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October, 2009 Articles

Sony Ericsson Infinity (Rachael) Announcement November 3rd

by Rob Jackson on October 26th, 2009

Well this is odd. A few days ago we heard the X3 would be renamed X10 and I totally clowned on the name: Personally I think it is silly to skip so far ahead for the purpose of marketing… you might as well call it the Xperia Infinity. And come to think of it… "Infinity" [...]

Samsung Moment Reviewed By Engadget

by Rob Jackson on October 26th, 2009

It seems the first in-depth Samsung Moment reviews are popping up and Engadget has just posted theirs. They conclude that the Samsung Moment isn’t as polished as an Android Phone should be, chastizing it for running an aged version of Android and insulting its less-than perfect looks. I tend to disagree. I thought the keyboard [...]

Knock Knock. Who’s There? SciPhone.

by Rob Jackson on October 26th, 2009

If you’re the type that doesn’t mind buying Fimberland boots at the Flea Market, flaunting the fake logo and cosmetic looks while knowing the soles will be falling off within a few short months, we may have found you an Android Phone to match. The SciPhone N19 and N21 Android phones are now available and [...]

HTC Working On Android 2.0 Phones

by Rob Jackson on October 26th, 2009

When the Motorola Droid lands on Verizon Wireless in a couple weeks, chances are it will be the first Android phone rocking OS version 2.0. The fact that this has been rumored for quite awhile and that it appears to be coming true begs the question – are Verizon/Motorola getting an inside track? That’s exactly [...]

Smartphones To Compose Only 25% Of Android Devices By 2013

by Rob Jackson on October 26th, 2009

I was recently reading an article from Cellular-News.com titled “Android Smartphone Shipments to Reach 32 Million Units by in 2013.” My initial reaction was something you’ve probably come to expect – I thought it was a modest forecast and would optimistically predict much greater growth. The same report predicts 6.5 million units this year and [...]

HTC Is Quietly Brilliant & YOU Commercials

by Rob Jackson on October 26th, 2009

Declaring themselves “quietly brilliant” is hardly a modest statement, but HTC has earned the right to strut their smartphones with some swagger. For the past several years HTC has been putting out some of the hottest handsets and they have been the undeniable leader of the Android charge. You’ve probably seen banner ads on Phandroid [...]

Motorola Droid: What Would You Ask?

by Rob Jackson on October 25th, 2009

The Motorola Droid has gone through more leaks than the Men’s room at an NFL game… but we still haven’t heard it all and we haven’t heard it officially. So beyond everything we THINK we know about the Motorola Droid and taking into consideration what the BGR preview mentioned… what questions are you DYING to [...]

Best Buy: Archos 5 Destroys iPod Touch

by Rob Jackson on October 25th, 2009

The iPod Touch probably has no problem selling units, but the lesser-known Archos 5 Internet MediaTablet Running Android isn’t a household name and – whether you like it or not – the average consumer doesn’t no squat about Android. We got our hands on an internal document that shows Best Buy employees are being trained [...]

HTC Passion To Continue Verizon Android Party

by Rob Jackson on October 25th, 2009

If the holiday season wasn’t enough to cheer you up, Verizon customers are going to have numerous reasons to be joyous. First there is the Motorola Droid (Sholes/Tao) which will be announced this upcoming week. Then there is the Verizon version of the HTC Hero, rumored to be called the HTC Droid Eris (Codename HTC [...]

Samsung Russia Announces Galaxy Spica, $483 In November

by Rob Jackson on October 25th, 2009

We’ve been hearing a lot about the Samsung Galaxy Lite and it was recently made official by Samsung in Russia, announcing it as the Samsung Galaxy Spica. Some of the specs officially announced: 3.2-inch touchscreen 800MHz processor 128MB of RAM 1500 mAh battery microSD (up to 32GB) GPS-module Compass The Samsung Galaxy Spica will launch [...]

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Pictured Again

by Rob Jackson on October 25th, 2009

We don’t know if Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Android Phone will be called the X10, X3 as initially rumored or Xanything but what we DO know is that it was just pictured again by the guys at MobileCrunch: The rumored launch date is sometime in early 2010 and with a 4-inch screen, 16GB of internal memory [...]

New T-Mobile Service Plans Go Live, Project Dark Unveiled

by Rob Jackson on October 25th, 2009

Good news – Catherine Zeta Jones is still hot. And on top of that, she is now on the T-Mobile website promoting what has been rumored and overly leaked the past several weeks – new T-Mobile Service Plans which came with the internal “Project Dark” codename. There are two levels of plans called “Even More” [...]

Motorola Droid Auction On EBay

by Rob Jackson on October 24th, 2009

Are you a risk taker and high roller? Than feast your eyes on the Motorola Droid that has popped up in an EBay auction. There have been 7 bids and you’ll need to put up $1,000+ to get in on the action, with the auction ending in 5 days – the day after the October [...]

Samsung Moment $149 Pre-Order

by Rob Jackson on October 23rd, 2009

Are you dying to get your hands on the Samsung Moment on Sprint? You can now pre-order the phone through Wirefly (our partners) and it’s only $159 for existing customers and $149 for new contracts. A steal considering Sprint is selling it for $179.99: Sprint themselves haven’t even started selling this so if you REALLY [...]

HTC Magic Getting HTC Sense

by Rob Jackson on October 23rd, 2009

It wasn’t until the HTC Hero, the company’s 3rd Android Phone, that they launched their custom Android build called HTC Sense. That goes without saying the HTC Dream/G1 and HTC Magic/MyTouch were stock, plain old vanilla Android (which I tend to enjoy by itself). But if you’ve got one of HTC’s first two Androids and [...]

AT&T, Rogers Getting Motorola Droid? [FCC]

by Rob Jackson on October 23rd, 2009

The Motorola Droid Tao/Sholes has passed the FCC two times already – the first time for CDMA (Verizon) the 2nd time for GSM (Europe) and now it looks as if AT&T and Rogers friendly GSM bands come with the goods. Don’t take my  word for it… but I wouldn’t argue with the FCC: I wouldn’t [...]

More Than One Motorola Droid: Eris Arrives

by Rob Jackson on October 23rd, 2009

We saw this coming. On October 19th we guessed that the Droid Does campaign could be promoting a whole bunch of different Droids: What if Verizon Wireless also plans on launching their "Hero" and maybe another Android device and is using the "Droid Does" campaign as a general marketing campaign for all their android handsets? [...]

Motorola Droid Launching November 6th

by Rob Jackson on October 23rd, 2009

We already told you the Motorola Droid was going to launch on November 6th when a Google Search seemed to list that date in Verizon ads for the Droid. But they pulled the ad quickly and hardly anyone has picked up on the happening. Well we just posted about the BGR Preview and hudman5 in [...]

Motorola Droid Previewed

by Rob Jackson on October 23rd, 2009

We’ve gotta give our props to Boy Genius Report – they’ve had a Motorola Droid for the past couple weeks and let me tell ya, they’ve been milkin’ it for all they can. Lots of little posts have finally culminated in this – the Motorola Droid Preview. He offers a DISCLAIMER: this is PROTOTYPE hardware [...]

Motorola Zeppelin Moons Us

by Rob Jackson on October 23rd, 2009

The Motorola Zeppelin didn’t float to the moon like a blimp/rocket, but instead showed us its rear end! That’s right, we got mooned by the Motorola Zeppelin with the assistance of DIGI.QQ.COM: Rumored specs for the Zep include: 5 megapixel camera with flash WiFi 3.1-inch touchscreen 480 x 320 resolution HDMI output dual SIM slots [...]