Phones being launched with mobile hotspot capabilities are all the rage these days and Motorola and Verizon aren’t oblivious to that trend. They put the feature into the Motorola Droid X (and is rumored to be coming to the HTC Droid Incredible with an over-the-air upgrade soon) and they want everyone to see just what [...]

LG’s confirmed that their Android tablet – which they previously confirmed would be launched before the year is out – is still on track to reach store shelves sometime in Q4 2010. We still don’t have any real details on the device from the last time we heard about it, but it’s good to know [...]

Samsung’s uploaded a new video to their USA YouTube account showing off all of the Galaxy S phones headed to (or already launched on) each of the nation’s four biggest carriers. The Samsung Vibrant (T-Mobile) and Samsung Captivate (AT&T) are paraded around as their yet-to-be-released brethren Samsung Epic 4G (Sprint) and Samsung Fascinate (Verizon) looks [...]

One thing many of us throw into the faces of our iPhone-toting friends and family is the fact that – with most Android phones – you can replace the battery in case you need to pop in a spare (or in case the battery craps out and you need to buy a new one). Our [...]

Are we surprised anymore? Quarter after quarter, J.D. Power and Associates surveys a number of cell phone users in America (9,690 to be exact this volume) on how satisfied they are with their carrier’s customer service (they had to have come in contact with retail sales associates in stores or over the phone in the [...]

T-Mobile’s busting at the seams with information lately. We’ve seen the MyTouch 3G HD pictured before, but that was only a side angle shot showing the front. If you’re more of a “back” person, then these are for you. We obviously can’t make out the material of the backing, but it does appear to be [...]

Today, Directed Electronic’s announcing that their Viper SmartStart app – which will allow you to control various functions on your SmartStart-equipped vehicle – is launching for Android. With the app – which is already available for iPhone and Blackberry users – you’ll be able to lock and unlock your car, pop the trunk to get [...]

Even if Motorola’s still trying to bounce back from a long period of slow sales and lack of innovation, they’re still turning that big ship around with Android and is headed safely for shore without worry of deadly icebergs. They announced their second quarter financial results this morning, and while they don’t sound all too [...]

LG’s announcing the launch of their latest Android handset – the LG Optimus Z. The device will be available through Korea’s biggest carriers – SK Telecom and KT – though we can’t seem to pull up any pricing information at the time. The LG Optimus is an Android handset that you wouldn’t want to overlook [...]

Camangi Market is calling on all developers interested in developing applications for Android that would tailor specifically to devices in the 6-inch to 10-inch range (tablets and MIDs, basically). With the Android tablet market getting ready to explode pretty soon (new devices are announced – at least in prototypical form – every day) this will [...]

Well here’s more reassuring news for those of you skeptical that HTC’s not ready to deliver FroYo within the coming weeks. Listings for the three Android devices HTC’s delivering to China pretty soon – the HTC Wildfire, HTC Desire, and the HTC Tianyi – all say they’ll be coming preloaded with Android 2.2. To be [...]

HTC’s looking to capitalize on the great success they’ve achieved (and enjoyed) lately by positioning themselves to take the market by the horns with even more ferocity. The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer – one of the biggest supporters of Android since its inception – is announcing new hires and promotions within their company to make sure [...]

Security firm MyLookout claims that developer Jackeey – the publisher of the app Wallpaper in the Android market – is sending your data to someone in China if you have their app installed. The collection of apps pose as harmless wallpaper galleries, but they do a lot more behind that black, shady curtain that you [...]

We all know what TouchWiz is like by itself, and we all know what FroYo is like by itself. What about how the two entities combine? After the upgrade to Android 2.2 for the international Samsung Galaxy S leaked early this morning many owners scrambled for the file and applied it to their phones without [...]

The Adobe Acrobat Blog has a new post up reveling in the 1 million downloads their Reader app for Android has garnered in the two months since its release. With over 4,000 rating the app also sits at a healthy four stars, and with all the success the PDF viewer has had Adobe promises there [...]

MobiTV isn’t the first app to refuse to open when connected to a Wi-Fi network (I’m looking at you, Skype with Verizon), but given the video streaming nature of the app it does seem like one that would be a no-brainer for Wi-Fi use. Wait, so video streaming uses a lot of data bandwidth? And [...]

"If we have a billion people using Android, you think we can’t make money from that?" Those were Eric Schmidt’s words when confronted with the notion of how exactly Google plans to turn a profit off of their Android OS that they so readily hand out free of charge. He isn’t just talking about the [...]

Fennec, the mobile version of Mozilla’s Firefox currently in development for Android devices, is chugging along slowly while Firefox 4′s “Tab Candy” feature and Firefox Home for iPhone snag up all of the spotlight, and probably for good reason. Most builds to date of the ambitious mobile browser have been a little buggy to say [...]

I’m really not sure what to call this contraption. It makes me feel a bit uneasy, really. In an effort that would make Dr. Frankenstein proud one industrious Android owner has taken a Wiimote and Nexus One, human-centipeded them together with a bicycle handlebar mount, and using the Wiimote Controller app made it possible to [...]

Let me paint you a picture: For the past three years, quarter over quarter, more people have been deactivating their Sprint phones and cutting ties with the carrier than have been new subscribers signing up. Yes, for three years Sprint has slowly been losing its customer base as they have strained for relevancy in a [...]