The folks at BGR have discovered that AT&T’s Galaxy S II review unit has a security flaw within its lockscreen. If you use the PIN or Pattern Lock security features to safeguard your personal data, you may run into the issue of letting anyone snooping into your beloved phone. To bypass the PIN or the [...]
It’s always nice to see upcoming rumored devices showing up in Cellebrite systems because it means we are getting close to launch. It also give us further confirmation that they actually exist. If you are not familiar with Cellebrite, it’s the machine that carriers have in their stores to transfer your contacts (and other information) from [...]
After a long wait, the Gingerbread update finally went out for the HTC Thunderbolt the other day. This long wait was answered with an update riddled with some pretty serious bugs and an update changelog that was incorrect on Verizon’s website. The first problem was that voice mail notifications are no longer working. I know plenty [...]
We have been seeing a bunch of info about the HTC Amaze 4G and this one is, by far, the best. Although, the Youtuber ‘Ktwist311′, was silent, we certainly like his style! He was also behind the speedtest and Quadrant video from last night. You will get to check out what it is like to [...]
Verizon doesn’t like the idea of “open internet.” At least not the idea of it potentially cutting into their profits. Today, Verizon filed an appeal in federal court claiming the rules of “Net Neutrality” are unnecessary and will create confusion for investors. Verizon released this statement on their website: Verizon is fully committed to an [...]
The DROID Bionic is one heck of a flagship device, but it’s not without its faults. Early adopters have been complaining about a litany of issues large and small, and Verizon has apparently been listening. They’ve detailed all of the bugs and glitches in a massive official list, but the carrier says that customers will [...]
Gameloft is throwing a “fall weekend sale” for a few of the biggest and baddest in Android gaming. HD titles like, the first-person shooter N.O.V.A., family fun UNO, action-platformer Assassin’s Creed and the action-racing Asphalt 6, are all being offered up for only 99 cents this weekend only. Even if you hate gaming, there’s no [...]
Verizon Wireless seems like they’re going to be sticking with the name HTC Vigor after all. We first thought that the Vigor will be named Incredible HD, then it became the HTC Rezound. This doesn’t mean that Big Red won’t change its mind. The ‘Recommended Accessories’ aren’t actually HTC-branded and are your usual extras gizmos [...]
The HTC Rhyme and the Pantech Breakout, two new Verizon phones, have both received new overview videos giving a breakdown on exactly why these phones are cool (or not). Both videos go over social networking, navigation, music, but best of all you’ll see the Rhyme’s wonderful little charm in action. The charm sticks out of the top of [...]
Virgin Mobile has officially announced earlier today the release of the HTC Wildfire S starting October 23 for 9.99. It is looking like it will come in two exclusive colors, silver for Best Buy and white for RadioShack. If you are wondering about the specs, here there are (as mentioned in the press release): 3.2-inch [...]
We reported a short time ago on a “security issue” facing AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II units. Apparently, when you unlock the phone and it goes to the lockscreen, merely letting the phone fall back asleep or “timeout” will allow you to quickly awake the device and bypass the lockscreen altogether. Well, in an effort [...]
Amazon is riding a wave of tech buzz after stunning pundits and consumers with its 9 Kindle Fire tablet. The manufacturing experts at iSupply estimate that the Fire’s hardware costs just over 9 to make, undercutting other estimates by about . Amazon is hoping to offset the discrepancy with increased sales of physical and digital [...]
TouchType folks aren’t playing around because they have just released the latest version of their famous keyboard app, Swiftkey. The Beta test version was released not too long ago to over 25,000 VIP members and it has finally become available. Just like any update, this 2.1 version was intended to bring bug fixes and also [...]
As Android users, we’ve known for quite sometime what happens when Google teams up with a smartphone manufacturer: pure Nexus bliss. Well, it looks like Google has paired up with another world famous manufacturer of sorts, Dogfish Head brewery. If it’s one thing Dogfish knows, it’s beer. They have been “manufacturing” some of the world’s [...]
We’ve been waiting almost a year for the Android version of the popular does-all media player VLC after it was unceremoniously booted out of iOS. It looks like that wait is slowly drawing to a close. Thrill-seeking users can download the pre-alpha (is that even a real term-) APK for their phones now. Don’t fire [...]
It’s already been a few weeks since the Foursquare team updated their app for iOS users and now, Android users are getting the same treatment. The Foursquare app has been updated in the Android Market and includes a bevvy of new enhancements. First off, they’ve moved some things around like points for check-ins providing for [...]
It was estimated in 2009 that if the New York Times sent every one of its paying subscribers a free Amazon Kindle, they would still save half the cost of physically printing and delivering the newspaper every day. It looks like Archos and TigerDirect are taking that thought experiment into the real world. They’ve begun [...]
