Every Android device can be rooted, so we weren’t surprised to hear that the folks at XDA have been hammering away at getting the NOOKcolor its own taste of freedom. Before the hackery, it wasn’t possible to sideload applications onto the NOOKcolor, leaving it as an eBook reader with a few applications, but not much [...]

We’re not 100% certain this holds implications for their Android lineup – let alone the entirety of their smartphone strategy – but HTC’s looking to hire a “Display and Camera Design Engineer” with the following qualities: have familiarity with 3D display and imaging technologies, with some of those technologies being TFT-LCD, PMOLED, AMOLED, E-Ink, and [...]

Brighthand is reporting that a senior Acer official noted that the Acer Liquid Metal might be heading to the United States sometime soon at the company’s Q&A session following their press announcement last week (where we were treated to two new Android tablets and a new Android handset.) Rogers is said to be getting the [...]

We only got a couple of non-functional profile shots of the device before, but one of our members over at AndroidForums.com managed to get two of these unreleased beasts and has quietly put out new pictures which confirm new details. Firstly, it has an HDMI-out port, something we didn’t know previously. You can see a [...]

Southwest.com – the airline with the catchy and funny commercials that really do make me want to fly with them – has released their Android app for all to book flights, reserve cars, check up on their rewards programs, and more. It’s a 1.5MB download and sounds like it’ll be well worth the space it [...]

Creative tipped us off to their plans of bringing an Android-powered tablet device earlier this month, but that was a 3.2-inch PMP. We think its bigger brother has just hit the FCC. The 7-inch device – named the ZiiO – will have a WVGA display, 8GB and 16GB configurations with the ability to expand capacity [...]

Well, looks like one of the social networking monkeys over at AT&T just let a biggie slip and got yelled at for it. In response to a question regarding the rumored Motorlola Olympus phone – which has a Tegra 2 processor and which Gizmodo’s lucky source says is an absolute iPhone killer – someone from [...]

We’ve seen the thing in retail store inventories, cellebrite systems, we’ve just gotten a look at the first snap-on cover, hell, Verizon’s even shown it on their own site and Android Central had a device of their own to look at. So where is this HTC Merge, Verizon? Why must you play this cruel game [...]

If you didn’t believe the mounds of evidence before suggesting Honeycomb was already making its rounds on a number of testing devices, then I don’t know what to say. The amount of evidence is staggering and there’s no reason to believe it isn’t currently being baked up (especially since we’ve heard there are different teams [...]

If you play Black Ops, you know about the custom playercards which allow you to express who you are through layers of different colors and shapes. Whodathunk that the Android mascot would be the perfect candidate for a playercard to show off your allegiance to the mobile OS you use every day? BigBossMcCann – whoever [...]

Acer’s beTouch series isn’t the most widely-known of the bunch, but they’re still cheap phones that pack decent punches. The E140 is a phone which Acer hopes will compete with the low-end offerings currently being dangled about by LG, Motorola, and HTC, but if it’s truly up to that task remains to be seen. It’s [...]

So we’re all pretty much convinced that the device is real, but what exactly is it? When will we see it? What will we be able to do with it? None of these questions can be answered with 100% certainty, but MobileCrunch was fortunate enough to receive an informing phone call from their “much-trusted tipster” [...]

Who says every phone doesn’t get some after-market love? A pair of developers over at AC have whipped up one of the first custom ROMs for Sprint’s LG Optimus S, and while it doesn’t add much to the experience, there’s nothing like freeing yourself from the carrier-induced chains that normally come with Android phones these [...]

While the networks are doing all they can to shut down Google TV (for reasons we don’t quite comprehend), there are others who want nothing more than to break the whole thing wide open. Such is the case with the offering of the “Google TV Root Bounty,” a $1000 reward being offered up over at [...]

CyanogenMod has doen it again, bringing in some nifty functionality to the ROM for rooted phones that really sets it apart from the pack. CM6.1 RC5 is the latest for the Motorola Droid, and it brings along lockscreen gestures. This will allow you to assign and dictate gestures (much like gesture search) from the lockscreen [...]

There is something to be said for an advertising campaign that relies on star power to move a product rather than mentioning any aspect of the actual product. That’s fine and all, but somewhere we are missing the connection between Lady GaGa (especially the track “Poker Face”) and the Sharp IS03. But we will secede [...]

Providing its content isn’t totally obscene or illegal, there is one thing Google won’t do based simply on content focused on something other than Android: ban it from the Market. But Apple on the other hand likes to ban things seemingly just for kicks, the latest case involving the denial of and application from Danish [...]

Following the launch of WiMAX in New York City a couple months back, the 4G technology is being officially unleashed in a few more big markets that up until now were mysteriously lacking in next-gen mobile data. Los Angeles, Washington DC, Miama, and a trio of cities from Ohio with Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus are [...]

[UPDATE]: It looks like the entirety of this story may be slightly untrue. While many European regions still haven’t seen the Gratia, judging by the comments below (and some quick Googling) it is indeed available in at least Italy and Sweden. Looks liked HTC remained fairly quiet about it. The HTC Gratia was supposed to [...]

While it took a little bit of time to work things out, LG finally has a pretty solid Android hit with their Optimus One series of phones. Still, while the handset is proving quite popular due to a release strategy reminiscent of the Samsung Galaxy S, it lacks the true power to make Android fans [...]