At a press event in Johannesburg, South Africa for the HTC Desire, Smart, and Legend, PhoneReport caught up with HTC rep Quinton Leigh and learned some very interesting information regarding their future plans. Leigh confirmed that HTC has plans to enter into the tablet market with an Android-based device, but also added it may not [...]

Optimus! The LG France blog posted some new shots of this lower-end Android 2.1 handset today, also revealing a new name for the device in the process: the LG Optimus. Looks like the Optimus will be available in four colors: black, white, grey, and pink. Check out the images below. The Optimus GT540 isn’t the [...]

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen recently told Fox Business that Flash 10.1 should be coming to Android sometime in the second half of the year. We had expected to see 10.1 makes its way to Android phones sooner, but it seems Adobe will hold good on their word after failing to produce a beta of the [...]

Now that the cats out of the bag, there isn’t much more to be learned about the HTC Droid Incredible itself. We know that it is coming the 29th of April and can be pre-ordered on the 19th, and we know that it will be $199.99 with a new 2-year contract on Verizon. But now [...]

According to app store analytics group Distimo, free applications Android Market have found their way to 46 countries, up from only 25 a few weeks ago. Among countries new to the party are Brazil, Thailand, and Israel. The number of countries with access to paid apps in the Market has grown to 13, adding Australia [...]

It’s that time of the week again. What time you ask? Time for the Phandroid Podcast! It has been a big week for the HTC Incredible — I mean the DROID Incredible — and we’ll be streaming live to talk about this hot new handset on the verge of its release. Also covered will be [...]

Geotag is all the rage these days! Was that too enthusiastic? Anyway, geotagging has exploded in popularity over the past year and a half, now, with a bunch of social networking sites adding geotag features to their service (and some social networking sites have been created because of geotagging itself). Qik is one such service [...]

ALK has released a version of its CoPilot Live 8 navigation software featuring built-in support for South Africa. Offering turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation, CoPilot Live 8 South Africa installs the South African map set directly to your Android device, making it a great choice for those traveling to the area for the FIFA World Cup taking [...]

Boxee – the web-centric media aggregator (it’s like Windows Media Center, only better and not exclusive to Microsoft) – might be getting an Android up in the future. The company updated their job listings to show that they’re looking for a lead iPhone and iPad developer. This isn’t the relevant bit, obviously, but at the [...]

We saw the staging site, we’ve seen the online store listing, we even had an early confirmation of the pre-order date, but now the DROID Incredible by HTC has gone live for the public on the Verizon website. The page is an updated version of the earlier-mentioned staging site, but with some nice Droid-esque touches [...]

There have been too many HTC Droid Incredible weeks to contain, let alone count on two hands, but it looks like HTC and Verizon are going to put the leaks and rumors to rest and make the next hot Android phone a sensation written in stone. Check out the Press Release I just got from [...]

The folks at HTC are already hard at work on another device in their labs (which I can only assume looks like a huge pile of epic) and the most difficult part of the process is to name it. On their Facebook page, they are asking users to vote on four different names they’ve already [...]

In 4 days, you can secure the HTC Droid Incredible (formerly the HTC Incredible) for yourself by preordering it online! We got our confirmation of a release date yesterday, but now you can feel that much better that you will for sure have your Droid Incredible paid for before it hits the streets. We got [...]

Some unusual – but still very interesting – news dropped recently. Meizu, the company famous for making an iPhone clone to die for, is bringing out a handset that will sport a modified version of Android 2.1. Dubbed the Meizu M9, it’ll come equipped with 3 different types of keyboards but no other features (or [...]

Toshiba wants to take their own stab at Apple and the iPad as they plan to roll out a number of “slate” devices this year. Alongside a dual-screen Windows-equipped tablet (sound familiar?), they are looking at a 10-inch form-factor akin to what you see with the WePad or the iPad. The tablet, which would have [...]

I woke up this morning and found something that made me smile (just like I did with these nice Korean Android commercials yesterday): an assortment of cool looking toys of our mascot. Aside from the usual all-green ‘droid with a  fist in the air we’ve become accustomed to, there were a good handful of unique [...]

Ask and you shall most definitely receive. We’ve been wondering about the status of HTC’s 2.1 update coming for their Sense-enabled Hero phones for a while now. They confirmed it was coming, but talks about a release window have been quiet. ThisAndroidLife pinged HTC and, to their surprise, received a response that gave us a [...]

Usually, when a phone makes an appearance in a CelleBrite system, it spells good things. We get excited for an eventual leakage of more information and begin our journey of waiting months for whoever the culprit is to just admit the existence of the device. This isn’t the case here. AndroidCentral is reporting that Twitter [...]

Something interesting just popped out of nowhere from the folks at Huawei. Besides the fact that they’re creating a phone Branded for Vodafone, we’re learning that they will also bring a new handset to Beijing, China with the Huawei C8600. The phone looks like it’ll run a modified version of Android 2.1 called the “Dynamic [...]

Twitter turned speculation into fact yesterday by announcing they’re plans to generate revenue with an advertising platform called Promoted Tweets. But that isn’t the ONLY awesome news the company announced at their Chirp conference… they also told us an Official Android Application would arrive! You may remember they just purchased a 3rd party Twitter app [...]