I’ll be the first to admit the Samsung Galaxy S is doing a lot better than I thought it would. I wasn’t completely sold on the phone back when I reviewed it over the summer, but sure enough Samsung’s marketing and distribution efforts are paying off. In any case, Samsung has deemed it worthy of [...]

Every Friday we gather questions we’ve been e-mailed throughout the week and take a shot at answering the ones we feel would be most helpful to our wider audience. It’s Friday, so here goes nothing! If you’ve got a burning question of your own, hit up our PhanMail submission page and ask away. What gives? [...]

The HTC Hero has been a real trooper, quietly thumbing its way along as an Android workhorse for so many. Alright, let’s forget the whole Android 2.1 debacle and think of the good times with the now aging handset. For users on Sprint it looks like another maintenance update is available for your handset, bringing [...]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been off to a slow start, and there is no arguing that it is due to its pricing. Want even more proof of this? For a much more manageable £249, those in the UK can snag a  10-inch Tegra 2 badboy running at 1GHz with 512MB of RAM. Actually, they [...]

The holiday season’s coming up and I’m willing to bet a lot of people are in the market for a nice tablet device to give to their loved ones or to make for a nice gift for themselves. The question: what should they buy? Not too long ago, the obvious answer was “iPad.” It wasn’t [...]

You won’t find it in the Android Market, but a test release of the latest version of TweetDeck is now available for download. The new version brings in quite a few refinements, including support for Twitpic, Facebook Single Sign On Support, and new landscape views. The full list: Landscape mode for all update detail views [...]

If you’ve watched any football this year you can’t escape mention that Verizon is the exclusive mobile partner of the league, and while their NFL Mobile app is free for all on the carrier, the streaming video inside it costs extra. But not this weekend. You can catch all the pigskin action right on you [...]

While hope continues to be dashed that Sony Ericsson might actually produce a worthwhile Android handset, at least they have finally made good on their word to upgrade the aging Xperia X10 lineup to a newer (but not the latest) version of the operating system. Hey, Android 2.1 is better than nothing, and next in [...]

We’ve seen Amazon do their penny phone deals numerous times before, but this offering might just take the cake. All of Verizon’s currently available handsets bearing the Droid name are currently up for a mere one cent on new two-year contracts. One cent. $0.01. A penny. A measly copper portrait of Abraham Lincoln. That will [...]

Just as we were all about to get antsy and express our distaste for Chase’s lack of a presence in the Android market, they put an app out just a couple of days later. If you Chase fans head to your Android market right now and search for “Chase,” it’ll be a few results down [...]

Best Buy’s come out of left field with an early special on the Droid Pro as they’re now offering it in stores for $99. You can’t pounce on this deal online so be sure to rid yourself of any social insecurities and waltz into your local Best Buy store to get one of these (and you’ll [...]

Cox – the cable and internet provider that everyone loves to love (and some love to hate, too) – has just launched their small, yet respectable, cellular phone service in three markets – Orange County, CA, Omaha, NB, and Hampton Roads, VA – and they bring with them two Android phones to start with: the [...]

Don’t fancy Android running on your Android tablet? No worries. XDA is back at it again to enable you to use Ubuntu on your Samsung Galaxy Tab through the use of AndroidVNC and other supporting cast members. You’ll need to be rooted with BusyBox, SuperUser, the Android SDK, AndroidVNC, and Terminal emulator to get the [...]

Following launches of their 43 and 70 internet tablets, Archos has started shipping their 101 internet tablet. You can grab the 8GB version for $299.99, with the 16GB version running you $50 more. For all of that cash, you get a very respectable device. The Archos 101 sports a 10.1-inch  (hence the 101) WSVGA (1024×600) [...]

Chitika -a leading mobile ads network – has just released their research of traffic across all Android devices. Verizon’s Droid line commands the top spot with all of their Droid devices before the initial launch of the Droid 2 accounting for a combined 44%. (The breakdown of which Droid phones took up how much of [...]

What? A trend of late manufacturers using Android to get them into the mobile game is starting to form? Shocker! Just a couple of days removed from Panasonic expressing their plans to re-enter the mobile market in early 2011 with Android driving their smartphone line, NEC Casio Mobile (which includes well-known Hitachi) is looking to [...]

I don’t know why this race for dominance on  mobile in general between online booking services interests me, but it does. It’s just been disclosed that Expedia has bought mobile travel applications developer Mobiata – an iPhone-specialized company – for an undisclosed price. The company cites increased mobile traffic to their site as the sole [...]

You PDF-loving types can look forward to a sizable update from Adobe today as their Reader application for Android has gotten a pretty significant upgrade. New languages, tablets, search functions, performance, and more have shoved their way into the picture and it’s just waiting for you to hit that “Update” button (if you don’t already [...]

Acer Canada’s just released Android 2.2 for their Acer Liquid E on a couple of carriers – Rogers and Fido – in Canada. Your average Joe will probably have to stop into a local location to get their upgrade applied, but you won’t have to wait for an OTA upgrade as this is an old-fashioned [...]

And she isn’t Gingerbread. This 1.3MB update file moves a stock Nexus One from FRG83 all the way up to FRG83D. There is nary a hint of anything related to holiday cookies as this updates focuses on patches and updates. Updates to the core and framework JARs Updates to the Dalvik VM and Webcore libraries [...]