The rumors are stacking up sky high, but considering their source is the Wall Street Journal, they probably have a lot of substance. The bottom line is that Dell could be launching an Android Phone called the “MePhone” as early as next month. About a year ago we heard rumors of Dell pushing into the [...]

The beta version of Opera Mini for Android got its fair share of complaints, for example, the inability to play videos. But after lots of bug fixing and feedback offering, Opera Mini 4.2 has finally been launched in the Android Market and comes with a host of improvements: Now you can upload and download files [...]

Kogan’s failure to follow through with their timeline on releasing the Kogan Agora was disappointing but almost expected when put in perspective to industry norms. But the whole “indefinitely delayed” label was pure ugh. We knew that Kogan would follow up their doughnut with something else… and slowly more details are coming out. Yesterday the [...]

First of all, in tribute to David’s explanation of Android Market’s comment system (first comment of yesterday’s post) we wanted to assure him that, “yo all deez dawgz wants dem cupcakes as badz as u!” And we’ve got proof: Now if you want to see an example of the REAL cupcake – sans dogs, dawgs [...]

Yes, folks. Yes. Cupcake has officially hit the Android Market. And it couldn’t be soon enough – I was just about to make another ridiculous review comment on another app, asking for an OTA update.  Of course, certain other G1 owners have already taken care of that problem. The iPhone firmware update 2.2.1 just hit [...]

Introducing the General Mobile DSTL1, a Dual SIM Phone that according to GSMArena, will be Android enabled and will be presented at the Mobile World Congress in February: First things first… we took a thorough look at General Mobile’s DSTL1 product sheet, overview and specs and didn’t see a single mention of Android. That’s not [...]

Remember GolfPlay? It was an Android application by Inizziativa that was in the Top 50 of the Android Developer Challenge. But alas, there is STILL no GolfPlay on the market. Seeing as how its winter in the United States its a bit less important but there is something to be said for the “first mover [...]

Yesterday you met the still unnamed Phandroid Robot in our Site Redesign post. With all the drama and complications of bringing our new look live, we admittedly fell a step behind on the news beat. We want to catch everyone up to speed in one fell swoop so we can get back to your regularly [...]

Alibaba is an international business-to-business portal where, more often than not, international buyers connect with Chinese and Asian manufacturers. But if you search the site for Android it’ll sing you a sweet nursery song remix called Ali-Ba-Ba-Black Market have you any Androids. And yes sir, yes sir they have G2s: Hmmmm… that definitely doesn’t look [...]

Introducing the brand new Phandroid.com design! We’ve been working on the design/coding for MONTHS and while not every detail is perfect right now, we couldn’t keep our secret any longer. We’re not the only one who has a secret… look at the trick the bot has been hiding: That’s our brand new video intro on [...]

We knew Samsung was working on their Android handset but the whenabouts of the announcement and launch were anybodies guess (actually, we already knew). That infinite window was narrowed to “sometime in the next 5 months” by Chi Youngcho, head of the Digital Media Communications Unit at Samsung. In a PCWorld article, Youngcho was quoted [...]

Get excited, music lovers and Android fans because a Last.FM application has just hit the Android Market! The Last.FM team officially added Android and the G1 as supported hardware and announced the Android Application launch on their blog: Our new Android app is a fully featured Last.fm radio application that leverages the open nature of [...]

Epilogue: Thanks to everyone for following me on Twitter – I’ll start to post more updates and talk more with y’all. Can you hear it? Yeah, it’s the oven timer (Oooh, and it just twittered me, too…). It’s been beeping louder and louder; as if, for some reason, it really wanting me to take out [...]

The first Android Developer Challenge was a big hit and it drummed up a ton of excitement from Android amongst not only developers but tech industry bloggers, tech industry lovers and regular consumers who were shocked you could scan a barcode with your phone. But even when ADC1 was announced we knew there would be [...]

When asked what defines the month of February you’re likely to get one of two answers. Either (1) Valentines Day, the holiday invented by Hallmark to ensure I’m sucked dry of all of my savings to prove that I actually love my girlfriend/fiance/wife/etc.. or (2) The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where awesome new handsets [...]

I’m not going to pretend to know the ins-and-outs of the Ultimate Boot CD but one of my best friends, Mr. Interwebz, helped sum it up: “UBCD is an awesome PC diagnostics tool that condenses over 100 useful PC diagnostics and hardware troubleshooting tools into a single easy to use interface.” Now you can boot [...]

Take the G1, remove the keyboard which makes it inherently thinner and give it a smooth as a baby’s butt white shell and what do you have? The HTC-made Android Dream2 which would presumably become the T-Mobile G2: awesome. Awesome. AWESOME! The same tipster who gave Giz the pics also said it will hit the [...]

Steve Horowitz, Chief Technology Officer at Google and the lead engineer for Android, has left the company to take a position at Coupons.com. At first the move seems like getting out of a concept car to accept keys to a Geo Metro, but if you ask me the move makes sense. The foundation of Android [...]

Last week we broke the news that the Android Market would feature geo-targeting capabilities for developers in new European countries. And since you couldn’t currently purchase an Android based phone in any of said countries, the T-Mobile G1 was presumably facing an imminent release across Europe. T-Mobile Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan confirmed our assumptions, giving [...]

We all know about cheap, imitation knockoffs that are made in China and sold at a fraction of the price. And while they’re initially entertaining the words cheap and imitation wind up proving themselves too true to pay these kind much attention. But if imitation is the best form of flattery, then the indefinitely delayed/cancelled [...]