“[Android 2.2] is being open-sourced today. Everyone can start hacking on it right now, and start making it even better.” Those were the words of Google’s own Andy Rubin at today’s Droid X event hosted by Verizon and Motorola. Anyone who wants a piece of the Froyo action only needs to head on over to [...]

Verizon’s pulled an Apple: if your contract is up at any time in 2010, you’ll be able to upgrade to the newly-announced Motorola Droid X immediately when it launches. This is great news for those that have been looking for a reason to jump into the current generation of smartphones and have been waiting to [...]

Looks like Motorola’s teaming up with Verizon to ensure that video is a huge part of the experience you’ll be getting with the Motorola Droid X. HDMI-out, 4.3-inch display at a 16:9 resolution, a camera that can capture video at 720p, and FULL Flash 10.1: these are the components that need to come together to [...]

The moment we have all been waiting for: today Verizon and Motorola announce the Droid X, the latest in the Droid line of smartphones kicked off with the runaway hit that was the original released last fall. The phone that we first heard whispers of last January as the Motorola Shadow has since been revealed [...]

Rob’s currently seated at Verizon’s event for the Droid X, and while we aren’t able to provide a live blog (there are many others places you can find those, mind you), we’ll do our best to bring you the goods visually. Follow along for a stream of images straight from New York City. We’ll have [...]

Expansys has become a popular retailers for calling first dibs on new devices lately. This time, they’re offering the long-awaited Huawei S7 Android tablet for pre-order. You can grab yours for £299 and expect it to ship in 10 days. We first saw this device re-unveiled back at Computex earlier this month, but were still [...]

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 has been late to join the root party, but it’s never too late to unlock the ever-growing potential of your device purely through software. For those that feel the same way that I do, then you can go ahead and root your devices now. With Froyo looming and Sony Ericsson quite [...]

Let’s face it: when you try to impose restrictions on the devices of thousands of developers, those restrictions aren’t going to hold up for long. We first saw it when Nexus One developers found a way to unlock the device’s HD video recording capabilities, and now the HTC EVO 4G is getting a bit of [...]

“It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here!” I gleefully shouted as I woke up this morning in anticipation of Verizon and Motorola’s big Droid day out in New York. As I crossed my fingers hoping Rob didn’t hop on the wrong train again, I started to question: just what exactly are we expecting to happen [...]

You may have caught wind of the recent leak of Android 2.2 build FRF72, and while it is the latest build of Froyo, it isn’t quite the final release candidate. That’s the word from a Googler posting to the Nexus One support forums who insists that the “Android team is feverishly working to get a [...]

Google’s take on digital music distribution — which very well could end up being called simply Google Music – may make its way to the public by the fall, according to a report at CNet News. Sources within the music industry are talking up that time frame for the launch of Google’s answer to iTunes, [...]

Second-ranked French carrier SFR has announced that the HTC Magic will receive an update to Android 2.2 (Froyo) later this summer along with another of their Android phones, the Nexus One. This shouldn’t come as too much of a shocker considering the Magic’s US counterpart, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, has also been pegged as a [...]

After showing off his Nexus One slot car gas pedal, Grant Skinner is at it again with another Adobe AIR application for Android. This time he has put his own spin on the classic Asteroids, bringing a multiplayer version of the game to the Android OS that he has dubbed Androideroids. The concept is the [...]

Google Maps has just been bumped up to version 4.3 in the Android Market, bringing a few new features that are sure to help out in a pinch. The most minor — but still very useful — being the addition of a snapshot view of reviews and ratings when visiting the page for a nearby [...]

If you have been hunting high and low for that Google Voice invite, today you will find it a whole lot easier to simply head over to the Google Voice site and sign up using your Google account. Why? Because Google just opened up their phone portability service to all comers [in the US, that [...]

I’m probably getting a bit too excited after seeing just how great these shots look from the Motorola Droid X compared to the cameras on other Android devices, but I will admit that I thought these images were falsely credited to the Droid X when I first saw them. Thanks to BGR grabbing a hold [...]

Engadget’s once again been fortunate enough to get their grubby little tech-loving hands on an as-of-yet unreleased device, and this time it’s the Samsung Captivate. If though it has the same internals as the Samsung Galaxy S (it is being called a “Galaxy S phone”), there’s a lot that differentiates itself from its parent. Unfortunately, [...]

We knew Google was drumming up to a grand final release of Android 2.2 (codenamed Froyo) soon, but we only expected the update to rollout for Nexus One devices initially (or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we’re most confident that the Nexus One will get it first). It seems HTC might be gearing [...]

I can’t say that I’m the most easily frightened person in the world, but there’s something about a robotic eye that glows blood-red and stares at me all day that doesn’t sit too well with me. Droid-Lifecaught wind of a video which shows Verizon’s exclusive Motorola Droid X live wallpaper, and it is creepy. It’s [...]

Even with all of the noise about this Motorola Droid X doohickey, Samsung and their devices have been dominating the news stream lately. Yesterday, it was discovered that the Samsung GT-P1000 – more affectionately known as the Samsung Galaxy Tab – has received its Wi-Fi certification. We all know what that means. Bluetooth SIG comes [...]