As Engadget pointed out, at Mobile World Congress 2009 in February, LG announced they were making Windows Mobile their Operating System of choice. Whether or not they’ve had a change of heart or are fiddling with technicalities and verbage, LG CEO Nam Yong just announced that Android offerings will compose almost half of their smartphones [...]

These days if you say “Nexus” the only thing you’re bound to think of is Google’s Nexus One Android Phone by HTC – ESPECIALLY if you’re the tech-loving type. But less than 2 months ago the name Nexus meant something very different to the Android world. That’s because Sony Ericsson announced Nexus, their custom build [...]

Google has announced a new feature entitled “Near me now”. This new feature allows Android (2.0.1 and later) and iPhone users to search for results based on their GPS location.  Google Mobile’s blog says the “Near me now” feature was designed to address two problems: First, we wanted to make it fast and easy to [...]

A while back we showed you the Samsung Galaxy Spica and yesterday, in our Android Roundup, we let you know that it was officially coming to the U.S. The guys over at MobileBurn got their hands on one at CES and posted a demo video -which we thought we’d pass along to you. Enjoy! [via [...]

As you all know, Google started selling the Nexus One phone this week. They also provide their Android OS to various other smart phone manufactures. Since Google now sells their own branded phone, it is believed that handset makers will be discouraged from working with Google since it may reflect a conflict of interest between [...]

We brought you news before that Dell was working on an Android powered tablet and now they have announced a new Android powered Tablet PC, named the Dell Mini 5, at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. The new tablet boasts: 5 inch screen SIM card slot for use outside of a Wi-Fi hotspot. 2 [...]

The flush flat sides and curved tops mixed with the texture/design on the back and color options make me think LG is targeting women with their 2nd Android Phone – the LG Swift GT540. The company’s first Android Phone was the LG GW620 – do you agree their second offering focuses more on style than [...]

Pretty soon Sprint will be testing Digital TV on the Samsung Moment in Washington DC and Baltimore. Samsung has taken their Moment Android Phone and equipped it with the chips, antenna and specs necessary to receive Digital Television anywhere in the nation. Because its in Beta the channel selection was extremely limited (2 channels) but [...]

The folks at MSI, known for Netbooks, had a prototype Android Tablet on display and I was eager to speak to a representative and give it a whirl. Unfortunately things didn’t really go as planned – not only was the touchscreen incredibly buggy by registering attempted scrolls as clicks but it often froze, requiring a [...]

Marvell has a pretty extensive booth at CES and for the most part I really liked what they had going on. It’s clear that the company has a good thing going and on display they had a bunch of Android-based products they’ve worked on including the Dell Mini 3i, Entourage Edge, Alex eReader and Marvell [...]

This has to be one of my favorite Android stories from CES. An Android Washer and Dryer. An Android Microwave that runs Pandora Radio. An Android Printer/Copier/Scanner. An Android Desk Phone. And much, much more to come. Almost exactly one year ago we told you about a company called Touch Revolution as they announced their [...]

At first glance the Motorola Backflip doesn’t look like anything we haven’t yet seen – in fact it looks a lot like a Moto CLIQ-Clone. But if that were the case the Backflip would be the ultra-flexible, double jointed, ridiculously bendable version. The phone – which was announced earlier this week – has a unique [...]

GestureTek has made an announcement that its patented gesture reading, touch free control interface is now supported on Android devices. GestureTek is an inventor of software that allows the user to control application via their own gestures. The software uses tracking engines that use the camera of the Android device to allow the user a touch [...]

What this article touches on: AT&T Phones, Nexus One Talk, A Few Application Announcements, Other Phones in News, HP Smartbook and ICD Tablet, and the Powermat. AT&T’s Android Phones Some are saying one of the HTC phones coming to AT&T might the the HTC Lancaster. For a while there a bit back that was what [...]

Broadcom Company has announced, at the 2010 CES, that they have successfully ran Android on their most advanced navigation processor, the Broadcom® BCM4760.  Broadcom says: “enabling a new generation of location-aware mobile internet devices (MIDs) and personal navigation devices (PNDs). As PNDs and MIDs evolve to include increasingly sophisticated navigation functionality and location based services, [...]

MoDaCo announced a new MoDaCo Custom ROM. The Hero Kitchen allows you to select what “ingredients” you would like in your “baked” ROM. It is now far easier to choose any aspects you may not want in your ROM – rather than having to go through the hassel of accessing your command line to free up space. [...]

Want to browse the web while watching your favorite show? Or how about post a tweet or update your facebook status without ever leaving the comfort of your own sofa? MIPS Technologies has announced, from CES, the capabilities to run set top boxes, Blu ray DVD players, and others on an Android platform. We showed [...]

The moment everyone has been waiting for the past few weeks is finally here! For those of you who ordered a Nexus One on launch day received free overnight shipping and should of received it yesterday afternoon. We got ours yesterday and thought we would give you a quick unboxing video of the long awaited [...]

Since Android’s birth, analysts and critics have continually asked how Google will monetize Android. Will they charge partners money in order to use Android? Are there licensing fees? Do they intend to make money from the App Market? The Google team has always responded by explaining Android’s purpose is simply to grow the mobile web [...]

The folks at Engadget got some face time with Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha and asked some pretty interesting questions. The result? Some pretty interesting answers. Here are some tidbits we came away with but make sure you visit Engadget for the full interview transcript: Backflip very similiar to the CLIQ Motorola will probably publish unique  [...]