Pocket Now has been sniffing around the trademark paperwork and noticed that Motorola has been busy claiming rights to “XOOM” all over the world. To date it has been spotted in the U.S., Canada, EU, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan. While this will raise the antennas anytime it happens, coming so close to Motorola unveiling [...]

Users of the Samsung EPIC 4G may be getting a Boxing Day treat. The real FroYo should be making its way to devices beginning December 26th and continuing over a four day period. Phone Arena was tipped off with a phone shot detailing what is going to go down while the rest of us are [...]

What a long road it has been. First you had the initial waiting leading up to your original launch date, only to have it delayed until today, then that’s pretty much it. Like Tom Petty said, “waiting is the hardest part”. But now that all of that is over, it’s time to enjoy the fruits [...]

Near Field Communication is nothing new; the issue is the world just hasn’t caught on to it yet. Japan is way ahead of the game and you would be hard pressed to find something you couldn’t pay for by waiving your NFC device around, I’ve also heard Holland is big on NFC. As an American [...]

Slash Gear came across some interesting half-photos depicting a mystery HTC device. Heck nobody knows what operating system is loaded, but we can speculate! Slash Gear has had it suggested to them that this may be the HTC Incredible HD, also referred to as the HTC Mecha a potential LTE device. You would assume a [...]

Phone Arena aquired some snap shots of the rumored HTC EVO Shift 4G. We’ve been hearing more and more about this device lately, but these are the clearest photos we have seen to date. Also surfacing is the apparent knowledge that it will have an 800MHz processor leading to the obvious comparison to the T-Mobile [...]

This should come as no shock to the lot of you. Verizon’s COO, John Stratton, has just confirmed that Motorola will be the first manufacturer to launch an LTE capable device on Verizon Wireless’ network. Motorola and Verizon have formed an extremely close bond over the last ~13 months, starting with the launch of the [...]

You read that title correctly. Net neutrality regulation over the wireless spectrum isn’t as necessary because Android is open source. How the FCC went square-peg round-hole on this one is beyond my pay scale. Engadget is busy picking apart the FCC’s statement regarding the recent vote that has managed to piss off both sides of [...]

The LG Optimus 2X was announced a few days back, and North America was nowhere to be seen on the “coming to” list. However, if the rumors that RCR Wireless is reporting can hold water, it will and it will do so soon. The dual core beauty could make its way to T-Mobile US by [...]

I don’t know if I’m behind the times, or subconsciously block something like this out. But, apparently there’s a show out there called ‘Glee’; it’s a bunch of kids breaking out into song when the wind changes direction, or something. Digressing, one of the actors, Darren Criss, just scored some serious pointage with me. 10 [...]

For those of you keeping tabs on Android when the G1 was the only droid you were looking for, and by “looking for” I mean the only choice you had, there was a man named Eric Specht. Mr. Specht ran a company named ‘Android Data’ between 1998 and 2002. Six years later, when Android was [...]

The Official Google Blog just posted some nifty tips and tricks for us to take advantage of. A lot of the things listed are pretty obvious, but quite a few can serve as a great refresher for all of the little things we may have forgotten over time as we developed our Android habits. When [...]

If there is one thing Motorola has been able to do, with their entire DROID lineup, it’s build hype. Yesterday we were treated to a video detailing the evolution of the tablet. And today we get a countdown to CES clock. Next thing you know they’ll be turning the countdown clock into an app, for [...]

It’s no mystery that everyone loves the home team; so it should come as no shock that the Galaxy S has done very well in its native land, South Korea. They have moved 2 million Galaxy S devices in the six months it has been available in South Korea, more than 20% of worldwide sales. [...]

Sony Ericsson may be pulling a double-bluff-reversi on everyone that is following the eventual announcement and launching of the “Playstation Phone”. Engadget, and a series of other tech blogs are reporting that a PR firm for SE, Stockholm based Jung Relations, has registered a slew of XPERIA Play-like domain names from a variety of TLDs, [...]

Google’s AdMob and Coca-Cola have teamed up for a little holiday fun this year. A live wallpaper based inside a snow-globe to brighten your days as you fiercely search your device for the best deals while navigating cutthroat shopping malls. And, if nothing else it will remind you that there’s is nothing better than an [...]

The guys and gals in Saudi Arabia will soon phandroiding in style when they get their hands on the Sense powered HTC Desire HD. The device marks the second Android device to be hosted in the country, hopefully on the second of many. Unfortunatley, there are no other details aside from that. Launch date, pricing [...]

Not even a week after 2.3 was officially merged into the AOSP and we are on our second hand’s worth of Devices with Gingerbread. It’s shaping up to be quite the winter wonderland, after all! Droid Life is bringing in the first reports of the OG Droid running Gingerbread. While the .zip file you’ll apply [...]

At first Viewsonic claimed that pulling the G Tablet was due to a “manufacturing defect”. Turns out that was a load of bunk, and was really a “user experience issue”. An excuse that blows just as much wind; but whatever puts the proverbial wind in your sails, Viewsonic. Basically what it boiled down to was [...]

Yes, 80 million people are using the Opera browser. On top of that, Opera users managed to get 44.6 billion page views in the month of November alone, as mentioned in Opera’s State of the Mobile Web address. Most of the time that isn’t a statistic can that can be acquired very easily, accurately or [...]