It turns out the announcement that the Gingerbread update for the Motorola Droid X won’t begin rolling out to all users today, after all. Word has come in that tonight the “soak test” we caught wind of earlier in the week will begin rolling out to select members of the Motorola support forums. Chances are [...]

That was easy. While other manufacturers are busy foiling the exploits of modders and hackers everywhere, LG left their brand-new 4G LTE handset wide open to established root methods, leading to the phone being broken wide open by the folks over at RootzWiki just a day after release. The rageagainstthecage method was all that was [...]

With the Computex tradeshow kicking off soon in Taipei, Ziilabs has put together a couple of Android based tablets they’re calling the Jaguar. This family of Honeycomb tablets is built specifically to showcase their new ZMS-20 and ZMS-40 StemCell processors and they’re hoping manufacturers will take notice. The tablets will come in 2 flavors, a [...]

Remember that article I posted a couple of hours ago about a Verizon rep who said that phones with unlocked bootloaders weren’t allowed on their network? Yea, they said that was a mistake. Stand down, folks.

Apparently Lenovo is scheduled to launch their new IdeaPadK1 (LePad) Honeycomb tablet next month and from the looks of it, Buy.com is one of the retailers ready to sell with a listing of the device already in place. In case the IdeaPadK1 is news to you (I never heard of it until now) this is [...]

Yep, you heard that right. Microsoft makes more money from Android’s success than they do the success of their own platform. A lot more. You had to guess that in a world of an ineffective patent system, someone somewhere would try to bank off of Android’s fast-growing success. And you had to guess that it’d [...]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that was given to Google I/O attendees a couple of weeks ago is a fantastic piece of hardward – I’ve said as much in my review. I also said that nothing is without its problems and it seems another big hardware problem has risen from the depths of, well, Android [...]

[Update]: All’s well that ends well, folks. Disregard everything you see below and click here. Following some good news from HTC’s Peter Chou that states they’ll no longer be locking down their bootloaders in future phones, one curious soul sought to clarify something with Verizon on Twitter – can we use phones with unlocked bootloaders [...]

What a great way to start off memorial day weekend. Ahead of the “unofficial official” kickoff to the summer, folks are seeing some strange goings-on with their clocks. Namely, those with HTC phones seem to be experiencing time offsets anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes. Some fix them with manually setting the clock and rebooting, [...]

The folks at SwiftKey have released a new beta version of the popular keyboard, named SwiftKey X, and it brings with it some very interesting and powerful features. For starters, they’ve refined the installation process to make it easier for new users to set up the keyboard. They’ll be taken through the process step-by-step, setting [...]

So the DROID X2, Verizon’s first dual-core DROID, is out and you guys have had a bit over a week to play with it. How’s it working out for you thus far? Taking a look at the DROID X2 section of AndroidForums.com, it seems a few of you are having issues with music skipping while [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S II was released earlier this month and it has already  passed up the iPhone 4 in the UK. Yay! That much is according to uSwitch.com, anyway, who monitors sales and mobile searches. Is this really a victory for Samsung, though? The iPhone 4 was released last summer to all regions and [...]

Personally, I’m not one to get all picky over the color of my device. That’s not to say I’d take a pink or purple phone to use every day, but I don’t have much preference when it comes to neutral colors. That said, if you’re one of those types of folks and were holding out [...]

Well this is just the most backwards thing we have ever heard, if true. T-Mobile, due to recent supposed shortage issues, will be increasing the price of the T-Mobile G2X once it’s back on store shelves, according to an inside document sent to TmoNews. New owners would need to pay $300 after a $50 rebate. [...]

What, what, in the– Hey, Phandroids! We’ve had quite the huge stories break today and believe it or not.. we have even more. Would have really liked to have given some of these stories some front page love but I guess that’s why we have the wonderful, Android Overload. I particularly like the news that [...]

Although we haven’t seen the “official” number yet regarding the Transformer launch, I will go ahead and call it an overwhelming success. So what’s next for Asus? A new tablet? A new smartphone? How about BOTH. Asus is no stranger when it comes to teasing their customers and these newly leaked Asus’ promos for the [...]

Before you run and grab your pitchforks, Sony Ericsson isn’t locking down their phones just yet but they are revising their policy on the popular Android buzzword: bootloaders. But first, lets start at the beginning. Sony Ericsson was one of the first companies that announced they would NOT be locking down the bootloaders in their [...]

  Honestly, guys… I can’t even believe what I’m seeing here. Never in all of my days have I seen a company listen to such a vocal minority with such speed and urgency.. Today, friends — HTC has agreed to unlock their bootloaders. There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open [...]

Here’s an interesting bit of news I came across today. It looks like Clark County, Nevada is leading the charge against crime in their city and how are they doing it? Well, using the power of Android of course. That’s right. While most cities are still relying on the old, inefficient way of reporting crimes, [...]

Guess what, folks? Google has updated their newly launched Google Music app on the Market! Why does that have me pumped? Because with the update comes one major change. Song deletion. Before, it was impossible to delete a cached song off your sd card once you “pinned it” for offline play. Sounds like something Google [...]