Back in July we introduced you folks to a company called Zii Labs (owned by Creative) who had built an Android device called Zii EGG initially targeted towards developers. It certainly LOOKED like an Android Phone and had powerful enough specs to match – but as the commenters on that article pointed out… it wasn’t [...]

Android is flourishing – nobody can deny that – but its success has to come at the expense of someone. Those someones are stale mobile operating systems that haven’t pushed far enough forward for consumers to take a renewed interest. We know all of this, of course, but just recently an analyst at Gartner – [...]

Just when we thought Motorola had raised the bar high enough with the Droid, they go and do it again. This time, on the other side of the globe. Due out next year, the Motorola MT710, an OPhone, will be running China Mobile’s Open Home System, which is Android-based. Phandroid has reported the existence of [...]

Back in 1999, an Illinois man by the name of Erich Specht started a company, and named it “Android Data.” He filed for a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2000, and his request was granted in 2002. If my blunt and lazy foreshadowing wasn’t enough, let me make it plain and [...]

If you’re craving more info on the Xperia X10 be warned… you can watch the below video… but you’ll have to endure 2-minutes of intense, dramatic music that would make Jaws’ jaw tremble. Or you could fast forward to 2-minutes in where they get to the hands-on of the X10: Overall it’s looking pretty good. [...]

Android Netbooks didn’t exactly get off to the running start we may have thought after the initial hype, but the latest emerging Android devices are tablets of sorts that are marketed with alterior motives. You’ve got the Archos 5 which touts its media playing capabilities, the Grande Specchio which is an upscale photo frame, the [...]

Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Not the dude in the video below who, after staring blankly at the screen scrolling code for a minute or two, gets Android to boot up on his Palm Treo 650: Sure… But can it run Crysis ChromeOS? Maybe Palm should start a little TreoDoes [...]

We already told you the Samsung Behold 2 would launch on November 18th for $199 and I’m proud to announce that we were wrong. But still kind of right. It WILL launch on November 18th but it will come with a $229 price tag. And nothing quite says “Officially Off The Heezy” like a press [...]

Just like TechCrunch claimed would happen, Google has officially announced their purchase of Gizmo5: Today we’re pleased to announce we’ve acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. While we don’t have any specific features to announce right now, Gizmo5′s engineers will be joining the Google Voice team to [...]

Latin America might have Speedy Gonzales but it seems China has Speedy-T0-Unbox-The-Mini-3i-Zales some pretty quick characters, too. Just a few moments after we unleashed news of the Dell Mini 3i hitting China and Brazil (Speedy Gonzales was/is actually Mexican), one Chinese Blogger has already removed the phone from what seems like retail-ready packaging: Are you [...]

It seems as though Autolock has become an old standby for G1 (or former G1) users.  It lost the limelight it had in the early days, so new users don’t have any idea how fundamental this app is to easy, everyday use of your phone. It’s worth $.99, definitely. Whether it’s worth the 2mb of [...]

We’ve talked a LOT about Android operating on devices beyond mobile phones, MIDs and netbooks. You know – places like your kitchen counter, home entertainment center, vehicle – could all have various Android-based devices to serve non-telephonic purposes. It looks as if a company called Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), based out of the UK and [...]

Dell’s entry into the smartphone market has been expected, and although once “highly anticipated”, excitement has wavered. They’re suffering the same sort of condition that seems to have overtaken Garmin’s smartphone intentions but not all is lost. At some point the Dell Mini 3i will land on AT&T but first, and in the coming days, [...]

Well look what has just joined the HTC Dream as only the 2nd sanctioned “Android Dev Phone” (ADP2): That’s right… the Google Ion. This phone was actually provided FREE to those who attended the Google I/O developer’s conference earlier this year in what was undoubtedly an Oprah moment. Way back on June 5th I suggested [...]

The same universal powers that conduct the laws of electricity and impose the laws of gravity also govern the rules of interwebzity. One of those rules is that you must like xkcd – a short stick figure comic that has become ridiculously popular. It’s about to become a whole lot more popular in the world [...]

Remember the popular iDon’t commercials that Verizon launched nearly a month ago? Even though AT&T filed a lawsuit against Verizon over it, the attack ads continue. Once again, Verizon has managed to pull out an aggressive, creative, and funny commercial from it’s marketing department.This time around, the iPhone is on the Island of Misfit Toys. [...]

There are a few highly anticipated Android phones lingering on the interwebz and the officially confirmed Xperia X10 is among them. With a 4-inch screen, the X10 has the potential to rock some amazing clarity and visuals from everyday use in basic applications to HD video. Or does it? Following the announcement, many Android enthusiasts [...]

Do you really like the concept of the Multimedia Dock for the Motorola Droid but refuse to buy it because – heck – you’ve already got an alarm clock and can’t justify the $30 purchase? What if I told you that you could have the Multimedia Dock for FREE… just… not the hardware? DockRunner is [...]

Want to see what Motorola’s Droid is all about? Well the people over at phonewreck.com were nice enough to break down the Motorola Droid and show us what’s under the hood of this beast. The phone, which has sold over 100,000 units in one week, is the fastest selling android phone in the states. So [...]

This story begins last Saturday at my local Sprint store.   When I arrived I quickly explained the problem I was having and was told to take a seat.  As I surveyed the scene around me it occurred to me that I had not been in store yet to see the Samsung Moment.  I went to [...]