| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Sep 23, 2016 | How Samsung will force you to exchange your exploding Galaxy Note 7 | Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 recall is going as planned — if you can really ever plan for such a mess. The company has brought in half a million replacement units to the US, and other markets are also receiving the safe Galaxy Note 7 versions as... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Nexus 6P Is Hiding The Double Tap To Wake Feature In Its Kernel | Sumit Passary, Tech Times 05 November 2015, 09:11 am
The latest Nexus 6P has a hidden feature in its kernel: double tap to wake/sleep, which is disabled by default.
Google launched the Nexus 6P along with the Nexus 5X on Sept. 29. The Nexus... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F For AT&T And T-Mobile For $499.99 On EBay | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 06 July 2015, 11:07 pm
Fans of Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, who have not yet been able to acquire one should take advantage of an offer currently on eBay, where the 32GB model is being s... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | New Nvidia Shield TV Games: 'Half-Life 2: Episode Two', 'QUBE: Director's Cut', 'Never Alone', And 'Funk Of Titans' | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 01 July 2015, 10:07 am
New games have been released for the Nvidia Shield Android TV, one of which is Half-Life 2: Episode Two following the footsteps of Half-Life 2: Episode One on the Nvidia Shield Tablet and Half... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | The EC’s case against Google is a bad application of outdated laws | On one level, the European Commission’s argument with Google is unsurprising. The EC’s commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager’s job is to investigate possible breaches of EU competition law. That is exactly what she is doing with ... |
| Nov 14, 2014 | Lollipop on the 2012 Nexus 7: Not great, but not much worse | Enlarge / The 2012 Nexus 7's Lollipop update neither helps nor harms.
Andrew Cunningham reader comments 109 with 78 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
The 2... |
| Feb 26, 2014 | Samsung continues the many-core madness with 6- and 8-core Exynos chips | Samsung's new Exynos 5 Octa can use all eight of its cores at once—if you have software that can even do that.
Samsung reader comments 80 with 45 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on... |
| Feb 16, 2014 | TC Droidcast Episode 22: Nokia Goes Android While HTC Plays The Customer Care Card | On this week’s Droidcast, me and Chris Velazco get tough on smartwatches, but first we discuss Nokia Android “Nokia X” device plans and other infertile hybrid animals, and HTC’s renewed commitment to customer care and how that might affect ... |
| Feb 15, 2014 | HTC “actively exploring” KitKat update for One X, blames Nvidia for delay | The HTC One X might get KitKat after all.
HTC reader comments 74 with 52 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
HTC's North American PR team took to Reddit to h... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Google Takes a Step Forward With Nexus 5 Release | November 1, 2013 4 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
On Halloween, Google launched a new flagship smartphone, the Nexus 5 -- running the latest flavor of Android, KitKat. This phone is aimed at providin... |
| Sep 2, 2013 | Apple Passing on a larger iPhone Display still a Head Scratcher
Categories
Search | In 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the amazing iPhone, one of his key points about it was that it was the "internet in your pocket." Yet times change, and larger displays on smartphones now greatly enhance the web surfing experien... |
| Aug 9, 2013 | Google May Have Tapped Motorola For A New Nexus Phone And Asus For An Updated Nexus 10 | Google and its partners have been awfully busy with hardware launches these past few weeks — there was the new Nexus 7, the curious Chromecast, and the Moto X — but they’re not done just yet. A new spate of rumors has just begun to make the... |
| Jul 3, 2013 | Black HTC One mini leaks reveal very minor design differences | reader comments 28 with 21 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Right before the Fourth of July holiday, new images of the black HTC One mini have leaked out. This leak comes from the Bul... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | HTC pulls the plug on promised Android 4.2 update for a year-old phone | Sorry, One S owners—Android 4.1 and Sense 4 will have to be good enough for you.
