The GenTouch 78 by Augen garnered an amazing amount of interest from the Android community when K-Mart revealed it in one of their circulars for a few days ago. The tablet debuted at $150 and had a good amount of you scrambling about to see if you could find one in your local K-Mart stores. [...]

Well this is quite the unsettling story. Two “security experts” (I prefer to call them hackers) have drafted up a tool that would allow the user of it to probe an Android device to intercept emails and SMS messages. The program is a “root” utility that disguises itself as a program to help easily root [...]

The Motorola FLIPOUT is nearing unlocked availability in the UK courtesy of retailers Play.com and and Clove. Play’s offering the device August 11th for 249 British pounds while Clove – who hasn’t announced a date for their release yet – will have it for 258 pounds. The device is not yet available subsidized through UK [...]

Two HTC phones we’ve been hearing more and more about lately – the HTC Ace and the HTC Vision – might be getting a revelation pretty soon as the two devices have shown up in Vodafone Germany’s inventory system as the HTC Desire HD and the HTC Desire Z, respectively. The Desire HD would look [...]

A new FCC filing was uncovered late yesterday showing a new device – the Motorola Sage – could be running Android and could be headed to AT&T. The assumption that this thing will run Android comes from the fact that the device is equipped with the array of radios you’d only find in a smartphone. [...]

We’re not sure what Motorola would call these devices if they did end up getting European counterparts, but new rumors suggest that the Motorola DROID X and the yet-to-be-announced Motorola DROID 2 could be headed to Europe. French Android blog FrAndroid reports that the Droid X will be launched near the end of the year, [...]

Samsung’s holding a shindig on the morning of August 11th in New York to celebrate “a new dimension of Wonder” as they’ll be showing off new products and making some announcements. While nothing points to their Android line of products specifically, I can’t imagine we’re too far off from an announcement of their Android-based tablet [...]

With all of this FroYo flying around (food fight?) to several handsets very soon, Motorola DROID X users are wondering when they’ll be able to wake up to some good news. Today, Motorola’s given a general window for when you can expect to see Android 2.2 on Verizon’s latest Droid by updating their update chart. [...]

Those that signed up to follow the thread regarding the now-announced Android 2.2 update for the Motorola Droid at the Motorola Support forums have received an update stating that the OTA should begin rolling out the week of August 2nd. That is only a few days away, but some lucky test user might be receiving [...]

If you are anything like me, you’re probably feeling a bit anxious about the Android 2.2 update for the Motorola Droid now promised for next week. Perhaps we should occupy our now-frenzied minds by perusing this list of enhancements and additions that the Froyo FRG01B update holds. What are you looking forward to the most? [...]

Why wait for Sprint to push your Android 2.2 update for the HTC EVO 4G over the air? Download it now and install it manually! The file is straight from HTC’s servers and the update process is pretty simple. Still, if you’d rather wait for the OTA version, feel free. It should be reaching your [...]

Verizon let it be known that they plan to issue the update to Android 2.2 for the Motorola Droid next week, and if you were feeling doubtful still (who wouldn’t after what happened with Android 2.1) you may want to head over to the VZW Support page for the Droid. The system update how-to has [...]

We heard rumors earlier in the week that Verizon’s high-end Android phones could all expect to see Android 2.2 next week. With a leak of Froyo for the HTC Droid Incredible and a Sense-enabled Android 2.2 being sent to the EVO 4G soon, it seems likely that this rumor could stick. Confirming at least part [...]

Two new Huawei handsets launched today in India. The Huawei U8300 and U8500 are two Android-touting 3G smartphones powered by Qualcomm chipsets. The U8300 skews towards the younger, social media friendly crowd with it’s loud color scheme and interesting form factor. A full QWERTY keyboard below a touchscreen display is reminiscent of the Blackberry-esque styling [...]

Go ahead, pull out your handy-dandy “To Be Rooted” chart and check off a couple more, as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro have been cracked open thanks to — you guessed it — the helpful guys over at XDA-Developers. Now that I think about it, that to-be rooted list is [...]

A few weeks back the folks over at AndroLib made the bold claim that the Android Market could be sitting at 100,000 apps by the end of July. I say bold because the last official number was quoted at 60,000 applications. Based on their statistics they felt that growth in the realm of 40,000 apps [...]

Samsung’s Android tablet is slated for release in the third quarter of this year, and they are pulling out all the stops to make sure they deliver the best experience possible. One area where a tablet must excel is the apps available for it, and Samsung is taking a proactive approach to making sure current [...]

While there really is nothing cool about insurance companies, the money they take from you every chance they get, and the fact that the only time you ever really need them is when something really bad happens, for whatever reason I do find mobile apps that allow you to file claims, take scene-of-the-accident pictures of [...]

Ready to dig deeper into the Motorola DROID X, to find out exactly what is running on top of that 1GHz processor, to maybe even do a bit of constructive adjusting to the software beneath the 4.3-inch screen? Motorola has released the source code for their beastly Android handset currently on a tear over at [...]

Motorola’s sending their new messaging phone – the Motorola FLIPOUT – to China as the Motorola M511. The device – previously only available in parts of Europe – has one of the most unique form factors we’ve seen. It has a full QWERTY keypad that “flips out” to reveal itself. The smallish, squarish device might [...]