Just as everyone expected, Samsung went ahead and announced new models of the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The first an 8.9 inch model with the same great Tegra 2 processor that powers most Android 3.0 tablets, but they’re including HSPA+ (21mbps) radios and will implement an HD resolution display (1280×800). Other specs to round the hardware [...]

Sprint has just formally announced the HTC EVO 3D as we expected them to. All of those leaked specs before remain true with its 4.3-inch qHD display, 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, Android 2.3 with HTC Sense 2.1, an autostereoscopic 3D-enabled display, dual cameras on the back for capturing 3D content and more. The device has [...]

At today’s CTIA press event Samsung officially announced the Galaxy Tab 8.9 along with a second look at the upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1. As the name suggests, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 features an 89.-inch display at a resolution of 1280×600 with a slim and light profile. It weighs in at just 470g and measure 8.6mm [...]

In celebration of the launch of their brand-spanking new Appstore, or more likely to entice new customers to sign up, Amazon is offering their Rovio exclusive Angry Birds Rio for free for the remainder of the day. Just head over to the Amazon, sign up for the Appstore, and enjoy your free download! [Thanks, Jimmie!]

So you weren’t among those invited to attend Samsung’s CTIA press event? No problem. The whole thing kicks off in a few minutes at 11:00AM EST (though we know these always get going late) and you can watch it right from the comfort of your own home. We expect to see the Samsung Galaxy Tab [...]

You might remember Steve Jobs professing that “no one” would want a phone with a screen sized at 4-inches or higher. Never mind that rumors place the upcoming iPhone 5 at that very screen size, a new survey from NPD took a look at smartphones divided by screen size and found that, in large part [...]

Microsoft won’t attack Google directly, but they sure are making a time of going after manufacturing partners, determined to prove elements of the Android OS violate patents owned by the computer software company. Now in their sights are Barnes & Nobles and several manufacturers involved in the making of the NOOKcolor, including Foxconn and Inventec. [...]

We know one thing about the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play for certain: the company is putting all of their might behind making this thing as big a success as possible. Whether it IS that big success remains to be seen, but here are yet more commercials for the handset featuring the oft-hilarious Kristen Schaal. Yes, [...]

Amazon just launched their apps marketplace for Android under the name Appstore, and if you thought Apple was going to let that one fly you are sorely mistaken. If Amazon though condensing the title into one word and eliminating the capital ‘S’ would save them from cries of unfair competition from the Apple camp, they [...]

Over the past year Mozilla has been chugging along, tweaking and perfecting their Firefox browser for mobile devices with a beta release making it to the Android Market in the latter half of 2010. Yesterday it was announced that Firefox 4 for Android had reached Release Candidate status; the new build is now available in [...]

Waiting for a press event to show off your shiny new mobile device is so last year. That must be why Sprint has updated their site with pre-registration pages for the HTC EVO 3D (here) and HTC View 4G (here) ahead of today’s official announcement. This is our first look at both devices, showing an [...]

At first glance the above picture might look like any old Motorola Droid X to you, but once your eye catches the “4G LTE” logo next to the Verizon branding on the battery cover, you will know we may be looking at a different beast altogether. A friendly neighborhood tipster forwarded along this supposed in-the-wild [...]

We’ve been anticipating this for quite some time and the Amazon App Store for Android is finally LIVE! We’ll reserve judgement until we have some time to play with it, use it, kick the tires, try and pop the tires, and we’re sure you’ll be doing the same. Let us know what you think about [...]

Remember the “Touchstone” Charger for the Palm Pre? When it was announced it received a ton of praise for being sleek, sexy, and easy – removing the cords that entangled battery charging. Since the WebOS hype has died down we haven’t heard much from the TouchStone since, but LG is resurrecting the concept with their [...]

The Samsung 4G LTE was a temporary name announced at CES 2011 (we got a Droid Stealth hands on at the time) and considering it’ll soon arrive at Verizon, we’re not surprised to see it inherit Droid branding as the Samsung 4G Droid Stealth. Images from Costco suggest a March 24th pre-order launch and an [...]

We mosied down to Verizon’s shindig last night and were surprised to see that their version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play was on hand. Nothing was different hardware-wise except for the CDMA radios inside and Verizon’s branding, but there was a lot more to see in the software side. I noticed all of the [...]

When AT&T officially announced their acquisition of T-Mobile USA (pending regulation approval), I had a couple immediate thoughts: (1) This was bad news for consumers, (2) This was good news for Deutsch Telekom, (3) Verizon would try to buy Sprint, (4) Depending on the last item, none of it may actually get approved. It looks [...]

Samsung’s just released the source code for build EC05 of the Epic 4G. It’s the update that went out starting yesterday and adds Sprint ID and – above that in importance – Android 2.2. We’re certain there are a few of you developers out there who’ll want to get their paws on this so make [...]

T-Mobile left us a nice gift in our inbox this morning letting us know that the T-Mobile G2x is now official and will be headed our way sometime this year. (Earlier rumors have pegged April 20th as the date to look out for but T-Mobile hasn’t given a release window outside of “Spring”.) Just as [...]

This video definitely gives new meaning to doing the robot. At what looks like a shopping mall promo set up by Sony Ericsson to promote the Xperia Arc, the Android Robot gets down to the groove with some seriously sick dance moves: The video comes from Dark32′s YouTube account, tipped off to us by Steve [...]