I kid, I kid: I’m not some tinfoil hat-wearing nut who thinks the government is trying to conspire against me at all times. This story is about a satellite with a smartphone on board – one with hardware powerful enough to make British satellite firm SSTL want to put the thing onto a unit and [...]

We know Tegra 3 is going to be something special and we fully believe NVIDIA is trying to beat their competitors to the punch – so these slides don’t entirely surprise us – but they show us they’ll be looking to ramp things up to 1.5GHz for their quad core chipset. That one is expected [...]

After it was revealed by Virgin Mobile themselves that they’d be carrying the LG Optimus – the “One” series we had hoped – leaks show that it has gotten a more defining name and a price: the LG Optimus V will be sold by them for just $149.99. Not bad. We still don’t have a [...]

While European countries are left with nothing but pre-order options and while those of us in North America are wondering if and when we’ll be seeing the device, Koreans have the opportunity to go out and purchase the LG Optimus 2X right now. Yay! But the story here is the white version of the phone [...]

More Motorola XOOM news for you. Some shots of Best Buy’s internal system shows the Motorola XOOM launching February 17th, but for $699.99 instead of the $799.99 we saw in Verizon leaks late last week. It’s important to note that Verizon allows their retail partners to set their own price for the device, which would [...]

Don’t get your hopes up too fast: this rumor comes from an Amsterdam-based site called SamFirmwares – one we’ve never heard of before. Still, they seem to have a sizable following and we’ll play with this rumor on a boring weekend: the Samsung Galaxy S and Tab are expected to receive Android 2.3 at the [...]

Wanting to pass the time until the Motorola XOOM’s pricing and availability information are announced? Perhaps a look at the device’s accessories will hold you over until we get more information (hopefully at the end of the month.) While we realize these may have been on Motorola’s site for a while, we hadn’t seen most [...]

Virgin Mobile hasn’t adopted Android with the biggest sense of urgency, but they’ve announced via Facebook that they’ll be receiving the LG Optimus. We’re not sure if it’s the original Optimus or the Optimus One – the one that most carriers have launched recently – but we’ve reached out for comment. Rumors also seem to [...]

Not to be left completely in the dust by its successor the Nexus S, we are also receiving word that the Nexus One is also receiving an update today. The N1′s latest software brings it up to Android 2.2.2, which appears to be a maintenance update more than anything else. We’re still looking into whether [...]

Just yesterday we got word that an update was poised for release on the Nexus S and that it would fix the SMS bug seeing text messages sent to the wrong contact, and now several of you readers have reported in to inform us that the update is starting to reach handsets now. Never mind [...]

It seems whoever came to the conclusion that Android is shipping with a group of 30+ segments of code copied line by line from Java may have not done their homework. After further analysis of the files in question, Ed Burnette of ZDNet has concluded that there are in fact no instances of copied code [...]

We could be looking at the pricing for two of Verizon’s most highly anticipated future releases. The HTC Thunderbolt, which should be launching in February, looks to be priced slightly higher than your typical new smartphone release at $249.99. The Motorola XOOM looks to get an unsubsidized pricing of $799.99 (we hope its unsubsidized, at [...]

After word that the Motorola XOOM tablet might be getting MotoBlur hit the internet to the dismay of Google Experience fans everywhere, Motorola has reached out to us to set the record straight. The XOOM was developed alongside Google to optimize the tablet and Honeycomb’s working relationship. Motorola is calling it a “Google Experience Device” [...]

A teaser site has gone live for the Toshiba Android tablet with Honeycomb showing us nothing more than we already knew. The tablet was under pretty tight wraps at CES, but Toshiba has been eager to talk it up. An intro video runs down the pertinent specs including NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and 10-invh screen. [...]

Aside from a quick showing on stage at CES, the final looks of the LG G-Slate for T-Mobile are a mystery. Even the recently launched sign-up page shows the tablet veiled in secrecy. But a Korean music video has hit the scene and may be giving us are first hard look at the slate. When [...]

If this following bit of news turns out to be true it will be bad with a capital ‘B.’ Motorola’s European head of Android product management has stated that the company plans to implement Motoblur on the world’s first Android 3.0 tablet, the Motorola XOOM. Even more disconcerting is that according to Jonathan Nattrass, the [...]

God forbid it should ever happen, but if you break down on some deserted stretch of road with no clue where you are, provided your a AAA member help is within reach with the new Roadside Assistance app for Android. Not only will the app provide you with your AAA account info and contact information [...]

When the iPhone 4 launched on Verizon’s network, those wishing to purchase it at Best Buy will be directed to AT&T’s version of the handset. It sounds like Best Buy will be squarely focused on Big Red’s 4G initiatives, and as such will be the exclusive retailer of the HTC ThunderBolt when it lands on [...]

Guess what gals and guys? PhanMail Friday’s back after a month-long hiatus due to hard partying and laziness. No, actually we were just on holiday break and came back to tackle the monster that was CES. But now that all that is out of the way, we’re excited to get back into our normal swing [...]

The eReader app Sony promised us has arrived, and it’s everything you might expect from a book reader for a mobile device. Available on Android 2.2 devices and higher, the aptly named Reader will sync with your current Sony Reader Daily Edition eReader and features touchscreen controls including swiping to turn pages, long-pressing to highlight [...]