After Rob fainted from Vic announcing that all Google I/O attendees would be receiving a free HTC EVO 4G (the Droid and Nexus One were also available), he hurried back to his hotel room to unbox the sucker and treat us to that experience with a video. We’re expecting some initial impressions from Rob very [...]

Ah, so you have an iPhone 3G but you secretly read Phandroid every day waiting for your contract to expire so you can get a brand new Android phone? You heard that David Wang had ported it to Apple’s not-so-open phone, right? Hot on the heels of a day full of announcements sure to make [...]

Amazon just announced that they will be releasing their Kindle app later this summer for Android devices, with the promise that your “with Google” smartphone or tablet will be able to browse and download from the full library of Amazon e-books, as well as read the ones you have already purchased. It’s a great step [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S will come with the Hummingbird GPU on board, meaning that this phone potentially has the ability to deliver some pretty great gaming experiences. The added power theoretically makes rendering 3D graphics a cinch, and the following video from Frandroid shows us just that. A lot of attention has gone towards the [...]

After the dance-around with HTC and some of their US-bred Sense devices – namely the Sprint HTC Hero and the HTC Droid Eris – users finally got their hands on the Android 2.1 update that was driving everyone mad. Everyone rejoiced except for one very big, loud crowd that still has not gotten the pleasure [...]

If you are a Google Voice user — or one of those lucky students who just got to sign up for Google’s voicemail transcription and calling service — you probably have already seen that little update notification informing you that a new version of Google Voice was released today (geeze, I can’t wait for auto-updates [...]

After we got our delicious helping of Froyo for the mobile handset side of the Android universe yesterday, Google dropped another expected bombshell on us: Google TV. There were a lot of cool features demonstrated live on stage, but Logitech had one of the most interesting pieces to this nice, big puzzle: the invent of [...]

Google’s acquisition of AdMob has just been approved, a move that is the complete opposite of what most expected when the FTC first started investigating the deal. Perhaps what comes as most surprising is that the deal was approved in a unanimous 5-0 vote. (And now for a [sort of non-sequitur] new version of my [...]

I have to admit that I’m not the most knowledgeable on testing protocol and precedures for wireless carriers and manufacturers: the most I’ve seen is HTC’s series on the rugged testing process for the Google Nexus One. Thanks to one Seattle Times writer – Brier Dudley – we’re able to catch a glimpse of how [...]

Remember that cool streaming music functionality that Google’s Vic Gundotra showed off at yesterday’s I/O keynote? Now we know where it’s come from. According to ReadWriteWeb, Google acquired a company called Simplify Media a couple of months ago. The acquisition was followed by a suspension of their services and the need to pull their app [...]

Well what do you know: the Samsung Galaxy S might be available at the very beginning of next month. We received a tip this morning that online retailer Expansys has the Samsung Galaxy S up for pre-order (hitting your pockets for a rough £479.99) and that you can expect the product to ship out on [...]

A few days ago, we reported that the reason HTC couldn’t get enough Droid Incredibles produced to meet the product’s very high demand was because of their lack of sufficient components. Specifically, we’ve learned that Samsung’s AMOLED production department had troubles getting their stock up to snuff – this had a direct impact on the [...]

Hot off the heels of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote and Android-related sessions (and after having an Oprah moment with the attendees by giving everyone in attendance an HTC EVO 4G) , some new user agent profiles have cropped up revealing several codenames for new HTC handsets. While some of these may not be Android-based, several [...]

Even after the keynote yesterday, I’m sure many of you are hungry and thirsty for more Froyo. While the demonstrations Google and the Android team gave us yesterday were pretty cool and fun to look at, we were still left wanting a full run through of Android 2.2 in all its sweet, frozen glory. James [...]

It’s only been one day since Google announced Android 2.2 and released the SDK to the public (and it’s been less than an hour since we reported that Froyo would technically be able to run on older phones such as the T-Mobile G1), and now a bootable ROM has already (supposedly) been ported to both [...]

The first couple of extensive video reviews for HTC and T-Mobile’s latest MyTouch endeavor – the T-Mobile MyTouch Slide – have popped up on the web in the past few weeks. Thanks to all of the Froyo/Android 2.2 madness leading up to yesterday’s exciting keynote, we completely forgot about this little gem that some of [...]

At this point, I’d be surprised if anyone still thought that the ‘Godfather’ of Android devices – The T-Mobile G1 – had enough juice left in them to make Google want to aim their latest and greatest at it. While the Android team wishes the G1 could still keep up with the Joneses, they’ve formally [...]

I had never seen the Xperia X10 Mini live in flesh so i was excited to see that Sony Ericsson had it on display at their booth. And it could be awhile before I see it because the current plans include a European distribution but nothing in North America. In any case, the simplicity of [...]

You probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that one of the coolest products being demonstrated at Google IO was an Android device but you probably wouldn’t have guessed it is a vehicle… and not the Chevy Volt. A company named Parrot was showing off their AR.Drone remote control vehicle – I’ll let you decide what [...]

And so Vic Gundotra announced tethering and wireless hotspot abilities would be in Froyo, and Android fans rejoiced. But the questions lingered: how exactly will wireless carriers handle said new additions in terms of data plans and additional fees. It’s looking like the carriers will be the ones that get to decide that. Just as [...]