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December, 2009 Articles

MOTO XT800 Official For China Telecom

by Rob Jackson on December 30th, 2009 26 Comments

The Motorola XT800 Android Phone that we told you about 2 weeks ago has been made official by Motorola and is indeed headed to China Telecom as rumored. They’ll have the phone on display at the MotoDev Summit in Beijing on January 14th. It’s a pretty good looking device and the specs definitely rise to [...]

Camangi WebStation: Total Fail

by Rob Jackson on December 30th, 2009 25 Comments

It seems like tablets are the next big thing slated for success/attention in the mobile device category – pun intended (if you can find it). So when Camangi had their WebStation up for pre-order they got some decent attention. Turns out it wasn’t so deserved. Michael Smith from Gizmodo was able to get an early [...]

2 Motorola Androids At CES?

by Rob Jackson on December 30th, 2009 22 Comments

The Consumer Electronics Show is practically a week away, and although Google plans to steal the thunder, the rest of the tech world are trying to create their own hoopla. According to Global Equities Research Analyst Trip Chowdhry that may include announcing two Android Phones. Emphasis on “may” here… especially since the company has a [...]

Nexus One: $530 Unlocked, $180 On T-Mobile

by Rob Jackson on December 29th, 2009 131 Comments

Google is holding an event on January 5th and its hardly a secret that they’ll be unveiling the Nexus One. The things that ARE a secret? We told you they would be coming shortly… and some of them have just arrived: the Nexus One will be $530 unlocked through Google or $180 on contract through [...]

Streaming FM/AM Radio With iheartradio By Clear Channel

by Rob Jackson on December 29th, 2009 52 Comments

There are plenty of applications on Android Market for music nuts. Lots of them allow you to stream music and plenty allow you to download podcasts – like Google Listen – so you can tune in even without a data connection. But one thing missing from many Android phones is an FM transmitte, something that [...]

Google Android Press Conference January 5th!

by Rob Jackson on December 29th, 2009 51 Comments

That January 5th Nexus One date has been floating around for quite some time now… and it looks like everything just got set in stone. All we’ve had thus far is a bunch of tightly tied rumors, pictures, videos and other unofficial evidence. But today, Google sent out invitations to a press conference to take [...]

Internal T-mobile Doc Confirms Google Phone

by Carl Channon on December 29th, 2009 33 Comments

T-mobile have confirmed the existence of a Google phone AKA nexus one and confirmed their support of the handset in an internal T-mobile system. Check this… In the leaked screen shot is says: Google,with the support of T-mobile, is scheduled to launch a new Android device in early January. The Google Android phone will be [...]

Seidio Making Nexus One Accessories

by Rob Jackson on December 29th, 2009 10 Comments

Seidio isn’t being secretive or shy about their involvement with “the ultimate Android Phone” the Nexus One. In fact, they’re out-and-out advertising that they’re currently manufacturing accessories for the phone! Visit their website at SeidioOnline.com and you’ll see this: Interesting to see this level of formal approval for a phone that hasn’t yet been announced. [...]

Cellular South HTC Hero to get Android 2.1 first half of 2010

by Carl Channon on December 29th, 2009 10 Comments

Some great news for Cellular South customers. Cellular South has just recently tweeted that Android 2.1 is coming to their HTC Hero! Check it out….. See I told you it was great news. ;)”Look out for it in the first half of 2010″ so that could be anytime really up to June next year but [...]

Notion Ink Adam With Android Coming June

by Rob Jackson on December 28th, 2009 8 Comments

The render of Notion Ink’s upcoming Android Tablet looked pretty stunning and now we’re learning more details such as the name (Adam), launch date (June 2010), and price ($321): Something tells me that “Adam” name won’t stick… but lets hope the June launch date does. The tablet was designed by a company called Notion Ink, [...]

Unreal Engine 3 To Android Next?

by Rob Jackson on December 28th, 2009 21 Comments

Usually when we hear about Android Market and the iPhone App Store we hear about comparisons in terms of # of applications. But what about games? Surely games fit under the app umbrella to which they refer, but it’s also clear that games have a HUGE and yet unmet potential on mobile devices. It looks [...]

Nexus One Bluetooth Desktop Dock

by Rob Jackson on December 28th, 2009 8 Comments

Our own AndroidForums was responsible for a pretty sweet Nexus One scoop today in the quickly growing Nexus One Forum. In his daily perusal of the FCC, kwaping found mention of the Nexus One Bluetooth Desktop Dock which had a bunch of interesting inclusions you wouldn’t normally expect from a typical dock. Hmmmm… why would [...]

HTC Espresso Gets Sense UI Updates [VIDEO]

by Rob Jackson on December 28th, 2009 20 Comments

If the HTC Espresso ROM is any indication, HTC is still hard at work on their Sense UI to improve every minor detail they can imagine. The below video is done by an Android modder who put the Espresso ROM on an HTC Hero and gave it for a twhirl. What changes/updates can you notice? [...]

Droid Dominates XMas Downloads

by Rob Jackson on December 28th, 2009 15 Comments

The Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless is selling very, very well… there is no denying that. Exactly how well? That’s up for debate, but only a month ago there was speculation that 600,000+ Droids would be sold during the last 2 months of the year. Owners of those phones are downloading a HECK of a [...]

LG LS680 For Sprint Has Android – What Is It?

by Rob Jackson on December 28th, 2009 3 Comments

We already know that LG and Sprint have a joint event lined up for CES. Most people are THINKING it is the Lotus 2 but HOPING it’s an LG Android Phone that will be announced. Maybe it will be the LG LS680 – an Android phone that just popped up in Sprint’s internal inventory system: [...]

150,000 Android Apps Predicted By End Of 2010

by Carl Channon on December 26th, 2009 23 Comments

I’m sure you’ll agree the Android market is constantly growing with a reportedly 20,000+ apps and games  already in the marketplace. Well according to mobile analytics firm Flurry in an interview with ‘Business Week‘, they predict their could be a whopping 150,000 apps this time next year. Chief Executive Officer of Flurry ‘Simon Khalaf’ said [...]

Holiday Android Roundup!

by Rob Jackson on December 26th, 2009 17 Comments

Yesterday we wished you a happy holiday and promised we would catch up sooner rather than later. We’ve still got New Years on the calendar and X-ed off the obligatory recovery day, but we’ll try to pump you full of robot goodness rather regularly from here on out. Can’t make any promises but hey – [...]

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays From Phandroid!

by Rob Jackson on December 25th, 2009 22 Comments

I wanted to take a few minutes to wish everyone out there a very Merry Christmas – to those who celebrate. And to those who don’t, I hope you’re having an exception holiday season in general. I know things have been a little slow around here in the past couple days… I’ve been spending some [...]

2 Android Devices Lead Time’s Top 10

by Rob Jackson on December 23rd, 2009 44 Comments

Time Magazine just published a whole lot of different “Top 10″ lists in a Top 10 of Everything 2009. One of the categories was – you guessed it – gadgets. And I was a bit suprised to find that not one but TWO Android devices were in the Top 2 positions. Can you guess which [...]

NPR Android App Now Available For Download

by Rob Jackson on December 22nd, 2009 46 Comments

Alright NPR lovers – and I know there are plenty of you out there – go hit up Android Market and search “NPR” because they’ve just made their Android Application available for download! Earlier this month they told us it was in the works, yesterday afternoon it went live and today they’ve reached out to [...]