It was only a couple hours ago that we spotted Google’s brand new sports application, aptly named Scoreboard, and did a quick overview of the application. Well, after doing some followup with Google, we’ve got some more juicy details. A Google Staffer (Thanks Linda) was nice enough to score us some screenshots of Scoreboard in [...]

Google has just launched an application available in the Android Market called “Scoreboard” that comes with the following description: “Access daily sports scores for Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, and College Sports. Get Live in-game notifications for your favorite teams. And so it begins – Google starts competing in the content arena with the likes [...]

The spied out Lenovo OPhone looks like something that many expected from HTC in the first go-round- a beautiful, all-touch screen device that looks super sleek. And while Lenovo is known best for their brand of laptops, at least on the surface they appear to know what the heck they’re doing. While it looks really [...]

One of the most popular Mobile Social Networking apps – Loopt – is now available on the Android Market. You can also download the application by visiting http://loopt.com on your G1. Rather than explain ourselves, here is how Loopt themselves describe their creation: With Loopt, turn your T-Mobile G1 into a social compass and never [...]

It’s not exactly a surprise that Sprint – a member of the Open Handset Alliance – is launching an Android Phone. But after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse reportedly dissed Android saying in its curent form – isn’t "good enough enough to put the Sprint brand on it,” there were lots of folks questioning Sprint’s timeline. [...]

Remember that story about the guy who went abroad, thought he turned data roaming off and somehow racked up $100+ in data charges? Yeah, we know… it could have been worse, right? And it is… kind of. T-Mobile sent an official response to Engadget and it seems that yes, you CAN turn off Data Roaming [...]

Android Phones. Perhaps even more than an abundance of killer Android applications, people want Android Phones. For the most part, folks are looking to the future to learn about what NEW handsets will come out sporting Android. But others, like the guys on XDA Developers, are successfully putting Android on existing handsets. Now showing, Android [...]

Starting this morning, the Visa Mobile Application became available on the Android Market. We’re pretty excited because it’s the first financial application for Android from a “heavy hitter” and it offers some great features of which at the moment, only select Chase Visa card holders can take advantage. Alerts – track your card transactions WHEN [...]

It’s amazing what a little poking around can do. After extracting and unzipping Market.APK from the T-Mobile G1, a little browsing reveals that Google has placeholder icons for Ringtones and Wallpapers. Found in res > drawable > the answer lies in two files called ringtones.png and wallpapers.png, seen below: If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, [...]

With yesterday’s announcement that Sony Ericsson (and 13 others) joined the Open Handset Alliance, it was obvious they would be working on an Android Phone for 2009 release. We have learned that the first Sony Ericsson Android Phone will be a high-end handset tentatively set for the summer of 2009. This news comes from a [...]

If you’re a business customer playing the waiting game on Android and the G1, hoping that support for Microsoft’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDFs will come to the rescue, you’re in luck. Dataviz has officially announced that they’ll bring those technologies to Android phones with a Market Application version of their “Documents To Go”! This [...]

Today was a very big day for the Open Handset Alliance as all of the following companies officially joined the Android bound ranks: AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek Computer Inc. , Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone. People are making a [...]

If you’re looking for ways to spice up your T-Mobile G1, you’re in luck because the folks at XDA Developers put together a little How To and integrating transitional effects into the OS. Take a look at the “animation” between screens in the video below: And here are the steps borrowed from the folks over [...]

Consumers are often wondering how they can get the unlocked version of their favorite phone for use on their own carriers. Meanwhile, Android developers are often wondering how they can obtain an actual Android handset so they can test the applications they’re building on a real world device. Those two worlds collided today when Google [...]

The Apple iPhone App Store now has 10,000 Applications available for download and we’d like to take a moment to applaude that figure as Google Android sits with only 462 applications in Android Market. The App Store launched on July 11th while Android Market launched in late October, yet some news organizations are reporting the [...]

The world will see the second Android phone in late January 2009 and Australians will enjoy its use on their carriers as Kogan today started pre-orders for the Kogan Agora Pro. For $399 Australian Bucks (US$256) you’ll get the unlocked phone for use on any Australian Carrier and a toned down (not even a camera) [...]

Oneof the coolest games on Android right now is a little game called Amazed developed by Hands-On Mobile. Its kind of like a less complex, 2D version of Marble Madness from back in the day, but the only way to control the marble is by tilting the screen and letting “virtual gravity” roll the ball [...]

Yesterday, a Gizmodo tipster wrote in to tell a G1 nightmare story. He was an American travelling to Europe and called T-Mobile in advance to arrange for international calling and texting while overseas. He was told that roaming would cost $10/MB and told not accessing the Internet would be best and as a precaution, he [...]

The G1 went on sale in the United Kingdom slightly longer than a month ago but the price is already dropping, reports Pocket-Lint. Whereas scooping up a G1 would have been free with a £40 monthly contract up to now, lucky ‘Droiders now need only £30 to commit. Here are a couple key quotes directly [...]

Usually when we recap events we start them off with, “as expected” but no such comment will be made this time as Nokia announced the N97 at their Nokia World event in Barcelona, Spain today. The phone will be $550 Euros before carrier subsidization and its being described as the Noka 5800 on Steroids. But [...]