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April, 2010 Articles

Sprint Kicks-Off NFL Draft with Sprint Football Live

by Kevin Krause on April 7th, 2010

Though the season is still months out, the NFL Draft is only weeks away, and those Android users on Sprint will be able to get all the latest news straight on their phones with the new Sprint Live Football app. What is essentially a new take on the Sprint NFL Live app that went out [...]

Medialets Offers Cross-Platform, Network Independent Ads

by Kevin Krause on April 7th, 2010

In a move that highlights Android’s growing presence in the mobile world, Medialets annnounced their Rich Media Ad SDK for Android today. The SDK allows for the creation of rich media advertisements that work across mobile platforms, meaning ad buyers can create one set of ads that works across both Android and iPhone, independent of [...]

[UPDATE] Rumor Train Keeps Rolling On Sprint HTC Evo 4G Launch Date

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 7th, 2010

Luckily for us, Sprint higher-ups are so eager about the launch date of the HTC EVO 4G that they can’t keep their mouths shut! The latest watercooler talk comes to us via Engadget whose source claims that a June 13th date is becoming more and more likely – previously, we’ve only heard about a strong [...]

Google Earth Is Back For Droid 2.1 Users

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 7th, 2010

Not that it ever really went anywhere, but we can now calm the masses running the latest flavor of Android on their ‘Big Red’ Droid. For those that haven’t heard, Google Earth reportedly went missing from the market as they updated their Verizon Motorola Droid to Android 2.1 sometime last week. Some fears that came [...]

Arduino Truckbot Gets Ordered Around By Voice

by Rob Jackson on April 7th, 2010

We’ve seen Android hacked together to accomplish some pretty wacky and zany things, and often times those “things” involve an Android handset being the “brain” of an actual robot. I’m not sure anybody does it better than cellbots, who just added voice commands to their bot. Your signficant other won’t listen? Boss around a bot [...]

Verizon Launching the HTC Incredible at End of April?

by Kevin Krause on April 7th, 2010

A post over at AndroidForums has an image suggesting Verizon will be launching “New devices ‘really’ soon.” Could this be the beginnings of what will eventually end with the roll out of the much-awaited HTC Incredible? Word on the street is the Incredible will drop on April 29th (or the 25th depending on your sources). [...]

Delivery Manager Mobilizes Your Business’s Shipping Needs

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 7th, 2010

Perhaps the biggest concern in Android’s earliest stages was adopting the business user. With time, and thanks to the Android Market, it’s become an after thought and executives can finally drop their Blackberries and Windows Mobile devices in favor of our beloved little green robot. Telargo is sweetening the deal even further with Delivery Manager. [...]

Google Releases Nexus One Car Dock

by Kevin Krause on April 7th, 2010

Through a posting via the official Nexus One Twitter google unveiled a rather substantial new accessory for their once accessory-lacking phone. The Nexus One Car Dock is now available through Google’s web store for the pretty hefty fee of $55. The dock features connectivity for charging and also sports a set of speakers for listening [...]

GIPS Provides First Platform For Mobile Video Chat

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 7th, 2010

Ever since the announcement of Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G you’ve probably been wondering when we’ll hear anything about more uses for the ever-desired front-facing camera it comes stocked with. Today, Global IP Solutions is announcing the availability of a platform that could see rapid development of mobile video chat in the very near future. VideoEngine [...]

Nexus One Coming Soon to France’s Bouygues Telecom

by Kevin Krause on April 7th, 2010

The Nexus One seems to be making the trip to France very shortly, as it was recently spotted among the listings on French carrier Bouygues Telecom’s site. No specific release date is mentioned, but the listing gives reason to believe that it will be arriving sooner rather than later. The Nexus isn’t the first Android [...]

Clove Further Delays Unlocked Desire in the UK

by Kevin Krause on April 7th, 2010

Looks like those in the UK waiting to obtain the unlocked HTC Desire will be left wanting for a little bit longer after mobile retailer Clove announced the handset will be delayed until next week. A statement released through the Clove blog did not confirm an actual ship date, but claims the HTC Desire will [...]

Android 2.1 Update For TELUS HTC Hero Delayed To First Week Of May

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 7th, 2010

It looks like Android 2.1 is having even more problems getting itself onto a larger number of handsets. According to the tip inbox of MobileSyrup, TELUS customers with the HTC Hero were supposed to be seeing an Android 2.1 update sometime this month. While April is far from over, talks regarding a delay are already [...]

Intro Of An Android Geek: Say Hello To Quentyn

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 7th, 2010

What’s up, phans? As you may already realize, Android has become one of – if not the – hottest entities in the mobile phone space today. With the rapid growth of Android comes the rapid growth of Phandroid: more content, more great readers, and more ‘droid. Introduce me – one of the biggest Android enthusiasts [...]

Kevin Signing In With Top 5 Android Apps

by Kevin Krause on April 7th, 2010

I must admit I’m really not that great at introductions. Ask any of my friends and they will probably agree (to be fair, I don’t think they do a very good job of introducing people either). I tend to think it is easier to simply skip that part and jump right in, but in any [...]

Rhapsody Goes Solo, Plays Sweet Android Music

by Rob Jackson on April 7th, 2010

Rhapsody made a few pretty huge announcements today, one of them being that their Android Application is now available on Android Market! You can download it for free and since Rhapsody offers a free 7-day trial, you can get at least one full week of testing out their streaming music service. If you decide to [...]

Pasen MID5 Packs Android In 5-Inch MID

by Rob Jackson on April 6th, 2010

The crazy kids at Pasen aren’t the type to get all creative with names – afterall, as Engadget points out, they’ve been creating knock-offable MP4 players for quite awhile. So when it came time to name their 5-Inch Android MID what did they name it? MID5… the Pasen MID5. This time around the result doesn’t [...]

Samsung Moment 2 Picture Leaks

by Rob Jackson on April 6th, 2010

While original Samsung Moment owners on Sprint still await an upgrade from their Android 1.5 to something deuce or above, we’re learning (and seeing) that the manufacturer/carrier duo are working on the sequel – the Samsung Moment 2 – which will rock Android 2.1 out of the box. Here is a rumored/leaked picture of the [...]

LG LU2300 Details Emerge

by Rob Jackson on April 6th, 2010

Despite LG being aboard the Android bandwagon from Day 1 as members of the OHA, they’re lagging behind competitors like HTC, Motorola, and Samsung in terms of both quality and quantity of Android phone launches. Since last month we’ve been hearing about the LG LU2300 – we heard about an augmented app for the device [...]

All Games To Be Removed From South Korean Android Market

by Rob Jackson on April 6th, 2010

Last month we told you how South Korea may block Android Market because the country’s regulatory system for games didn’t have a chance to rate each one before it was made available for download. It appears the solution isn’t that bad… but half as bad. According to Yonhap News, Google will remove the entire Games [...]

Samsung Galaxy S Headed To AT&T

by Rob Jackson on April 6th, 2010

With a little bit of Pee-Wee-Hermaning (Connect the dots, la la la la), it appears as if we’re learning the Samsung Galaxy S – one of CTIA’s shining stars – might be headed to AT&T! As luck would have it, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group has an entry for both the Samsung Mobile Phone GT-I9000 [...]