No it isn’t a Disney-themed variant of the popular smartphone currently on a tear in South Korea. After only 55 days the Samsung Galaxy S has topped 800,000 units sold, an impressive figure made even more impressive when considering that makes the S the best selling handset in South Korea ever. Though Samsung really doesn’t [...]

What’s the quickest way from cell phone camera to printed picture? Polaroid’s answer is Bluetooth, which is exactly the route the once glorious instant photo company is taking to reclaim some ground that was stolen away during the digital camera renaissance. The PoGo printer will wirelessly link up to your Android handset and produce zero [...]

Huawei is looking to bring Android 2.2 to the mid-range handset market, and will be announcing their upcoming U8150 (a phone that recently passed through the FCC) at this year’s IFA in Berlin. Known for their cheap to dirt-cheap Android smartphones, the U8150 looks to be no different offering a 2.8 -inch capacitive touchscreen, 528 [...]

Remember the recently discovered and detailed exploit that found a way around Google’s new and supposedly improved security measures for installing pirated apps? While the initial announcement of a licensing server that would authenticate an app upon launch seemed like a step in the right direction, the recent news of how easily it was broken [...]

In case that Super AMOLED display is draining the juice from your Galaxy S just a bit too quick for your liking, Samsung has introduced a new accessory that will keep you talking for an extra 8.5 hours or garner you 500 hours of additional standby time. The enhanced battery case isn’t just a new [...]

Some people are the no-frills, down to business sort who don’t need any flashy visuals to go along with their multi-tasking. For everyone else there is Visual Task Switcher, which mimics Palm’s webOS by providing thumbnail views of all open applications. Swipe through open apps, long-press to kill running tasks, or open an app by [...]

India is seeing no shortage of devices during the summer’s Android boom, and Spice Mobile is prepping to bring a set of three exclusive Android toys based around Qualcomm’s 3G chipset. Not much is known about the Mi-300, Mi-410, and Mi-700 other than the sizing of their screens. At 3-inches, 4.1-inches, and 7-inches respectively (seeing [...]

Need another reason to push the limits of that awesome Super AMOLED display on the Samsung Galaxy S? DivX has today announced that the Samsung Galaxy S is the first Android-powered handset to receive official certification from DivX for DivX HD media (second handset overall). Movies, TV shows, and other movies encoded in the DivX [...]

We’ve been waiting for this device to launch for a long while and AT&T’s been extremely quiet regarding its availability. It also hasn’t gotten the leak love we come to expect, but the Dell Aero’s finally available starting today for $99.99 on a two-year contract ($299.99 without). The device has a 3.5-inch capacitive display with [...]

It’s official: the Samsung Galaxy Tab is real and Samsung’s got a teaser site up ready to impress. This is following a series of leaks that may have forced their hand in announcing the piece of hardware they’ve been working on for a long time, now. It confirms our suspicions of a Berlin, Germany unveiling [...]

Telus is getting ready to roll out another OTA upgrade (which still isn’t Android 2.1, unfortunately) for their Motorola BACKFLIP and they’re looking for 200 participants to help test the upgrade and provide feedback on the process and changes. It’s going to be a game of chance as they’re offering it OTA until they’ve reached [...]

Fan of water and the vast oceans of the stuff? Google Earth’s just gotten a bump up to version 1.1 which adds support for exploring the depths of the blue sea. You’ll be allowed to zoom in on a body of water which will give you a peak at the terrain which lies beneath. You’ll [...]

Many were dismayed when they found out that the Dell Streak didn’t use the now-standard mini-USB or micro-USB ports seen on many phones for data synchronization and charging. It was believed that this was a proprietary connection type made by Dell, but it’s actually a PDMI port- not standard but it’s not something you’ll only [...]

Rogers in Canada has launched the LG Optimus GT540 as the LG Loop. The phone is based on Android 1.6 (yea, we know) and looks to be aimed squarely at the crowd not looking for a lot: a 3-inch display with a resolution of 320×480, 3G, Wi-Fi, bluetoooth, and a 3-megapixel autofocus camera with video [...]

Guinness World Records has long had an entry for the world’s fastest texter, a record judged by the time in which someone can put in a particular phrase or sentence. Mellisa Thompson – a Galaxy S user from Salford, England – used her phone and the preinstalled Swype keyboard to break the record previously held [...]

Samsung’s looking for a group of 20 people to test out their latest mobile products – people they’ll conveniently call Samsung Mobilers – and is offering up a pretty nice incentive for those chosen to partake: a free Galaxy S smartphone. All you have to do is use the phone, give them your opinion on [...]

The latest to leak out of the Samsung camp regarding their Galaxy Tablet brings us three things: we can confirm it’s running FroYo (as we learned through the leaked firmware for the device last week), we’ve gotten a shot of the tablet’s software keyboard (which is nothing spectacular but looks very spacious even in portrait [...]

Super AMOLED not enough to convince you of the Galaxy S’s display superiority? Perhaps the added bonus of it being covered by Gorilla Glass will impress and excite you. We’ve seen glass tests for the Samsung Galaxy S before, and while it’s not impenetrable, it can definitely take a flogging without whimpering. This confirms the [...]

We’ve always had somewhat of an idea as to what this phone would come packed with, but if a leaked product page on WalMart is anything to go by, then we can finally get a more reliable specsheet for the T-Mobile G2. We know it’ll have the 3.7-inch screen with the now-known display type: AMOLED. [...]

Google’s hopes to cut back on piracy with the new licensing system they’ve implemented for downloads in the Android market may have already been shattered. One hacker reminds us that there’s no way to keep piracy from happening in any realm of software as he’s gone deep into the code of an app equipped with [...]