Samsung and T-Mobile have gone ahead and made their first 4G Android handset official, and, no, it won’t be called the Vibrant 4G or even Vibrant Plus. While there is still room for that to change, considering the attached press release doesn’t offer too many details and a release is still a few weeks out, [...]

Everyone’s favorite fruit slicing adventure has been updated in the Android Market, and with it comes the inclusion of a new Arcade Mode. In Arcade Mode you get one minute to chop as many bananas, watermelons, apples, and more into fruit salad. If you are a Fruit Ninja freak and don’t have the update yet, [...]

When it was announced, the LG Optimus 2X became the world’s first official Dual-Core Android Phone and according to research firm Strategy Analytics, 15% of smartphones sold in 2011 will be Dual-Core or better. That’s right… or better. Did you forget that the high-tech heavyweights are always trying to stay ahead of the curve? Keep [...]

Yes, folks: it appears Federico is still alive. (We were afraid he might have starved himself trying to work on his LauncherPro rewrite.) Word from Droid-Life says he’s looking to push out another update for the current version of LauncherPro tomorrow that’ll bring some custom window transitions, while an update the week afterward will introduce [...]

It’s RUU time again. The Thunderbolt’s, in particular, has seen yet another leak. And because I’m not that great of a developer, I have no idea how to figure out what’s different, what’s new, or even what to do with it. I’ll settle with just posting the links to the downloads here and letting you [...]

Eric Schmidt – writing as a guest contributor in the Harvard Business Review – talked about Google’s strategic initiatives in 2011, and one interesting, but not-so-surprising point was brought up: all of it is mobile. If it’s not Android phones or tablets, then it’s pushing NFC using Android. And even if it isn’t Android, it’s [...]

That didn’t take long. Just earlier, we were hearing about a SideKick 4G that was announced at a town hall meeting. Turns out the meeting was a quiet press briefing at a town hall that featured Deutsche Telekom’s CEO Rene Obermann and T-Mobile USA’s CEO Phillip Humm – a meeting we heard would take place [...]

[Update]: Everything below remains true, except one disappointing thing after clearing some of the wording up with Sprint: Premier Silver customers actually won’t get an annual upgrade. That lone feature will be reserved for Premier Gold customers. The good news is that you can change your plan anytime you want without extending your contract. Now [...]

Looks like the first overclock for the Samsung Galaxy Tab has finally made its way to XDA – it’s a 200 megahertz step up past the stock 1GHz that the Hummingbird processor runs at, and initial reports seem to suggest it’s stable. The overclock has only been out since early morning so not a lot [...]

Samsung – tweeting from their Galaxy S Support Twitter account – has confirmed that an over-the-air upgrade for the Nexus S will be rolling out over the next few days to fix that nasty SMS bug that tends to send messages to the wrong contacts. (I imagine some of you out there have gotten in [...]

We’ve been looking for a date to tie to the HTC Thunderbolt – one of Verizon’s new 4G smartphones – and we’ve gathered enough evidence from several unrelated sources – a couple of which I trust – to suggest it’ll be launched February 14th, the same day Mobile World Congress officially kicks off. Considering marketing [...]

Oh, cute little helpful USB Cable, how I one day may loathe you. I just think I’m innocently plugging you into my computer, perhaps to charge although you take infinitely longer than a wall charger, or maybe I’m moving some pictures or files. Then without warning, an attacker is actually operating my computer, my personal [...]

The latest in crazy, whacky concepts is pretty neat – a triple display phone that’s running Android and can fold and bend for different uses. It can be transformed from your traditional slate up to a pyramid of sorts to give you a blocky space-age looking device. And this concept is said to include a [...]

One great capability you’ll get from rooting your phone is a longer life span. Phones like the T-Mobile G1 are not only alive and kicking, but working pretty darn well thanks to Rooting and ROMing which allow for old phones to run quicker and more efficient versions of the operating system. Cyanogenmod is by far [...]

Say what you want about Sony and their Xperia line of products – for which they’ve gotten a bad reputation due to delayed or a lack of updates – but they’re moving units just as well as you’d expect any healthy company to: they’re reporting over 9 million Xperia phones have been shipped since the [...]

Many Europeans have been enjoying the HTC Gratia since November 2010 and the manufacturer announced their Euro-Only version of the HTC Aria back in October. For some reason the UK was missing out, but today the company shared that they’ll offer a white version of the HTC Gratia in the UK exclusively through Brightstar. Looks [...]

Been a long time since we heard this one. Since T-Mobile killed off the SideKick brand, we’ve heard rumors of T-Mobile wanting to reignite it with Android and a new hardware manufacturer. Those rumors started as early as the beginning of Summer: remember “Project Emerald“? Yea, we haven’t talked about it for months as time [...]

Streak Smart is at it again, obsessing over yet another Dell Streak device. (I know, I say that as if there have been more than two.) This time, they actually read the fine print on T-Mobile’s coming soon page for the Dell Streak 7 and noticed a pretty revealing line of text: “$82.50 down payment, [...]

Google has reportedly chimed in, again, on the Nexus One + Gingerbread tandem that we’ve been waiting to see. “No unexpected hurdles,” says a representative of Google talking to Computer World. They state a roll out should be happening soon. The problem is that we’ve heard this one before – when Gingerbread was announced, a [...]

Eldar Murtazin – that guy who seems to get information about or hands-on with certain phones long before they’re announced – has uncovered yet another, this time from Sony Ericsson. Despite an XPERIA logo on the thing, he’s claiming this thing will be called the Vivaz 2 – a continuation of a brand that once [...]