Many of you expressed discontent for Shazam when the full version of their app was free in the Amazon Appstore and made a plea for SoundHound instead. Luckily for you guys, SoundHound has followed suit and their application is today’s free app of the day. It’s normally $5 for the paid version (which affords you [...]

Although the folks at SPB told us they’d be working on OEM partnerships to bring their custom user interface to Android devices instead of offering it as an home replacement in the Android market, SPB Shell 3D is now available for all to download. (Previously it was called SPB Mobile Shell 5.0.) It’s been in [...]

Well what do we have here? The HTC Pyramid was expected to be announced alongside T-Mobile’s other wares at CTIA but it never made its way to the “official” foreground. Fortunately, leaksters exist. The latest was sent to XDA and shows more than we’ve seen before. To put it simply – yes, it looks like [...]

We learned that ASUS’s pair of Android tablet/netbook hybrids would be going to the UK and that they’d be accepting presales for them, but hadn’t been able to get some solid information as far as pricing goes. Today we’ve learned that the Eee Pad Transformer – the one compatible with the optional detachable keyboard – [...]

Google has flipped the switch on Indonesian, Malaysian, and Latin American Spanish support in Voice Search. Speakers of those langauges from around the world now have access to the wide range of voice-searchable items on their smartphones and mobile devices that those speaking languages such as English have had for quite some time now. While [...]

The first reports are coming in that the latest update for the Motorola Atrix 4G has begun rolling out to handsets. The install file comes in the form of an over-the-air update, and once installed brings your system version to 4.1.57. As you may know, the new software doesn’t enable HSUPA support or fix call [...]

HTC has said they have Gingerbread updates in the pipeline for the HTC Desire HD and Desire Z — two phone’s launched side-by-side last fall — one of which has just leaked for all to have a go at. A test ROM of the Android 2.3 build for the HTC Desire Z is out in [...]

What do mixed martial arts and Android have to do with each other? I’m not sure either, but apparently MetroPCS and Huawei see the connection, as today they have announced the Huawei Ascend Sanctioned by TapouT. Aside from coming with an awkwardly long official titling (which is repeated verbatim throughout their presser), the phone features [...]

There was never any question the Amazon’s exclusive release of Angry Birds Rio was little more than a marketing ploy to drive traffic to their newly established Android Appstore, but it looks like Rovio won’t be putting all those eggs in one basket after all. Merely a week after Amazon launched the app (which is still [...]

The HTC Desire took the UK by storm, so hold on to your butts: the sequel is coming. The HTC Desire S, which we first got our hands on back at MWC, is now available for pre-order via Vodafone. With a 30 GBP tariff, the phone is free. Lower monthly plans will see you shelling [...]

When you find out the reason that Amazon was able to beat Google Music and a cloud-based iTunes to market, you might be a bit surprised. See, those other services have been talked about for months upon months, with the main reason we haven’t seen them launched stemming from licensing issues between the companies wishing to [...]

If you ever wonder about the direct results of companies such as HTC releasing the source code for their Android devices, look no further. Mere hours after the smartphone manufacturer made the HTC Thunderbolt’s kernel source available the phone was already being overclocked to 1.5GHz and beyond. The highest seen yet? A whopping 1.8GHz giving [...]

Thinking of all the good times we have had with the HTC Droid Incredible, it’s almost unbearable to think the phone would ever reach its end of life at Verizon, but sure enough that is the case. The phone is no longer being offered via Verizon’s site and retail stores are said to be selling [...]

Here it is, folks: In-app billing for Android. The new service has gone live for Android Market titles, just as we heard it would last week. You can expect developers to begin deploying this means of monetization for things such as virtual goods, upgrades and expansions, and subscription billing models to name a few. For [...]

So you want to know when all those shiny 4G LTE handsets are actually launching on Verizon? A friendly neighborhood tipster has sent along Verizon’s upcoming roadmap for their Spring releases, and it’s chock full of Android. For starters, the Samsung 4G LTE phone we had believed would go under the Stealth name is once [...]

This has been quite the slow Tuesday, hasn’t it? A lot has gone on, actually, but most of it was interesting enough to make it to our front page. The rest of what we had is below so take a second or two to glance over it. (That’s literally how long it’ll take to look [...]

Motorola issued an upgrade for the Motorola Atrix 4G this week. It’s not much of an upgrade (we know they’ll be looking to get this thing stepped up to Gingerbread, but this isn’t it) but if you wanted it and can’t wait for the OTA process to ping your phone then you’re in luck – [...]

I was one of those guys who were amazed by Square when they first brought their product to the forefront. Imagine being able to use your mobile phone to take credit card transactions on the go? The service would be useless for me personally as I don’t really have anything of quality to sell to [...]

We already got a pretty good look at this thing ourselves at CTIA Wireless, but if you needed to see more of the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G from Magenta themselves then today’s your lucky day. They show us what they’ve done with the messaging and multimedia experiences on the device as well as Google Services – [...]

Well that didn’t last long, now did it? We believed that the free version of Rovio’s Angry Birds Rio would eventually end up on the Android market but had no clue how long Amazon’s exclusivity lasted. I would have guessed a couple of weeks or a month at least, but they’ve just announced that the [...]