Over the weekend, Tyler and Joey spotted the tweet of an Android Developer/enthusiast named RyeBrye who claimed to have an application that – when used – would almost instantly root your phone. There were a ton of skeptics and rightfully so – giving an installed APK this level of access to your phone’s core OS [...]

Take it for what it’s worth: http://twitter.com/RyeBrye/status/3340541190 Fingers crossed. [via Devolio]

If any of you peruse other Android sites than you may have heard about the Android Network Awards. As of this writing, 30+ Android related sites banded together to launch and promote an Android Application voting/awards program to help highlight and celebrate the best applications on Android Market. Voting started April 10th and you only [...]

Since Mobile World Congress we’ve been hearing about the Huawei U8230 which has gone through the rumor mill several times, each time passing with a different final rumored outcome. Most recently we had heard it could be the T-mobile G3… but now the rumor waters are getting muddier (and yummier)! The Wi-Fi Alliance has just [...]

Samsung’s first Android phone hasn’t exactly come storming out of the gate. After launching in a few European countries, starting with Germany, the Samsung Galaxy has been kind of MIA for a handset that should command the attention of the masses. While rumors have persisted that the device has failed to pass various certification standards, [...]

We’ve heard an awful lot about the rumored Dell Android headed to China and the awesomely high-end Motorola Sholes headed for Verizon Wireless… time to hear more. We’ve got specs for each and potentially new names: its the Dell Benzine and Motorola Sholes (not Shules)… at least this is what a BGR Ninja says. First [...]

Yesterday we told you about some fun Motorola was having with their Android progress and explained that it likely signals much more. Today we wanted to share a more substantive blog post on the MotoDev Blog – a podcast they did with PayPal (listen below): It aired yesterday at noon and here is who you’ll [...]

It was less than a month ago that the Motorola Morrison passed through the FCC with credentials assumed to land it on T-Mobile. While the Morrison wasn’t specifically named, a connect-the-dots procedure showed the earlier leaked battery model number for the Morrison lined up directly with the device that passed the FCC… and the battery [...]

Most of the excitement about upcoming Android phones seem to be centered around the Motorola Morrison and Motorola Sholes, and although Motorola hasn’t announced anything product wise, they are certainly on the attack on many levels. The most recent level is a creative one that we thought would be fun to share. On the Moto [...]

The Android Revolution keeps on picking up steam, much of it courtesy to an HTC-fueled injection of hot hardware. At an event launching the HTC Hero in Taiwan, company CEO Peter Chou announced that sales of the HTC Magic have surpassed 1 Million units! That is quite a feat for any mobile phone and considering [...]

If you’re not satisfied with the default chat and instant messaging options in Android or 3rd party solutions on the market, you might be happy to know that Nimbuzz is now available on the Android Market. The application serves as an all-in-one Skype, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM, studiVZ, GoogleTalk, Facebook, MySpace, Jabber client and [...]

The boys at XDA Devs have done it again, this time not only rooting the MyTouch 3G which launched just a week ago, but also providing an in-depth tutorial on how to do it yourself! The actual tutorial was written by Amon_RA who gives props to Jrbourgque and Haykuro (remember him?) for their help. Keep [...]

I’m not exactly a tree hugger, but I’m all about doing the simple things to avoid polluting our environment and apparently so is T-Mobile. Keeping in mind how much paper is used by sending out snail mail bills, the company will now charge $1.50/month to customers who still receive paper bills starting September 12th. And [...]

Software keyboards on mobile phones are a HUGE issue when you talk about the usability of the product. There are a TON of different elements that make up the overall user experience and these are often boiled down to a “I love it” or an “It sucks” with little physical evidence to prove the opinion. [...]

Dear whoever makes the first Android Netbook, Please, please, please… whatever you do, do NOT take any notes from the recent MSI Laptop promo/viral video that I recently found on Gizmodo: I’m not sure what world they thought they lived in where it would be okay to market a product by showing men in spandex [...]

We just got word from the good folks at Dataviz who have launched version 2.0 of their popular Documents To Go application for Android. The new version adds support for PowerPoint and PDF document types and improvements to Microsoft Word & Excel documents. If you’ve already bought a previous version of the app you can [...]

We all know that the OPhone is China Mobile’s brand name for their Android-based Open Mobile System line of phones. We also knew that Dell has been working on an Android Phone since the dawn of mankind and that yesterday a Dell phone was rumored to be announced somtime this week – most likely sporting [...]

Regular readers are probably asking themselves the question, “What the hell happened to Phandroid?” and its a fair question indeed. An untimely vacation, less than smooth server move and string of simultaneous and coincidental pains in the butt created a bit of kink in our usually timely coverage. For that, I apologize… but now we’re [...]

The Lenovo OPhone has been an Android in-the-works for it seems like forever. Well… what seems like forever will end next month (according to PCWorld) as the phone is rumored to be launching in China under the name Lenovo O1 OPhone. A promotional website for the phone surely gives the impression of an imminent launch, [...]

Just a few short days ago we saw the HTC website provide a “support page” for the HTC Hero with Sprint: Now leakdroid is claiming that same support page exists for the T-Mobile HTC Hero! It would have been really, really easy to just swap out the Sprint text for identical looking T-Mobile text so [...]