Quick, look at the picture above and tell me which is a phone and which is a media player. This is what you get when you take the Samsung Galaxy S, remove the phone radio, deploy a slightly scaled down spec sheet, and offer a flavor with an extra inch of screen real estate. The [...]

Remember when 1GHz processors were the real deal? Yeah, within the past year. Remember when Dual Core processors like the Tegra 2 were cutting edge and powering the hottest handsets and tablets? Yeah, that’s still cutting edge and the first dual core smartphones and tablets are still being announced. So then what NVIDIA showed us [...]

There were a bunch of interesting tidbits revealed last night at Eric Schmidt’s Keynote including Gingerbread & Honeycomb will converge into Ice Cream Sandwich (educing fragmentation), Eric Schmidt’s claim that HTML 5will kill apps, the fact that Google tried to get Nokia to run Android, an Android App for Tablets called Movie Studio, and some Android [...]

Folks have spotted a change on Sprint’s support site that shows folks exactly how to install the new EB13 Froyo build for the Samsung EPIC 4G. Sprint was one of the carriers who were apologetic regarding the delays and wanted to get the firmware out as soon as possible. That’s about as far as this [...]

Immediately following HTC’s announcements yesterday, carriers wanted to express their plans to carry one or more of the devices. Here’s a quick round-up of everything we’ve heard and seen so far. AT&T’s told Mobilized that they’ll be carrying two phones from HTC similar to the ChaCha and Salsa, the “Facebook phones”. Telus is going to [...]

One question many had regarding the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play’s ability to play classic Playstation One titles was whether or not you’d be able to transfer PSN content that you already own. The answer, unfortunately, is no: if you own a game on the Playstation 3 or PSP that is also available for Xperia Play, [...]

Here we go again: according to sources who spoke to Greg at MobileCrunch, Google is preparing to roll out the Nexus One OTA upgrade either late this week or early next week. I have not heard this myself so I can’t confirm or deny, but if several independent sources said the same thing, then I [...]

And out of nowhere, a sign-up landing page for the Sidekick 4G over at T-Mobile has gone live. You won’t find any images or information other than the confirmation that this will indeed be an HSPA+ device, but you can go ahead and fill out the form and get it in your inbox as soon [...]

If you haven’t already seen it during Eric Schmidt’s keynote yesterday, Google has unveiled a project they’ve been working on for Honeycomb tablets called Movie Studio. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a movie editor. And it looked awesome. They touted features such as sharing via the cloud, but we were impressed by everything they [...]

Honeycomb won’t make its way to smartphones — that has been the official line from Google so far — but a newly leaked handset from HTC is making a claim for the opposite. The HTC Revolver recently appeared with a spec sheet boasting a 4.3-inch display, 16GB of flash memory, 1GB RAM, and a dual-core [...]

We’ve just been informed that the Game Gripper has evolved – it’s now Bluetooth enabled. Before, you’d need a phone with a keyboard to take advantage of the Game Gripper, and considering keyboards are different shapes, sizes, and layouts from phone to phone, you had to hope that one would come out for your device. [...]

So the HTC Thunderbolt definitely didn’t come out February 14th. The date passed and instead we got a handful of new devices from HTC at Mobile World Congress. That leaves the 24th as the strongest contender for the release date of Verizon’s first 4G LTE handset, right? Well a new inventory screen grab from Best [...]

The first dual-core smartphone was the LG Optimus 2X and it wasn’t long ago that it launched. But now, mobile phone fanatics are clamoring for more dual-core devices, with disappointing feedback at anything less. Don’t forget, it also wasn’t long ago that 1GHz powered phones were out-of-the-norm and exciting. Here comes quad-core. NVIDIA not only [...]

Just woke up and took a gander at my Twitter page – CyanogenMod 7 release candidates either are or will soon be available. All of the usual suspects (devices) are getting it, but if it’s not uploaded by the time you check, Cyanogen says give them time – some of the maintainers are in different [...]

Consider this a post-event live blog of sorts. Notes and thoughts written in real-time as the event went down. They just showed an awesome timeline and heat map of Android activations since the G1, highlighting the launch of the Droid and the dramatic sky rocketing adoption of Android. Along with mass distribution of devices has [...]

We’ve just been informed that as Nokia shopped their hardware to the two premium third-party smartphone OS providers in the United States, Google took initiative and asked them to join powers. The end result? Well, you already know – Microsoft won. Schmidt said Google expressed disappointment when they made that choice. And it wasn’t exactly [...]

We’ve heard the discussion about HTML eventually taking over the universe but I think this may be the first time I’ve heard Eric Schmidt say it directly and so succinctly. I’d have to double-check word for word, but the quote I heard was: “HTML 5 is the way almost all applications will be built, including [...]

The bombs just keep dropping from Google’s CEO at his keynote speech. We already heard that Android market now has 150,000 applications, and that daily activations have hit 350,000, and now he’s informed us all that Android “I” for Ice Cream (Sandwich) will combine Gingerbread and Honeycomb. It’ll certainly solve the naming and versioning issue [...]

Eric Schmidt has just announced that Android has reached 350,000 activations each day. After doing some dirty and quick math, that comes out to about 10 million per month. And in a year? 127,750,000. That number is huge, isn’t it? And it’s expected to keep growing throughout 2011 and beyond. Android is projected to surpass [...]

We’re sitting in live at Eric Schmidt’s keynote here at Mobile World Congress, and one of his first talking points was that Android market now has 150,000 apps in the market – it was somewhere around 50,000 just 9 months ago. AppBrain released some early numbers based on their own statistic they keep back in [...]