It seems there’s been some renewed interest in the subject of Block C LTE "no locking" provisions after news that the Motorola RAZR will come equipped with a locked bootloader ala Verizon’s request. About four months ago, I published an article on this very topic. To summarize: Verizon can basically do almost anything it wants [...]
I tell you what, I know where I’m buying my next phone. After a massive Verizon sale earlier this month, the Wireless store at Amazon is selling the brand-new HTC EVO Design 4G for just thirty bones a savings of on the retail version. Of course, to get this rock-bottom price you’ll have to sign [...]
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The HTC EVO Design 4G just launched on Sprint for .99, but if you are opening a new account, you can grab it for .99 (with a 2-year contract) at Amazon Wireless. To entice you a little more, they are waiving the activation fee till midnight tonight. The .99 price will remain though. If you [...]
For this week only, Gameloft is lowering the price on a handful of Android games as part of their “Trick or Treat Sale” leading up until All Hallows’ Eve this Monday. Android gamers on a budget can grab some of Gameloft’s hottest titles for only 0:700. Games like the action-adventure Backstab, featuring stealth, action and [...]
We are seeing a few interesting things turn up from the FCC today, first some sort of Motorola tablet passed through, and now we are seeing a Motorola RAZR headed for AT&T. The Motorola DROID RAZR was announced last week headed for Verizon with 4G LTE and we’ve also heard a few non US carriers [...]
To date there are only eight 4G smartphones available from Verizon, and with the notable exception of the Samsung Stratosphere, all of them are slate-style phones. If you want a keyboard with your LTE, then this is it. The QWERTY slider is very, very similar to the Samsung Epic 4G, with the distinction that it [...]
Amazon has just posted a good deal on the HTC EVO Design 4G the 0 4G phone from Sprint that takes a lot of cues from its big brother EVO 3D. They are asking for just for the device. It’s not bad for a 4 inch qHD phone with a 1GHz processor and 4G radios [...]
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After your (possibly over-) enthusiastic response (I kid, I kid; we appreciate your high spirits) to our last giveaway, we decided it would only be appropriate to allow two more readers the chance to win an ASUS Eee Pad Slider. That’s right: NVIDIA, in its seemingly infinite awesomeness, has once again been generous enough to [...]
A great modern remake of the old school game Qix has just been released by Eclipse Games for the PC and Mac. The developer, who used to work from some big named studios before going indie when they closed, has mentioned plans to bring it to mobile which includes Android. Read more… … Continue Reading [...]
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Who is ready for another awesome live wallpaper- Yes, you read the title right and that sweet boot animation from the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich can now be used as a live wallpaper. This is one of the many awesome reasons why I love Android. Thanks to the quick developer mazook98 [...]
Let's explain (again) what's about to happen here: Motorola, on Twitter, responded to someone with the following: We'll be releasing devices for ICS 6 weeks after Google releases the final version of it. The Twitter account later clarified, saying the Droid RAZR, Bionic and Xoom “Will get ICS within 6 weeks of Google's public push,” [...]
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The weekend has come and gone and we're ready to rock and roll. A new Mobile Nations: Monday Brief is up and a new Mobile Nations podcast is coming as well. You'll want to stick with us here on the blogs and in the Android Central forums for all the latest Android news, tips, tricks [...]
Heh. Hot on the heels of Motorola's 6-week Ice Cream Sandwich prediction on Twitter, the manufacturer has dropped a couple of websites to watch if you care about updates or unlocked bootloaders. They are: Motorola Android Software Upgrade News page: This is an oldie but a goodie, with handy charts for Moto devices worldwide. MOTODEV: [...]
On a lighter note this Monday afternoon, apparently word is out that Nokia has picked it’s grand prize winner in the game section to their “Calling All Innovators” development competition for the Nokia platform. The grand prize winner receives 0,000 so you would think the winner would have an incredibly unique innovative game right- Read [...]
Motorola has confirmed their upgrade plans for the latest release of Android – version 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Amazingly enough, they boast that they’ll be bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to first devices within six weeks of the release of the operating system. Among the first wave of devices are the Motorola DROID BIONIC the Motorola [...]
After Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, the obvious question on everyone’s mind was will my device get it- Motorola has started to address that issue, albeit very slowly. A note about Ice Cream Sandwich: We are planning to upgrade DROID RAZR, Motorola RAZR, Motorola XOOM and DROID BIONIC by Motorola to Ice Cream Sandwich. We [...]
Build-a-lot is a rather popular real estate game that has about five titles in the series so far for the PC. Essentially it is a simulation game, although wrapped in more friendlier graphics, where you will build houses and as the value of those houses rise up, you sell them for a nice profit making [...]
Not that we didn’t already know this, but HTC has formed a partnership with DropBox that will allow them to preinstall the cloud-enabled file sharing application on all of their future smartphones. Above all that, all HTC device owners will get 5GB of free storage, 3GB more than the standard. They didn’t clarify whether or [...]