HTC reader comments 183 with 116 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
When HTC released the One earlier th... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Google Teases The Moto X, A Fully Customizable Smartphone From Motorola | Ever since Google bought Motorola almost two years ago, people have speculated what the two companies’ first jointly developed smartphone would look like. Looks like we’re about to find out.
According to a report from AdAge, Motorola will p... |
| Jun 28, 2013 | I cut cable's cord | The apartment was strangely silent last night and darker than usual. Gone was the flickering light filling the center room as one of us scanned the program guide. A year later than planned, we dismantled the TV shrine and took back the livi... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | Everything we think we know about the Moto X | Tinhte reader comments 50 with 40 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
We haven’t heard much from Motorola this year beyond the rumors surrounding its forthcoming ... |
| May 16, 2013 | White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 reportedly slated for June 10 | A white Nexus 4 spotted in the wild. It missed the keynote, but it's apparently still coming.
Android and Me reader comments 22 with 19 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
It's... |
| May 15, 2013 | From Nexus One to Nexus 10: a brief history of Google’s flagship devices | reader comments 39 with 31 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
In 2008, Google joined the mobile world with T-Mobile's G1 handset. Originally branded as the HTC Dream, the first-eve... |
| May 13, 2013 | Android 4.3, Google Babel, and the Nexus 7: What’s in store for Google I/O? | reader comments 59 with 45 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Google’s annual developer conference is mere days away, so expect a giant heaping of announcements in the near future. We a... |
| May 10, 2013 | Mystery Motorola Phone Passes Through The FCC, Looks Just Like Early X Phone Leaks | Here’s a little noodle-scratcher for you fellow mobile hardware nerds to ponder this evening. This little Motorola Mobility beauty, brandishing the model number XT1058, recently passed through the FCC and left the customary paper trail in i... |
| May 3, 2013 | LG Working On A Nexus 5, Wants Deeper Partnerships On TVs And Glass, Report Claims | LG is an Android smartphone OEM that, like many others, finds itself in the shadow of Samsung. But it scored an impressive hit with the Nexus 4, the $300 unlocked Google-branded Android reference phone it released last year, and according t... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Rumor mill gets rolling on next Nexus handset | Android and Me reader comments 103 with 81 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
With Samsung's Galaxy S 4 revealed and Google I/O just a few months away, the rumor mill has shifted i... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Google Nexus 5 Could Have Nikon Camera Tech On Board, Report Claims | Google’s next reference smartphone is the subject of many rumors over the past few days, but only one stands out as not too outlandish. Phonearena reports that according to a source, the next Nexus could have Nikon camera technology on boar... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | New Google/Motorola X Phone Rumors Point To Multiple Models And Aggressive Price Tags | Now that Sony, LG, HTC, and Samsung have all pulled back the curtains on their flagship Android smartphones, the rumor mill can churn with renewed focus on yet another nebulous device — Motorola’s secretive X Phone.
Or rather, X Phones. Acc... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices | Having failed to carve out a place for itself in the post-PC era, Hewlett-Packard is now taking drastic measures — by adopting Google’s Android operating system to run a series of upcoming mobile devices.
It’s a bit of a Hail Mary pass for ... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | HTC’s Flagship M7 Smartphone Supposedly Outed, But Where’s The HTC Look? | HTC is the sort of company that’s never had the best luck at keeping new products under wraps, and it seems it won’t be bucking that trend any time soon. Case in point: Evleaks (now at UnwiredView) has recently obtained a what’s said to be ... |
| Nov 12, 2012 | The GOP, Apple And The Power Of Magical Thinking | I appreciate the value of myth and storytelling, but nevertheless I’m constantly struck by the power that myths have over us, and the ability of human beings to engage in what psychologists call “magical thinking.”
One example is the GOP, w... |
| Nov 5, 2012 | On its 5th birthday, 5 things we love about Android | Happy birthday, Android.
Tama Leaver reader comments 68 with 50 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Five years ago today, Google and its partners in the cellular service provider and mob... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | Leaked photos of the LG Nexus crop up | LG Nexus will sparkle with its glittery backside.
