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May, 2011 Articles

First Shot from the EVO 3D’s Camera Arrives

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 20th, 2011

The HTC EVO 3D must be in testing, folks – camera shots from the device have surfaced on Picasa. Unfortunately, this photo isn’t 3D but you already know you can capture 3D content with the device. As for the camera performance, this shot doesn’t make the 3D’s camera look all that great, but judgment is [...]

Download: Federico Carnales Working on Windows Phone 7-ish Music App

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 20th, 2011

The latest update from Federico Carnales isn’t about LauncherPro, surprisingly. We’ve just learned that the famed developer is working on his own music application right now. It’s tentatively named “Fede Music”, but this is an early alpha build of the application and that could always change. And more than the name could change, so could [...]

Good Morning America App Lets You Vote During the Show

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 20th, 2011

Ah, Good Morning America. Your bright and cheery tone at the wee hours of the morning provides a great accessory to waking up from a deep slumber. Those of you who enjoy waking up to it as much as I used to (I’m usually waking up to the sound of ESPN these days), they’ve released [...]

GTA-esque “9mm” Coming to Android, Is Technically Impressive [Video]

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 20th, 2011

Ever wanted to join a gang and shoot human beings for no reason at all? Me neither, but we all love playing games about that stuff. (Yep, even more so than games about dogfighting.) If you’re a fan of games like Grand Theft Auto and Saint’s Row, you’ll want to keep an eye out for [...]

Sharp Reveals Autostereoscopic 3D Clamshell Android

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 20th, 2011

Contrary to popular belief, what Sharp has announced today is not the first clamshell Android, but it is definitely the first one that features 3D. Autostereoscopic 3D. It’s the Sharp AQUOS PHONE THE HYBRID 007SH – yea, I’m not too fond of the name, either. But the phone itself is quite cool. If you couldn’t [...]

Set Your Honeycomb Tablet’s LCD Density Above 160 & Get a Taste of Gingerbread [Video]

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 20th, 2011

Well this is interesting. A crafty hacker was messing around with some of his configuration files and tried tinkering with the LCD density on his Honeycomb tablet. When setting it to anything above 160, he was met with a very interesting result – the tablet-friendly Honeycomb interface transforms into the Gingerbread interface. We’re not exactly [...]

GAMEVIL Games on Sale for $.99

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 20th, 2011

Up for some bite-sized baseball or one of the best mobile RPGs on Android for less than the cost of a bag of chips? GAMEVIL’s put most of their titles on sale for $.99, including their highly-popular Zenonia games, Soccer and Baseball Superstars 2011, Illusia and more. You only need to look to Android market [...]

Android Overload: Samsung Droid Charge $199 on Amazon, Google Buying Up Patents, and More

by Chris Chavez on May 19th, 2011

Evening, ladies and gents. We have a pretty good Android Overload for you here tonight. Couldn’t squeeze all this Android goodness onto our front page so these are the things that leaked out. Tonights roundup full of deals, contests and the all too common, ghetto tablets. Enjoy! Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 keyboard dock gets caught [...]

Acer Iconia Tablet is a Hit! Bad News? May Suffer From Shortages

by Chris Chavez on May 19th, 2011

Android tablets are all the rage these days. Just scanning through the front page at Phandroid and you will see post, after post of the Asus Transformers selling out minutes after they’re available. They’ve been harder to snag than a 1996 Tickle Me Elmo! But there’s always those who don’t feel like waiting around for [...]

Rough Launch Date For Evo 3D Finally Leaks Online

by Chris Chavez on May 19th, 2011

Well, lookie here… Thanks to one of my Twitter followers, I came across this little gem over on the XDA forums. Looks like the user ranmasaotome510 has managed to stumble upon an internal email from Radio Shack listing the Evo 3D with a “rough launch date” of June 4th. Could it be true? Until now, [...]

Phantip: More Google Music Invites Pouring Out To Users Everywhere

by Chris Chavez on May 19th, 2011

Happy evening to everyone! Just wanted to let everyone on Phandroid know that we’ve been receiving a megaton load of Phantips in our email inbox. So what’s got everyone in such an uproar? No, it’s not that annoying ad pop-up from our homepage. It’s that many of our readers are receiving that special email from [...]

Apps of the Day [5/19]: SnapBucket, Grow, and More!

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 19th, 2011

You’d be surprised at the number of apps that come across our desks each day. Or maybe you wouldn’t be. Either way, we are daily faced with the task of navigating the ever-growing Android Market in an attempt to distill out what is and what isn’t worth downloading so you don’t have to. So we’re [...]

Best Buy Announces May 22 Launch of the HTC Flyer

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

Best Buy has finally revealed the date of their exclusive launch of the WiFi-only HTC Flyer. While the retailer has had HTC’s first Android slate on pre-order for a few weeks now, those awaiting the tablet can now look forward to May 22nd as the day they can finally get their hands on it. Best [...]

…and the Motorola Droid X2 Has Been Rooted

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

It really shouldn’t surprise anyone at this point when a brand-spanking new device is rooted within 24 hours of its official release, so word that the Motorola Droid X2 already getting cracked with superuser access granted isn’t hard to believe. The device succumbed to Gingerbreak, an application package designed to grant root access to the [...]

PopCap Hasn’t Forgotten Peggle, Still Coming to Android this Summer

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

PopCap is on a bit of a roll, finally getting some of their bigger titles onto the Android platform. First Chuzzle launched, and soon to follow will be Plants vs Zombies, but we still have no solid date for my personal favorite, Peggle. But don’t think PopCap will sleep on their recent momentum. Senior director [...]

Motorola Looking for Testers for Upcoming Cliq 2 Update

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

Motorola is preparing a new update to the Cliq 2, and they are in search testers eager to give the new software a go. There is room for 200 users to be part of the beta, which should culminate with a final update getting pushed to all Cliq 2 owners. As Moto has done for [...]

Pizza Hut app now taking orders in the Android Market

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

I love pizza. Ask anyone who knows me. Say what you will, but I also love Pizza Hut. So it is with great pleasure that I bring you the news that Pizza Hut has finally released their mobile app for ordering up pies to the Android Market. Funny story: before I owned an Android phone [...]

Verizon Data Plans in for Major Overhaul, Tiered Pricing and Family Plans

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

If you thought Verizon’s $29.99 per month for unlimited 4G data was a bit too good to be true, well…we all know how that goes. The dust has once again been stirred up around talks of a data plan overhaul for Big Red, with tiered pricing seeming more likely than ever. The changes are said [...]

Android 2.3.4 arriving for Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Xperia Play next week in UK

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

You have to give some credit to Sony Ericsson. The smartphone manufacturer went from Android OS updates that were few and far between to a lineup that not only features the latest version of Android at launch, but which also is receiving updates at a much more reasonable rate. SE revealed today that their Xperia [...]

CyanogenMod 7 comes to a handful of new Samsung devices

by Kevin Krause on May 19th, 2011

The CyanogenMod family of devices is continuing to grow, with this week seeing official support of its first Samsung device, AT&T’s Captivate. But that wasn’t the only Sammy phone to gain the privilege. Also added to the ranks were the Samsung Galaxy S, Vibrant, and Nexus S 4G. ROMs for these phones haven’t reached official [...]