Google introduced voice and video chat for GMail way back in November 2008. Today, Google announces that they’re going to start rolling Google Talk with video and voice chat out to Android devices. First to get it? Of [...]
Despite CTIA Claims and Product Specs, T-Mobile’s G2X Can’t do HSPA+ on AT&T Frequencies Well, color us disappointed. Looks like AT&T isn’t the only one making claims they shouldn’t have about HSPA+ service. The highly regarded T-Mobile G2X smartphone has failed to deliver one of its touted capabilities: it actually cannot do HSPA+ on all [...]
Inevitable? Yes. While most companies will highlight the games, the rich content and apps available for a tablet there is no denying that the same people also want to make their tablets friendly for the productive types as. Apple has a keyboard, but with Asus releasing the Transformer this is the first tablet to [...]
So there have been several Samsung Galaxy S II handsets floating about in the ether lately, mostly for reviewers. Lucky for us, XDA user Rawat got his hands on one and wasted no time extracting some goodies to share with the Android community. For your enjoyment, he’s released two live wallpapers which would otherwise have [...]
To all of our delight, the specs of the next generation of Snapdragon processors are here. Specs: More Than Snappy The soon-to-be models are the MSM8270, MSM8930, MSM8960, and APQ8064. All of these are based on Qualcomm’s impressive Krait CPU architecture. 28 nanometers and speeds of up to 2.5 GHz, which will of course be [...]
4G is great when it’s allowed to go full speed ahead. Sadly though AT&T haven’t allowed this to happen at present with data speed caps and a promised update that seems to be seeming ever less likely to be released as promised in April. Thankfully though the wonderful people over at XDA Developers have come [...]
Samsung is officially launching the Galaxy S II today and expects to ship the Galaxy S II on over 140 carriers in 120 countries worldwide, though UK sales of the dual-core Android smartphone did kick off in the UK yesterday. The subject of a huge Media Day in Korea this morning, There’ll be various NFC [...]
How Can Android be a Dumbphone Well, Android phones can’t technically be dumb phones, but with some low-end devices coming soon, low-priced Android devices may become a reality. You’ve probably seen the LG Optimus One, considering it was released on almost EVERY carrier in some form or another. And it wasn’t just released as part [...]
It seems like everyone wants a piece of the Android pie these days. Acer wants to jump in as well, and they are doing so with the Iconia smartphone. Some months back, at the Mobile World Congress, AndroidCentral review this device with a hands on. Now, it is in the hands of the FCC awaiting [...]
On Tuesday, we reported on the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet which is scheduled for release in July, and we’ve previously covered their upcoming Skylight Slate and LePad 2 tablets, but it appears the Chinese heavy hitter have yet another Android tablet up their sleeves. The above leaked Powerpoint slide confirms the release dates we reported for the [...]
The Motorola XOOM has only been out for about 2 months, and it looks like the second update is already on its way. The first one was basically bug fixes and enabling support for Flash 10.2 which came out only a few days after that update. It looks like the focus on the second update [...]
“New” Droid Bionic Arriving This Summer We reported earlier today that the Droid Bionic was being removed from the Motorola website as proof that it may in fact be cancelled. There have been countless rumors, however the one with the most credibility is about the Bionic being delayed because of performance issues. Motorola then announced it [...]
Intomobile was able to come upon some good news for all you Canadians. Rogers, one of Canada’s major carriers, has released some very interesting news. They would expand their network to 4g LTE in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal by the end of this year. They also plan to release 21 new markets throughout Canada during [...]
Verizon Goes Live with HTC Droid Incredible 2 and Casio G’zOne Commando If you’ve been waiting to order either of these new Android offerings from Verizon, they are both available now on Big Red’s website. Both the HTC Droid Incredible 2 and the Casio G’zOne Commando are priced at $199 with a two year contract. [...]
Google has changed their former storefront for selling the Nexus One into a comparison gallery of available Android handsets. Given the numbers of manufacturers and carriers that offer hundreds of handsets this is a really good use of this former storefront. It will provide a spot to go and see what’s new, compare [...]
Equifax Puts Your Credit Score in Hand, Android App Released Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies in the United States, now has an Android app, Equifax Mobile, that provides credit information. While the app itself is free, some of the features require a paid subscription to Equifax in order to use them. [...]
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