Image courtesy of Android and Me reader comments 74 with 50 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Leaked photos of... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | LG may double down on Optimus G, literally | reader comments 61 with 49 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
A few days ago, AT&T announced that the LG Optimus G was going to be sold exclusively on its network, but failed to men... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Could five new Nexus devices possibly debut November 5th? | For the second time in a week -- once being a rarity -- I write about new Android device rumors. There's renewed buzz about five Nexus branded devices coming within the month. Talk of five, instead of the typical one, started in May fr... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Is new Google Nexus device imminent? Sensible? | I typically don't write about rumors, since too many are obvious (and so look like someone simply guessed and wrote a story), while others aren't adequately sourced (who and why is uncertain). But readers have asked me today about... |
| Oct 1, 2012 | Rumor Roundup: Google’s New Nexus Phone Is Said To Launch This Month, But Which One Is It? | The Galaxy Nexus’ one year launch anniversary is fast approaching, and as if on cue, the geekier parts of the web have gone abuzz today with rumors of a new Nexus device (and possibly a new version of Android) that could hit the streets “in... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | HTC One X+ Rumored To Launch On T-Mobile Come September | Early last week, a screenshot of an internal T-Mobile document revealed the existence of a device perplexingly called the “HTC Era 42,” which promptly caused some T-Mobile fans to drool uncontrollably.
Some speculated that it would be the l... |
| Jul 21, 2012 | Apple’s App Discovery Lead On Google Is Shrinking, But Mobile Publishers Shouldn’t Be Too Worried | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Matthäus Krzykowski is a co-founder of Xyologic, a mobile app search engine.
The number of iPhone apps that hit the Top Free 100 rankings in the U.S. Apple App Store has decreased by 35%, according to ... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | Featured: Motorola Sees the Light and Replaces Webtop Linux with Android 4.0 | I’ve been thinking of this from the beginning, when Motorola launched both the Atrix with its Webtop Linux companion OS and the Motorola Xoom tablet with Honeycomb. It was pretty clear that Google intended Honeycomb to be more like a deskto... |
| Mar 2, 2012 | Samsung Galaxy S III To Launch In April? | While not launching the next Samsung flagship at MWC in Barcelona was probably the right choice for Samsung, that doesn’t change the fact that we’re itching with anticipation over when the Galaxy S III will show its pretty little edge-to-ed... |
| Mar 2, 2012 | Google’s Plan To Compete With Apple’s Multi-Platform Siri? Google “Assistant” | The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for television, but for computing as a whole.... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | Google Patent Clearly Eying the Desktop Market for Android
Categories
Search | Patent Overview
According to Google, certain applications and operating systems, such as their own Android operating system, have been designed around a touchscreen user interface. However, it may be beneficial to allow such applications an... |
| Feb 14, 2012 | Verizon Tempts Employees With Limited Edition Droid RAZRs | A life spent caught up in the drudgery of retail is usually pretty free of frills, but Verizon Wireless employees may soon be getting a shot at some swanky hardware if some newly-leaked images hold true. According to Android And Me, Verizon... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Featured: Microsoft – Royalties vs Realities | Microsoft has been making a lot of news of late, what with all of the patent licensing deals that they’ve been striking with the Android OEM’s over the last several months. The latest such OEM being LG, but Microsoft has bagged most of the ... |
| Dec 31, 2011 | Galaxy Nexus shames iPhone 4S Siri | So much for Apple's voice command/response technology Siri.
