We understand why carriers need to impose an Early Termination Fee – they provide discounts based on the idea  a consumer will pay for a certain length of service and when they don’t, they need to recoup their costs. When the Nexus One launched, we were surprised to see that in addition to T-Mobile’s ETF, [...]

Colorware has done it again! For those of you who are unfamiliar, Colorware  is a company that gives you the complete control to customize the color of your device and they have now added the Nexus One to their repertoire. The Nexus One will take three weeks to undergo its complete custom makeover at a [...]

We’re getting photos of increasing quality of the HTC Bravo as the days/weeks pass and now it seems we’ve gotten our best one yet. A reader named “Tom” sent this one into KomorkoMania, a polish website: The translated polish text suggests some sort of event may have taken place where both the Bravo and Legend [...]

I never doubted the HTC Supersonic exists… I said that this screenshot doesn’t prove it. And when the first “live pictures” popped up on the net I was extremely hesitant. Like the screenshot, they seemed over-photoshopped, poorly edited and just overall looked like a mess. I mean, Mr. Blurrycam is annoying this is more like [...]

Overclocking. That’s exactly what the folks at AllDroid did and they pushed the Motorola Droid to its limits, eventually getting it to perform at 1.1 GHz processing speed. A dangerous task indeed given that it normally runs at 600MHz, but they found a suitable middleground at 800MHz and you can root your phone to accomplish [...]

If you compared the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, and Windows Marketplace, what order would you GUESS their applications are in terms of average price? You might (or might not) be surprised that Android Market has the cheapest applications in that regard, at least according to Distimo. Here [...]

The main complaint about the Nexus One has been its spotty 3G coverage and that problem, for many, could disappear soon. Even though we told you how to fix it yourself (many reported it didn’t work), Google has been working on a software update and will release an OTA in the next week or so, [...]

It has Android, looks like the BlackBerry Storm, but sports some super lame specs and costs $179… it’s The Robot by Chinavision. If you’re three times as gullible as the next guy you can by 3 of them for only $170/each. Chris Ziegler from Engadget was able to find the one redeeming quality of the [...]

The Google Nexus One will soon be available in Wal-Mart as the company is now displaying the phone’s availability directly on their website. Well not “directly” – the mobile sales are actually handled by LetsTalk.com but you get the point. The phone is showing support for Sprint, Verizon and AT&T 3G bands which is an [...]

A couple days ago, BGR posted a screenshot from an anonymous tipster from a device that claimed to be the HTC Supersonic running Android 3.0 for T-Mobile. They were so enthused by the story they watermarked the screenshot as seen below: It was fake. We got a screenshot of from our own “anonymous tipster” from [...]

Alright music fans, if you’ve been drooling over the MyTouch 3G Fender Edition than you’ll want to get a drip bucket as you watch this unboxing by Todd at MobileBurn: I understand they’re “late” with this, but the MyTouch 3G is still a very capable phone and with the addition of the 3.5mm headset jack [...]

Motorola’s Dev Blog is absolutely right when they say, “very seldom does such an opportunity come along to enter an emerging market when it’s, well…emerging.” They’re also on point in suggesting that China is perhaps the single most untapped smartphone market in the world. Now they’re urging developers to cash in by getting a head [...]

Cuss words. Curse words. Swear words. Call them what you want, but the Google Nexus One will simply call them #### if you use them with the voice-to-text input option. Go ahead and try it out: send a text message to a buddy with a bleepedy-bleep here and a zinger of an f-bomb there and [...]

There is a ton of tension and lots of unanswered questions in the Google, China & Android issue. We’re not sure what this means in terms of the Motorola and Samsung phones that Google is reportedly withholding from release, but Motorola has just announced that they’re offering Chinese consumers the option to utilize Baidu as [...]

Motorola stepped outside of the box when they announced the Motorola Backflip – the form factor was anything but status quo. Now Engadget has released a render of an AT&T-bound Android device named the Motorola MOTOSPLIT that has a wing-like  QWERTY keyboard protruding from either ends: This would supposedly come in the 3rd Quarter so [...]

I’m sure a lot of mobile fans would agree that they would LOVE to see Nokia embrace Android but I hate to tell ya it ain’t gonna happen anytime soon. They’re wrapped up in their own OS decisions… Symbian Foundation, Maemo, etc… and will likely stay the course. But that doesn’t mean developers with enough [...]

The media management crisis: outside of Apple’s iTunes, which is admittedly the industry leader, there aren’t a whole lot of universal solutions that work with the various hardware devices and systems of choice. DoubleTwist is a company whose goal is to solve that problem from a 3rd party perspective. Breaking into the minds of consumers, [...]

Larry Page and Sergey Brin – the under-40 co-founders of Google, have agreed to sell $5.5 Billion in stock over the next 5 years. They currently hold a combined 59% of shares which gives them a controlling interest of the company. They can essentially do whatever they want. But not for long. After the sale [...]

We just told you how 7 HTC Android Phones were leaked. Now we’re hearing from Edwin Murtazin, Editor-In-Chief of the highly regarded website Mobile-Review, is accusing HTC of purposefully and falsely leaking information on upcoming devices. Case and point: HTC just announced they shelved their Android tablets but Murtazin says the HTC Halo is exactly [...]

Good old User Agent Profiles… they’re such a sweet and discreet method of getting leaked info that couldn’t be closer to official fact. A few days ago we saw the UAP hook us up with the Magic Slider and now we’re seeing 7… yup, S-E-V-E-N HTC Android phones leaked from the User Agent Profiles. Here [...]