If you have been looking for a piece of plastic with a suction cup to blow $59.99 on and own the HTC EVO 4G, the official Car Upgrade Kit is now available at Sprint. And just how exactly does this kit upgrade your EVO for the car? By giving you a way to stick it [...]

While much about the phone remains a mystery, it appears that we may be on the verge of learning a lot about the specific build of Android the T-Mobile G2 uses. AndroidGuys got their hands on a zip file containing what looks like Froyo for the G2. A spreadsheet found within the archive reveals some [...]

Quick! Panic! You’ve only had your brand new Droid X or Droid 2 for a matter of weeks! Verizon can’t seriously already be thinking about phasing them out, can they? Well, yes and no. The good news is that the date pegged for a potential ‘end of life’ for the two new Motorola handsets is [...]

When AMOLED display supplies dried up and HTC was forced to make a decision between keeping their phones out of stock or switching screen technologies, they wisely went with Sony’s SLCD screen to keep production flowing on the HTC Desire and other handsets that once used Samsung’s technology. The SLCD version of the Desire has [...]

While the Motorola Droid 2 has been out for a few weeks, and was received with much less anticipation than its predecessor and father of all Droids, it’s still an important device in the scheme of things. For one, it’s now the most high powered Android Phone on Verizon with a full QWERTY keyboard and [...]

If the members of the Android development community put their efforts together and worked towards noble causes beyond rooting phones, they would no doubt already have solved world hunger, brought peace to all nations, and ended current global economic woes. Instead they would rather devote their energy and work ethic to bringing root to every [...]

A few months back Google made a series of strategic moves that signaled they were starting to approach gaming in a serious way. One such move was the acquisition of Mark DeLoura as Gaming Advocate. DeLoura had previously seen time with Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Nintendo, and Ubisoft, and the addition was said to [...]

A week wouldn’t be a week without one of these Chinese knockoffs sneaking into the mix. This time, we’re met with a 3.5-inch keyboard equipped handset made to resemble the Motorola Droid, except that it actually runs Windows Mobile 6.5. a 3.2-megapixel camera, 256MB of RAM, WiFi, GPS, and a 533MHz processor make up decent [...]

Hey advertisers, you might want to listen to one of the leading servers in the mobile ad industry: Android users click ads a lot more frequently than iOS users. According to Chitika’s latest numbers round-up, 80% more Android users click the ads they’re presented with than users on iPhones. The hard numbers can be seen [...]

Motorola’s looking to get their feet wet with web applications for Android-based phones (or phones with webkit-based browsers, more accurately) by purchasing 280 North – the team behind the easy-to-learn web framework Cappuccino. The sale went down for $20-million and it said to help put Motorola in a better position to create better Android experiences [...]

If the GPS problems weren’t annoying enough, you might get a kick out of this one. Apparently, a few Samsung Galaxy S phones are experiencing device resets whenever they’re plugged in to a computer via USB. It’s said that the issue is caused when there exists file extensions with more than 16 characters. We’re not [...]

The Motorola XT5 has long been known as the successor to the Motorola CLIQ XT, but its internals scream “BACKFLIP without a keyboard”. It’ll have the same 5-megapixel camera, 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, and 256MB of RAM/512MB of ROM. The biggest difference is OS version, though, as it’ll be shipping with Android 2.1 out of the [...]

Just in time for Back to School sales, the T-Mobile Motorola CHARM is now available for sale. This follows a series of delays that ended up giving us a new rumored date of August 25th. You can grab the device in two colors – Golden Bronze and Cabernet – for $74.99 after rebates and discounts [...]

Google’s been applying some makeup to several of their mobile web offerings – namely Search and Image Search – but Google Finance is the latest to get a very similar overhaul. Google Finance was usable on Android handsets before, but it didn’t have the same polish that we’d come to expect from other mobile offerings [...]

We don’t hear much about the Xperia X8 – the phone once said to be called the Shakira – but today a user guide for the latest device in the Xperia line has popped up, courtesy of the FCC. If you’re an Android fan, most of the stuff here will already seem elementary to you, [...]

Forget playing with SCVNGR to earn yourself a measly fifty bucks off the Samsung Captivate. If you head over to Amazon now you can score the Galaxy S handset for a whopping one cent with a new two-year contract. That’s the sort of deal you just can’t beat, especially when brick and mortar establishments are [...]

T-Mobile is one step closer to launching their first HSPA+ smartphone, as the HTC PC10100 has passed through the FCC. If that model number doesn’t sound familiar, it is most likely because we have only heard of this phone by its street name so far, and that name is the T-Mobile G2. The specs that [...]

Gameloft made the bold decision to offer the majority of their high quality, full 3D games for purchase through their website alone, forgoing the Android Market and creating headaches for all involved. While certain games like Asphalt HD can be found in the market, Gameloft seemed set on allowing the greater part of their catalog [...]

When Motorola updated their upgrade timeline to reflect the latest plans for their handsets, the Canadian Milestone was left without a solid timeframe provided. While some might argue that they’d rather have no timeframe at all than one that continues to shift, the chart was again updated today to give a better sense of when [...]

In a case of irony at its best, AT&T is teaming up with SCVNGR to use its geo-location services to provide discounts for the Samsung Captivate, a phone notoriously noted for the GPS problems that plague it. The promotion is using SCVNGR’s challenge system to provide rewards to users who complete certain AT&T-centric check-ins. Earning [...]