A lot of people don’t even know that Google has their own social networking site called Orkut. The dominance of Facebook and Twitter overshadow almost everything else. But there ARE regions where Orkut is the market leader and folks in those places will be happy to know the Orkut Android Application is now available in [...]

Sling Media was showing off their wares (the soft kind) at an event in Austin, Texas called gdgt Live and what did they see but a few Android phones using the service. Check out the Nexus One, Droid, Behold 2 and G1 streaming music from a Sling Player: We already knew Sling Media was working [...]

While Verizon Wireless Droid owners still dream of the 2.1 they were promised, Sprint customers are getting a promise of their own – “coming weeks” and “April” are some of the open-ended frames used. This is in regards to the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment and the information was leaked in an internal document discussing [...]

It will probably be a couple months before your favorite Android 2.x device gets Adobe’s Flash 10.1 update, but they continue to convince us that we should want it now. Check out this video of the Nexus One with Flash 10.1 tuning into the CBS Sports website where you can watch all the games. Live. [...]

Two weeks in a row, baby! Phancast, baby! All of those “babies” are courtesy of the NCAA Basketball Tournament a la Dickie V. We’ll chat for a second about basketball but Phancast 16 will cover the Verizon/Moto 2.1 debacle, the Incredible, SuperSonic, Sprint/AT&T Nexus One, Buzz, Google rumors, and we’ll get together with Mike Novak [...]

As some carriers make their move towards 4G, T-Mobile USA is losing some customers for their inability to even provide 3G access, something the carrier is looking to fix for their next generation network.  Rumor has it that T-Mobile is working on a join venture opportunity with Clearwire to support their 4G data network. Two [...]

Former Apple employee Phil Kearney – who worked on the AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express and Time Capsule at Google – just wrote an article on Gizmodo about the potential of Google buying Palm. The underlying motive? Acquisition of patents: So what could motivate Apple to want to sue HTC? I’m in agreement with those who [...]

The Indian market is about to swallow up some Android opportunity, with the Motorola Milestone coming March 22nd and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 launching in the next week as well. And it won’t stop there – the Motorola Backflip and Motorola Dext are both expected to reach India by June. Both the Milestone and [...]

Google Buzz hasn’t been buzzing much lately, but that might change as an Official Google Buzz Widget has just landed on the Android Market. Oddly enough, it was only visible to certain people – Talton and I both have Motorola Droids on Verizon Wireless but only he could see it on the market. Not sure [...]

Until now, HTC has been mum about the whole Apple patent lawsuit. First Google had their back, then the Apple vs. Google thing heated up, but now we finally hear what HTC has to say and its a beautiful thing. They basically look the world in the eye and say, “Listen, we are innovators. We [...]

Motorola Droid owners were already promised and refused Android 2.1 once before and now it has happened again. Yesterday we saw Verizon announce Droid 2.1 update information and heard Motorola say that at 12 noon a limited number of people would get the update before rolling it out to the masses shortly after. Well, noon [...]

Google pretty much owns your interwebz, they’re taking over phones of the world one-by-one, and now they want to be jammed inside of your television. As soon as THIS SUMMER, Google – in partnership with Intel and Sony – could be bringing Google TV to your living/family room television. What is Google TV? A better [...]

All this great news about 2.1 floating around, here’s another to add to the collection! A recent  press release from Samsung just announced their i5700 Spica AKA Samsung Portal (in the UK) will be receiving the éclair update – a very tempting jump from Android 1.5 & they have chucked in some of their own [...]

Some inside Verizon and HTC sources through DailyTech have said Verizon will begin to get the HTC Incredible in stock within 2-weeks – GREAT news for Verizon customers. The phone is a powerhouse Android that even outclasses the Nexus One. Similar in specs to other upper echelon  Android’s with its 1GHz processor and Android 2.1, [...]

A member of XDA-forums “yrrep” has posted what he claims to be the timetable of Android 2.1 being rolled out to European HTC Hero’s AKA T-Mobile G2. Here’s a copy and paste of the supposed roll-out This is the update schedule – HTC EU (Nordic/Greek/RUS/UKR/SA) 2010/4/2 TMO – UK TMO 2010/4/16 UK/ES Orange 2010/4/16 TMO [...]

Sprint has finally announced they’ll be getting the Nexus One from Google with availability, pricing and further details coming soon. This comes right after rival AT&T had a compatible Nexus One appear for sale on Google’s website. Oddly enough, this news could take a back seat to another Sprint Android Phone that is right around [...]

If you love the look of the HTC Desire but wish the charcoal-colored finish would tone down a bit to maybe… a silver… you’re in luck. Dutch carrier BelCompany are reporting the Silver color option as an exclusive, but its probably just an exclusive in the Netherlands, meaning your local market might have a carrier [...]

Google wanted to trademark the name Nexus One but have just been DENIED by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Apparently the name is too close to an Oregon-based company’s product: their company is called Integra Telecom and the product is called Nexus, offering T1 data connectivity for businesses. OregonLive.com caught up with an [...]

Some people would say a QWERTY is a QWERTY is a QWERTY. And those people have no clue what they’re talking about. Even with QWERTY phones having the same layout, the experience of typing out texts and emails varies greatly between handsets. Not to mention that QWERTY isn’t exactly “QWERTY” in other languages with different [...]

Welcome to the world of competing rumors and unconfirmed information. Last week we heard that one of the most basic Android Phones – the HTC Tattoo – would be getting Android 2.1. This was great news for EVERYONE with a budget Android, not just Tattoo owners. But not anymore. The HTC Tattoo might not be [...]