Among this year's holiday presents, our family received a gift card for Italian eatery Buca di Beppo, which my daughter gladly used to go out to dinner with a friend. So ... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | Apple Adds another Core iPhone Multitouch Patent to their Arsenal
Categories
Search | Apple Wins another Key Multitouch Patent
Apple has received another original Multitouch patent from the USPTO. This is the type of patent that could help Apple in legal battles with copycat designers. It's one of the 200 patents that S... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Microsoft gobbles up VideoSurf, a video search startup backed by Al Gore | A screen grab of a search for Al Gore on VideoSurf, a five-year-old online video search startup
Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front in recent months, ever since shelling out $8.5 billion for Skype. But the software gian... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Will An LTE-Friendly Lumia 800 Hit U.S. Shores Next Year? | The Lumia 800 may not have a gargantuan screen or a front-facing camera, but according to The Verge, the U.S.-bound version of Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone may play nice with some of our LTE networks.
It’s a welcome surprise for domestic ... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | The four strangest bugs and bungles in the history of Android | Every mobile operating system has its foibles, but Android also has to contend with the whims a dozen device manufacturers and fragmented software. Taken together, this situation has resulted in some peculiar Android bugs. Whether it’s a ca... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | Schmidt: Ice Cream Sandwich to be unwrapped in October or November | reader comments 30 with 24 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
At the Google I/O event earlier this year, the search giant said that Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) would be the next major vers... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | Google’s Eric Schmidt Pegs Ice Cream Sandwich For Mid-Fall Release | While at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, Google chairman Eric Schmidt let fly a juicy tidbit as he ran through how Android came to be. According to him, the next big version of Android is being prepared for release in the October/No... |
| Aug 29, 2011 | Leaked! Toshiba To Release Powerful, Ultra Thin Android Tablet At IFA | The Toshiba Thrive isn’t exactly a good-looking Android tablet. Sure, it has plenty of ports, a removable battery, and a low price, but it’s also bulky and feels of cheap plastic. Sans the Toshiba logo, it feels and looks just like a random... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Google / Motorola Deal Doesn’t Guarantee a “Nexus Droid” | One of the burning questions we all have after hearing this morning’s news of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility is: what does this mean for the next Nexus device?
Will Google leverage its acquisition to build Android phones t... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Verizon HTC Thunderbolt To Get Android v2.3.4 (with Skype, Amazon App Store, gTalk) on June 30th? | Start the countdown clock, Verizon Thunderbolt owners: AndroidAndMe has it on good word that your handsets are just days away from an update to Android v2.3.4.
If their tipster’s tips hold true, the update should starting hitting handsets c... |
| May 17, 2011 | What Happens When It's Google/Android Vs. Amazon/Android? | Reading the news in recent weeks, it’s becoming increasingly clear that there are the early signs of a new war brewing in the mobile computing space. And it’s a war that promises to be the most fascinating one yet. It doesn’t involve Micros... |
| May 16, 2011 | Amazon All But Confirms New Devices. The Biggest Winner? Google. | Amazon (AMZN) head Jeff Bezos all but confirmed to Consumer Reports the industry's worst secret: Amazon is creating an iPad-like tablet. However, an Amazon insider claims that the company is creating a whole host of devices, including ... |
| May 13, 2011 | Will Amazon Become the Dominant Player in the Android Ecosystem? | There is an elephant at the door of the Android ecosystem. Nobody quite wants to look at it or acknowledge the whispers, but Amazon may be set to become the leader in Android devices later this year.
Officially, Amazon has said nothing abou... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | How Zelda paved the way for Zynga | Legacy technologies help pave the way for today's largest entertainment companies
Many of us remember playing Atari and Nintendo games growing up. If you asked any 30-something about what it was like to grow up as the video-game indust... |
| Apr 11, 2011 | HTC Thunderbolt and EVO 4G finally getting Android Gingerbread update? | The HTC Thunderbolt and EVO 4G smartphones could get upgraded to the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system by no later than the end of June, according to a TalkAndroid reader who sent in a message allegedly from an HTC representative.
