Alright Samsung Galaxy owners, be prepared to find the closest corner and begin weeping uncontrollably. Although the likes of the Samsung Moment, Sprint HTC Hero, Droid Eris and HTC Hero are all getting confirmed updates to Android 2.1, rumor has it that not only will the Samsung Galaxy NOT get a 2.1 upgrade… but they’ll [...]

We just told you that the Droid Eris and HTC Hero were getting the Android 2.1 update and now we’re getting confirmation, additions and a timeline from Sprint. The carrier will be upgrading both their Sprint HTC Hero and Samsung Moment to Android 2.1 and this will be happening in early second quarter – likely [...]

HTC CEO Peter Chou today confirmed that the HTC Droid Eris for Verizon, the HTC Hero for Sprint, and the HTC Hero for European markets will all be getting upgrades to Android 2.1. In addition, those phones with HTC Sense will be getting the improvements – such as Helicopter view – pushed to their phones. [...]

If you thought the Dell Mini 5 (5-inch screen) was big for a phone, you haven’t seen the Huawei SmaKit S7 (7-inch screen)! In all due fairness, the device is considered a MID with 3G voice capabilities, and with Bluetooth you’ll probably be using a headset to talk more often than not. Either way, it [...]

Suppose you’re a carrier or manufacturer and you want to offer an application store on your Android-based device that ISN’T the Android market. Nope… not at all. You want a customized UI on your phone and you want your own store – branded as whatever the hack you want. Can you get it done? With [...]

Take the Nexus One, make some minor style/spec adjustments, put it on Orange UK and sign a service contract and what do you have? A FREE PHONE! That’s right: Orange UK just issued a press release stating that, starting in April, they’ll be offering the HTC Desire for free on contracts with certain monthly price [...]

When we saw the video of Dell CEO (Michael Dell) demonstrating the Dell Mini 5 to Michael Arrington, it just looked like a pretty awesome Android Tablet. But that’s not all it is – the device also makes calls and will likely be available on contract from AT&T and T-Mobile! The Mini 5 is rumored [...]

Multiple sources (read: MobileCrunch & BGR) are claiming that Verizon Wireless will launch a Buy One Get One (BOGO) promotion today that will include both the Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris. The Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi Plus, LG Chocolate Touch, Samsung Alias 2 and any WinMo phone of equal or lesser value. Supposedly [...]

Add another manufacturer to the Android bandwagon: Lumigon. The company is starting their Android initiative with an incredibly creative set of offerings with a feature we haven’t seen before on Android handsets… slide-out T9 keyboards. Typically Android phones have offered either touchscreen only or touchscreen with full QWERTY offerings so this is definitely a step [...]

With the announcement of the HTC Legend and HTC Desire, the company also ushered in a brand new version of HTC Sense. It’s still the same good lookin’ sense you’re familiar with only it has some additions. Most notable are 7 homescreens instead of 5, and the ability to pinch-to-zoom on the homescreen to “zoom [...]

The T-Mobile Pulse has been out for sometime now, but it appears the trend of “Mini” versions of larger devices will continue – the carrier has just announced the T-Mobile Pulse Mini. The folks at ElectricPig/FoneHome are claiming it’ll be “the most up to date budget Android phone yet” and they’re absolutely right – this [...]

Watch and enjoy! HTC Legend HTC Desire If you were on a different planet the past couple days… these two phones were just announced (Desire/Legend).

The title says it all, ladies and gentlemen. Following the unveiling of the HTC Desire, T-Mobile UK has just tweeted that the phone will be available starting March 26th with their service: How many UKers are gonna grab this next month? [Thanks Piers]

Push another paper from the “rumor” filing cabinet into the one marked “official” – the HTC Legend just got official at the HTC Press Conference at Mobile World Congress 2010. There aren’t very many surprises here – but the unmistakeably Hero-ish look of the Legend, combined with the equally bold uniqueness make it a handset [...]

The most surprising of the HTC announcements today was the announcement of the HTC Desire, formerly codenamed the HTC Bravo. We got a leak last night suggesting this would happen and indeed it did. The idea that the Desire would be an HTC-Sensed-Up version of the Nexus One was pretty darn accurate with a few [...]

When we told you about the Huawei U8800 Android Phone we got the goods from a Press Release. Somehow we overlooked the U8100/U8110 and U8300 completely – they just didn’t seem to LOOK like Android Phones so we assumed they weren’t. These entry level handsets are aimed at the youth market and I think it’s [...]

The Alcatel OT-9880 isn’t the flashiest Android Phone with the most killer specs but it DEFINITELY stands out and if you ask us, it’s because of the undeniable resemblance to the Palm Pre. We first saw this phone on February 1st and now we’re getting a release timeframe: May in the UK. The phone is [...]

Huawei promised phones at MWC and they delivered: for Android it arrived in the form of the Huawei U8800. The main highlight of this particular device is its HSPA+ connectivity allowing 14Mbps data speeds, essentially meaning you could download a 1GB file in less than a minute and a half. To benefit from that capability [...]

They JUST got done telling us leaking the HTC Desire (formerly Bravo) and now comes another phone-spill from Modaco – the HTC Legend. This should also be announced tomorrow when HTC has their official press event. As we’ve told you before, the HTC Legend is a slightly modified/improved version of the HTC Hero that the [...]

If the kids at Modaco are right, the rumored HTC Bravo will launch on Verizon Wireless as the HTC Desire, pleasing a LOT of people but confusing many in the process. The HTC Desire was also the rumored “codename” for what eventually became the HTC Droid Eris. Any way you look at it, the *new* [...]