Engadget got their hands on the LG Star; and the verdict is a pretty positive heck yes, saying “Basically, Tegra 2 will give anything your current phone’s running an inferiority complex.” Engadget only had positive remarks about the Star, and everything negative was attributed to the fact that they were reviewing a test device. Adding [...]

Now, I know that Quadrant isn’t the be-all end-all for viewing performance on any given device and some of you scoff its existence. But high numbers are high numbers so long as they come from an unbiased source, and this delivers. Created by XDA member ownhere, Data2Ext messes around with some of the partition settings [...]

Now through the end of the month Bell is offering the HTC Desire Z and the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant for $75 off the normal price. Naturally these deals will lock you up for three years; but that’s cool so long as they take $75 off the price, right? [via Mobile Syrup | Bell Promotion]

The Android Developers Blog just posted an announcement that the Market has undergone a few, fairly remarkable, changes that will both please and probably tick off most of us. With a focus on improving discoverability and merchandising, we’ve introduced a new carousel on the home and category screens. Users can quickly flip through the carousel [...]

It’s time for another AppCast! In this week’s edition we discuss the Comcast/Xfinity App, Loky, and Google Books which are all new on Android Market. We toss in some news about games such as Madden 11, Drift Mania, and good old MafiaWars and Farmville. And, as a bonus feature, I totally pwn the word “Touiteur” [...]

We will spare the argument for now about the veracity of T-Mobile’s branding of their HSPA+ network as 4G for now, as there seems to be no stopping the carrier from throwing the term around. Its latest use is in a correspondence sent over to the good folk at BGR outlining the promise to bring [...]

MessagEase, yet another alternative keyboard for Android smartphones, is announcing that their application now supports text entry in eight additional languages. Now English speakers as well as those who call Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, or Arabic their native language can utilize MessageEase’s take on typing. The tactic is use less keys to speed [...]

Recently we reported that Bell’s Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant began receiving its update to Android 2.2, and now Samsung is tweeting as much, also revealing that updates for the phone on Virgin Mobile and SaskTel are also now available. As is typical with Samsung’s updates, they have decided to forego the over-the-air method in favor of [...]

Thanksgiving has passed, the Eight Nights of Hanukkah have waned away, so we all know what that means. It’s time to trim the tree! And what better way for a geek to deck the halls than with a set of awesome Android Christmas ornaments. Before you get to excited, we must burst the bubble and [...]

What’s that? Friday is here? Of course it is! And so is our bag of PhanMail. It’s getting harder and harder to narrow down the best questions every week, so keep them coming! Just head over to our PhanMail contact form to submit your own question. Read on to get this week’s fix. I formatted [...]

Now that front-facing cameras are all the rage, there is a bit more than just video conferencing that they can be useful for. A promising and interesting use of the now common hardware is biometric authentication, through eye and/or facial scanning as a mean to unlock a device or private files stored on the device. [...]

While this isn’t news, per se, we just caught a look at Samsung’s Android Market for Turkish handsets via Droid Dog and thought we’d share a look here. A pretty slick looking affair that would go great with the green and black stylings of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), don’t you think? File this away under “wishful [...]

Lookout Mobile Security was recently in the news when their application for Android was able to locate a stolen car after it was highjacked from its owner, but that isn’t the only sort of highjacking they are concerned with. During the course of developing their own mobile application and after observing common tactics used by [...]

If you are in charge of a large wireless network, being able to monitor who is accessing it and track signal strength over its coverage is a real help when pinpointing problems, and Ekahau is the company to do it. Their new network survey app gives you the power to troubleshoot a wireless network right [...]

That 3D live wallpaper and array of slick-looking widgets and icons you see above is supposedly our first glimpse at the homescreen for Honeycomb, and it comes to us via a fella from Taiwan who is claiming to have had some hands-on time with Motorola’s upcoming Android tablet. The device was confirmed earlier this week [...]

It’s a good thing LG announced yesterday that Gingerbread would be coming to the LG Optimus One, otherwise they’d be dealing with what is now just over 2 million owners of the handset inevitably complaining about their outdated OS version. That’s right. LG has just given word that the 2 millionth Optimus One handset has [...]

When it comes to buying and selling cars, the Kelley Blue Book might as well be considered the bible. An always trusted source when it comes to appraising the value of a vehicle, the new Android application is the perfect companion when shopping around for your next ride. Containing pricing and vehicle information for new [...]

Amazon’s host of cloud computing services has just been opened up to app developers via their Amazon Web Services SDK. Now third party applications can gain access to Simple Storage Service, the SimpleDB database,  Simple Notification Service, and Simple Queue Service. This opens up the possibility for applications that will upload photo and video content [...]

Two iconic children’s books, and two of Dr. Seuss’ biggest hits, have landed in the Android Market in the form of interactive reading applications. Now available are The Cat in the Hat and the seasonally appropriate How the Grinch Stole Christmas for devices running Android 2.1 and beyond. Oceanhouse Media is responsible for the creation [...]

ITG Investment Research has a rather interesting report on Verizon’s recent Blackberry sales — they’ve dropped off by 45 percent over the last year. It’s forecasted to get worse by the end of this quarter, rising to a 49 percent drop off.  Put another way, Blackberry once accounted for 90 percent of VZW’s phone sales. [...]