The HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z are expected to get their formal unveilings next week in London, but the HD in all of its EVO-like goodness has made an early debut in the form of a render snagged up by German site BestBoyz. The render is the spitting image of the in-the-wild Desire [...]

Google just updated Maps for Android to version 4.5, and this one is a doozy. Three fairly substantial features have been added into the app to increase usability and provide a seamless experience no matter what method of travel you choose. The most major update is the inclusion of Walking Navigation (beta, of course), what [...]

Motorola has once again revised their software upgrade chart to reflect the latest timeline for their Android devices to receive their respective updates. Most notably the Motorola Quench has been deemed unfit for an upgrade after a previous iteration of the chart said its Android 2.1 update was “under evaluation” as well as the international [...]

The Motorola Milestone and HTC Desire seem to be quite the popular devices when it comes to regional carriers around the United States, and they continue their tour of the country by landing on Kentucky’s Bluegrass Cellular. You can even sign up to receive a coupon for a whopping $10 off the purchase of either [...]

Well, well, well. Lookie what we have here. The Motorola tablet we have heard so much (yet so little) about has popped right up in Verizon’s inventory with an MZ600 model number attached. In fact we have three entries. One for the tablet itself, one for demo units, and one for dummy units. Still, the [...]

I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t even count number of times I have missed an important text or call due to tunnel vision as my PC consumes my attention even though my phone is just inches away. Or maybe my phone is just off somewhere doing its own thing. Either way Android Notifier [...]

Have you heard? In a rather surprising and unseen move Apple has dialed back the Big Brother effect on developers and the tools they use and implement in their applications for iOS, and Google couldn’t be more pleased. That is because the revised restrictions once again allow for developers to use AdMob after new guidelines [...]

We’d be lying if we didn’t admit that the Galaxy Tab not shipping with an AMOLED display or better yet the Super AMOLED of its counterpart Galaxy S smartphone is a bit disappointing. That aspect of the hardware is one of the areas where the S really shines. OK, we understand that there is both [...]

When a ROM for the T-Mobile G2 leaked one of the most interesting things to emerge was a tweaked suite of Google mobile apps including a new version of GMail and an updated Google Voice featuring some pretty nice little widgets. Both applications were promptly ripped from the builds and made available to Froyo users, [...]

Telus out in Canada has just released their latest Android handset – their version of the LG Ally on Verizon. The device is called the LG Shine Plus and has the same specs we remember from the Ally: Android 2.1, a 3.2-inch WVGA touchscreen, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera, and a full QWERTY keyboard. [...]

In case you didn’t catch it late last night in T-Mobile’s press release for their G2, Andy Rubin had some words to say for the successor to the first phone to carry his beloved operating system, Android, and had a quick fact to throw out to us: we’re nowsitting at 80,000 apps. It’s an increase [...]

The HTC Desire has grabbed another OTA upgrade – which obviously isn’t Froyo since it’s already gotten Froyo, so there’s nothing to be disappointed by here! The version  number is 2.10.405.2 and brings the following changes: An Android OS update patch Enhanced multi-inbox Gmail support Improved Russia keyboard layout Sounds good to me. Not groundbreaking, [...]

Developers, developers, developers, developers! The Dell Streak’s source code has been released for your pleasure (guilty or otherwise) by Dell. Dell’s been pretty good with getting the Streak up to speed (with it just receiving Android 2.1 and soon to be Android 2.2), but this is good for a development community who wants full access [...]

Another day, another Android phone. Something new’s leaked out from the Acer camp today –  a 3.6-inch WVGA android handset that looks to be nothing but metal. Our first guess on type is aluminum – something that’s become quite the trend in the technology universe – but a bronze-colored variant suggests one of the models [...]

Ok, consider my mind blown. ARM – the same folks behind the Cortex A-8 processors we enjoy in many chipsets today – has announced that they’ll be bringing out a 2.5GHz quad-core Cortex A-15 processor core, but don’t expect to see this thing tomorrow (or even next year). It’s not until 2012 (and that’s the [...]

Just a day before this thing hits stores (it’s available for order online right now), we’ve gotten our hands on the Samsung Fascinate from Verizon for review. This is a Samsung Galaxy S phone – so it’s nothing we haven’t seen before – but there are a couple of points of interest you might get [...]

It’s just past midnight East Coast USA time and apparently that’s all T-Mobile needed to smack a September 9th date on an official announcement of the T-Mobile G2. The successor to the first ever Android phone includes a 3.7-inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, Snapdragon processor, 7 home screens, 5MP camera (LED Flash and Autofocus) with [...]

Well if it isn’t that Android-based tablet we’ve been hearing about coming from Motor– wait a second, what the hell is this?! It seems someone has completely kanged (cookies if you get the reference) Verizon’s Droid brand by offering a 10-inch Android tablet named the – well – Droid 10. At first glance, Droid-Life almost [...]

After we figured HP was just about done with Android after their acquisition of Palm (which gave them full access to webOS and tons of neat software patents), rumors began swirling that those earlier suspicions were a tad bit preemptive and that HP still had plans to bring out an Android tablet. That tablet would [...]

Square‘s been struggling to get their on-the-go credit card swiping method out to the thousands of small business owners who need it, but another challenger has stepped up to the Android table. QuickPay is now offering their ROAMpay Swiper – which does exactly what it sounds like – for a plethora of devices (including our [...]