Even though the LG Optimus Pad was more or less outed by the company earlier this week, it looks like a more formal and detailed launch may be taking place later in the month. Invites are being sent out for an LG event to take place September 14th with the Optimus tag attached. Also featured [...]

It looks like Google might be gearing up for a house-keeping update to the Nexus one to further tweak and refine Android 2.2 on the device. A new build of Froyo for the N1 has leaked, this one dubbed FRG33 and bringing along speed enhancements and the new radio found in the Korean release of [...]

[UPDATE]: While Samsung has issued comment saying prices floating around as of now are just speculation, the suggested retail pricing in Sweden suggests otherwise, where the Galaxy Tab is valued at SEK 9,000 or $1,240 including value added tax of 20 percent. Further corroborating the pricing is a pre-order now available through Expansys listing the [...]

In a recent disucssion with Reuters that took place at IFA, Samsung head of marketing for their mobile division YH Lee asserted the companies commitment to Android as its main smartphone focus. Lee said, “we are prioritizing our Android platform” due to the operating system being “very open and flexible.” He also noted high consumer [...]

Is it naive of me to think that it is just unlikely for people to use a 7-inch tablet as often and in the same situations presented in the below commercial? From the looks of it, if Samsung had their way this device would act almost as a complete replacement to your phone with added [...]

While we are still waiting for Samsung to officially announce the Yp-MB2 portable media player that we have seen and heard of countless times, they were showing off an entirely different Android PM today at IFA. Lost mostly to the buzz surrounding the Galaxy Tab, the Samsung Galaxy Player 50 is an Android 2.1 device [...]

If you are looking to save a few bucks on your next handset purchase, Verizon has just the solution for you. Big Red recently began pushing a lineup of certified pre-owned devices, and the Droid X looks to count itself among them. The savings aren’t necessarily out of this world with the pricing dropping $50 [...]

While big name manufacturer’s can barely release one device without every bit of information leaking out beforehand, Huawei has been able to use their smaller stature to quietly and continually churn out cost-effective Android smartphones for markets all over the globe. The trend continues as the company has just announced a new lineup of four [...]

Just as leaked documents suggested earlier in the week, Verizon has officially announced the arrival of pre-paid data plans for their 3G devices, including BlackBerry and Android smartphones. The new deal provides unlimited data at a contract-free rate of $30 per month. For feature phones they are also making available a $10/25 MB per month [...]

Aurora Feint is poised to bust multiplayer mobile gaming wide open with the announcement of PlayTime on their OpenFeint gaming network. Aside from the ability to school both your Android owning friends and iOS owning friends in the same game, PlayTime brings matchmaking, game servers, and real-time voice chat so your excited pwnage can be [...]

Any Drake fans out there? No? Anyway, I always scoff at reports like these because they seem quite useless. Sony Ericsson wants to become the biggest supplier of Android-based products around the globe, says the company’s CEO Bert Nordberg. It’s quite an ambitious goal, but I call it useless because isn’t that the point of [...]

It wasn’t too long ago that we first heard about Toshiba’s Android 2.2-based tablet – the Folio 100 – but those were only rumors. We now know those rumors to be true, however, as they’ve officially unveiled the device today at IFA in Berlin, Germany. The specs remain largely the same from what we’ve heard [...]

It’s easy to get drowned in a wealth of information, impressions, and hands-on videos about the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but some people want to know one simple thing: what kind of accessories will be coming with this thing? This isn’t the first we’ve heard of these accessories, but now they’re official and clear as day.

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Before we can even finish building our gingerbread house, Samsung’s already looking toward the future at Android 3.5 (otherwise unofficially known as honeycomb). Speaking at a Q&A session following the Samsung Galaxy Tab’s official unveiling, head of Samsung Mobile JK Shin commented on a question about future iterations of Android on their current offering. He [...]

September 9th still sounding fishy to you? One of Engadget’s sources – an employee of one of Verizon’s corporate locations – has confirmed to them the arrival of the long-awaited Samsung Fascinate. Verizon’s not made any noise themselves leading up to the launch of this thing, but Samsung’s been putting out ads and Best Buy’s [...]

Vlingo promised they weren’t done supporting Android after Google announced their new Voice Search features. Even after making the application free for download, Vlingo’s kept that promise and surprised us with a nice update to their application today. You can now update your Twitter and Facebook statuses using nothing but the Vlingo voice widget. It [...]

Another week, another suit. This time, Google’s being pulled into court to fight against a class action lawsuit that states Google breached

their contract between them and their customers. Nathan Nabors of Florida is the man leading the charge as he feels Google misled buyers on its features – as some of them failed to maintain [...]

A shot from that trusty old Buyer’s Guide of Best Buy’s has leaked out again, and this time it further confirms the Samsung Gem headed straight for Verizon. There are still no details to confirm outside of a 3.2-megapixel camera, support for up to 16GB of external storage via microSD card, GPS, WiFi, TouchWiz 3.0 [...]

Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G is the only American Galaxy S smartphone to come with the same front-facing camera found in the international version. It joins the HTC EVO 4G – also on Sprint – that shares the same feature, and Fring’s updated their video calling application to support that. Skype and Fring still haven’t settled [...]

After many believed Skype updated their Android app (a Verizon Wireless exclusive) to allow voice calls over pure WiFi due to an unclear description, they were faced with rejection: trying to use Skype on a WiFi-only device will still cause your phone to yell at you. The confusion came where Skype listed “Simultaneous WiFi and [...]