As news is a bit slow today, we decided to head over to the Android market to take a look at some of the more intesting games to be released lately. We stumbled across a game called Popies which – for lack of a better definition – looks like a whack-a-mole clone. They add a [...]

Monday morning rumor mill time! This time, the Thunderbolt may have finally gotten cleared for retail as known Verizon affiliate Black_Man_X let loose the following in a tweet that has since been deleted: “Thunderbolts are go!!” This comes with another independent source who contacted GizmoFusion saying the same. That March 3rd or 4th date looks [...]

Sprint users out there who subscribe to the carrier’s $7 total equipment protection plan will be glad to know that a new application is now available for download. It’s their equivalent of Lookout, if I had to compare it to something. Here are the list of features you can look forward to should your phone [...]

This one has been making the rounds via Reddit. Nothing much needs to be said, but why does the apple get 4 light sabers? I read a funny joke that said not to worry as it could only use one of them at a time. Unfortunately, that doesn’t apply today. Still, it’s on my desktop [...]

The one thing that annoyed many EVO users is that their HDMI port could only be used while watching video and viewing photos. Orrebmas at Android Central’s forums looks to do away with that with a limited time beta of FullHDMI, however, that’ll allow you to view and play anything you want on the big [...]

If you haven’t heard, Google’s servers screwed up and took a wrong turn sometime this weekend and now 150,000 Gmail accounts are without all of their previous email. The real story here is that 150,000 of Gmail’s users are only considered to be .08% of their total population. Anyway, this is just a quickie to [...]

Many of you were Angry souls who thought Bejeweled 2 took so long to come to Android. And when it finally did come, its price tag made a good chunk of you fall ill with sticker shock. EA Mobile’s put the game on sale, though, and it can now be had in the market for [...]

Sony Ericsson has become one of the most interesting manufacturers to watch in 2011. They transformed their smartphone business in 2010 with the launch of their first Android phone – the Xperia X10 – and followed that up with Mini spin-offs. Contrary to what you’d hear on sites and forums like ours, the phones were [...]

We’re not exactly huge Blackberry fans here at Phandroid, obviously, but we do cover any and everything Android. Having said that, a new video has come out of a RIM  representative confirming that the Blackberry Playbook tablet will – at some point – support Android applications. We’ve heard those murmurs a while ago, and recent [...]

The Motorola XOOM – the world’s first Android 3.0 tablet – has been hacked to no end since its release last week, and development continues with coolbho3000′s overclock developments. He first had the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor clocked at 1.2Ghz, but that was just Saturday. One day later, he’s achieved a stable 1.5 GHz overclock. [...]

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is starting to trickle into the marketplace, and you had to guess that with its arrival would come eager developers ready to pull all of its interesting bits right from the device’s internal storage. Folks at XDA have gotten the full dump if anyone’s interested. You can find Xperia-specific applications, [...]

For some odd reason, Android 3.0 and Mac OS don’t get along too well as they are. We won’t jump into why that may be (it could just be something trivial or a technical limitation), but we will point you guys toward a tool you’ll need if you need to connect your new Honeycomb tablet [...]

We’ve been expecting Verizon to announce a follow-up to the HTC DROID Incredible for a long while. Most thought that the Thunderbolt would be considered the device’s sequel, but HTC ended up debuting one Incredible S at Mobile World Congress. While that particular device is only officially headed for Europe at the moment, Engadget has [...]

As we jump from date to date trying to figure out when exactly this phone will come out, there has never really been a firm “reason” for the Thunderbolt’s launch being put off. Many figured it was due to the debut of the iPhone 4, and later that turned into the debut of the Motorola [...]

After months of being hidden by HTC and after a long-awaited announcement, someone is putting their HTC Merge up for sale on eBay before HTC even has a chance to release it. It’s the Verizon-branded version that we’ve seen strut its stuff in countless pictures and a few videos. The seller – xyellowfrizbee, who has [...]

As another week ends, the HTC Thunderbolt is still without a release date. At least the Motorola XOOM on Verizon and Motorola Atrix 4G launched without a hitch. In the midst of all of this plenty of juicy tidbits remain. Find here a few quick takes from around the Androidosphere. Samsung’s SMT Android tablet for [...]

To continue a deluge of tasty HTC Thunderbolt news, following up on some speed tests we were made privy to, we now have a shot listing the handset among the annals of Celebrite. Combine this with the ability to now add the HTC Thunderbolt to your shopping cart at the HTC online store for $699.99, [...]

One of our trusted tipsters has just forwarded along some pretty interesting material. The first thing to note is your looking at the HTC Thunderbolt, the phone that just can’t seem to pin down a release date, in hand. Speaking of the release date, our source is saying that March 3rd/4th looks like the most [...]

Just a day after the Samsung Captivate got the green light on its upgrade to Froyo, another AT&T smartphone is making the leap to Android 2.2. As promised, the Android 2.2 update for the HTC Aria is now live and ready for installation. You can head on over to HTC’s Aria support page to download [...]

It was learned earlier this week that several third-party retailers would no longer stock and sell AT&T handsets and contracts. One of these retailers is LetsTalk, the company that runs Walmart’s online wireless portal. As a parting gesture, LetsTalk has decided to mark down the newly released Motorola Atrix 4G and laptop dock bundle from [...]