Just a few short weeks ago, Google was putting the finishing touches on a deal with Verizon that would make their search engine the default on all mobile phones the carrier would… carry. But following up on a failed Google-Yahoo search partnership, Microsoft is on the brink of stealing the Verizon Mobile search deal right [...]

User’s on our forum tipped us off about an interesting post on the Orb Forums. User’s on the forum started a thread about Orb and Android, questioning whether or not an Android App was (or would be) under production. Luckily a certain “yohan” – a member of the Orb team – confirmed the current production [...]

That’s a lot of A’s – Ain’t it? And if word on the street is true, there will be a lot of Androids being shipped out to Australia and Asia in holiday 2008 and 1st half of 2009, respectively. And by Androids we mean… and Android Phone… not necessarily the G1. An Australian company named [...]

Yesterday was a historic day for the United States as the nation elected its first Black President. Only 50 years, segregation was still practiced and blacks and whites didn’t even share the same bathrooms and water fountains. Clearly, a shift in ideology is taking place… but its not the only color barrier that was broken [...]

I’m not sure how many people would dare hand over their precious tech gadget to a toddler capable of hurling it into a wall, biting it or causing any type of damage. But the Toddler Lock application on the Android Market puts itself on the front lines of danger. Yes… Toddler Lock turns your precious [...]

It’s not an NES/SNES emulator. It’s not a PlayStation emulator. But it’s the next best thing: Gameboy color. And it’s coming (or has already come) to an Android device near you. AndroidBoy is a free emulator and allows its lucky owner to get their game on old school style. Although the interface and overall feel [...]

In the spirit of the United States Presidential Election we’re posting our review of Power Citizen. For some reason its classified as a “game” although it is far from fun or entertaining. All Power Citizen does is show 100 flashcards of US “citizen” trivia that you can answer and mark as mastered. In fact, I [...]

Alright folks… I know a LOT of people have been asking for Android Robot T-Shirts, Gear, Paraphanalia and all that jazz. We dotted our i’s, crossed our t’s and pretty much got the green light to sell products emblazoned with the Android Robot! See the GEAR link in the top navigation? You can also visit [...]

I first encountered the simple yet addictive arcade game called Helicopter in the Mobile Roar Arcade. I became quickly obsessed and when I found Fishocopter on the Android Market, I was introduced to obsession 2.0. As you can probably guess, Fishocopter is the exact same game but you’re a fish instead of a helicopter and [...]

TuneWiki is one of the most popular applications on the Android Market… and for GREAT reason: it absolutely rocks. TuneWiki takes any song in your music library and automatically syncs and displays lyrics so you can follow (and hopefully not sing) along. You can see that its packed with a ton of features allowing to [...]

I try to keep phandroid dedicated to Android-only news and in a roundabout way, the fact that Circuit City is closing 155 stores (see list below) is directly related to my experience with Android. You may remember my Live Blog Failure from the T-Mobile G1 Press Conference in New York City… well, Circuit City played [...]

If you can’t beat them… publicly humiliate customers who want them! That appears to be the tactic that Verizon Wireless is taking with the T-Mobile G1, releasing a long list of reasons why both the G1 and T-Mobile suck and you should stick with Big Red: Does it seem ironic how many times the word [...]