... |
| Mar 13, 2011 | Lightbox wants to be Android's new camera app, raises $1.1 million from Valley players | Although Android adoption is growing at a huge clip compared to the iPhone (not hard, since there are so many more devices and plans), iPhone apps still remain the benchmark for the smartphone app experience. In part this is down to the fac... |
| Mar 12, 2011 | Lightbox Photos Wants To Be Your New Android Camera App (SXSW) | Although Android adoption is growing at a huge clip compared to the iPhone (not hard, since there are so many more devices and plans), iPhone apps still remain the benchmark for the smartphone app experience. In part this is down to the fac... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Samsung reveals 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab sequel with Honeycomb | reader comments 89 with 53 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Samsung has revealed its new Galaxy Tab 10.1, the successor to its Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet (read our review of the ... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | BBC iPlayer Coming to Android & iPad…and Soon, the World | The BBC has clarified its plans for the release of its Android and iPad-compatible versions of its popular iPlayer application – the British TV and radio service that delivers streaming content to the desktop and mobile devices – in light o... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Netflix App Coming First to Snapdragon, Says Qualcomm | We have been anticipating Netflix for Android for a long time. Back in November, Netflix promised us that a Netflix app would be coming soon. One of the biggest problems with Android for corporations like Netflix was the lack of DRM, or dig... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | Leaked: Galaxy Tab Gets A Price Drop On Sprint | Sprint has only had the Samsung Galaxy Tab out since November 14th, yet is already slashing its price. Perhaps the huge amount of tablets announced at CES has something to do with the price adjustment. That or the fact that when Honeycomb c... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Samsung’s “Android iPod Touch” Pointing to Google Music Launch? | Rumor round-up time! According to news from an unaffiliated, unofficial Samsung-watching blog site called Samsung Hub, the electronics giant has confirmed it will announce a new Android-based Galaxy Player at the Consumer Electronics Shows ... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | AT&T Carrier billing now supported on the Android Market | While T-mobile have supported carrier billing on the Android Market since those far-off days of ’09, they have — up until this point — been the only US carrier to do so.
BUT NO LONGER! As announced on the Android Developer’s Blog today, Goo... |
| Dec 11, 2010 | Google updates the Android Market UI, reduces refund window to 15 minutes | Google announced today on their Android Developer’s Blog that over the next two weeks they’ll be rolling out an update to the Android Market for all Android devices running v1.6 and above.
The update is a fairly major one, with a major over... |
| Nov 9, 2010 | Google releases Android YouTube Remote app, to control YouTube playback on your PC/TV | If you have a Home Theatre PC, a Google TV, or just a big monitor and a nearby couch, you may be interested to hear that watching YouTube on a big-screen device just got a little easier, with Google releasing their “YouTube Remote” app to t... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Is Google’s Nexus Two coming from Samsung on Nov. 8? | Google and Samsung may be gearing up to announce the Nexus Two Android phone at a press conference in New York on November 8, sources tell the Android site AndroidandMe.
Earlier this week, Samsung sent out invitations to the event for an un... |
| Oct 21, 2010 | Motorola wants you to test Android 2.1 on your Cliq | That’s right, you! They want YOU to personally test a beta release of their Éclair upgrade for the Cliq before they release it to the great unwashed sometime next month.
