The once-European exclusive GPS app – Navigon – has made its way to the United States marketplaces of Yankee Android users everywhere. It challenges current offerings from the likes of Telenav and CoPilot, who’ve been enjoying a nice share of the North American mobile GPS market for a long while. Some of Navigon’s compelling features [...]

Aria users on AT&T, it seems you have not been forgotten after all. An upgrade to Android 2.2 is right around the corner – as we learned thanks to a leaked RUU last week – and now you can flash a ROM based on the package on your rooted device. XDA should have everything you [...]

Google’s updated what some are now calling “the Nexus One’s memorial page.” They’re referring to Google.com/phone, of course, which Google recently converted from the landing site to order the Nexus One to a site to compare Android phones in different regions from different carriers and different manufacturers. Starting out, there was a heavy focus on [...]

Google buys a lot of stuff. They have the money to do that. And when they buy stuff, it doesn’t always turn out to be worth the hefty asking price. Fortunately, our beloved Android sits on the other end of that spectrum. Speaking at the Stanford Accel Symposium, Google’s David Lawee – vice president of [...]

It’s been a long, but pleasant, ride. After months of private and public testing and swyping, Swype’s apparently just about ready to come out of beta, according to sources of Droid-Life’s. This final pre-release update will fix a lot issues including increased accuracy in the word selection algorithm and should do away with any installation [...]

Sprint has been on the up and up after the world almost counted them out of the mobile game in large part thanks to Android, and the trend continues in their latest report…sort of. While the nation’s first 4G carrier was able to pick up 644,000 in their summer numbers due to releases like the [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S arrives at regional carrier US Cellular today in the form of the Samsung Mesmerize. The phone is available at retail outlets and online at the price of $199 on a new two-year contract after an $80 rebate. Like every other version of the Galaxy S, the Mesmerize features a 4-inch Super [...]

The HTC Desire HD hasn’t been out for the better part of a month, but as seems to be a regular occurrence with new Android handset releases, a new over-the-air firmware update is being sent out to correct early bugs and provide general enhancements that went overlooked before public release. This fairly large update will [...]

Two weeks in a row? Don’t call it a comeback, but Dave Demarest, Kevin Krause, and myself (Rob Jackson) are back with another Phandroid Podcast more endearingly known as the PhanCast. This week we’ll be discussing the Playstation Phone rumor and spy shot, Nexus Two, Isotoner smarTouch gloves, Samsung Event on November 8th and much [...]

The Motorola Quench XT3, successor to the original Motorola Cliq/Quench XT, is now available in India. Though it was initially announced with Android 1.6 back in July, it now comes with Android 2.1 on board, though we won’t hold our breath on Froyo any time soon. The Quench XT3 comes with a 3.2-inch HVGA display, [...]

Because launching just one tablet is soooo last year, Acer is pulling out all the stops and letting loose a veritable tablet assault at a November 23rd press event in New York City, according to the WSJ. However many that may end up being, they look to be priced between $299 and $699. The price [...]

Continuing the US carrier roll-out of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, T-Mobile has made theirs official for November 10th. If you recall, that is a day earlier than Verizon will be dropping the Tab for $599 off-contract, while Sprint will have it for $399 on a two-year deal on November 14th. For whatever reason, T-Mobile has [...]

For the many Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 users who have been begging and pleading for an update to Android 2.1, there is pretty much no need to try to convince them of the benefits of the new Android firmware. So, for whatever reason, that is exactly what SE decided they needed to do, and they [...]

Things between Garmin and ASUS weren’t really working out. They have announced that come January their partnership and ventures into the world of mobile together will come to an end. But ASUS is committed to continue making new Android handsets, and as part of their break-up deal with Garmin they have secured exclusive rights to [...]

The Nikon NF-300i isn’t your everyday digital photo frame for more than a few reasons. Aside from the fact that it runs Android 2.1, the picture viewer will convert any of your 2D photos to glasses-less 3D through Nikon’s My Picturetown online storage service. The frame features a 7.2-inch LCD screen using the same technology [...]

PayPal is about to announce Android Market integration for app purchases, in fact they already did. Someone must have had an itchy trigger finger when they threw up the blog post announcing the new payment method, boasting the ability to do business through PayPal on the markets of the big three mobile platforms. That post [...]

Don’t quite know what to make of it. Not sure if I’m excited or lethargic about it. I don’t even know if it’s real or not; and I’ve seen a lot of ‘shops in my day. But heck, as much as the product may not be what I’m looking for, I love to see Android [...]

Google TV is out and the search giant behind it is giveaway happy. To promote development on the platform Google is handing out TV devices to any web developer even remotely interested, starting with a whopping 3,000 Logitech Revue units passed out at today’s AdobeMAX event.  The rest of the Google TV devices will be [...]

Well, they did it. Barnes & Noble, as rumored, just outed the NOOKcolor. A 7-inch full LCD touchscreen touting, Android-based e-reader and then some. Streaming music, web browsing, games, and social networking on top of the whole book thing in a package weighing in at less than a pound and half an inch thick. Not [...]

You my not recognize him instantly based on his Vodafone red draping, but everyone’s favorite Android is loose in Syndey, Australia spreading the good word. He looks a bit intimidating and not all that mobile, but Vodafone is hoping that his very presence will win over the populous and bring even more Android users out [...]