We got a tip from Jason (thanks) who let us know that the Official Motorola Support Forums are ablaze from Motorola Android Phone owners relying on MOTO BLUR. Dozens and dozens of people are saying “Happenings stopped working” and essentially all of the MOTO BLUR related widgets and information streams have stopped updating. It’s no [...]

If you’re looking for one application to consolidate your many different chat and messaging accounts, Nimbuzz might be for you, and for those that already have it – they’ve just updated to version 1.4. In addition to support for 9 more languages (Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, German, French, Dutch and Spanish), they’ve also provided an “auto-start” feature, LED notifications, quicker [...]

When the Kyocera Zio M6000 launches sometime in the 2nd Quarter (that’s before July for those keeping score at home) it will become the company’s first Android Phone. And judging by the initial looks of the device, it’s a pretty good first effort: The Kyocera Zio packs a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, trackball, 3.2MP camera with [...]

I haven’t been the biggest proponent of the new soft keyboard called Swype that allows you to input text into your mobile phone with a much different approach than any previous approach. For some reason it just doesn’t seem that effective to me, but others swear by the service and its now being prepackaged into [...]

The Motorola i1 is the first Android phone with Push-To-Talk iDen service and Engadget has also got the first legit hands-on with the device. Over a shmoozified meal with Mike Rowe, it seems they grabbed enough pictures and hands-on time to earn a few first impressions, and the outlook is good. They said that specs [...]

A Sprint premiere account holder got an interesting EMail about a special handset to be announced tomorrow, connected to Sprint Live Chat with a customer service rep, and they confirmed tomorrow will mark the announcement of the HTC Supersonic. They also said it will be “available soon” but who knows what that truly means: If [...]

How many folks out there use Dropbox? If you do, there is a good chance you wish they had an Android application, expressed that to the company, and the folks at Dropbox have heard you loud and clear – an Android App is coming in a few months. Here are some screenshots from their current [...]

CTIA kicks off tomorrow and Samsung is poised to announce the Samsung Galaxy S, says Engadget, who claim it’ll be the first phone following the company’s new “Smart Life” philosophy. They’ll announce this new initiative with mostly vague details, including a 1GHz minimum for their smartphones along with custom content and distribution deals that will [...]

One important tidbit left out of the initial Motorola i1 announcement was what version of Android the phone runs. Now we know thanks to an official Sprint Fact sheet that gives us the bad news – the i1 runs Android 1.5 – a pretty darn old version of Android compared to what everyone else will [...]

Combine the nostalgic gameplay of a 2D Metroid/Megaman/Mario brothers concept and plug-in the Android Robot as the main character of gameplay, whom you control, and what do you have? An awesome game on Android Market called Replica Island: With 40 levels of awesomeness, the only complaint you’ll likely have is that there aren’t 41 levels. [...]

The day the iPad was launched it got two main complaints: (1) The name was atrocious and (2) It was underpowered and lacking some simple niceities. Say what you want about the WePad name – in terms of taking the closed Apple approach and bringing it to the masses with Android’s open community nature – [...]

Another day, another Motorola Milestone with Android 2.1 launches. Last week it was Bulgaria, this week it is Orange in Spain getting the privilege. The transition from English to Spanish is less severe than English to Russian, so let’s hope they don’t suffer the same fate as our Russian friends. While new Milestone users everywhere [...]

A perfect edition to your browser. Roman Nurik – an “Android Developer Advocate” employee from Google has made an great Android theme for those using the big G’s browser “Chrome”. Have a look! Awesome! This theme is only for the chrome browser so anyone who wants the theme – and I know you do – [...]

AT&T recently launched their first Android smartphone – the Motorola Backflip – and the Dell Aero has just been announced as the carrier’s second phone with the open source platform. The press release gave few details about the Aero beyond its existence, but a new landing page at AT&T provides a few pictures and some [...]

Motorola and Sprint have just officially announced the world’s first PTT (Pust-To-Talk) Android Phone with the Motorola i1, initially rumored as the Motorola Opus One earlier this year. The i1, which will be available this summer, features 3.1-inch touch screen, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, Opera Mini 5 browser, and of course a push-to-talk experience atop Android. [...]

Pretty soon we’ll have some Full-Time writers aboard and the Phandroid news will be flowing like never before, but with Syracuse (my team!) in the NCAA tournament, I missed more news this weekend than usual. Fear not – in addition to bringing some new talent to the team I’ve been working hard on some hot [...]

April Fools Day is coming up, and last year I wrote a fake article claiming that Ford and GM announced an Android Car. Kind of funny, but we actually thought the idea was good. So did a bunch of other people but Chinese Auto-Makers SAIC, makers of luxury cars, is launching an “Android Car” of [...]

Google has been busy in the apps department lately, launching both Orkut and Buzz applications to Android Market. But it isn’t only new apps that Google has been working on – they’ve just updated their Maps applications… both of them. Google Maps version 4.1 is now available on Android 1.6+ devices, adding a few neat [...]

If you’re in the market to buy a house and you have an Android phone you’re DEFINITELY going to want to grab Zillow from Android Market. Built atop of Google Maps, the application displays all of the information you could ever want to know about the houses around you, that are currently for sale, with [...]

UK network Virgin Mobile has announced in a press release that it plans to release 2 more handsets to its Android range showing they’re starting to embrace Android. They currently stock the LG intouch Max and the Samsung Galaxy portal but are adding the HTC Desire and the Sony Ericsson X10 to the line up [...]