Last week Sprint CEO Dan Hesses let it be known that his company plans to challenge the sale of T-Mobile to AT&T for some $39 billion dollars, a deal that could take the greater part of a year to reach final approval. Sprint today issued a formal release detailing their disagreement with the proposed deal. [...]

For years, the world of personal payments via electronic means has be dominated by one company and one company alone: PayPal. Enter Serve, an American Express answer to the market begging for some competition. Just like PayPal, users with Serve accounts can send each other money, but that ain’t all. Money can be transferred to [...]

Though he has been a rather vocal critic of Google and their handling of the Android OS in the past, James Gosling, otherwise known as the father of Java, has taken a job with the company. To be clear, it is not certain if his work will focus on Google’s mobile OS or if his [...]

We’re always busy, busy, busy at Phandroid writing up the latest breaking Android-related stories to fulfill your robotic cravings. We figured it’s time to be a little social and share our favorite stories with our friends. We’ll start regularly sharing our best content on our Facebook Page and as if to say, “Hello again, world!” [...]

The sometimes reliable Digitimes has a new report on the unintentional success of the NOOKcolor from Barnes & Noble as a competitor in the tablet market. According to sources, B&N has already ordered up nearly 3 million units from their suppliers. Furthermore, it is being said that the NOOKcolor now accounts for over 50 percent [...]

A recent interview with David Hilton, head of marketing for Sony Ericsson UK, says we can expect games for the soon to be launched Sony Ericsson Xperia Play to top $16 on the high end. While low-end prices bottom out at a very reasonable $1.50, it is safe to say that the newest and most [...]

Samsung and Wirefly have just announced a quick deal that you’ll need to hurry to get in on. If you are one of the first 500 fans to “like” Samsung on Facebook you can get $100 off of a Samsung Fascinate or Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Tab on a two-year contract. The Galaxy Tab was recently [...]

l Whoa, look at this beast. LG’s apprently joining the likes of HTC, Motorola, and Samsung by bringing a 4.3 inch Android device. It’ll reportedly have the same NOVA display as its smaller cousin that was introduced at CES two months ago – the LG Optimus Black. The only other detail revealed specs-wise is that [...]

Looks like more folks in Canada will be enjoying a new HTC Sense 2.1 device soon if this shot of Virgin’s inventory system is to be believed. They’ll reportedly be stocking the HTC Incredible S for $499.99 off-contract. No word on a date yet, but rumor has it that Bell’s version is coming April 4th. [...]

The Motorola XOOM has been out for over a month on Verizon, but many of you vowed not to buy a tablet on contract and vowed not to pay $800 for it off-contract. The 3G-less version of the device is now out, though, and can be had from several major retailers for $600. So did [...]

Those of us in the United States have been enjoying the Amazon Appstore for close to a week now. Unfortunately, our friends in places such as the United Kingdom and Canada have not been able to download free paid apps daily or grab exclusive titles such as Angry Birds Rio as their region is not [...]

We learned Motorola would be bringing an upgrade for the Motorola Atrix 4G soon but weren’t tipped off to what exactly it’d include. (We did learn that it wouldn’t include a fix for call quality issues or to uncap that HSUPA functionality.) Here is a list of changes you can expect in 4.1.57: Fingerprint reader – [...]

We’ve just been tipped to the release of LauncherPro 0.8.4. Federico explicitly states that this isn’t the rewrite we’re all waiting for but it’s still a pretty good update. New features include a scrollable Gmail widget for Plus users, while everyone else will be getting two new screen transitions called “flip” and “rotate 2″. (The [...]

In another move from Amazon that I’m just absolutely loving right now, they’ve introduced a feature that’ll allow you to “test drive” several applications on their Android Appstore before you take the plunge and buy it. It emulates an Android app (as well as other parts of the OS) and gives you the usual host [...]

The rumor mill is working hard today, it seems. The latest comes out of Droid-Life where a couple of their readers have heard that the HTC Thunderbolt and HTC Droid Incredible will both be receiving Android 2.3 sometime in Q2. (That starts in a few days.) Confirmation was given via emails sent from HTC reps [...]

Cyanogen and the team are moving right along with the Gingerbread version of their open source ROM as they’ve released new release candidates for most of their supported devices. We must be nearing a stable, final build as Cyanogen rarely goes through more than a few release candidates. No new phones have gotten official support [...]

This one’s being tagged as a rumor, but it’s not a shocker. (Nor is it farfetch’d by any stretch of the imagination.) The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google, MasterCard, and CitiGroup have all teamed up to bring widespread mobile payment systems to consumers in America. The initiative doesn’t surprise us after Google reiterated [...]

T-Mobile’s apparently not going to let Sprint one-up them as rumor has it they’ll be bringing the HTC Flyer to their customers sometime this year. Promotional materials and a mock-up of its in-store display were sent to PocketNow but no other details were afforded to us. PocketNow couldn’t confirm if this was for the UK [...]

We’re getting the rumor mill started a bit early this morning. The latest comes by way of Mobile-Review’s Eldar Murtazin. He claims that Google will be partnering up with LG to bring a Nexus tablet out that’ll serve as a reference point for the industry. Details were a bit scarce but I could totally see [...]

This isn’t the first time the device has gotten its Gingerbread ROM leaked, but a new build for the Samsung Galaxy S i9000 has come out via XDA and looks to bring Android 2.3.3 to the masses. (Previously, only Android 2.3.2 was released.) This is said to be the build that Samsung will soon be [...]