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October, 2010 Articles

Wi-Fi Only Samsung Galaxy Tab Coming to Best Buy for $499

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2010

Though we were beginning to think we might never see a Wi-Fi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab, a leaked Best Buy document may finally be putting our minds to rest in light of new surrounding the Tab’s carrier releases. Best Buy is showing that a silver, Wi-Fi version of the Galaxy Tab featuring all the same bells [...]

FCC Listing Outs Froyo and AT&T Bands for Acer Liquid Metal S120

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2010

The Acer Liquid Metal recently took a stroll through the FCC dropping plenty of info behind it. The 3.6-inch handset with an 800MHz processor can now be officially confirmed to reside in the realm of Froyo, while GSM/EDGE 850/1900 and WCDMA Band II and V give this phone a fighting chance for AT&T. The phone [...]

Tegra 2-Powered Motorola Olympus to Put AT&T’s other Android Phones to Shame Come Q1 2011

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2010

We have been hearing about Motorola’s upcoming NVIDIA Tegra 2 smartphones for a while now. We have also been hearing the Motorola Olympus codename bandied about quite a bit. While many were leaning towards that codename going along with a tablet, the latest rumor out of BGR puts it instead with a “tablet style” smartphone [...]

Ideos X5 and X6 Expand Huawei’s Line of Froyo-based Android Handsets

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2010

Huawei stepped up in a big way with the release of the Ideos, an Android 2.2 handset that marked a turn to higher device quality while still maintaining the affordable pricing the manufacturer is known for. Now it appears Huawei is ready to complete the transition with two devices that aren’t aimed at being low-end [...]

Samsung Galaxy Beam Goes Spelunking, Ends up with Chilean Miners

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2010

Samsung wasn’t kidding when they said they wanted their Galaxy line of smartphones in as many places as possible, even if that meant they’d have to get inside the collapsed tunnel where the now-rescued Chilean miners were trapped to prove their point. The Samsung Galaxy Beam helped provide some light entertainment (get it? harharhar) with [...]

Adobe: “Market Fragmentation Sucks”

by Tyler Miller on October 24th, 2010

Adobe is planning to launch a new service, called InMarket, which hopes to curtail the eventual breakdown of consumers looking for applications in 42 different app Markets and their developer counterparts trying to manage 42 different accounts with 42 different market options. Basically what happens is you take your application that was developed with AIR, [...]

Adobe to Apple: “It’s cool, Android cuddles afterwards”

by Tyler Miller on October 24th, 2010

Hot off the heals of Apple’s continued shunning of Adobe with the announcement that they will not be packaging their latest notebook with Adobe Flash, Adobe is set to announce it will be releasing Adobe AIR 2.5 at the Adobe MAX conference tomorrow. Adobe AIR currently is only meant to be used for the development [...]

Engadget Snags Mystery LG Device

by Tyler Miller on October 24th, 2010

What’s a classy dame like you doing in a gin joint like this? Engadget just posted an image of a mystery LG device that looks to be making its way to Verizon in the, hopefully not too distant, future. Unfortunately, the only details we have to go on is what can be deciphered from the [...]

DROID Pro – $300?

by Tyler Miller on October 24th, 2010

As it stands, those of you looking to land yourself a DROID Pro will have to fork over the Franklin Triplets to walk out of the store with one sans law enforcement. Which is definitely upping the game as the unofficial standard for a smart phone seems to be $200 after all is said and [...]

T-Mobile TV Heading to MyTouch Slide and Vibrant

by Tyler Miller on October 24th, 2010

Steady yourselves MTS and Vibrant owners, T-Mobile TV is coming to a handset near you. TmoNews just got a Streamline snapshot containing an announcement that an OTA will be heading to handsets “during the last week in October”. And wouldn’t you know, the last week in October (by numbers) starts tomorrow. T-Mobile TV is a [...]

HTC Knight – New Sprint Phone?

by Tyler Miller on October 23rd, 2010

The lads over at XDA had a tipster send some information regarding a new Sprint phone. It seems it will have a sliding screen to reveal a keyboard and could very well be the successor or partner to the EVO 4G. XDA (or the tipster) managed to pull the following blurb from some mystery XML [...]

Galaxy Tab Launches on T-Mobile November 10?

by Tyler Miller on October 23rd, 2010

Looks like things are falling into place with T-Mobile’s launching of the Galaxy Tab.  T-Mo news seems to have gotten word that November 10th is the day of days.  This falls on a Wednesday which is T-Mobile’s day of choice to launch products, and it conveniently one-ups Verizon’s Veteran’s Day launch. If you’re one of [...]

Gingerbread Man Arrives at Building 44

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 22nd, 2010

It’s that time of the year, again. Google’s just gotten a nice, tasty delivery of an oversized Gingerbread man. (I was personally hoping for a house, but Gingerbread is Gingerbread.) They’ve taken the momentous arrival right to YouTube for all of the Android-crazy to witness. For some reason, I don’t think he was too happy [...]

Lumigon T1 Launching by Year’s End, Features Bang & Olufsen ICEpower Audio Amplifers

by Kevin Krause on October 22nd, 2010

The Lumigon T1 was first announced by the Danish company way back in February. At that point in time it looked to be a promising Android 2.1 handset that would put all others to shame. After little was heard about the phone for so long, when Lumigon announced the unveiling party for the handset many [...]

Phandroid AppCast #1: Reckless Racing, OnTheFly, Winamp (beta), and HootSuite

by Kevin Krause on October 22nd, 2010

Every week countless apps land in the Android Market. It’s a bit overwhelming. Even we here at Phandroid have a hard time keeping up, but that isn’t stopping us from trying. We are unveiling what will become a weekly series of videocasts highlighting just a portion of the many apps released each week. For the [...]

Google Demo Slam Shows Off Android Voice Search with Marshmallows and Skateboards

by Kevin Krause on October 22nd, 2010

If you haven’t checked out Google’s new Demo Slam site, here is enough reason than ever (if you count the few days the site has been life as ‘ever’). The new site that pits Google tech demo videos against each other has featured quite a few showing off Android functionality, specifically Voice Search. Check out [...]

Google TV Mini Site Updates With Virtual Tour

by Kevin Krause on October 22nd, 2010

Still not sure if you buy-in to Google TV? It would probably do you good to mosey on down to your nearest Best Buy and check it out in person, but in cast that is just a bit too much work and you still want the fifty cent tour, the Google TV mini site has [...]

SCVNGR Updates to Version 3.5 Bringing Many New Enhancements and Features

by Kevin Krause on October 22nd, 2010

After just crossing the 500,000 users threshold, SCVNGR is striking while the iron is hot with the release of a revamped and renovated mobile app for Android and iPhone. Aside from the initial difference in appearance (which is a pretty drastic change in itself), the 3.5 version of the app adds in a heap of [...]

PhanMail Friday: Your Questions Answered [10/22/2010]

by Rob Jackson on October 22nd, 2010

Welcome to a brand new feature that we’ll start doing every single Friday… PhanMail Friday! We get a lot of Android-related questions throughout the week and can’t POSSIBLY answer them all. But for the ones that could be entertaining, informative, educational, interesting and beyond… we thought you might enjoy hearing our answers. You can submit [...]

Samsung Moment Getting DJ07 Update OTA

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 22nd, 2010

Sprint’s announced that the Samsung Moment will be receiving a firmware upgrade over the air. It’s nothing more than a maintenance release and with the build name DJ07 and a new software version of S:M900.8.IS.DI06. It’s said that it will fix 911 call restrictions after a modem crash (related to airplane mode and data lockup) [...]