Samsung’s made public their financial results from quarter 1 of 2011 (something we’ve been seeing a lot of this week from other OEMs and carriers.) Long story short: their mobile business profited to contribute to the company’s overall profit. To be specific, they sold 70 million handsets. 18% of those handsets were smartphones. Samsung does [...]

HTC may be looking to jump into the NFC game just as Google and Samsung have if this rumor is to be believed. Bright Side of News is reporting that an anonymous HTC representative mentioned to them a new phone that would follow the HTC Sensation and “should be positioned slightly above” it. This version [...]

Still waiting for that upgrade to Android 2.3.4 that’ll bring video calling to GTalk, are you? You should know by now that most OTAs are eventually put up on the interwebz for all to download and flash. This isn’t a leak, really. Someone just intercepted the URL from Google’s servers and publicized the link. We [...]

Although Google themselves haven’t made mention of the next Honeycomb upgrade, Adobe took it to themselves to do so in the change log of their most recent update. “Hardware accelerated video presentation (requires Android 3.1)” and “Enhanced browser integration for Honeycomb tablets (requires Android 3.1)” grace the listing. It’s a very much needed change for [...]

Looking to root that Android 3.0 from Acer called the Iconia Tab A500? The folks at XDA were working to bring this to you ASAP – as they always seem to do – and have publicized the root method used to achieve deeper access to Android. In time, custom ROMs and other hacks and mods [...]

Earlier today Quentyn reported some fun little leaks of upcoming HTC devices thanks to 911sniper and briefly mentioned the HTC Double Shot (now known as the Mytouch 4G Slide). The guys over at PocketNow were able to crack open the ROM and what came pouring out were rainbows, kitten whiskers and an impressive list of [...]

It was only a few days ago I posted the leak on the Motorola Xoom WiFi only version being sold in stores May 8th. Well, it looks like our sources held up. Sprint, in a press release earlier today, has officially confirmed the May 8th launch date and a $599 price point. So, if for [...]

Google is at it again! It was earlier today we learned of the Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update being rolled out for Nexus S users. But if that didn’t really tickle your fancy becuase you don’t own a Nexus S, I got news for you. Google is giving away a shiny new Samsung Nexus S with [...]

During their quarterly financial report, Motorola’s CEO Sanjay Jha mentioned the Xoom’s LTE launch has been delayed until sometime around the summer solstice. Turns out this is the same time we will finally see the release of the recently rehashed, Droid Bionic. While answering questions as to what caused the delay, Sanjay attempted to beat [...]

You may have heard the buzz around the blogosphere on how the iPhone tracks your every move and how some owners are trying to cash in on this new information by taking Apple to court. Well, it looks like Google will be facing something very similar. Most Android users remember back when they setup their [...]

Ever since CES the plan has been to launch Netflix with streaming video alongside the LG Revolution. . Verizon also said Skype with Video would launch alongside the HTC Thunderbolt. That never happened. Needless to say, no one is all that confident that Netflix will actually be ready for the launch of the Revolution. If [...]

Google is launching an update to Android Gingerbread, version 2.3.4. But the big news? The update brings video chat via GTalk to Android smartphones. This is the same functionality we first saw implemented in Honeycomb, and allows any Android phone with the proper version of Gingerbread to conduct a video chat with anyone using a [...]

After much speculation from analysts, Motorola has finally revealed the total number of XOOM tablets shipped during the first quarter of 2011 as part of their quarterly earning report. Though it was recently speculated that as few as 25,000 XOOMs may have shipped, Motorola has confirmed the actual number to be 250,000. That number makes [...]

According to NPD’s newly published quarterly report on US smartphone sales, the Verizon iPhone may have had a bigger impact on smartphone sales than was initially thought. The availability of the device on multiple carriers was enough to push Apple up the ranks to become the third-largest handset brand in the United States. The rise [...]

Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread. Are you feeling hungry yet? Android’s codenames make each version tastier than the last, but as we all know those updates don’t always find their way to handsets as quickly as we’d like. This has left a platform that many call fragmented, a problem that has long been pointed to [...]

Global Direct Parts, a reseller of OEM components for mobile devices, is now listing the Motorola DROID 3 screen assembly for sale, complete with pictures of the LCD and casing. You can’t actually buy the item as the site lists it as out of stock and by all accounts the launch of the Droid 3 [...]

Just what could the Google Nexus team have in store for us today? A tweet going out to their official account about an hour ago teases a surprise is in store. We know the Nexus S 4G is coming to Sprint on May 8th, so we doubt the news relates to that particular announcement. Could [...]

Motorola’s made available their Camera Connection Kit for the XOOM. It’s nothing but a short cable that’ll let you transfer your camera’s content over to the internal storage inside your tablet. I’m not sure if I’d spend $20 on this thing considering how easy it is to transfer images to the XOOM, but it may [...]

The folks at Shazam have just hit us up to let us know that the free version of their application now features unlimited tagging until January 2012. This was possible thanks to a three month sponsorship that eBay and Shazam have penned. Sweet! And as a bonus, they’re introducing a new feature that’ll feed to [...]

The last time we saw the benchmarks for the Samsung Galaxy S2 they barely eclipsed 3,000 on Quadrant. One of our readers – who happens to be the proud new owner of a Galaxy S II – took his for a quick spin, too, and managed to get a whopping 3,500. (With scores averaging in [...]