Checking your G1 every other minute to see if RC33 has been beamed down upon you? Welcome to the club. Fortunately, you don’t have to wait to join. We got an email yesterday (Thanks Peter) with a link to to the most recent firmware update, version 1.1 and RC33. Here is a direct link to [...]

If we told you that 6 to 8 Android Phones would launch in 2009 you would probably get excited considering that over the first 4 months of Android’s life only 1 device had been launched. But if we told you that O2 Germany ALONE planned to launch 6 to 8 Android phones how would you [...]

Back in November the FCC ruled that consumer mobile devices will be able to take advantage of spectrum left vacant by departing analog television technology. Its a landmark decision that will undoubtedly change the way mobile technology works yet again. But the FCC’s decision merely makes it POSSIBLE – there is a ton of work [...]

One of the most common complaints about the Android Market is how irritation and offensiveness of the comment system. There are no checks and balances and it seems anybody can post anything, leading to obnoxious, ignorant messages that are completely worthless to the community. If this bothers you, take a sigh of relief – the [...]

When it comes to mobile phone accessories, sometimes simplicity is the route best (and least) travelled. Take for example this handy little $6 phone stand from InnovationWednesday that allows you to stand your phone up (plugged in) for use watching video, using as an alarm clock, or however else it might suit your tastes: Realizing [...]

Last week, computer manufacturer Acer announced that they would be unveiling a smartphone, setting the stage for a February 16th event in Barcelona, Spain at the 2009 Mobile World Congress: Up until now all we really knew was that Acer was making a smartphone. But with less than 2 weeks before the Mobile World Congress [...]

We’ve known for quite some time that Garmin and ASUS were partnered up, after all… they’ve previously been selected to manufacture the Nuvifone. But now that partnership has not only become public but promoted and the partnership isn’t for a device but for a complete lineup. Garmin’s upcoming Nuvifone will even be rebranded as the [...]

How many cameos has the iPhone made on television? Probably too many to count. And Lil Wayne wheezes out lines like, “Makin’ million dollar deals on my iPhone” in at least 15% of his tracks. But what about Android? Popular perception is that Android is and should be reserved for the more “dorky” of consumers, [...]

The financial reports for Motorola’s handset division look like they got pummeled UFC style, no doubt about that but the company wants to turn it around in 2009. And one look at what Palm has done from Pre the Pre to Pre (figure it out yet?) proves that nothing is impossible. Knowing that Motorola is [...]

If you’re a T-Mobile Customer, G1 Owner and Technology Deficient than boy have we got something for you… (besides phandroid and androidforums)… introducing T-Mobile G1 For Dummies written by Associate Mobile Editor at Engadget, Chris Ziegler: I read (and link to) Engadget regularly and Chris does grade A work and writing all the way around [...]

Between February 5th and February 15th, T-Mobile will be releasing OTA Update 1.1 or RC33 for T-Mobile G1 owners. This news is official, coming from an Administrator at T-Mobile’s customer forums. Unfortunately, they have also officially said that this update is NOT cupcake and that it will merely include “bug fixes and feature enhancements”. If [...]

The good folks at Google brought Task Lists to Gmail in December and they turned out to be wildly popular. Now Google has brought that feature to Android and the iPhone, seamlessly syncing the tasks and task lists that you’ve been using on your desktop for the last few months: Simply visit http://gmail.com/tasks on your [...]

Can’t afford to splurge and pay for the G1 all at G-once? A new policy by T-Mobile might help soften the load. According to MobileCrunch, T-Mobile will allow customers to spread the cost of new hardware across the next 4 months of their contract, with the first of those coming as an upfront payment. No [...]

NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator and the twentieth in the world with 53 million subscribers, is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance. So far though, we haven’t heard a peep from them in terms of Android offerings. What gives? I contacted NTT DoCoMo who confirmed that they will be releasing an Android [...]

Earlier this moring, we learned that a 12 megapixel Samsung phone would likely be announced at Mobile World Congress later this month. But Samsung might have a few more tricks up their sleeve as UnwiredView says that the Samsung Android phone will be announced in the next two weeks. Their source is a GSMHelpdesk.nl and [...]