Are you keen to revel in the elite feeling of exclusivity? Willing to ... |
| Sep 29, 2010 | Google launches an online database of Android phones | If you’re in the market for an Android phone, but find the sheer number of devices, carriers, and plans overwhelming, then you’re not alone. Android has exploded, and there are more smartphones available now than ever before. So, what can y... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | Is Verizon Really Taking on Google? | Verizon (VZ) reportedly has decided to open its own Android app store in competition with Google's (GOOG) own. The carrier is pushing a number of features that it thinks will be appealing to developers. However, this isn't about d... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Verizon moves in on Google's turf again with V CAST Apps | Verizon appears to be moving further away from Android's Google and open source core premise this week as it has begun to ask for submissions to its own app store, expected to debut as early as next week. The carrier appears to be foll... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | What you need to know - Tuesday 9/14/10 | Walmart goes mobile, Seedcamp starts, Verizon opens app store and Facebook foils two more felons
StorSimple, a cloud storage service based out of Santa Clara, raised $13 million is B Series. The round was lead by Mayfield Fund and Ignition ... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | Verizon Is About To Kick Google In The Apps With Its Own Apple-Like App Store | Buried a few paragraphs into my post a few days ago about how Android’s openness is giving the carriers a way to potentially ruin the platform, I noted the following tidbit of information I had heard:
Earlier this year, Verizon rolled out i... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Weekly Wireless Roundup: Android phones become heart rate monitors with new app | Andoid phones become heart rate monitors with new app: The developers of Google (NSDQ:GOOG) Android app Instant Heart Rate claim that they can use your phone’s camera to measure your heart rate. When a user places their index finger over th... |
| Jul 19, 2010 | 1 part Palm Pre, 1 part Droid: What is this weird Droid-branded portrait slider? | When a momma Droid and a daddy Pre love each other very, very much, they get trashed and make sweet, sweet handset love like the sun won’t rise tomorrow. Nine months later, the awkward Pre-esque Droid Mini love child is born — and if we’re ... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | Motorola sez: No mod for you | You know what I love about Android? Freedom to mod. I love that, if I’m unhappy with what I’ve been dealt by The Man, I can do something about it. I can’t even imagine using my Hero with the stock ROM+apps. Freedom, baby. That’s what it’s a... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | AT&T and T-Mobile Nexus Ones receiving another Froyo update | It seems like only last week that I talked about the final Froyo build rolling out to Nexus One owners across the country.
Now it seems that there is a newer build (FRF85B) rolling out over-the-air to T-Mobile and AT&T users running las... |
| Jun 25, 2010 | MobileBeat 2010: Google’s Omar Hamoui to speak on the next wave of mobile advertising innovation | We are delighted to announce that Omar Hamoui, Google’s new vice president of mobile ads, will be sharing his views on the future of mobile advertising in a fireside chat at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2010 conference next month. The theme: “T... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Freshly open-sourced, final Froyo build now rolling out to lucky Nexus One owners | You crazy kids and your Nexus Ones. It looks like the final Froyo build (FRF83) is now being rolled out as an over-the-air update.
This update supersedes the previous Froyo build (FRF50) that was rolled out to a limited number of Nexus One ... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Video: Hands-on with the Motorola Droid 2 | You love Motorola, don’t you? You’ve been rockin’ each of their models before even the RAZR was cool. So you’ve no doubt been excited by the upcoming sequel to the brought-moto-back-from-fiery-doom Droid: the Droid 2.
Yes, the Droid 2, not ... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Android 2.1 rollout for GSM Heroes starts Friday! | YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Oh man, I’m excited. My previously-crippled Android 1.5 phone, the GSM HTC Hero will finally (pending alignment of the stars), receive the bump to Android 2.1 as of Friday, June 4th.
The update was promised as early a... |
| May 26, 2010 | HTC Evo 4G to get an HDMI dock | We’ll start with the bad news: according to some early stage testing done by PCMag, the HDMI output on the HTC Evo might kinda-sorta suck. While they haven’t quite pinned down the source of their woes, various TVs are all showing various is... |
| May 18, 2010 | Android 2.2 rumors: blazing speed, tethering, full Flash support, and more | Last year at Google I/O, the search company's annual developer conference, we got the first look at Android 2.0, also known as "Eclair."
On Wednesday this week, Google I/O 2010 will begin, and we're sure to see the next ... |
| May 15, 2010 | Rumour: myTouch 3G Slide available for $149 on June 16th | The final pieces of the myTouch 3G Slide launch puzzle — price and release date — are beginning to come to light, with Tmo News claiming to have screenshots that show a $149.99 on contract/$399.99 off contract launch price.
While the screen... |
| May 12, 2010 | Android 2.2 sets Android 2.1 on fire. From the friction. Because it's so fast. | Man oh man. While it may just be benchmark scores at this point, this kind of speed increase is nothing to snuff at.
