This could get ugly. In an article published by Daily Finance on Friday, the website (owned by AOL) shared knowledge of a Microsoft lobbyist campaign to smear Google into governmental perception oblivion. According to Daily Finance, insiders have given these regularly scheduled meetings a name… “Screw Google” meetings. The group effectively trying to “Screw Google” [...]

The battle of the app stores rages on! Despite recent woes and plummeting public sentiment for the iPhone App Store, it is regarded as the biggest and best mobile application market on the planet. We Android fans fiercely defend our robot shop and there obvious advantages/disadvantages to what each has going. But there is one [...]

On Friday we told you about a company called Mobilizy who announced two new projects for Android : Wikitude 3 and Wikitude.Me. We’ve just spotted a 3rd project the company is pursuing and it combines your typical GPS navigation turn-by-turn software/app with Augmented Reality concepts. The result is an app called Wikitude Drive: The developers [...]

If you’re a Canadian with the HTC Dream or HTC Magic and Rogers’ mobile service you’re going to want to do as we say. Head on over the HTC support page for your given phone – Dream here and the Magic here – and download the updates provided. The update includes several key enhancements that [...]

We were SO excited to learn more about the first ever LG Android Phone… and then we learned it would be a Wi-Fi-less OPhone heading to China Mobile. Excuse our lack of excitement, but we’ve currently got our eye on the LG Eve (GW620) which DOES have Wi-Fi and is much more likely to land [...]

Dell’s first foray into the Android Market (confusing, eh?) is with the Dell Mini 3i for China Mobile, dubbed an OPhone by way of the Open Mobile System that the carrier has custom applied to Android. With the fortune of being located in China, the folks at Sina.com got access to the first DellDroid and [...]

A company called FlyScreen has produced an application called FlyDroid that takes your phone’s sleep/lock screen and uses it as a portal to access the mobile web with various widgets and syndicated content. Check out what I mean in this video demo from one of the company’s founders: You can even tweet directly from your [...]

The Android buzzword lately seems to be “Augmented Reality” and the latest addition to the pack is an Augmented Traffic View app that allows you to view live street traffic on roads ahead, helping you decide whether or not to take an alternate route based on congestion. The application is for Android users in Toronto  [...]

With the Motorola Android Event less than 2 weeks away, chances are the mysterious Motorola device that just passed through the FCC with T-Mobile bands, 3G, Wi-Fi and other distinguishable similarities is the T-Mobile destined Motorola Morrison! If the phone making the rounds really is the Morrison, it comes with Model number T56KV1. We’re pretty [...]

The confusion is over. Last week existing O2 customers in the UK found that – provided they get in touch with the right service representative in the upgrades department – they were able to secure their very own Samsung Galaxy i7500. It was hit or miss depending on who you spoke with, but now it’s [...]

You probably already love you some Twidroid so don’t be concerned that the launch of v2.5.1 will change much given that its a “major revamp”. Most of the changes occur on the back and its for that reason that the folks who made the product are recommending you UNINSTALL your existing version of Twidroid before [...]

Don’t be fooled by the title – we’re happy and grateful that Motorola is announcing ANYTHING on September 10th, but its not the best case scenario considering Motorola at one point has/had 4 Android phones in the rumor mill: Morrison, Sholes, Calgary and Heron. But the most recent rumors suggest the Calgary and Heron have [...]

Over the past few weeks or even months, many of you have noticed, commented, emailed discussed and overall just voiced your displeasure with the horrific load times on Phandroid. We heard your complaints and implemented several tactics to lessen the server load and improve server load time. They worked… but not well enough as witnessed [...]

Someone has been busy! In a Press Release published yesterday, mobile app developer Mobilizy killed two apps with one code, announcing the launch of Wikitude 3 and Wikitude.Me. The application fits into the wonderful world of Augmented Reality (AR) we keep hearing so much about. It is essentially a “World Browser” that allows location-based information [...]

We don’t talk much about the Middle East mobile market and while we (in the States) complain about only having the G1 and MyTouch with many more Androids to come, the poor folks in the Middle East are Andriodless. WERE Androidless I should say – the Samsung Galaxy is now available in stores across the [...]

This is a little bit confusing so bear with me. Yesterday we saw some reports that the Samsung Galaxy was delayed on O2. The Galaxy had never been given a firm release date and the future of the phone looked bleak since the cause for the delay was failed device testing and glitches. From Mobile [...]

The fact that the HTC Hero will eventually arrive on Sprint is pretty much regarded as fact these days. The timeframe is more often debated but EngadgetMobile received an anonymous tip suggesting that Best Buy Mobile will begin taking orders for the phone starting on September 13th (SKU 9510013). They could begin pre-orders at Best [...]

SpoofApp is an application for Android, also available on other mobile operating systems, that allows you to “fake” any CallerID number when placing an outgoing call! Sounds like the perfect little prank call tool, does it not? We’re giving away 10 60-minute SpoofApp vouchers so see the bottom of this post on how you can [...]

On July 2nd we suggested Archos would hold a September 15th event where the company would have an Android related unveiling – we were right. But now we may know exactly what the devices are thanks to FCC documents published without any request for confidentiality. The upcoming Archos devices are Internet Media Tablets A5S and [...]

Michael Arrington from TechCrunch has somehow gotten ahold of the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Commercial that he says will begin airing in the United States today. I found it funny that Arrington reiterates his rebelious tech blogger image saying, “I’ve uploaded to YouTube without any permission whatsoever”. The commercial features Whoopi Goldberg, Phil Jackson and Jesse [...]