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December, 2010 Articles

Dell India Showing Venue

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

Dell India’s website is now showcasing the Android powered Venue, claiming it to be “your own personal express lane to everything”. This 4.1″ display and FroYo powered device invokes the feeling “what else ya got?”, and doesn’t play to the wow factor. That’s not to say this device doesn’t have the specs we can expect [...]

Android TV Kit from Vidtonic

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

This should be one of the cooler things to come out of CES this year. Vidtonic promises to have a build-your-own Android TV kit on display, much to the delight of everyone who hates prebuilt. In the kit, you should expect: Housing Cables 1080p LCD panel Power supply Motherboard Software tools to piece it all [...]

HTC Mecha to the Incredible HD, now Thunderbolt?

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

This device really seems to be getting around, we first caught a semi glimpse of it five days ago in some half shots. But it may finally be settling on a name, the HTC Thunderbolt. Or at least that’s how HTC is trying to advertise it. Android Central has a few readers with quick eyes [...]

EVO Shift 4G for $150, According to Best Buy

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

Android Police got a hold of the above image which clearly shows the Sprint bound HTC EVO Shift 4G could be yours for $149.99, $549.99 sans two year agreement. This QWERTY laden device is on track to make good on its rumored launch date, January 9th, and could be a great alternative to those of [...]

CM7 Hits Alpha on Nexus S

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

What deems a phone a success? Some would says specs, carriers and price; others would say units moved. But you know you’ve made it big when Cyanogen and Co. give their blessing and start working on a device. It should really come as no shocker that CM would be available, sooner or later, for the [...]

Onkyo Can’t Wait For CES, Unveils 10.1″ Tablet

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

Now this is a pre-Honeycomb tablet that I can sink my teeth into. Onkyo just let loose the TA117; it will come in two OS models: Windows and Android. The specifications on this device are fairly impressive, given what we’ve been working with so far in the tablet department: NVIDIA Tegra 250 1GHz processor WiFi [...]

LG Optimus 2X to Make Debut January 2011?

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

You know the handset; the one that you can’t wait to see released, but would prefer to stay locked up for a little while longer as releasing it will make your device look like an under performing pile of junk. Yeah, that phone. It looks like it may make its European debut next month. It’s [...]

Samsung Galaxy Player On Display At CES

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

If there is one thing Android is missing, it’s a great personal media player. It looks like Samsung wants to have us covered with the Galaxy Player, which I am not sure if that will be its launch name. Samsung looks to be taking their cues from Apple on this one: taking a successful product, [...]

Mystery Sony Ericsson Device

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

Someone really took a cue from HTC and leaking some half shots of a mystery Sony Ericsson Device; and it certainly isn’t the XPERIA Play. Absolutely nothing is known about this device other than the model number could be LT15i. Web Masters are deducing that the LT15i is a Gingerbeard device due to the two [...]

Dell Streak 7 Heading to T-Mobile?

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

The fellas over at CellPhoneSignal.com received some interesting pictures. Notice in the top left, you’ll see T-Mobile in the notification bar. And if you look to the rear you’ll see the all too familiar T-Mobile branding. With any luck we will see a lot of this device at CES. Not too many details have emerged [...]

Samsung Insists Canada Start New Year With FroYo

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

I spoke a bit too soon. And it looks like Samsung has bestowed its FroYo light on a number of Canadian Galaxy S owners. Those of you with a Vibrant on Bell, Virgin Mobel and Sasktel as well as consumers who have a Fascinate on Telus are cleared for FroYo launch. This news does come [...]

Galaxy S FroYo Available, For the U.K.

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010

You Yanks didn’t really think Samsung had something to put in your stocking, did you? No, this year Samsung seems to be calling it “The Year of Europe”. That’s where most of their Galaxy S updates seem to be going. A few days back @samsunguk tweeted that FroYo is now available for all of your [...]

Merry Christmas, Phandroids (Favorite Gift?)!

by Rob Jackson on December 25th, 2010

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all our Christmas celebrators a very Merry Christmas. I’ll be celebrating with my family as I know Kevin, Quentyn, Tyler, Talton, and many others will be as well. Just a warning: you won’t see much news activity over the next day or two, but I’m sure [...]

Your Smartphone’s Battery Gauge is Lying to You (and it’s not such a bad thing)

by Quentyn Kennemer on December 25th, 2010

This piece was written by Byron G, a member of XDA-Developers since June 2010, and re-posted per his approval. This information was originally posted in the DROID Incredible General section at XDA. If you would like to submit written content to be featured on the front page of Phandroid or if you have existing content that you’d [...]

Samsung Continuum Review

by Quentyn Kennemer on December 24th, 2010

Although this is a Galaxy S phone, there’s a significant difference in hardware between the Samsung Continuum and other Galaxy S phones. (The most obvious being the smaller screen size to make room for that ticker display, of course.) The phone is as slim and light as other Galaxy S phones, but it’s a little [...]

Google and NORAD Teaming Up Again to Track Santa!

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

It’s that time! As Santa gets ready to to lift off, delivering goodies to all the good little boys and girls, NORAD is ready to track his progress and bring him down if he mistakenly leaves a lump of coal in the wrong stocking (like mine), and this year is no different. Once again NORAD [...]

Pegman Getting a Santa Hat in Google Maps

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

That little orange man, the sum of our drag and drop location love affair, is getting a little addition to his normal attire of orange: a festive red Santa hat. Enjoy him while you can, this one is sure to leave with the holidays! [Image and Source courtesy of Mashable]

Desire Z and Desire HD to Receive Software OTA

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

HTC is sending out a small software OTA for the HTC Desire Z and the HTC Desire HD. It is an update that is based on user feedback and made it very clear that “Gingerbread is not part of this update”. Check to see if your device is ready for the OTA: Settings > About [...]

Sprint Rep Goes After Other Carriers, Has No Clue What She is Spouting

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

This should probably be considered the troll of the week. Stephanie Vinge, who is with corporate communication division and clearly been living in a cave these past few weeks tweeted the above message a few minutes ago. I suppose someone should tell her that until ITU lowered their 4G standards last week, nobody, not even [...]

LevelUp Caves to Twitter, Changes Name of Touiteur

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

A week ago we saw a tweet from @levelupstudio say that Twitter has asked them to change the name of Touiteur because it could be misconstrued as “Twitter”. It didn’t make much sense then, and it doesn’t make any now. LevelUp decided it would be better to avoid conflict and comply with Twitter’s request. A [...]