Ian Douglas has run some benchmarks on his Froyo-powered Nexus One, and it’s scoring almost 5 times better.
To be a bit mor... |
| May 12, 2010 | One more time, or the next installment in the Hero upgrade saga | Ok. I’m very nearly at the point where I don’t want to keep posting on this, but I’m eternally optimistic, so here goes:
An internal Best Buy Document has leaked all over Android Central’s best shirt, claiming that the Android 2.1 upgrade d... |
| May 11, 2010 | Video: Flash 10.1 shown running on Android 2.2 totin' Nexus One | Oooh, would you look at this! Riding the wave of anti-flash rhetoric that’s been washing over the internet since Señor Jobs posted his now infamous Thoughts on Flash, out comes the latest video showing Flash 10.1 running on an Android hands... |
| May 4, 2010 | Motorola Hints At Its Own Mobile OS, Acquires Azingo | After rumours of HTC contemplating their own OS, it seems Motorola may also be heading back into the OS game, with Co-CEO Sanjay Jha hinting at the importance of having their own OS.
Android And Me are running a story that links the Co-CEO’... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | Rumours of a 3D Motorola Handset Rise From Below | 3D is pretty hot right now. There’s the movies, the TVs, the games, the handhelds, and, well, why not the mobile phones?
Photos of a rumoured 3D phone by Motorola surfaced today, and while the screen on the device looks 2D on my monitor, th... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Video: Droid Incredible does multi-touch better than the Nexus One | Nexus One owners, you might want to take a seat for this one. You know the HTC Incredible? That phone that popped up out of no where, matched or surpassed all of the Nexus’ specs, and then killed off any chance of a Nexus One for Verizon? N... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | HTC Incredible gets rendered, looks incredible | We can’t say for sure whether this is an actual leak or the work of an overly talented individual with just the right amount of time on their hands. Either way, the above render is the most gloriously high resolution look at the Verizon-bou... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | HTC Incredible coming April 29th? Looks like it | For all of you folks who were left disappointed after Verizon’s deafening silence regarded the HTC Incredible at CTIA : start smiling.
Earlier today, the above image from an internal Verizon e-mail started circulating. “New devices coming r... |
| Apr 6, 2010 | The Nexus One car dock is finally pictured [Update: And on sale!] | Boy have we been waiting for this one — since January 14, actually. As it turns out, too, the backside of the dock we spied a few weeks back is actually the official dock. But it just doesn’t hold the phone in place, it also has built-in sp... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Mobile App Directory Mplayit Adds Recommendations From App Gurus | Facebook-based mobile app directory Mplayit is launching a new way to discover mobile apps today: App Gurus. The new feature draws recommendations from experts in the mobile space. The experts, which include blogs and technology writers, wi... |
| Mar 3, 2010 | Uh-oh: Looks like the Nexus One kind of sucks at multi-touch (Video) | Uh oh.
On at least a few occasions, Android developers have mentioned to me that the multi-touch sensors on certain Android handsets — especially the Nexus One — seemed a bit.. flaky. I’d had nothing but solid experiences while dabbling wit... |
| Feb 9, 2010 | Android update after next likely to be codenamed "Gingerbread" | As any good Android-obsessed geek should know by now, Google’s made a tradition out of alphabetically naming their firmware builds after sweets. Android 1.5 was “Cupcake”, v1.6 was “Donut”, v2.0 is “Eclair”, while the next release will be l... |
| Jan 7, 2010 | Fandango comes to Android, Babylon makes its way to BlackBerry | We’re rolling two separate announcements into one post, if you don’t mind.
Fandango this morning announced the official release of its free app for the Android platform, enabling owners of Google’s Nexus One and other devices that run Andro... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | T-Mobile Starts Rolling Out Carrier Billing Support In The Android Market | Good news, Android App developers! You can probably expect an uptick in sales this month – and not just because of the Holiday bump. Just in time for the season of spending, T-Mobile has begun to roll out carrier billing support for the And... |