So the HTC Magic has stolen the show. Its the cute new baby with big cheeks getting pinched while the novelty of the poor old T-Mobile G1 has worn off. Worse yet, they’re treating the HTC Magic like royalty with Cupcakes ane everything! Leave it to the guys at Geek.com to give the G1 its [...]

Get ready to rock on the run, baby! Now that the Android Market is accepting paid applications there will be an influx of games hitting G1s all over the globe – just as we predicted. Many of the apps – but games specifically – will be launched by big time companies who have been waiting [...]

Huawei’s first Andriod Phone was on display at Mobile World Congress and it looked every bit the part of the next Android Phone we desperately want to own: They issued the following Press Release: Huawei Showcases its First Android Smartphone Commercial launch in Q3 2009 Huawei Technologies ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network [...]

Chip maker Freescale thinks that the number of Netbooks sold in 2009 will double to 30 Million and they want a piece of the pie currently claimed by the likes of Intel, AMD and VIA. And it appears they’ve got an appetite for Android, possibly rolling out a $199 Android Netbook as early as this [...]

The guys at Gizmodo gave the HTC Magic on Vodafone a quick spin and the first impressions were very good with one major caveat. The finish and form factor were rated great with great features, great weight/feel and a solid offering but the on-screen keyboard was cramped and lacking. Check out the video and see [...]

Vodafone has officially announced the HTC Magic as the next Android Powered handset and it will be a Vodafone exclusive that is initially available in the UK, Spain, Germany, France and Italy with outher countries to follow. Here is the full press release: BARCELONA — Feb 17, 2009 — Vodafone and HTC Corporation today announced [...]

We’re not exactly sure how to categorize this rumor but “reputable” probably isn’t one of the first words that would pop into our heads. Goofy, Sherlocked and Suspicious are 3 that would probably qualify. An Engadget Spanish writer pushed an Acer rep for Android rumors and said Acer exec supposedly sketched out Acer’s roadmap which [...]

From VDay Eve through Presidents Day, I was on a bit of a vacation. Trusted Phandroid staffer Spencer Gardner picked up some slack but a few tidbits still slipped through the cracks that we wanted to catch everyone up on. So stop your gasping at how I could abandon the phandroid for the first days [...]

Google: The maximum price point of an application is $200. Me: So, $200…you mean, if I create an app called “I’m Rich, Snitch” that simply shows a chest of treasure, and I let a user purchase it just to show off, that you’ll “accept” it. Google: Of course! As long as we get a free [...]

Well folks, it looks like we’re getting some more of that “official-ness” we’ve all been looking for at MWC this morning. Although there’s still a chance that this here possible G2 is a user mock-up, I’m placing my bet on the fact that it’s real. From what we know so far, the specs (as far [...]

Craving Turn-By-Turn Navigation for your T-Mobile G1? February 24th the wait will be over as TeleNav is bringing their service to the Android platform. You’ll be able to download the free 30-day trial directly from their website and it’ll cost $9.99/month thereafter. Once paid apps on the Android Market launch, we’re 99.99999999% sure you’ll find [...]

There is a reason that TuneWiki was in the Android Developers Challenge Top 10 and in our TuneWiki Review we showed just why it was (and is) one of the most popular applications on the Android Market. It syncs songs on your phone with lyrics, brings up YouTube videos of those songs and shows lyrics [...]

Android’s inevitable domination of the planet has taken a small pit-stop- while we were expecting/hoping Mobile World Congress to be a playground of new Android devices, one of the most highly anticipated unannounced and unleaked Android handsets will remain such. That’s right… Samsung’s Android handset is delayed and will not appear at Mobile World Congress [...]

So far the company line has been that Paid Android Apps will launch early Q1 2009. One could assume that “early” Q1 would mean before the midway point and we’re dangerously close to the midway point of 2009′s first quarter. Its not like mobile timeframes are usually dead on and this timeframe was set way [...]

One of the key (and only) advantages the iPhone has over the T-Mobile G1 and the Android platform is Multi-Touch capability. That’s not entirely true – we’ve not only seen multi-touch on the G1 but we can also hack multi-touch on the G1 ourselves. But out of the box, Android does NOT support multi-touch. What [...]

I got my RC33 update a few days ago, which is Version 1.1. Most Android owners I’ve talked to have gotten it and if not… they can expect it shortly. While Android applications from the market will work on either version, Developers will need Version 1.1 of the SDK to access new APIs that they [...]

A few weeks ago everyone and their dad’s mom’s nephew’s cousin’s friend was talking about Android Netbooks hitting the scene. But even Google would tell you they aren’t really “Netbooks” – for legal reasons. The term “netbook” was actually trademarked by a company names Psion at least 8 years ago. Recently, portable computing devices – [...]

Looking at Archos upcoming Android Phone/Tablet that is poised to see the light of day at Mobile World Congress next week, it seems it could become an instant sensation. Archos calls it an ultra-thin Internet Media Tablet (IMT) combined with a mobile phone and specifically designates that it merges, “Google’s Android telephony stack and the [...]

Today the Kindle 2 was announced by Amazon, a product that now represents 10% of all Amazon’s orders. Now THAT is an amazing statistic. The popularity of the Kindle isn’t all that surprising when you compare it to a book… but your mobile phone is just as capable (if not more) than the Kindle to [...]

The weekend was somewhat quite in Androidville but if your mind wanders leading up to the weekend you probably missed a couple of Android stories that were worth reading. Its Monday so its time to catch up before we begin a big week of pre-MWC news leaks and drama (we hope)… here is one of [...]