It’s that time again, folks a new flagship Verizon phone is coming out and the DroidLanding twitter account has taken notice. Its first tweet since May- Linking to this new DROIDDoes landing page which shows input boxes for four sites asking for access codes. Unfortunately we’re not exactly sure what one of these codes are, [...]
Just as Motorola Droid 2 owners in the US are eagerly awaiting their Gingerbread update, users of its international equivilent, the Milestone 2, received some welcome news from Motorola Europe today. Moto Europe reports on its Facebook page that the Milestone 2 will receive an official bump up to Android 2.3 Gingerbread during ‘early Q4′. [...]
Now this is interesting. The Droid Bionic has finally gone up on Verizon’s Droid Does page, and there’s some hidden material waiting to be unlocked. And who as the codes- A few of your favorite blogs. Along with Boing Boing, BGR and Joystiq, we’ve been tasked with helping unlocked whatever VZW’s got cooped up behind [...]
The Toshiba Thrive has been available stateside for almost two months, and now it seems the Japanese manufacturer is about to let Euros in on the action, too. The chunky Honeycomb tablet has appeared on Toshiba Europe’s products website sporting the name AT100-100. There are no references to the Thrive branding specifically, but the specs [...]
The Android freight train shows no signs of slowing as its market share in the U.S has climbed to 41.8% for the three month period ending July 2011. Back in April it was at 36.4%. Apple was able to gain market share as well, but marginally. They are now at 27.0%, which is a gain [...]
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Techcon2011 kicked off early this morning in San Antonio, Texas showcasing technologies ranging from the private to the education sector. Many big name companies were present displaying their most recent equipment, applications, and services to the public and their peers. The convention is geared mainly towards education of technology in an attempt to emphasize the importance [...]
Just as promised, Samsung has brought the white Samsung Galaxy S II to the United Kingdom. It’s set to ship tomorrow, 1 September, and several retailers have already priced it. The common price seems to be around £492.95, with both Clove.co.uk and Mobilefun.co.uk offering it for that much including VAT. It’s the same Galaxy S [...]
When HP decided to discontinue the HP TouchPad and WebOS after they failed to do anything meaningful with it, they decided to sell out the rest of their stock in a fire sale clearance. This saw the device offered as low as 0 at most retailers and consumers snatched them up like hotcakes on a [...]
Loopt has announced that its app for Android users is now available internationally. The app is now up for download in 13 different countries. The available countries include Australia, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. More supported countries will be coming soon. Loopt [...]
Those of you still rocking the Motorola Milestone 2 (DROID 2 for you Yanks), the folks who have just been acquired by Google has good news for you – Gingerbread is on its way! They’ve confirmed on their Facebook page that the phone will be receiving Android 2.3. Unfortunately, they didn’t give specifics as to [...]
Motorola has announced their latest smartphone, the Motorola Pro+. The Motorola Pro+ runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a candy bar form factor with a full QWERTY keyboard. It is powered by a powerful 1GHz processor and contains 4GB of internal storage, 512MB of RAM, a 1600 mAh battery, and a 5-megapixel camera. “The [...]
This one’s a classic, and with 10 to 50 million installs, it should be. Most of you have probably heard of it, but for those who haven’t, it’s called Barcode Scanner and you’re going to want to get it. Barcode Scanner is pretty straightforward. Open up the app, line up a barcode in between [...]
The folks at Comscore just put together some numbers regarding US smartphone market share. Their data was gathered from May 2011 though July 2011 not exactly your traditional quarterly report but could be taken just the same. Of all smartphones here, Android was on 41.8% of them. This is compared to a 36.4% Android enjoyed [...]
Samsung has announced that the Galaxy S II smartphone is hitting the UK today in white. The smartphone will be offered at major retailers starting today, August 31, 2011. The white smartphone is exactly like the original Galaxy S II on the inside, the color is the only difference. This week we had reported that [...]
Google has made the Honeycomb 3.2 SDK component available for download, as well as an update to the SDK tools, the compatibility package and a new release of the Android NDK. These tools help developers create new apps using features introduced with the 3.2 update, including optimizations for more tablet types, compatibility zoom for apps [...]
Amazon has released their FREE app of the day, and today we have Swamp Defense by EntwicklerX. It’s FREE, so download it, give it a try and uninstall it if you don’t want it. Product Features Defend your swamp with 5 dangerous characters Blast away at 8 scary monsters Fight through 15 unlockable levels and post high scores [...]
Our daily trawl through the interwebs has revealed an intriguing landing page at Verizon’s DroidDoes website for the hotly anticipated Motorola Droid Bionic. The page at www.droiddoes.com/#/bionic, appearing just a few hours ago, features an old-timey image of a television test pattern with the text "Awaiting Blogger Data Entry…". The image is surrounded by four [...]