It seems like the shiny new AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S II has at least one dull spot. There’s an easy work-around that will let anyone access your phone if you’ve implemented Android’s unique pattern-based or PIN lock screen. Don’t worry, though, an industrious early adopter has already found a way to secure [...]
If you are a Verizon customer, a Football fan (GO Giants!) and want to grab the latest version of the best selling Football game out there which is Madden 12, you can do so between October 1 and October 3. Otherwise it will cost you to buy from the Android Market. To download the free [...]
Vodafone UK has become the first British network to stock Sony Ericsson's shiny new flagship phone, the Xperia Arc S. It's currently available for free, on 24-month contracts of £31 or more per month, and at that price you'll get a monthly allowance of 600 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB of data. Right now it [...]
Do you need something to do while you watch Verizon commercials during the time outs of the Cowboys game this weekend- There’s no reason to break your momentum download the latest version of Madden for your Android phone, courtesy of Verizon. The network will allow customers to install the game free of charge from October [...]
While Virgin Mobile is technically unlimited (and aren’t they proud of it) their parent company had intended to begin throttling its data-hungry users some time in October. Today the company issued a statement saying that while they still intend to slow down the connection of their most active customers, the change won’t happen until an [...]
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We've finally reached the weekend and for those of you not headed out to Texas for the Big Android BBQ, we've got plenty of content for you to catch up on both here and in the Android Central forums. Nexus Prime – What's this- A Nexus Prime hanging out in a Cellbrite HTC Thunderbolt Forums [...]
According to Kaspersky, seller of the Kaspersky antivirus app for Android, Android viruses are getting worse. Well, not really worse, just different. The latest attack vector comes in the form of malicious QR Codes. When you scan a QR code, your phone turns those funky squares into a URL. Just like any other form of [...]
During their time scoping out the Samsung Galaxy S II, the folks over at BGR managed to uncover a glaring security flaw involving the phones lock screen. If the handset is set with a pin or pattern lock, bypassing the phone’s password is as simple as letting the lock screen timeout and then waking the phone. [...]
The last Google Goggles update brought the ability to scan images and search for things within those images on Google - the problem though, was the fact it only worked within Google Googles application and not the built-in camera app. The latest update rolled out today changes that and adds barcode services as well so [...]
As users of Android we get a lot of brilliant apps and ROMs for free, but even so, I don’t think we should skimp on all levels of payment. There are many simple yet helpful ways we can give thanks to developers. Following on from my previous post on how we can support our fellow Android [...]
Are You Excited About Facebook’s New Changes- Last week, Facebook hosted their latest F8 Developers Conference, where they showed off a bunch of changes they were planning to make and that they had made recently. If you use Facebook, you’ve seen some of these already (most likely, your News Feed was briefly full of people [...]
Patents. They’ve dominated a lot of the tech scene in the past few months, especially in relation to Samsung and Apple and their attempts to get each other’s toys taken away from them. It’s a tangled web of legal battles that’s spawned everything on the intellectual spectrum from serious discussions about the validity of each [...]
Samsung have always had a strong track record when it has come to mobile phones. They have always been cutting-edge and have seemed to bend the norm when it comes to mobile phone standards. Their phones have always been admired for their design, interface and practicality and this admiration has been reflected in their sales [...]
Cellebrite, a system wireless providers use to transfer data between mobile handsets, has been updated with a host of long-rumored devices for Verizon. The Samsung Nexus Prime (listed under that name), Motorola DROID HD and HTC Vigor have all found their place among Big Red’s other offerings. Of course, Cellebrite doesn’t do much to provide [...]
Back in July, Sprint announced plans to begin throttling speeds for customers who use more than 2.5GB of data in a month on its pre-paid subsidiary, Virgin Mobile. Naturally, this announcement did not sit well with Virgin customers, despite Sprint’s claim that the change would only affect "3% of all data users." However, the Now [...]
Looking for your next fix of HTC Amaze 4G information to hold you over until you can place your preorder on Oct. 10- The folks over at TMoNews have obtained a few new videos showing off some of the benchmarks and the browser of the device, along with a whole bunch of new images. While [...]
Whether someone who is always flying around the country, like our very own Phil Nickinson, or just a casual traveler, we all know the pain that is had when searching for and comparing flights. Google hopes to make things easier for us with their latest application OnTheFly. The application allows users to compare flight costs, [...]
AT&T has a new mid-range Android handset headed to their lineup in the form of the Samsung Doubletime. While little is known about the handset first outed as the Samsung i857, a roadmap leaked earlier in the year suggests it will sport an HVGA display, 3MP camera, and could ship with Android 2.2. The new [...]
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