Remember that phone by Samsung for Verizon with LTE radios that didn’t have a name at CES? Welp, Verizon’s starting to get those wheels moving as they’ve set it up with a minimized advertised price – usually, a launch isn’t far off from this step. (Rumors originally pegged this thing for Q1, too.) It’s being [...]

Looks like the DROID 2 could be in for another OTA update soon, if an image sent to Droid-Life is to be believed. The line beneath the data disclaimer is weird: “Delta Package between 2.3.20 – 3.4.2-113″ – just what is this? As they point out, 2.3.20 is the latest build number for the DROID [...]

Our friends over at Skatter Tech have posted a very interesting story today: how an Android smartphone helped get one of their writers out of a speeding ticket. With a combination of GPS, Google Tracks, and a lack of evidence on part of the police officer who wrote the ticket up, they are now able [...]

It’s no fish tank controller, it may just be cooler. This Mini Cooper remote control car from BeeWi is one pretty awesome little toy. It syncs up via Bluetooth to your handset and uses a controller app to steer and accelerate, zip this way and that. Even cooler, you can use your phone’s built in [...]

What do you get when you cross a mildly-powered Android tablet and your fish tank? The Vertex Cerebra Aquarium controller power by Android 2.2 Froyo. This 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM carrying controller is housed in an Aluminum body and buddies up with your fish tank’s sensors to take reading of PH and oxygen levels and [...]

It isn’t every day that all the pieces fall in place to virtually single-handidly save a company from shuttering its doors, but this is exactly what happened when Motorola brought the Android operating system to Verizon Wireless. Just a little more than a year later Motorola has been riding a huge wave of success thanks [...]

Alongside the Optimus 2X, LG will be introducing two more of their high-end Android devices to Australia. The newly unveiled LG Optimus 3D and the super-slim Optimus Black will grace Australia’s shores sometime in late Q2 or early Q3. We’d suspect the Optimus Pad might also find its way over there, considering the fact that [...]

Though the leak train stole Verizon’s thunder, an official press release had finally been issued detailing the launch of the Motorola XOOM on their network. The world’s first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet will indeed launch this Thursday, February 24th, at a price of $599.99 on a two year contract, or $799.99 with no contract at [...]

RadioShack is capping off its Fresh Phone February promotion with some trade-in deals for hot and current handsets. All of their Galaxy S phones, including the brand new Samsung Galaxy S 4G on T-Mobile, will be available for a guaranteed $50 off when you trade in your old handset. In addition, the HTC Inspire 4G [...]

Source code, get your source code here. HTC has dropped quite a few new sources upon their online developer center covering a handful of handsets released in the latter half of 2010 (and two featuring the updated version of HTC Sense). Fresh for your perusal are the source codes of the HTC Desire Z, Desire [...]

You may or may not be familiar with Minecraft. It is a sandbox-style game that looks like it should exist on some early 90s DOS system rather than your modern-era PCs that is still only in its beta stages yet developing a huge cult following. The point of the game is basically to create objects [...]

You didn’t really think the Adobe Flash Player for mobile so heavily advertised in relation to Android devices wouldn’t make its way to the Motorola XOOM, did you? Yes, it is disappointing it won’t be there at launch, but Adobe has just issued a blog post clearing up any misconceptions people may have about its [...]

Consider this our official welcome the Motorola Atrix 4G on its launch day. If you didn’t pre-order the dual-core smartphone, you now have several options for purchasing the device. Direct from AT&T will cost you $199.99 on a two-year contract, while Amazon and RadioShack are offering it for $149.99. The best price comes out of [...]

Just as promised, the Samsung EPIC 4G update actually did begin rolling out last night. A miracle, right? So why sit around and wait until your phone is graced with the OTA (that could take a few days to get out to all phones)? The official update file has been found on Samsung’s website, and [...]

With the launch of the Motorola XOOM this week should be a big week for Android. See some other android happenings below. WWE will soon release an application for Android. You’ll need to be subscribed to WWE magazine to get access. Huawei’s looking to build an $80 million cellular network for London’s underground subway system [...]

While we still don’t know where the HTC Thunderbolt is, the Motorola XOOM is ready to go for its February 24th release. See it here already arriving at Best Buy stores, itching to hop out on those shelves. [via Engadget]

Today a Motorola XOOM ad indicated Flash Player 10.1 wouldn’t be available on the XOOM at launch. Turns out it isn’t really available for any device running NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chip. After the ad surfaced, Adobe updated the Android Market description for Flash Player to include: It SHOULD NOT be installed on devices/tablets with the [...]

A quick ad for the Motorola XOOM has joined Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt commercial from earlier today. The 16 second spot doesn’t do anything to tout the specs or features of the slate, rather only showing a brief glimpse of it before it transfroms into a spaceship. Still giving off a Droid-y vibe despite the lack [...]

PenTile has been a technique in place on the current generation of AMOLED and SUper AMOLED displays that shares green subpixels among several whole RGB pixels, creating a grainier image in displays with smaller pixel counts. With the introduction of the Super AMOLED Plus, Samsung has deployed a pixel scheme they are calling Real-Stripe, which [...]

Online retailer Play.com has put up pre-order pages for the upcoming LG Optimus 3D and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The two new handsets had a big showing at this year’s Mobile World Congress, and since have been showing up with looks pricing and availability all over the internet. This latest puts the UK pricing and [...]