We are always on the prowl for tidbits about new smartphones and other gear that pack Android inside. Some specs on a new HTC smartphone packing a big screen have surfaced. The smartphone is called the HTC Runnymede, which sounds like something that happens after drinking too much old-fashioned British ale. The device has been [...]
A recent report from ComScore indicates that as of July 2011 82 million Americans own smartphones, with Android running on 41.8% of those devices, iOS on 27%, BlackBerry OS on 21.7%, Windows Phone on 5.7%, and Symbian on 1.9%. The survey clearly indicates that significant gains have been made by Google and Apple at the [...]
It has only been a few months since James Gosling, the geek considered the father of Java, went to work for Google. The thing that was so strange to me when Gosling went to work for Google was at the time Google and Oracle were in a legal battle over alleged use of Java code [...]
If you thought HTC was being a bit “overly ambitious” with the 4.5-inch HTC Holiday (Raider) you ain’t seen nothing yet. Looks like HTC is working on a monster device they’re calling the Runnymede. Apparently, this device showed up like so many devices do, in some EXIF data on a photo site but that didn’t [...]
Low and behold, what’s a few new Samsung Galaxy S II devices across various carriers without some cool accessories to go with it- At tonight’s Samsung GSII launch event in New York, several of the display tables showed off a modern and sleek looking multimedia charging dock perfectly complimenting the Galaxy S II. In nice [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (boy that’s a mouthful) has finally arrived and is dressed to impress. Today at Samsung’s GSII launch event in New York Talk Android was able to get a hands-on look at the hardware and software that’s currently driving this device to be one of hottest and [...]
AT&T has announced yesterday that they’ll be releasing the LG Thrill 4G on September 4 , which is only five days from today, at a .99 price tag on contract. According to a leaked memo from Radioshack, retail locations will be receiving shipments of the glass-free 3D phone this week and employees are instructed to sell [...]
As we’ve been touting all day, Samsung finally revealed their US variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II and Talk Android was there to cover it like a warm blanket on cold winter night. Devices were released on three of the four major carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T & Sprint). However, T-Mobile was the only carrier to [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. And the Samsung Galaxy S II news just keeps on rolling in. Talk Android was present at Samsung’s launch event in New York and we were able to get a quick hands-on look at AT&T’s version of the popular Galaxy S II device. And as you can imagine, [...]
We just got back from the Samsung event in New York where we had the chance to play around with both the AT&T and the Sprint variants of the Galaxy S II, the T-Mobile one was inside a box and no one was actually allowed to get up close and personal with it. We were [...]
Seems Sprint might be soon be trying a little harder to hold onto their customers according to this leaked screenshot from an authorized dealer. Starting September 9th, Sprint will be increasing their Early Termination Fees from the affordable 0 up to 0 according SprintFeed. Sprint has always been pretty great when it comes to their [...]
Today Samsung unveiled their highly popular Galaxy S II device for three of the four major carriers. Their event in New York kicked off with a bang as AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint opened the curtain on what appears to be the biggest smartphone of the year thus far. And when we say big, we mean [...]
BGR is reporting that America’s second 3D capable handset, the LG Thrill, will be launching this Sunday, September 4th on AT&T. If you thought you would have to pay a premium just to get your hands on glasses-free 3D, we’ve also learned that the device will only cost you 0 on a 2-year contract. Not [...]
Since Verizon still wouldn’t officially give up the upcoming Droid Bionic’s release date, all we’ve had to chew on so far were rumors of the September 8th release date here and there (the latter was then discredited as an unofficial account by VZW, so it really has no credibility anymore). To throw another rumor into [...]
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The kind folks at Samsung invited us this week to New York City where we were treated to full-fledged reveal of not one, but three new Galaxy S II devices PLUS some docking accessories for those devices to work with. What we’ve got now is a closer look at what those docks are and what [...]
Mozilla’s Firefox Mobile browser has been one of the more popular browsers on the Android Market since its release. Considering its popularity in the desktop arena, this isn’t such a huge surprise, though it also just happens to be a useful and attractive browser. According to Ian Barlow of the Mozilla Mobile Team however, Firefox [...]
Along with Samsung’s debut of the Galaxy S II in America came the announcement of some “premium accessories” for the device via the company’s press release. Samsung is covering all their bases with various docking stations, convergence and backup batteries being available for each phone as well as a media dock and HDMI adapter for [...]
Remember yesterday when we told you the Samsung Mesmerize was due for a Gingerbread update. We hoped it wouldn’t take too long. Well as it turns out the Gingerbread update is available today! The 2.3 update includes Improved Power Management User Interface Refinements More Control Over Applications Improved Text Interface One-Touch Word Selection and Copy/Paste [...]
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