We just saw the official documents hit Verizon’s Motorola Droid X support page and speculated that the update to Android 2.3 could be coming by the end of the week. Sure enough, Verizon has just confirmed that the update will be hitting the Droid X in all of its Gingerbread goodness this Friday, May 27th. [...]

For our readers in the Great White North, a few free phones are headed your way this Friday as part of Best Buy’s ongoing Free Phone Fridays promotion. We’ve seen this promotion carried out in the States a few times, but it looks like our Canadian neighbors are in for some real treats. All on [...]

T-Mobile had initially planned to hold their late night “insomnia” sale during the wee hours of Tuesday morning, but for reasons unknown pushed the whole affair back a couple of days. The good news is the after hours sale is definitely on for tonight starting at 9AM PDT and ending at 3AM PDT. For us [...]

AT&T’s network is about to get a big boost when the carrier commences their 4G LTE rollout this summer. Plans were first announced last fall, but since then details of when and where we would see AT&T’s next-gen network cropping up have remained scant. Today the carrier revealed the first five cities to get blanketed [...]

The countdown has begun. At 7PM Eastern we’ll be unveiling our list of Best Android Applications and simultaneously broadcasting a live podcast to discuss our choices. This is a list we’ll constantly keep up to date so it’s perfectly possible for existing “Best Apps” to be dethroned as time goes on. Here are the categories [...]

Rooted Android users are once again being alienated by a movie-viewing application thanks to Widevine DRM. Last week we saw Google’s new Movies service blocked on rooted devices, and now Blockbuster (their app at least) has followed suit. Rooted Droid Charge users attempting to view movie content via the pre-installed Blockbuster app on Verizon’s shiny, [...]

Those eager to get Honeycomb in a bite-sized package will have to wait a bit longer, according to a report over at Digitimes. Acer is said to be delaying their 7-inch Iconia A100 tablet, which was originally slated for a May/June launch. That date has been pushed back to a more likely August/September launch. The [...]

Verizon’s third (count ‘em up) 4G LTE smartphone is about to land on their growing next-gen network. The LG Revolution, which was first showcased at CES in January, has been officially announced for a May 26th launch, and not a day too soon. When the Android 2.2 smartphone goes on sale in-store and online it [...]

BBC 1, BBC 2, BBC 3, BBC News…in the Android Market. The BBC has finally matched their iOS offerings with an Android application bringing you breaking news from all around the globe. Nothing too fancy here in terms of features, but we like our news apps simple, anyway. You can share stories via social networks, [...]

For all the posts we’ve done on the matter, we really should start a mini-site for tracking the availability of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. A friendly tipster hit us up in the wee hours of the morning to inform us the Kmart and Sears both had the 16GB and 32GB models of the Transformer [...]

Verizon’s Motorola Droid X update to Gingerbread is right around the corner after countless leaks suggested we might be seeing it by the end of this month. The Android 2.3 changelog has gone live at the handset’s Verizon support site showing details of the 112MB update. We’re already pretty familiar with what we’ll be getting, [...]

In this edition of Android Overload we’re helping you make money. So don’t say we never gave you anything. Fede Carnales, developer of Launcher Pro, is giving away $200 to whomever can come up with the best name for his new Zune-esque music player app. The rest of the links we’ve managed to pile up [...]

If you can believe the recent tweet sent out by Samsung Mobile US (and why wouldn’t you?), it looks like Samsung is finally set to release the alarmingly thin Galaxy Tab 10.1 onto the US market. While no definite launch date was given they did have this to say on Twitter: Also mentioned in a [...]

If you’re tablet shopping with price in mind you’ll want to highly (and quickly) consider snagging the Woot deal of the day which happens to be the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity for only $259.99. Keep in mind the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Android 3+ is about to hit the market [...]

Tonight I came across something funny while rummaging through the Android Market redownloading some of my favorite apps. It looks like Big In Japan, developers of the popular barcode scanning app, ShopSavvy, are so excited about fixing Thunderbolt compatibility on their app that they’ve officially changed their name to…. get this — “Thunderbolt Fix!.” Okay, [...]

Sometimes there are those phones overseas that are just so appealing, you may want to get them shipped over stateside. Thanks to overseas phone’s being based off the GSM technology (SIM cards) it makes them compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile here in the US. Normally, you would have to make sure the [...]

Its that time again! Time for another great Android video from around the interwebs. This time, featuring a funky dance video of John from Larva Labs doing his thang after Androidifying his Kinect and dancing next to his Android doppelganger. If you aren’t familiar with Larva Labs, these guys are the creative team behind the [...]

Remember that whole locked/signed/encrypted bootloader fiasco that’s been flying around the internets in regards to HTC’s upcoming Sensation and Evo 3D? This has lead a very vocal few to completely denounce the Taiwanese company and even incite a mass exodus onto other devices. Specifically, those made by LG who is now being called “the new [...]

Okay, I’m going to try my hardest to hold in my excitement for this rest of this post but this — is all win. If one of your favorite past times is gaming (like me) you would know that every year there is a huge gaming convention in Los Angeles called the Electronics Entertainment Expo [...]

We’ve long heard Sprint would be getting an Atrix-like device of their own from Motorola. We had no idea when they’d introduce it and what it’d look like. Today, we have more details. The device is said to be closer to the Motorola DROID X and X2 as far as size goes, meaning we can [...]