Last week I spiraled into what I admit was little more than an Android fanboy rant, provoked by an article suggesting Microsoft was much more worried about Apple than Android in regards to competition for Windows Mobile. Criticisms of the rant included the following quotes: “Lame” “you are acting like a little child that is [...]

Mark it on your calendars folks… on September 10th Motorola is holding an Android related event in San Francisco that could be one of the most epic announcements of 2009: If you didn’t know, Motorola has FOUR Android Phones churning in the rumor mill: Motorola Sholes Motorola Morrison Motorola Calgary Motorola Heron At least one [...]

So you’re an Android lover who is unfortunate enough to be stuck with a BlackBerry until your contact runs its course or until an Android device of your liking hits your preferred carrier. We feel for you… we really do. And chances are that your time will come this holiday season. But if you can’t [...]

First of all, the obligatory bucket of salt should get a few extra helpings with this post. The Xperia X1 is a great device, the X2 is rumored to be its WinMo wielding successor and if we’re lucky enough, the Android-based Xperia X3 rumor will pan out too. But a Phandroid reader (Thanks Jeff!) has [...]

It took longer than expected, but Android Developer Challenge 2 (aka ADC2) is now accepting submissions! The announcement was made via an Android Developer Blog post that suggested developers visit the ADC Site for full rules/details. Submissions must be made by August 31st so developers have to act very, very fast! Check out what they [...]

Big news on the application front today as RealNetworks announced Rhapsody for the iPhone. Why the heck is that relevant to Phandroid? Because according to Engadget, “the company is also working diligently on Rhapsody for other mobile platforms and carrier app stores, including Google Android.” Check out a video of Rhapsody on the iPod Touch [...]

Verizon Wireless customers can start (unofficially) counting down the days that an Android Phone – and a seemingly awesome one at that – lands on their carriers shelves. A leaked Verizon roadmap has unveiled a whole swarm of Verizon Wireless goodness and amongst it all is a late October release of the upcoming Motorola Sholes. [...]

First the Samsung Galaxy Lite got its Wi-Fi certification and now another governmental hurdle has been leaped for all to see: the Galaxy Lite has passed the FCC! Here is a sketch showing the back of the phone, pretty uninteresting I know but its all we got! So what do we know about the Samsung [...]

We’ve been wondering about the Samsung Galaxy… with most of its availability in regions with foreign tongues, English reporting on the device has been minimal. Luckily the guys at AndroidPub dropped me a tip to keep me updated – Korean website Hanooki.com reports (translated to English) that Samsung sold 100,000 Samsung Galaxies in its first [...]

The MyTouch 3G has been out for quite awhile but hey – its the weekend, news is slow if not non-existent and  you’re craving Android. So I thought you might enjoy this short 3-minute discussion about the T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Steven Leckart from BoingBoing and Daniel Dumas from Wired. I’m very protective of the [...]

Any one familiar with the web development world probably knows the name Matt Cutts. He is a Google employee and “the guy” when it comes to talking SEO or Anti-Web-Spam for the world’s biggest search engine and makers of our beloved Android. A few days ago I was reading his blog and delighted by the [...]

You’ve probably heard about the iPhone & Google Voice fiasco, but if you haven’t let us fill you in. Google has an AMAZING service called Google Voice (formerly Grand Central) which had been available via the web. Recently Google took the “beta” label off Google Voice and published mobile applications for both Android Market and [...]

Time to celebrate… thanks to our awesome readers, Phandroid has just passed a milestone – 1,000,000 pageviews in the past month! We want to say “THANK YOU” and continue being your favorite Android site on the planet so we’ve got JUST the CONTEST to show our appreciation: Here is how it works: Give us feedback [...]

Now would probably be a good time to revive our Android Podcast. Google has just launched a new service called Google Listen which for all intents and purposes, is a Podcast Manager for your Android device! It allows you to subscribe to audio streams, search for audio, find audio searches and much more. Here is [...]

First things first – we’re not POSITIVE that AT&T canceled the HTC Lancaster. Furthermore, we’re technically not even sure the HTC Lancaster existed since only rumors and no official statements were made about the phone. The evidence of its existence was pretty overwhelming though, and its sudden status change via recent rumors is troubling. So [...]

The HTC Click is technically a rumor, but its appearance in a video posted by Vietnamese website Tinh Te should provide reassurance that this budgetized Android device will see the light of day. In the video we can clearly see a MicroSD slot, 3.5mm headset jack, 1100mAh battery, camera without flash and Donut build 1.50.999.0: [...]

Don’t you love it when online retailers jump the gun? The danger in caring is that they’re often wrong, but one online retailer is already allowing pre-orders of the T-Mobile Pulse claiming it will launch in October for the price of 250 euros. The site includes a nice, not-yet-seen renders of the T-Mobile Pulse: Unfortunately [...]

ARCHOS is taking on quite the challenge. The company has sent out an invitation to a September 15th event where it is largely believed they’ll unveil an Android Internet Tablet. Keep in mind this is just where the challenge BEGINS: Rumored specs include: 5-inch WVGA touchscreen HDMI Output 720p video OpenGL library support Flash support [...]

Android Forums members have been wondering about TomTom for Android since November 2008. It’s time for that discussion to continue as TomTom execs have clearly implied the company is working on a TomTom Android application: “We cannot ignore such a successful platform as Android. HTC is an important partner of ours and Android is becoming [...]

A few days ago we reported that while the G1 will likely continue to get minor updates and bug fixes, the evolutionary updates (Cupcake => Donut => Eclair) might be over. Noting a tweet from a Google Engineer himself, things certainly didn’t look good. The cause for worrying has been blown out of proportion and [...]