Last month we told you about the Samsung M100S that the company announced for their native South Korean market to be available on SK Telecom. This month the Bluetooth Special Interest Group has listed what numerically SEEMS like a successor – the Samsung M120S – where they’ve so graciously included some specs including Bluetooth 3.0. [...]

You would expect that 4G connectivity would beat 3G connectivity in terms of speed, right? Otherwise what’s the point in creating a next generation of equal or slower connections! Well Verizon Wireless took a few minutes out of their day to remind us about their upcoming LTE network and tell us that it is official [...]

We were always worried about Verizon Wireless suffocating their Android handsets – but they didn’t. Over the weekend it was AT&T’s turn to launch their first ever Android handset, the Motorola Backflip, and customers are starting to complain about the phone being somewhat crippled. That is… AT&T has removed features that SHOULD be available on [...]

Gigabyte isn’t best known for their mobile phones, but they’re hoping Android will help change that. They’ve just announced the Gigabyte GSmart Codfish G1305 which runs on Android 1.6 and was caught in pictures by PointGPhone: After some hands on time with the device they said its build quality was good and its software was [...]

If you had to simplify and describe the HTC Legend in a phrase it would be “HTC Hero sequel” but Gizmodo would argue that title doesn’t do the Legend justice. Each incremental upgrade (processor, camera, Android OS, unibody frame, etc…) piles up to make a noticeably more enjoyable experience on a beautiful handset. They say [...]

The results are in and Droid Does by KC Green akaYouTube user Shesellssheshells has won the Phandroid Funny Video Contest and with it a Nexus One. Here is the winning video: The runners up were: 2nd place ($75 Amazon Gift Card) – Dr. Droid 3rd place ($25 Amazon Gift Card) – Google Goggles Winners should [...]

It was a slow weekend on Phandroid – something I blame on having a full year of financial info and taxes to sift through/organize(yuck!)  – but it CERTAINLY wasn’t a slow weekend for the Android world altogether. Here are some of the juicy happenings you’ll want to catch up on as we steam through another [...]

Motorola has gained a patent for a “Reconfigurable Multiple-Screen Display” that both GoRumors and Engadget seem to make fun of – but I think the end-result could be rather awesome. They’ve suggested the patent is for putting multiple devices together to achieve one large screen, but I think Motorola has a much different agenda. Maybe [...]

The guys at AndroidAndMe got a hot anonymous tip on a new entrant into not only the Android market (not the one for apps) but to 4G mobile phones as well. That entrant is Cox – the nation’s 3rd largest cable company. Here is what their tipster said: "Worked on a quick short-term sub-sub-sub contract [...]

A few days ago I responded to an article titled Android Is Doomed with a rather crass, unapologetic denial of the author’s sensibility. In a world where Android news swirls at cyclone speeds, I just didn’t have the patience to offer an analytical rebuttal – but I still wanted to point out how some people [...]

On the other side of the pond they’re eagerly awaiting the launch of the HTC Legend and it looks as if the Euro-media are starting to get their review units. Over at SlashGear they’ve done an unboxing and quick demo of the phone, taking it out of it’s beta box and putting the Legend into [...]

We’ve talked before about Android being used by the military – last time it was Raytheon developing mission critical apps but now DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has unveiled a proposal seeking Android applications for use on the battlefield and in disaster situations. Take a look at how the proposal calls out Android specifically: [...]

Although Android Developers Challenge 2 was much less noteworthy/newsworthy than the first contest, it still produced its fair share of awesomeness. One game that made the Top 20 was called Atmosphere: The Training Mission, produced by development team Door-6. Now they’ve created a follow-up game called Vacuum: The Global Competition and they’re claiming it will [...]

This story reads like Episode One of “Crave UK and the Adventures of Lame Tech Support People“. Awhile back the folks at Crave UK had a Nexus One screen mysteriously crack while sitting on a desk doing absolutely nothing. Of course there could be a coverup somewhere but no matter what there are two things [...]

Have you used the Photshop Android App that was released recently, allowing you to do some advanced picture editing directly on your phone? If you have, and if you’ve liked it, then you’ll be happy to know that you MIGHT just enjoy that same functionality in a bunch of 3rd party apps. Adobe has just [...]

Our friend Noah from PhoneDog.com got some heavy duty television coverage when he was featured on FOX BUSINESS TV discussing the “Apple/Google War” as they call it. We were having trouble embedding the video so just click through and – watch it here. Noah does a good job overviewing the situation and dives into some [...]

Big In Japan is the company behind one of Android’s most popular applications – ShopSavvy. Scan a barcode and in a matter of seconds you can see where online and locally you can buy the product for cheaper as well as read reviews, make wishlists and more. Meanwhile, Snappr used to be a big player [...]

Google has just performed its fourth acquisition in less than four weeks, this time buying a San-Francisco based company called DocVerse. Interestingly enough, DocVerse is a product used with Microsoft Office ; you know – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the rest of them. DocVerse is both unique and valuable to Google in that it allows [...]

Over at the official Motorola support forums our friend Matt the Moderator knows how badly people want Android 2.1 on their Droid. While there has been some miscommunication in the past, MOTO wants to make things perfectly clear moving forward. Matt has set up a thread asking people to subscribe – when 2.1 starts going [...]

T-Mobile is definitely out to please their customers. They (and HTC) were the first to hook us all up with Android, they pushed their service plans further and harder causing the industry to follow-suit, but for some reason their owner still wants to sell them? I’m hoping T-Mobile stays in business and doesn’t get folded [...]