The upcoming software on the HTC Hero appears to be a thing of beauty and it is HARD to wait for a beautiful thing. Dave, aka Shivers316 for Phandroid/AndroidForums frequenters, didn’t wait: he loaded a Beta 2 version of a leaked HTC Hero ROM onto his T-Mobile G1. But better yet? He took us step-by-step [...]

Yesterday we told you the HTC Hero would see an August USA launch (carrier unknown) and would also be exclusively offered on mobile carrier Orange in the UK (date unknown). Now it appears the HTC Hero could launch in Europe at the end of June… only a month away!
A promotional video leaked suggesting a launch [...]

We’ve known since the beginning of this month that the HTC Dream and HTC Magic were headed to Canadians via Rogers on June 2nd. But once you go Android, you never go back, so the day before the Dream and Magic launch in Canada, Rogers is having somewhat of a Bachelor/Bachelorette party.

Actually, “Treasure Hunt” probably [...]

Today was an incredible day for Google as they announced Google Wave at Google I/O and it drew tremendous excitement and applause. We frenzily blogged and posted about Google Wave as the event was going on… LIVE (thanks MikeDG). For those that couldn’t attend, we hope Phandroid could kind of be your eyes and ears.
Now [...]

UPDATE: The Motorola Sholes will be the first Verizon Android Phone! Get  instant E-Mail Notification when it becomes available for purchase or pre-order by signing up here!
We don’t have any type of official timeframe, manufacturers, devices or any other details, today marks the first time Verizon Wireless has gone on record saying they WILL produce [...]

Today Google announced a new personal communication and collaboration tool in the early form. It is called Google Wave and they need the help of developers to complete the project, which is built in HTML 5. Yesterday Google was the new American Idol and Oprah, today (or this year) Google is(or hopes to be) the [...]

If the closing remarks from yesterday’s keynote are any indication, we should be prepared for some groundbreaking Android announcements today. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been thinking about what they COULD be for the last 24 hours. From strong possibilities to pipe dreams, I’ve thought about the potential. I hope they announce something [...]

We’ve gotten another Email from the Android Market Support Team, led by Eric Chu, outlining potentially exciting updates to the Android Market. I say “potential” because they are only exciting if you live in one of the following countries:

Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Belgium
Greece
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Japan

Developers can now target these locations for FREE applications using check boxes in their Application Publisher [...]

The lucky lads at PhoneArena got an early look at the Samsung Galaxy i7500 and in their excitement decided to push the “Galaxy” puns full throttle:
The Big Bang of the Android universe happened not a long time ago and its expansion is about start. The first galaxy to have ever been conquered there resigned itself [...]

The HTC Hero is looking pretty spiffy and at this point we’re hoping it gets announced ASAP, along with the 18-20 other Android Phones coming this year. A report by MobileToday suggests that the HTC Hero will launch in the United States in August with no carrier specified but when it launches in the UK, [...]

Right now we’ve got the T-Mobile G1/Dream and the HTC Magic on the market with the Samsung Galaxy i7500 Officially on the way. There are a load of other handsets rumored which might bring the total number of potential devices floating around to about… 8 or 9. So how many Android Phones will launch by [...]

Spotify has similar aspirations to many streaming music apps/sites/companies: “Our dream is to let everyone listen to whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want.” They’ve got a great start – the application can download songs in advance so that if you lose a data connection, the sense of “streaming” is never interrupted:

The company is [...]

While it only had implications on about 4,000 Google I/O attendees, the “Oprah Moment” where everyone got their very own Android Phone with 30 days of unlimited 3G data and thousands of minutes of voice for the first 30 days has by far gotten the most attention and buzz. Definitely something you should see for [...]

Parts of the world still have yet to get their hands on Android 1.5 Cupcake but yesterday at Google IO, attendees got a sneak peak at the version of Android after that – Android 2.0 Donut. Two of the most exciting additions will be Android Search and a Text-To-Speech API and engine.
Here is Romain Guy [...]

If you missed the first day of Google I/O you missed a lot of great stuff. One of them, although informationless for the most part, was certainly entertaining – the Keynote Introduction Video:

The first time I watched it I was just like wait “Wait, what is happening,” and then a bunch of horses run across [...]

We just learned that the second Android Developer Challenge has been announced and folks are already clamoring for details. Of course, with Google IO in progress, the only thing exceeding the clamoring is the amount of awesome information being simultaneously bestowed upon developers.
Here is what you need to know about ADC 2:

Submissions begin in August
There [...]

After hearing 8 different speakers talk about upcoming Google developments, product launches and services ranging from Chrome’s support of HTML5 to embeddable Web Elements, we were kind of wondering where all the Android? They merely saved the best for last as Romain Guy, Android Software Engineer, stepped up to talk about our shared passion.
First he [...]

The first Google IO Keynote has officially started and there is sure to be TONS of Android news packing the next two days not to mention news on Chrome and every Google product you can imagine. And haven’t yet imagined.

(picture via TC)
I wish I could be there in San Francisco but today my younger sister [...]

The talk about Android Netbooks has been mostly just that – talk – with the practical implementations limited and the commercially available products zero. But an innovative execution environment that allows Android Applications to run on Ubuntu could mean the first real “Android Netbook” isn’t an Android Netbook at all.

The environment, which apparently fools Android [...]

Don’t let the title fool you, this is the real deal. Sans a few bugs you can finally relive your childhood years of summer days wasted in front of the boob-tube playing Zelda and Super Mario Brothers on your Android device.
You have two options for using the emulator. There is the lite version, [...]