When explaining how much you love your brand new Sciphone N21 Android Phone and raving about it on a YouTube video just isn’t enough, there is only one alternative. That is, of course, to overaly R&B Music (Love) and House Music (Rave) while you show yourself touching the device and toying with the software oh [...]

Looks like we were right: Google has officially announced the end of public judging for ADC2. I’m glad we were wrong about one thing… we thought it would take awhile to produce/present the winners but Eric Chu from the Android Team says that they’ll make the announcement on Monday, November 30th! Thanks to tens of [...]

A few days ago, Gameloft was explaining why Android sucks and they were pulling dev dollars in favor of the iPhone. Other developers felt differently, including… apparently… Gameloft? Today the company posted a press release with the title “Gameloft Supports The 2nd Generation of Android Phones“: Paris – Gameloft®, a world leader in the publishing [...]

There is no doubt who the Motorola Droid advertising is targeted towards: Men 18+. And a new survey from YouGov’s BrandIndex (we’re not sure how they measure/compile it) suggests that the Motorola Droid advertising campaign hasn’t only caught your eye, but changed your perception of a once struggling company. In short: Apple and RIM brand [...]

We’ve just received word from trusted AndroidForums.com member Dkaufman1 that user voting for Android Developers Challenge 2 (ADC2) has officially come to an end. The winners haven’t been announced and don’t forget that the finals are not only determined by users who rate the applications, but also by a selected panel of Google Android judges. [...]

A company called Comangi will launch a product called WebStation in Mid December and it looks pretty slick. It is an Android-Based MID with a 7-inch screen, WVGA (800×480) resolution, glass touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, MicroSD, 2MP front facing camera, .3MP webcam and runs Android 1.5. Currently the company only has a sign-up form on [...]

I always admire the work people put into getting Android to work on non-Android devices. In this case, I was impressed to see that Kevin Tofel from jkOnTheRun – who is debating getting an Android MID like the Archos 5 – was able to get Android (partially) working on the x86 based Samsung Q1 UMPC [...]

Over in Asia you’ll see QR codes on everything from billboards and bus stops to newspaper ads and websites. Every single time we post one on Phandroid at least one person asks – “what is that square looking barcode thingy”. Half of you are scrolling down the comments to copy/paste that quote while the other [...]

It looks like the LG GW620 will soon have a little brother to play with as the LG GT540 was just spied whispering its User Agent Profile to the masses. It appears as if it will run Android 1.5 (boo), have a 3-inch touchscreen with 320 x 480 pixel resolution and provide support for GSM, [...]

Well it seems Samsung has released the Moment’s open source zip files. Samsung has been quiet about the Moment as well as Sprint. Wonder why? Well hopefully with this nugget of information someone can get it rooted and get it going. Android 1.5 is nice and all, but 1.6 is a bit better and 2.0 [...]

Whoops did I say Harold & Kumar? I meant Kumar. As in Ashok Kumar of Northeast Securities. The same Ashok Kumar featured in the “According to Idiots” article with Michael Cote who graciously proved his point. And now the London Times is quoting Ashok Kumar regarding even further details about the rumored early 2010 gPhone [...]

“Mom. Mom! MOM!… You were nodding off…. Yes, you were.” Screebl Lite will alleviate some of the frustration of having to deal with both your mom and your phone doing the same thing.

How quickly the HTC Hero went from hottest luxury smartphone to budget bin Android – fortunate for us that only applies to the price as the phone is still one of the best on the market. The Hero was slightly redesigned and repackaged as the HTC Droid Eris for Verizon Wireless and started selling for [...]

Google has officially launched an update for Android 1.6 that allows American Android users to enjoy Google Navigation! That’s right ladies and gentlemen… Happy Holidays – you can now go from retailer to retailer with much more ease and less aimless driving around (unfortunately that won’t prevent the long lines and countless idiots)! The update [...]

Over the past year, Amazon has had some REALLY good offers on Android Phones, starting when they were offering a $98 T-Mobile G1 when the carrier themselves were still selling it for $179.99. I was pretty excited to see what Amazon would have in terms of Black Friday Android offerings and when I heard it [...]

When you talk about the top mobile operating systems on the planet, you aren’t likely to hear Windows Mobile uttered unless its the butt of somebody’s joke. Okay so maybe you are likely to hear it uttered. Some would say that’s for obvious reasons… but James Kendrick from jkOnTheRun took nothing for granted and pitted [...]

The company that Google has announced it is acquiring, Admob, just released their October 2009 Metrics Report which takes a look at mobile phone analytics and market share figures. Although they announced that Android Phones now account for a whopping 20% of mobile web traffic from smartphones, a November 18th report takes a closer look [...]

There is no doubt that today’s gadgets are experiencing a tremendous convergence with smartphones, smartbooks and netbooks being near the middle of that mashup. They’ll never get fully smushed together into 1 device – at least not in the near future – as different situations/preferences demand different hardware and software decisions. But its pretty obvious [...]

One advantage the iPhone OS has over Android is the capability of in-app purchases. Want to buy weapons, credits, add-ons, extensions or anything WITHIN your game or application that goes above and beyond the initial free or paid application? Too bad… until now. While this feature isn’t SUPPOSED to be enabled within Android, developer of [...]

Google Navigation is awesome – there is no doubt about it – and having your mobile phone double as your GPS Navigation device is amazing on a number of different levels. But if you could have an in-car navigation system that was based on Android and embedded in your dashboard, would you be interested? Archermind [...]