It’s no mystery that at least a fraction of the reason why OS updates are delayed for many devices boils down to the custom UIs manufacturers place on top of Android. The rest of the delay is made up of tailoring the new OS for each device and then adding in various carrier and OEM [...]

it’s been a couple of weeks since we heard about the Motorola XT720 heading to Canada’s smallish carrier Wind Mobile, and now that time has come: you can grab the device up now for $430. It comes packed with a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with xenon flash and HD video recording, Android [...]

I said before to expect more and more games to head to Android as the platform continues to grow and as more iOS developers start to realize the untapped potential of the games section in the Android market. That momentum continues with the announcement of two new games coming to Android that were once only [...]

Well I guess we can throw any doubt regarding a Tegra-powered (most likely Tegra 2) Android handset by Motorola out of the window as NVIDIA’s CEO – Jen-Hsun Huang – confirmed they were working with Motorola and that they were one of their biggest long term customers (alongside Samsung and LG, whom we’ve already known [...]

HTC’s looking to shorten boot times on their latest Sense devices by – well – a whole lot of time, and we were all impressed by how much faster it was to boot into Android compared to devices with older versions of Sense. At least for one ROM maker working on the HTC Droid Incredible, [...]

The Nintendo 3DS shocked and wowed many at E3 2010 as the media was anxious to see how glasses-free 3D could be done on a handheld gaming platform. We knew the technology existed, but we didn’t know how good it’d translate to consumer products and didn’t have any clue as to when we could expect [...]

J.D. Power and Associates’ customer satisfaction surveys have always given us a quick and dirty (in a good way) look at how certain companies are doing in certain areas of the market. They’ve released Volume 2 of their 2010 US Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study, and two out of three of the major Android smartphone manufacturers [...]

For those of you on Android 2.2, Flickr’s looking to make your life easier by eliminating the need to upload via email. Starting yesterday, you can now head on over to m.flickr.com from your Android 2.2-based device and upload an image straight from your phone to the hosting service. The lack of an official app [...]

Samsung’s looking to deploy the Samsung Galaxy Tab in as many regions as possible – just like the Galaxy S – as it’s been announced that the device will be headed for all carriers in Italy come first week of October. You’ll be able to get the device on subsidized tariffs starting at 29 euros [...]

The Dell Looking Glass – a tablet from Dell we used to simply call Dell’s 7-inch Streak tablet – was shown off yesterday at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference (irony, be damned!) This marks the first time we’ve been able to catch a glimpse of the thing on video. As excited as CEO Michael Dell was to [...]

It’s Friday, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing any shortage of maintenance upgrades. To close out the week, the Samsung Moment and the Nexus One have both received maintenance upgrades after a host of other phones from all sorts of manufacturers got their fair share of patching. Specifically for the Nexus One, no details [...]

No more than a few days after the phone was officially announced, the ROM for the HTC Desire HD was already available and loaded onto an HTC HD2. Now the ROM is getting used to a more familiar setting inside of not one but two HTC Android handsets. The firmware has been ported to both [...]

The pre-order for the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate has gone live on Rogers, and you can put yours away for $149.99 with a three-year voice and data plan. As a special offer Rogers is even throwing in a Bluetooth headset with each online pre-order and entering those that purchase the handset into a contest to [...]

A new survey from Sybase is out and it reveals some potentially interesting figures relating to the rise of tablets in general and consumer desire for Android products. The results of the survey show that nearly one out of every four Americans (23 percent) would buy and Android tablet. For those already owning an Android [...]

For everyone wanting to get their piece of the T-Mobile G2, the wait is coming to an end. Starting tomorrow, September 24th, and running through October 4th you will be able to pre-order the successor to the original G1 through TMo stores and online. And two days after pre-orders close the device will be available [...]

Just like Han Solo making the Kessel Run, someone has smuggled out a few pictures of the Motorola Droid R2-D2 in stock at Verizon. Well, the dummy units anyway. The release of the Star Wars-themed device shouldn’t be too far away, and with a World Edition refresh of the Droid 2 not far away either, [...]

Wi-Fi calling in my T-Mobile LG Optimus? It’s more likely than you think. More precisely the phone will allow you to “make calls using broadband internet connections via Wi-Fi hotspots without using your minutes.” Or that is what this latest leak by way of TMoNews is telling us. While that is easily the most thrilling [...]

While I’m sure many Android users might not be completely aware of the benefits of UMA, those that have relied on it in the past can attest to it being a real life-saver. The folks at Kineto Wirelss agree and have wrapped UMA functionality into the latest version of their Smart WiFi app for Android [...]

We’ve hear these rumors come and go. Facebook wants to pull an Apple (or is it pulling a Google in this case?) and try their hand at the mobile market. Every time talks seem to surface about Facebook pushing forward in creating a mobile device they are quickly silenced by the company, but now a [...]

Box.net has been growing pretty rapidly since its introduction on the iOS platform. It has racked up over 200,000 downloads since it dropped, and is now looking to gain even more traction with the release of their Android app. What you get is pretty similar to what is already available for the iPhone and iPad, [...]