In addition to launching Android applications for Google’s traditional product line, the company has also playfully dabbled with more creative concepts. For example, they launched an application that keeps track of  sports scores called Google Scoreboard and one Google empoyee used his 20% time to create a little game called Divide & Conquer. But the [...]

Research firm Strategy Analytics has predicted that shipments of phones running Google Android will increase 900% in 2009 as availability  from more manufacturers, operators, vendors and developers increases drastically. They compare this to an estimated 79 percent growth for the Apple iPhone. Tom Kang, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics: “We forecast global Android smartphone shipments [...]

If Garmin’s smartphone aspirations were mapped out using its own world class service we would be coming to the crossroads of “signal lost”, “re-routing” and “make the next available U-Turn”. Garmin has just delayed their first forray into the smartphone market – the Nuvifone – until at least Q3 2009. As a point of reference, [...]

In every single video I’ve seen of the Samsung i7500 Android Phone the reviewer navigates to the “Settings > About Phone” area where they note that it is running Firmware version 1.5 – cupcake. Not at all interesting since this is common knowledge. But what IS interesting has previously gone unmentioned… note the “Model Number” [...]

In a hunt for more info on the Samsung i7500 I was able to dig up the below hands on video done by Daniel Tsou at Tech65.org. He gives the i7500 a thorough inspection in what is definitely the best review of Samsung’s first Android Phone to date: And just a fun little note about [...]

We’ve heard a lot about the new “widgets” debuting on Android 1.5 – well, you have because I won’t stop taking about them! I think imlementing a standardized system for widget integration will bring a new and immediate level of functionality to all Android phones that will be pretty exciting. John from Phonedog put together [...]

In addition to a new T-Mobile G1 Bigfoot picture and some other details about the second generation G1, BGR has uncovered the entire 2009 Wal-Mart Roadmap for all T-Mobile devices… and it includes some surprises about the T-Mobile G2/ MyTouch, too! Lets see if you can spot the extra special reason to celebrate yourself: See [...]

Disconnect over at AndBlogs.net has just posted a link to the full T-Mobile G1 Hardware Specs and no… we’re not talking how many megapixels the camera has or what version of Bluetooth is enabled. These specs, ladies and gentlemen, are WAY above my head. To put it in perspective, these are the specs that Google [...]

Earlier this week a T-Mobile roadmap leaked out indicating we would see at least 2 new Android Phones on T-Mobile this Fall: the Samsung Houdini and the T-Mobile G1 v2 (Bigfoot). Unfortunately the pictures were miniscule and offered little more than a representation of form factor, but today we bring you a (rumored) larger, sexier [...]

Do you live in the San Francisco Bay Area? If so, you might want to jump on the opportunity to get one of 50 Alpha invites to Waze (www.Waze.com) – a pretty cool Android Application concept that is about to launch private alpha. Here is how Daniel Feldman, a member of the Waze team, explained [...]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the meme. But just after playing with it for a few minutes it’s worth downloading this desktop alternative, if for nothing else to bring a little smile to your face. It does a fairly good job of mimicking the iPhone desktop, albeit with some quirks. However it does take its own [...]

I’m all for calling people out when the deserve it – not discluding me. I called myself out for Phandroid’s Live Blog Failure and more recently, our Official Cupcake hitting US article was admittedly premature since it was for Dev Phones only, although a consumer upgrade announcement came soon after. I won’t point fingers at [...]

Canadians have been waiting a long, long time for any type of Android phone to hit their cell signals, eh? Well the wait is almost over – Canadian carrier Rogers Wireless has announced that it will launch both the HTC Dream and HTC Magic on June 2nd! And so the countdown begins, quite literally, on [...]

Now it is DEFINITELY official. Dominic from the official T-Mobile forums has posted a Cupcake Announcement that indicates Android 1.5  – more endearingly called “Cupcake” – will start rolling out late next week! A couple things I’d like to point out: The updates will START late next week but won’t be FINISHED until the END [...]

If you check out Android.com/releases/ you’ll see there is a new video highlighting a bunch of the new and improved features. We thought we would share that with you here: See that little asterisk on their site marked “Note that the actual timing of Android 1.5 availability on existing user devices will be determined by [...]

The Google Mobile Blog has just posted an article highlighting the new YouTube uploads feature on Android 1.5. This is of course made possible by the fact that Android 1.5 has video recording while Android 1.1 – which us unrooted grunts in the US are stuck with for the time being – does not. Sharing [...]

In a total PR fubarring, BSQUARE has published a Press Release touting their accomplishment of “porting Adobe’s Flash Lite 3.17 technology onto Dell Netbooks running Google’s Android platform,” and specifically mentioning “the ultra-portable Dell Mini Inspiron 910″. The Press Release has since been pulled from BSQUARE’s website and Dell has given the vague statement amounting [...]

Put on your sunglasses because VtotheZ just lit up TMOnews Forums with a load of new info including pictures of all the Samsung Phones dropping on T-Mobile between nowand November 2009. The source info seems 100% legit – when you’ve got crystal clear pictures of phones that haven’t even been rumored elsewhere – what more [...]

Last week we had a little fire drill when we posted that T-Mobile G1 in the US and UK were getting Cupcake updates. It seems that statement was true, but only for developer phones and rooted phones. The only consumers that got the cupcake update, according to rumors and posts in our comments, were about [...]

I’ve just got an Official Email from the Android Market Support Team that outlines a few major updates: (1) Ability for developers to target new countries for Free Apps, (2) Local language support in more countries, and (3) Required identification of minimum SDK version supported for new/updated apps. I’ve tried to organize the information quickly/effectively [...]