NTT DoCoMo may have secured exclusive rights to release the Samsung Galaxy Tab in Japan, but that doesn’t mean other carriers in the country won’t be carrying Android 2.2-based Samsung tablets soon. Rather, in a sort of anti-climactic fashion, we are getting our second Froyo tab from the Korean manufacturer, the SMT-i9100. What could easily [...]

The Koreans seem to have a zany sort of affection for our favorite little green man. Don’t believe me? Check out these commercials, and while you’re at it this one too. Now check out this lineup of Android action figures complete with all sorts of accessories to make this robot do just about whatever you [...]

Though available as the T-Mobile G2 without HTC Sense in the United States, the HTC Desire Z will be getting its first official release by that name outside of Europe when it lands on Bell in Canada. Not much is offered in terms of release details, but a registration page is now up at the [...]

What do you get when you take an HTC Aria, slap on Android 2.2 and some new color schemes and announce it by a different name? The HTC Gratia, a familiar face to join the smorgasbord of handsets from the Taiwanese manufacturer headed to Europe. The Gratia rounds out a lineup of phones that includes [...]

As reported earlier Sony’s line of Google TV products — the aptly named Sony Internet TV — began arriving in stores today, and Best Buy isn’t sitting on their stockpile. Nope, as expected the lineup of products featuring four HD television sets and a Blu Ray player has gone on sale. Best Buy is ready [...]

The folks over at Engadget have divulged, via Electricpig, that the Advent Vega shan’t launch with the Android Market. Instead its app fix will have to come from from the Archos AppsLib store, and its 5,000 apps, for the time being. Advent product manager was quoted as saying “The plan is that when you get [...]

We told you on Friday that the Motorola FlipOut would be available on Sunday, October 17th. Time to check your calendars little boys and girls, so you can start Flipping Out if you were waiting impatiently for the Motorola FlipOut to arrive on AT&T. We provided our own hands-on first impressions at CTIA: Summarizing – [...]

We’re not sure when Best Buy will begin selling Sony’s four Google TVs along with the Blu-Ray player and super sweet remote, but they’re already arriving at Best Buy stores so it can’t be long. Gizmodo’s tipster is saying they COULD start selling them almost immediately. Here are some pictures they snapped on location: I’m [...]

We’ve been following the Angry Birds obsession for awhile now and after showcasing an early APK, the Android Game finally launched yesterday. The response was so spectacular that downloaders actually crashed the GetJar servers. You need a LOT of traffic to crash the GetJar servers, that’s for sure, but what Angry Birds is reporting is [...]

We know Verizon has a pretty nice holiday lined up in terms of device launches (and we’re not just counting Android here), but a newly-leaked roadmap finally confirms launch windows for several of Verizon’s global Android handsets. The HTC Merge – which Verizon has yet to officially announce but we most certainly know to be [...]

Motorola knows it is, and they want to give you one. A contest started yesterday and entry simply requires a contestant to retweet a tweet that Motorola blasted out yesterday morning. Some information to marinate on: Only open to residents 18 or older inside the US Contest open until 11:59 pm CST 19 October 2010 [...]

The latest, leaked, RUU for the HTC Lexikon has been snatched and released by the guys and gals over at XDA. While nothing new is to be had, one can infer that this means Bing is still the default search engine and no word on whether or not it will be powered by the latest [...]

If you’re craving something sweet you know you can always count on the Android team to give you your fix. OK, so they can’t really satiate your desire for snack foods and treats, but they sure can whet your appetite with the code names they assign to each new version of Android. Froyo (frozen yogurt) [...]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab roll out trudges along on a path of global domination that hopes to eventually reach 10 million units sold. The Tab, which recently launched in Germany and is due in the UK on the first of next month, has touched down in Russia. Keeping with the high prices quoted for the [...]

Now here is a sort of bizarre though still very troubling security flaw surfacing for the Motorola Droid 2: With the phone in its locked state and resting at the passcode entry screen, holding the search softkey (or keyboard key) for four seconds and then following with a voice command will still respond by proceeding [...]

AT&T officially announced the Motorola FlipOut last week and we got our very own hands-on with the device at CTIA, but specific details as to when it would hit shelves weren’t exactly known. But now it appears that the device is beginning to fill out the stock at AT&T and will almost assuredly go on [...]

Hardly a week goes by that we don’t report on a new study or survey that cements Android’s rise in the smartphone marketplace. Highest percentage of new smartphone purchases, market share increasing exponentially in the space of a few months, and thousands of new apps every month. After a while the sheer influx of data [...]

When T-Mobile first announced their HSPA+ network they would only go so far as to say that it offered “near 4G” speeds. Fast-forward a few months and the latest news is indicating the company indeed will start marketing their speedier network as 4G. So when the newest phone in the T-Mobile myTouch lineup was announced, [...]

CoPilot may have seemed like a hefty investment for a GPS app – clocking in at $19.99 for maps of all of North America – but CoPilot has just announced that they’ll be releasing a USA-only version for $4.99. Most will argue “why not just use Google Maps for free?” The answer is because you [...]

Something neat out of Android Forums today. Spotted by Moondrifter, Full Tilt is working to bring Android’s first poker game to that will allow you to play for real money against real people. The name of the app will reportedly be named “Rush Poker,” named after the game type on their site for those who [...]