Boku, mobile payments service that was once rumored to be in the running for Google acquisition, is teaming up with BillToMobile to bring mobile payments to Verizon’s line of Android smartphones via carrier billing. The new billing system will allow users to charge purchases from merchants such as Facebook directly to their monthly phone bill. [...]

The Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK preview just came out yesterday, and along with it comes plenty of goodies. A system dump has come online featuring the Honeycomb framework, apps, and a ton of wallpapers for you to peruse. We’re sure plenty of other stuff is in there, so go on and get to digging. You [...]

It wasn’t too long ago that we first glimpsed the Sidekick 4G for T-Mobile and it’s been even less time since we heard rumors it might be Samsung made, and now get our first in-the-wild look at the handset. Still hard to tell if the thing was designed and assembled by Samsung (it certainly doesn’t [...]

There is no question that LG has been faltering a bit in the cellphone game lately, but the numbers for the final quarter of 2010 are confirming exactly what everyone was thinking. Despite the late-year success of the LG Optimus One line of phones, the low-cost/available everywhere model couldn’t salvage sales with a 15.2 percent [...]

Rumorville time, folks. When T-Mobile’s CEO Phillip Humm quietly announced the Samsung Galaxy S 4G and a new 4G-enabled Sidekick, we didn’t get many details nor were we afforded any official pictures. All that could be mustered up was this shot of one of the slides presented. Taylor from Android & Me has reason to [...]

Something slipped my mind as I posted AT&T’s 2010 report earlier today: they’ve passed Verizon up in subscriber count, officially making them the nation’s number one carrier and knocking Verizon down to number two. They enjoy 94.1 million wireless subscribers, ahead of Verizon by 1.4 million. That’s going to be a nice tidbit for AT&T’s [...]

Not impressed by the quick demo of the phone’s camera features Sony Ericsson gave us before? A new crop of photos have hit Flickr and a new HD video sample reportedly taken by the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has hit YouTube. Two words: absolutely impressive. If you need a nice phone with a great camera, [...]

The folks at RunKeeper Pro must’ve liked what they saw when they offered the application for free before, because they’ve just announced a permanent price reduction to $0. If the trend is anything to go by, RunKeeper’s thinking more about their longtime revenue goals than the money they make for the app up front. It’s [...]

Mickey Mouse and his crazy cast of Disney cartoon characters you know from you childhood (or your child’s childhood) aren’t only an American phenomenon – they’re popular all over the world. So popular that in Japan, Disney Mobile is launching their very own Android smartphone in Mid-February called the DisneyMobile DM009SH: They do an amazing [...]

I’d bet money that the folks at Facebook are getting tired of dispelling the one rumor that just can’t seem to die: the belief that a Facebook phone is in the works. Rumors flared back up yesterday where CityAM claimed a “trusted” source knew of plans within HTC for a Facebook-branded phone. It sounded just [...]

Not to be outdone by its nameless cousin with a set of four capacitive buttons, another HTC slate has made its way into spy shots – the one without the buttons we uncovered a couple of weeks ago that many guessed could be a placeholder device inside of the HTC Sync application. Such wasn’t the [...]

We all know it by now: Google collects information on us. Whatever they do collect is probably harmless, and their privacy policy is constantly tweaked and amended to assure everyone that their privacy is as safe as safe can be, but one group of folks don’t seem to buy it. Consumer Watchdog – a group [...]

You’ve probably already noticed that it’s numbers time – they’re not always fun. But for this round of end-of-year reports, we’ve been treated to information regarding new devices, release dates, and a lot more straight from the horses’ mouths. Qualcomm is the latest to post theirs. The skinny? They earned $3.35 billion  to go up [...]

AT&T has just released their 4th quarter 2010 numbers, as well as numbers for 2010 overall. They enjoyed tremendous growth last quarter adding 2.8 million subscribers, pushing them to 8.9 million on the year – the most growth they’ve ever enjoyed. (But still sitting second behind Verizon with 95.5 million subscribers.) I’m sure a majority [...]

One of Samsung’s latest TouchWiz QWERTY-enabled Android 2.2 phones – the i5510 we heard about a few months ago – is now being carried by Vodafone in the UK for £20.42 per month. The tariff affords you 100 minutes and 250MB of data allowance. (Translation: it’s for the newbs.) The display only clocks in at [...]

A new report by Good Technology has come out to put the spotlight on smartphone market share in the enterprise sector. The study excludes RIM’s BlackBerry enterprise phone since they already trump both Android and iOS by a landslide. When it’s just Android vs iOS, though, the battle is as close as the overall smartphone [...]

Remember all of those renders of unreleased, unannounced HTC devices that popped up in HTC Sync not too long ago? One of those phones – the one that looks like a Nexus One without a trackball and with a front-facing camera – has been caught in he wild. It’s expected to be announced at Mobile [...]

We’re not a gaming blog, obviously, but we’re excited by the PSP2, and more than that, we’re excited by what was announced alongside of it at a press briefing in Japan earlier this morning. Sony introduced PlayStation Suite, a store of games and content for individuals who want more than just finger-flicking gaming on their [...]

The folks who created Craigslist Craigsnotifica – the popular Android app for Craigslists buffs which was removed from the market yesterday – have updated us to let us know that the application has now been restored to the Android market. Google originally accused them of breaking the Android market ToS, but it appears Google may [...]

So the one thing none of us have discussed throughout this madness: just what in the hell is going to represent Honeycomb? We’d imagine an actual honeycomb, of course, but Google hasn’t said anything about it. We don’t even get an oversized lawn ornament for this version of Android. But images found within the SDK [...]