Seesmic for Android has been updated to version 1.7, further refining the popular social networking client for use with Twitter and Facebook. The goal of this update seems to be efficiency and ease of use, with the addition of several features that make accesing your favorite content easier than ever. You can now add shortcuts [...]

Big raise or biggest raise ever? I’m sure you could find an example of someone’s pay scale getting bumped up at an even higher rate, but moving from what was once a $1 salary to a $1.25 million salary is quite the impressive leap. With his shift from CEO to executive chairman, Schmidt also stands [...]

The announcement of HTC’s “Facebook” phones at Mobile World Congress came with a preview of two not-ready-for-prime-time devices and a promise of a Q2 release. While that seemed unlikely, T-Mobile UK now hosts a coming soon page for at least one of those devices, the HTC ChaCha, with a release timeframe of June. So far, [...]

If last year showed the beginnings of what fringe handset manufacturers could produce with budget-oriented consumers in mind, 2011 looks to be the year that such low-priced Android offerings invade the world en masse. In a recent interview with Reuters, Huawei’s chief strategy and marketing officer Victor Xu said the company has plans to ship [...]

It’s that time of the month…for earnings calls. Luckily the big wig types that typically speak at these sorts of things aren’t averse to letting a few tasty details slip out while regaling us with numbers and data points. Somewhere in the midst of their report, Paul S. Otellini of Intel gave us an update [...]

Despite being tagged as “coming soon” by Best Buy, Toshiba isn’t quite ready to let the cat completely out of the bag concerning the US release of their Tegra 2 Honeycomb tablet. In Japan it’s a different story, as the 10.1-inch slate has been given its marching orders en route to a June release. The [...]

AT&T has reported in on their earnings for the first quarter of 2011, and despite loss of iPhone exclusivity has seen smartphones grow to comprise 46.2 percent of postpaid subscriber sales. Revenue in the first quarter was up 2.3 percent at $31.2 billion, though income dropped from $6 billion to $5.8 billion year-over-year. Wireless subscriptions [...]

If you look back over the past year of smartphone development one of the most astonishing evolutions has been seen in the design and speed of system-on-a-chip processors deployed in handsets of all shapes and sizes. At the center of this has been ARM’s A series of processors, which serves as the basis of pretty [...]

I can’t remember how old I was when the Sidekick first came out, but my friends who owned one (or several throughout the years) were the envy of my pre-smartphone eyes. How serendipitous it is that the brand should be relaunched with Android calling the shots. It comes a little too late for me — [...]

Skype wasted no time in getting an update out for their Android app after a security vulnerability exposing personal data was uncovered last week. The new version of Skype (1.0.0.983) became available this morning with a patch in place to cover the security hole, namely a change in permissions for access to the database where [...]

We just reported moments ago that Amazon had jumped the gun and released T-Mobile’s G2X a few hours early, and it looks like they’re at it again with the LG G-Slate. Although the G-Slate can be purchased right now through Amazon, it wont actually ship until tomorrow. The G-Slate is essentially the world’s first 3D Android [...]

Looks as if Amazon is releasing the LG G2X a few hours early from the April 20th launch date. The phone has been available online through T-Mobile with a pre-order since the 15th of April, but it looks like Amazon will be the first 3rd party retailer to offer the phone up for sale. The [...]

Its been almost 3 months since we’ve heard anything from Verizon’s “Droid Landing” Twitter page. If you thought we’ve seen the last of the landings you were mistaken. After a season of hibernation, it looks as if the Twitter page has come alive once again. The way this works is Verizon sends out Tweets to [...]

The Michigan Police Department have a new device at their disposal and its being billed as a “mobile forensics tool.” The device allows an officer to bypass all security on a mobile phone and obtain private information such as call records, pictures, text messages and so on. If used as intended, this device could be [...]

Pocket Legends has been a big hit amongst the Android community ever since it first hit the Market last year. As one of the first massive multiplayer online games for Android, it drew in thousands with its addictive gameplay and MMO gaming on-the-go. In celebration of Pocket Legends’ 1 year anniversary, the developers of the [...]

Talk about device convergence. While we’ve already seen the tablet/netbook hybrids make their way to the forefront, Compufon looks to add another wrinkle into the fold – smartphones.Compufon boasts a powerful smartphone that you’ll be able to insert into a slate as if it were a video game cartridge. The processing power and storage option [...]

OK, maybe you can’t literally get the president into your pocket (that’d be cool, wouldn’t it?) but you can keep up to date with the White House with their new Android app. You can watch live streams of big speeches events (such as the State of the Union Address), view photos, and view the latest [...]

  In a poll that has clearly taken a turn for the worst (for Motorola, anyway), Motorola has asked their Facebook fans what types of new apps they’d like to see from developers. Unfortunately for them, they left the poll open to custom responses – you know who showed up for this juicy occasion. Rooters [...]

We’re on our way to the DROID Incredible 2 launch, folks – the device’s showcase app has just hit the Android market courtesy of Verizon. We originally hoped the device would be launched April 21st, but we’re well into Verizon’s usual announcement window and there is no press release to be found. This application does [...]

Toshiba’s been flaunting this Honeycomb tablet for months now, but they haven’t given us a name for it. (I’m getting tired of saying “Toshiba Honeycomb tablet” dammit.) New trademark filings and domain registrations say they may have finally settled on a name, though. The OEM filed for the name “Thrive” to identify their “tablet computer”. [...]