Everyone’s favorite ROM is moving right along as Cyanogen has tweeted that version 6.1.1 of their custom ROM – based on source code in the official AOSP repositories – has been released. Only four devices have gotten it so far: HTC EVO 4G, T-Mobile G2, Nexus One, and the T-Mobile MyTouch Slide. ROM manager or [...]

Sprint’s just pushed another maintenance update out for their HTC EVO 4G. Before we continue: no, it’s not Gingerbread. But you’ll still get a kick out of it. Swype is now a standard alternate keyboard, as is common on other phones these days. It also updates Telenav, Visual Voicemail Sprint Zone, and Sprint TV. Unfortunately, [...]

KT out in South Korea has outed the Dell Venue – an Android version of the Windows-running Venue Pro. When rumors first began to swirl about the device, we’d heard it’d be getting a full-portrait QWERTY keyboard to somewhat match its older brother, but that seems to have been ditched. Instead, expect a 4.1-inch AMOLED [...]

If you’ve been waiting to see what the latest version of ADT would bring alongside the open-sourcing of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, you won’t have to wait much longer: Google’s letting developers take an early peek at ADT 9.0 before it’s final final. If you are the type who needs to be up to date on [...]

Today’s the day. Many of you have already expressed plans to be up bright and early at Best Buy (stores open at 8am local times) to get your hands on one. Others have denounced the device as a disgrace to this Nexus name. And some of you just want to wait for the dual core [...]

Samsung’s asked Santa Clause: “What do you really need?” Why, he’s human too. Surely he can get himself something nice for Christmas. The disgruntled gentlemen really just wants a 7 inch device that can browse the web with full flash, navigate the Earth with Google Maps, watch HD “telly”, go on Facebook, send emails, read [...]

If you’re a chick who wanted the Optimus Chic from LG, you’ll be pleased to know that it’s now on sale throughout Europe starting at 282.89 euros. The Optimus Chic has a 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera, Android 2.2, and DLNA. Bits of LG’s low-end custom UI sits on top, but you [...]

Google just sent me an e-mail, linking me to the following video: I received the video because I’m part of Google’s Adsense program. At least SOME of the ads you see on Phandroid, AndroidForums, and AndroidApplications are served by Google. The “Happy Holidays” message included this text: Dear Rob, Thanks to you, this holiday season [...]

LG just announced the LG Optimus 2X which is not only the world’s first Tegra 2 powered phone, but also an Android Phone- gotta love it. The dual core processor should make gaming, browsing, apps and everything in between ultra fast and smooth. LG is claiming the clock speed is 1GHz, but I fully expect [...]

Video calling is set to explode in 2011 and ooVoo – one of the big players on the desktop space – doesn’t want to be left out: they’ve just released their Android app. Six people can video chat with each other making for a very dynamic and robust experience. Having used ooVoo on the desktop, [...]

Not that I expect many of you to care, but Microsoft’s just released a pretty decent update to their Bing app for Android. New geolocation features help tailors your search to your surroundings, the app will be able to traverse other apps with registered data (contacts list, apps, audio files), and more help round out [...]

Trillian’s just left beta and entered the Android market. For $4.99, you can get what some would call one of the best multi-protocol instant messaging clients for both desktop and mobile phones. The verdict is still out on that, but if your social life is fragmented across even just half of a half of a [...]

I’m still not sold on the whole “micro-blogging” thing, but enough of you are. That’s why we have sites like “Tumblr” and “Posterous” to help you get your thoughts onto digital paper as quickly as you can. The latter has come out with an Android app today that makes it easy for you to post [...]

You thought your 21 megabits per second “4G” was fast? Nokia Siemens has submitted new specifications to the 3GPP for a standard called “Long Term HSPA Evolution”: LTHSPAE, affectionately. (But you better believe we won’t be calling it that.) Names aside, the standard defines a network that can reach theoretical speeds in excess of 650Mbps: [...]

It seems it was ages ago that Google App Inventor – the RAD tool to allow easier and faster development of Android applications – was announced and opened up to only a handful of those interested. We’ve seen some interesting uses of the application, but no one’s really shown how much you can squeeze out [...]

Hallelujah! (No offense meant to anyone.) Google’s added the ability to restore your contacts list to a previous state through the desktop version of Gmail. Much like a system restore on a PC, if something goes wrong you’re able to go back in time and undo any changes. You’ll get presets that go as far [...]

Another day, another partnership between Samsung and the world’s innovators. This time, they’ve buzzed DeNA (we’re betting that’s pronounced D.N.A.) to help bring their social gaming platform – “Mobage” – to Samsung devices. With DeNA’s SDK and social platform, Samsung can enable users of their handsets and tablets to share scores and look at leaderboards, [...]

Christmas is fast approaching and it’s time for you last minute shoppers to find the best deals on cell phones. US Cellular’s announced a promotion where, starting on December 17th and leading up to Christmas Eve, all of their phones will be free.  That’s five Android phones to choose from, if you didn’t know: The [...]

Remember that rumor yesterday regarding Samsung wanting to switch their early 2011 “Galaxy” devices over to Tegra 2? Well, NVIDIA claims Samsung just ordered up a large chunk of their dual-core chipset: $250-$350 million worth. I can’t think of anything better to do with mobile processors than to put them inside of mobile phones and [...]

Everyone who doesn’t want a Nexus S and doesn’t plan on getting one still wants to Ginger-fy their phones. We’ve gotten the keyboard and a LauncherPro theme, so getting the new version of the Nexus wallpaper is only fair. Those of you on rooted phones can install this today (and if your phone is rooted [...]