Sony Ericsson has outed a pair of new Android smartphones at CommunicAsia 2011 this week, the XPERIA ray and XPERIA active. Both running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the ray – which looks particularly similar to the XPERIA X10 – has an 8.1-megapixel camera but a considerably smaller, 3.3-inch touchscreen, while the active has a 3-inch touchscreen [...]
Good evening, fellow Phandroids! I am here, once again, bringing you the latest Android news around the net. I would be impossible to feature every bit of news onto our front page which is why I present it to you now, here in the Android Overload. So pull up a chair and fill your bellies [...]
I have found yet another home replacement launcher for you guys to try out and keep an eye on. The newest addition is called Honeycomb Launcher Beta. This is still a work in progress but very usable. The list of features that are available are huge – Honeycomb Launcher Features ✩Clones Android 3.0 Honeycomb [...]
Welcome to the first real curtain call to the original HTC EVO 4G of yore, this being the HTC EVO 3D, a dual-core 4G HTC device with what may appear at first to have everything its predecessor had and more, what with the fashionably red-framed dual-LED flash-having 3D camera at the back. That’s not just [...]
We told you the update was coming and we’ve been receiving a flood of reports from Evo Shift users everywhere that, thanks to a combination effort between HTC and Sprint, they can now update their phones to Android 2.3.3. If you’re waiting around to be prompted by Sprint, that wont start until the 27th. Instead, [...]
The boys over at Brief Mobile got their hands on an early build of the Gingerbread OTA for the Motorola Atrix and it looks like we’re a few steps closer to that rumored July OTA. AT&T and Motorola have been testing a new build for the Android 2.3.3 update (4.5.47) on the Atrix and word [...]
We’ve been hearing a summer release for the Amazon’s newest foray into the Honeycomb tablet scene for awhile now and it looks like we might have a little weight to add to those rumors. According to some Taiwanese component makers who are supplying Amazon with the parts needed to make their new tablets, we can [...]
If you enjoy watching Men kick,punch and smack their way to victory in the ring you can now get it straight on your Android device. You can get fighter profiles,highlights of previous fights by date, fighter name or division. It looks as though the app is more for the US and Canadian users but even [...]
Gameloft’s new Android MMORPG is now available on the Android Market, and it is indeed accompanied by a monthly pay-to-play subscription model. Although it’s not exactly expensive – six months of play time can be bought for £1.79 if you like what you see. The app’s initial £3.99 purchase price includes a three month subscription [...]
Pzizz is one of those apps designed to help you sleep, by analysing your movement patterns and timing your snooze periods and so on. We’re pretty sure these apps are entirely fictional and only work on some sort of weird placebo effect level, but… …the maker says over 500,000 people have downloaded in on iPhone [...]
The long-delayed Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo looks like it might actually hit the shops over the next month or two, with numerous retailers listing the new Android 2.3 phone for pre-order this week and claiming it’ll start to arrive in July. Most interesting of the lot is Vodafone which, as it did with the Red [...]
Google has just added 2 new phones to their Phone Gallery in which they showcase some of the best (and worst) Android has to offer. Normally, I try to avoid posts on Android powered phones from non-English speaking countries like Korea but these 2 Pantech devices look so nice, I had to think twice. The [...]
July 7, 2011. A day that will live in infamy. OK, maybe not. But it’s looking like it’ll be the day that Verizon changes its data plans to a tiered structure, and there are plenty of rumors, half-truths and whatever else going on out there. Let’s add one more to the pile, shall we- What [...]
Right off the bat — Verizon has kept quiet about any rumored data plan changes coming on July 7. We’re all going on insider information, and filling in the blanks where we can. We can be sure that something is coming, and very few people are going to be happy about it. Maybe today’s rumors [...]
The last time the LG Optimus 2X showed up with a WIND branding was at an LG sponsored event. Since then Videotron released this Android 2.2 powered device at 9.95 outright. We were sent this pic of the WIND Optimus 2X and it looks like it’s ready for business. No word on a specific … [...]
Among the many customization available for our home-screens few allow us to do much more than change the skins or colors of a design specified by the creator. While we have a few options that allows a bit more options such as Minimalist Text that allows you to make your own widgets in pure text format, none [...]
dhemke17 has released an update to GingerBean v1.0.1. The latest version is now 1.0.1. This release is supported on the following Device(s): />- HTC Thunderbolt: Verizon Thunderbolt v1.0.1 /> -Minor update that fixes the 4g issue and speedtweak.sh issue /> – Pretty major overhaul on the build.prop /> – Removed a couple extra things that [...]
The HTC ChaCha is the Android device that heavily integrates Facebook into it with a dedicated button. This runs off of OS 2.3.3 and it sports a 2.6-inch display (480×320 resolution), full QWERTY keyboard, 5 megapixel camera with a 0.3MP front-facing camera, Wi-Fi and GPS. This recently … Continue Reading Here HTC ChaCha arrives at [...]
