Well, well, well. What’s this we’re hearing about an April 20th launch date for the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G? T-Mobile already gave us a good look at pricing, but that wasn’t enough for RadioShack – the retailer took to twitter to confirm earlier suspicions of ours. We first heard that the T-Mobile G2X and the LG [...]

Verizon looks to be cracking down on subscribers who expect to exchange cosmetically-damaged phones for replacements that are in better shape. Long story short: if your device breaks – even due to a manufacturer defect within the hardware or software – you’ll have to pay a premium if the device has blatant cosmetic flaws. All [...]

You can say whatever you want about Qualcomm’s speed in getting their newer chipsets inside of devices, but they do come to market with technology comparable to their competitors. Such is the case with the MSM8660 – the same chipset inside of the HTC EVO 3D and the supposed HTC Pyramid. The EVO 3D’s chipset [...]

We know we missed the wrap-up yesterday but we didn’t want a repeat of Tuesday – there were so few things in the pipeline that it would have been quite embarrassing to post. Today is a lot different, though. As you can see below there are a ton of things to check out that we [...]

Google’s added a cool new feature to their mobile search engine today that’ll make looking up stock information easier than it’s ever been. By simply searching for the ticker symbol of your company of choice, it’ll bring up a card showing you their performance from one day to five years. Swiping left and right will [...]

This is interesting. Research firm BTIG polled 150 different Verizon Wireless stores in 22 cities and came up with the following statistic: the HTC Thunderbolt is outselling Apple’s iPhone 4 at 28% of the locations polled. (And we’re sure they own a lot more stores than 150.) We can’t put too much stock into their [...]

Sony Ericsson is getting ready to unleash their Playstation-certified Android handset – the Xperia Play – and is getting the games catalog up and ready to go for when the device finally does launch. A number of PSX (Playstation 1) titles are now in the Android market but you won’t be able to do anything [...]

We’re not surprised, but Sprint is said to be discounting their Samsung Galaxy Tab come April 3rd. It’ll get a $100 reduction to bring it down to $200 after signing a new two-year data agreement. It seems the device’s off-contract price will be getting a few dollars shaved off of itself, too, as the suggested [...]

ASUS wasn’t terribly confident in showing their tablet off before they were able to get Honeycomb loaded onto it, but now that it’s nearing release they’ve undone the wraps on it. One Swedish outlet was able to get their hands on it and decided to play with the Transformer on camera – for nearly 30 [...]

Not that we care because it’s already in the Android market where we prefer to get most of our wares, but GetJar has allowed Opera to republish their “Mini” application in their app store. If you don’t remember, the application was pulled immediately after Opera announced they’d be introducing an app store of their own [...]

Google continues their commitment to advancing NFC technology by joining the NFC Forum, according to Mobile Crunch. They join the likes of AT&T, Motorola, LG, and more carriers and OEMs looking to incorporate NFC technology into their products and services. “The NFC Forum thrives on the active participation of global industry leaders and innovators such [...]

When Android 3.0 was designed and launched specifically for tablets, the ugly voice of fragmentation screamed out from dissenters. We had a phone OS on Android 2.3/2.4 called Gingerbread, a tablet OS on Android 3.0 called Honeycomb, and a lot of confusion amongst the community. Eric Schmidt silenced much of that confusion at MWC in [...]

[Hoax Alert]: Looks like we’ve been had, folks. (For the facial recognition part of this story, anyway.) Google has chimed in to let folks know that the story - originally published by CNN – is bogus. While they didn’t completely deny that they’re working on something like this, they state that the information presented by CNN [...]

We’ve been hearing a lot about the Eee Pad Transformer’s availability lately but most of their news has been for folks in Europe. That doesn’t mean they’re sleeping on their United States plans, though. A coming soon page has now been published at major retailer Best Buy’s webiste and it even comes with a price [...]

The folks at American Airlines have announced a new sweepstakes to go along with the release of their newly-launched Android application. One lucky winner will get a chance to win 1 million AAdvantage Miles and will give away a NOOKcolor each day for the next 30 days. Sweet deal right? I know you’re wondering how [...]

A freshly leaked pricing sheet is revealing what we can expect to pay for two upcoming Droid handsets for Verizon. To be exact, the sheet lists minimum advertised prices (MAP) for upcoming and current Android handsets. New here are the Samsung DROID Charge and HTC Droid Incredible 2, both handsets that should be launching in [...]

US Cellular has just announced the availability of the Samsung Gem for their network. It will be available in stores and online beginning tomorrow, April 1st. The Android 2.2 phone isn’t much to get excited about in light of the many options available on networks across the nation, but if you are on US Cellular [...]

Earlier in the week we heard news that O2 had uncovered some issues in testing that had forced the company to delay the release of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. You can add Vodafone and Three to the list, as both carriers have pushed back the launch of the gaming handset. Three still hopes they [...]

Amazon’s free daily app from their Android Appstore is an obvious marketing gimmick, and it’s obviously working. Every day brings yet another app that is easily worth double its price tag. Today we have Fruit Ninja up for grabs, a much cheaper, safer, and less messy alternative to dicing actual fruits with a Samurai sword [...]

CTIA wrapped up last week and I left the event in Orlando feeling satisfied with what I saw as a member of the press. The industry is moving forward with new technologies, carriers and OEMs continue to understand the importance of taking into account the opini++ons of their subscribers with every move they make, and [...]