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If you’re the type who is into monster trucks, then you’re probably going to love Megastunt Mayhem. The gist is pretty simple: make your big truck do all kinds of crazy flips, tricks, hops, jumps and other stunts. As a result of landing said tricks, you get paid, which, in turn, you can use the [...]
Well, according to Motorola’s official Twitter account we will be seeing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices from the company just 6 weeks after Google launches and releases it. Maybe they’ve had a little extra prep time now that Google aims to take control of Motorola Mobility, we don’t know but either way this is [...]
Continuing to prove that they don’t want to leave any of their customers in the dark, Verizon and Motorola have begun rolling out updates to Android 2.3 for both the Motorola Droid 2 Global and the Motorola DROID PRO We’re getting all the Gingerbread goodness you’ve come to know and expect as well as a [...]
It appears the Motorola Xoom 2 might have been hanging out at the FCC this weekend. What seems to be a mystery tablet from Motorola was spotted sporting specs similar to recently leaked Xoom 2 devices, but we still aren’t sure what we are seeing and have been digging around trying to figure out more [...]
Android has grown to capture 27 percent of the tablet market, that just one year ago was 100 percent filled by Apple. With the launch of the original Galaxy Tab things have been on a slow uphill climb, but much like the smartphone space diversity and a much more open ecosystem will allow Android to [...]
Yesterday, Microsoft announced its latest Android licensing deal with Taiwanese manufacturer Compal, marking the company’s tenth such agreement to date. While such a small manufacturer in terms of market share makes little overall difference in Microsoft’s profits derived from Android, its deals with HTC and Samsung, combined with various smaller manufacturers like Compal, means it [...]
HTC has announced on its official Facebook page that thanks to its recent partnership with cloud storage provider Dropbox, the Dropbox app will come preinstalled on all HTC Android phones. HTC phone owners will also benefit from 5GB of free cloud storage, versus the standard 2GB normally given to free account holders. Dropbox has previously [...]
If you’ve been waiting to itch that addiction of rooting and ROM’ing your Samsung Stratosphere our friends at RootzWiki have discovered and made public a method to get you going in the right direction. As with most Samsung phones, you’ll need ODIN on Windows or Heimdall on Mac OS and Linux in order to flash [...]
We love giving stuff away here at AP, and today we have ten cases from Incipio to hand out to ten lucky readers. Incipio offers five main types of case: Dermashot, feather, Silicrylic, NGP, and Edge (they also make a case called "Step" for the Droid X2). I’ve recently spent some hands-on time with the [...]
It’s that time again and those of you rocking the Motorola DROID 2 should have an update hitting your device sometime over the next few days. To start, we’ve heard and seen plenty about the 2.3 Gingerbread update for the DROID 2 Global and after more than a few soak tests and trial updates from [...]
We were all happy to see the Samsung Galaxy Nexus finally get announced, but if there was a disappointment, it was the fact that there wasn’t any pricing or release dates revealed. We already heard from Verizon Wireless and the U.K. carriers, but only for intentions to carry the device, no pricing or dates have [...]
Verizon is officially pushing the Android 2.3 updates out to the Droid Pro and the Droid 2 Global over-the-air today. Besides the features you would expect from Gingerbread, the Droid 2 Global update includes the following fixes and enhancements: Improvements in stability prevent lockups, resets and force close errors. Bluetooth devices will now select the [...]
As Peter Alfonso puts it, “The Beast is back,” as in Bugless Beast. Peter Alfonso created the ROM series, Bugless Beast, when the original DROID launched. When Android 2.3 Gingerbread hit the scene, he decided to go into a different direction by maintaining the stock appearance along with additional hidden features, which he called the [...]
This past week biggest news in Android had to be the announcement of the Galaxy Nexus & Ice Cream Sandwich update. Nearly every Android news outlet covered the announcement and the rumors. However, other things happened in the world of Android which you can find out here. This past week we had our Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser, [...]
We have got a new member of the Hidden Gem family going by the name of Block Rogue which was developed by Buzz Monkey Software. Block Rogue is a Sokoban style game where you’ll be solving the puzzles in each stage in order to get to the exit and progress onto the next one. Read [...]
Motorola has confirmed that they will be making it possible to officially unlock your DROID RAZR bootloader. Unlocked phones internationally will come with the functionality, but they stressed that this feature will only be available at the carriers’ discretion. Yes, that means Verizon will likely opt out of offering it to their customers. While unlocked [...]
An analysis of recently compiled data by ABI Research indicates that Android phones are for the first time downloading apps in greater numbers than Apple’s iPhone. This would seem like a milestone, but ABI’s research also shows that while the total number of apps downloaded onto Android devices in the last quarter exceeds that of [...]
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