Its 1992. Boyz II Men were at the top of their game, Ross Perot just announced his candidacy for President of the US, Home Alone 2 dominated the box office and I was getting over my break-up with Kathryn Johnson by playing X-Men at my local arcade. I was super jazzed when the classic [...]
After comparing the Galaxy S 2 with the Atrix 4G, HTC Sensation, and Optimus 2x, we continue our series with a look at the Motorola Droid X2. In this video we compare boot-up time, RAM usage, web-browsing speed, benchmarks, gaming, and more. In terms of specs, both devices are nicely spec’ed, though the Galaxy [...]
mike1986 has released an update to Android Revolution HD 1.0.1. The latest version is now 1.0.1. This release is supported on the following Device(s): /> - HTC Sensation Android Revolution HD 1.0.1 [20.06.2011] – SuperUser updated to latest 2.3.6.3 – su binary updated to latest 2.3.2-efgh – Adobe Flash Player updated to latest 10.3.185.24 - Google Maps [...]
HTC’s Wildfire debuted in mid 2010 as a budget Android device for many carriers around the world. In Canada, the budget Android market has been serviced quite well by Samsung and LG, who has found great success with its Optimus One line. The HTC Wildfire S is the follow-up its dim… Continue Reading Here Video: [...]
faux123 has released an update to Nexus AOSP Gingerbread 2.3.4 v1.2.5. The latest version is now v1.2.5. This release is supported on the following Device(s): />- HTC myTouch 4G (Glacier): T-Mobile < Version 1.2.4 (deprecated, AOSP 2.3.4_r1) > Based on 2.6.32 Kernel (There are some issues with 2.6.35 version) />Updated to use new libreboot for [...]
The title of the thread on XDA is simply “Commonly Used Widgets”, I personally think it should also be referenced as a guide. This thread walks through the most popular widgets available on the Android market. It clearly tells you what each one is and offers you a simple QR code to scan and [...]
Edgar Cervantes on Jun 21, 2011 at 12:43 pm Yesterday’s rumors were less than satisfactory for most Verizon customers. Our good friends over at Droid-Life got some details about the new Verizon tiered data plans from a tipster. It wasn’t pretty. The cheapest plan started at a month for 2 GB of data. If you’re [...]
Alberto Vildosola on Jun 21, 2011 at 3:02 pm Here we go again. This time, it’s HTC’s turn at releasing a batch of brand-new Android devices. The company has an event scheduled for June 27 in London, according to Electronista. There’s not a lot of details about the event at this moment, but it’s said [...]
Edgar Cervantes on Jun 21, 2011 at 4:25 pm The AT&T / T-Mobile merger dilemma has been going all over the internet since March. While some people don’t care and others like the idea, it seems most Android fans hate the thought of this merger taking place. T-Mobile brought the first Android device to the [...]
Alberto Vildosola on Jun 21, 2011 at 5:05 pm Some of you might know Huawei as the company that keeps making cheap (free) Android phones for people who upgrade from feature phones. But from this moment forward, you’ll know it as the company that sells really high-end Android phones at an amazingly low price. … [...]
Welcome to the future, guys. Where mobile devices are beginning to blur the lines between smartphones and little mini computers. According to this new report from cloud networking provider Meraki, there are more mobile devices connected to WiFi networks than there are computers. This doesn’t really surprise me, seeing how it seems like just about [...]
US Cellular announced on their Twitter today that they are going to be selling the Motorola Xoom in some of their retail locations across the US. You’re going to have to call and check for availability if you’re looking to pick one up at your local store. Oh, and if you were hoping for some [...]
Some interesting news has come to light earlier this afternoon about Cut the Rope coming to Android and the CTRAndroid Twitter account associated with it. Earlier on the twitter account they mentioned that they are not Zepto Labs, the developers of Cut the Rope which sent some red flags to a few sites. Read more… [...]
Run out of cool applications to check out- Don’t fret – we’ve got you covered with another handful of apps and games we think are worth your time. First of all, activating ANYTHING using your voice is cool, so when you can tell your alarm to “shut the $%@* up” and it actually listens, it [...]
It seems that the folks over at Engadget have found their way into a demonstration of the upcoming Vizio Tablet from none other than Vizio. This device is a Gingerbread Android tablet at the moment, but Vizio has stated that they’re considering moving to Honeycomb before the device launches. This device has a 1024×768 pixel [...]
Hey all you fans of Virgin out there, it’s your time! It’s time you got an Android phone that competes with the best of em – and does it with a nearly vanilla flavoring to boot! This is the Motorola Triumph, a device which we got to peek at a short while ago and one [...]
How do you make the HTC Flyer even better- Pop in a Wimax radio, put it on Sprint, and call it the Sprint HTC EVO View 4G. What you see above you is the second version of the Flyer to hit the United States — the Wifi-only version is currently available at Best Buy; this one’s on sale June 24 [...]
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