EA Mobile has released 2 games that you must pay for – Tetris and Monopoly Here & Now. Users can visit the EA Mobile website directly from their G1 to purchase the apps. Thankfully, EA Mobile didn’t release DEMO versions of the applications, list them as FREE and then only allow you to use square [...]

If you’ve got a T-Mobile G1 you can now update to the latest software patch… but we have no clue what it actually does. Android Forums member chrislimon brought this to our attention and provided his own summary of how it went down: Tonight when I got home and turned on Wi-Fi my phone started [...]

I checked out Android’s first two “flashlight” applications, ever prevalent on the iPhone as well, and gave them a test run. All the apps do as you probably could have predicted, is keep your backlight turned on. But in actuality the 2 apps I looked at – IO Flashlight and Flashlight – had 2 very [...]

For folks familiar with the Android Rap Song you may remember the line: A Dollar For A Ringtone? Real Funny… I can make my own now (ringdroid), GIMME BACK MY MONEY A lot of people will be feeling that way with Ringdroid now appearing on the Android Market. Whereas carrier supplied ringtones typically cost a [...]

So in my last post I went on somewhat of a rant about paid applications disguised as FREE applications. I won’t continue the rant… but for those wondering EXACTLY what I was blathering about, take a look at the following video which perfectly illustrates my point. Me no likey. UPDATE: To their credit, Keith from [...]

When you see an application listed as FREE you expect it to be FREE, right? So did we. Little did we know that when you download applications like “Fast Food Calorie Calculator” its sole purpose in life is to direct you to the MobiHand website so you can PURCHASE the application for $9.99! Great, just [...]

The (actual) Android Market is now officially opened to developers from far and near lands to submit their Android Applications for publication! Yup, its another landmark day for Google, Android, the OHA and of course T-Mobile who should see an incredibly influx of new applications available on their G1. And for G1 owners that of [...]

What did the bird say when it flew into Wal-Mart looking for a T-Mobile G1? Cheap, cheap, cheap! Rumor has it that starting on November 24th, Wal-Mart will be offering the T-Mobile G1 for over $30 dollars off the price you’ll find at T-Mobile stores. That’s right… $179.99 at Magenta and $148.88 at Wallies… for [...]

A group of security researchers exposed a flaw in the web browser on the T-Mobile G1 that could potentially allow trojans and keyloggers to install themsevles on your phone if you visited an infected website. The stars would somehow have to align for someone to fall victim: A malicious developer would need to know what [...]

It came time to part with my review unit of the G1 (Thanks T-Mobile!) and send the phone back to its rightful owner. But what about all the personal info on the phone? The apps, texts, e-mails, AIMs and all that jazz? A quick search of AndroidForums.com turned up an easy way of restoring your [...]

Sprint has long been rumored to be delivering an Android Phone sooner rather than later and was supposedly only waiting for their new 4G WiMax service to cover a broader range. That’s not the case. According to a Reuters article, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told a group media folks that Android – in its curent [...]

Remember that 1.5 Million G1s figure that was falsely floating around courtesy of Motley Fool? Yeah, they posted a suggestive article that guesstimated the number of G1s sold based on some simple incorrect math. Everyone and their baby mamma republished the figure… and we were as guilty as the rest. But now the REAL figures [...]

Hop-on, a company typically known for their low end handset offerings, has announced that they will showcase its new Android enabled device at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronic Show in January 2009. The phone will cost $200 or less. Will it be compareable to the T-Mobile G1 in quality and form factor? Hard to say… [...]

Where in the world has Palm been these days? Oh yeah, busy releasing the Palm Treo Pro that virtually nobody seems to care much about. Perhaps Palm didn’t try too hard to get the Treo Pro Carrier subsidized because they were working on something else… like making a new Linux based Operating System. ACCESS – [...]

Yesterday we found out that Android Market had fewer Apps than the iPhone App Store after its first 24 hours. Not a HUGE discovery because we know that plenty of new applications are on the way… but exactly wihch ones? Curiousity is in the air as G1 owners and Android enthusiasts wonder what they have [...]

Have you heard of ShopSavvy? Yeah, so has pretty much everyone else in the Android universe. So when the developers of ShopSavvy (Big In Japan) walked into a Dallas, Texas T-Mobile store you would think they would be treated like royalty. Afterall, ShopSavvy is prominently place in promotional literature and signage all around T-Mobile stores [...]

Remember the good ol’ days of hearing about the first iPhone to be used without activation (yeah, good ol’…er…)? Well, strap on your seat belts because It seems as though we’ve been hit with a “Groundhog Day” of sorts – with one small caveat – instead of the iPhone it’s the G1. Loveforbiz has posted [...]

The G1 has only been officially “on the market” for a day but early birders have had their phone’s for almost a week now. The Android Market is – for obvious reasons – the top destination on the G1 and already some interesting statistics are popping up. The folks at Medialets have put together some [...]

Ask any G1 owner to make a list of complaints or shortcomings of their phone’s software and almost every list would include that the lack of a Virtual, Touch Screen Qwerty Keyboard was rather annoying. They won’t have to be annoyed for THAT much longer. In early 2009, it appears as though the Android OS [...]

Long time readers of phandroid will know that we’re not afraid to call people out. And that’s exactly what we’re doing to a Mr. John C. Dvorak who a few days ago wrote an article titled, “Cell Phone Mania Must Stop Now!” We can understand that he’s, “sick of reading about new phones,” but how [...]