If you needed a good reason to jump into the NOOK bandwagon, this may be it. Barnes & Noble is giving every new NOOK owner – NOOKcolor included – a 2GB microSD card preloaded with 30 titles. In order to take advantage, you’ll need to show the cashier your old device at the time you [...]

We’re not sure how many of you have dumped your Galaxy Tabs for the bigger 10.1 Honeycomb-enabled sibling, but if you’re still rocking one you’ll be happy to know that Gingerbread is on its way. It’ll be build number EF17 and aside from bringing you up to 2.3, it brings support for HD Bluetooth. It’s [...]

Despite rumors to the contrary, it would appear that the Samsun Galaxy Tab 8.9 is just about ready to head our way as an FCC filing for the device has been spotted. The version listed here has AT&T radios inside, but that doesn’t mean this one’s going to AT&T – many carriers in Canada could [...]

Samsung’s hinted at this before and it’s finally here – variants of the Galaxy S II. The Samsung Galaxy Z was spotted on “Tre” (3 in Sweden). It’s being described as a little brother of the Galaxy S II, a device that’s supposed to be affordable yet still packs quite a punch. It’s said to [...]

Ok, this is just getting crazy. Apple fires at Samsung, Samsung fires at Apple, Apple fires back, Samsung fires back, so on and so forth. We get the drill. But this legal battle has just taken a very interesting turn – Samsung wants to ban the sale of certain Apple products here in the United [...]

Wondering why the HTC EVO 3D isn’t supported by Netflix after its older, but weaker brother has gotten the goods? Well, it technically is supported, it just isn’t visible to anyone with an EVO 3D in the market. Users have reported downloading the unmodified .APK and being able to use it without fail. No root, [...]

Sure, it’s been a bit over a week since EVO 3D users have gotten their devices, but we can’t always get day one root. Still, you had to expect that some magical ray of light would soon shine down on us and deliver its gift of life to the roots of the device. The folks [...]

The folks at Opera were busy updating their Android applications this morning, as well, as both of their Android browsers have been updated. Opera Mobile, the full-fledged client-side rendering browser, has been upgraded to version 11.1 and brings with it a lot of major changes, including Google Voice Search and autocomplete support, the ability to [...]

Waking up to an update is always good. Waking up to a significant update to Skype is even better. Our friends at Skype are finally delivering on their promise and have released a new version of their Android application to allow video calling. I immediately installed the application, of course, but was disappointed to find [...]

Looking to take advantage of a window that may have allowed you to get out of your contract before it expired without paying up? Guess again – Verizon’s not going to let that go over easily. This is in response to a story we reported on where Verizon was said to soon be increasing their [...]

Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Google+ Its been hard to think of much else today. Google opened the flood gates and hundreds of thousands of people were able to receive invites to Google+. Everything else, well… is in the Android Overload. Enjoy. Desire HD receives Android 2.3 update on [...]

It’s been a crazy day here at Phandroid and the internet was turned upside down tonight with Google allowing invites to their new uber exclusive Google+ social network. The flood of new peoples from all over the world actually but quite a strain on Google’s servers causing them to shut down the invite service for [...]

We all knew this was coming. With the flood of anxious Google/Android loving followers rushing to get into club Google+, the demand was so huge, so “insane,” it had to be shut down. A short while ago we reported that after 24 hours, Google+ users were finally allowed to invite friends and family to join [...]

Looks like Acer just might be planning to release a new sliding tablet sometime around the 4th quarter of this year according to Digitimes’ sources within the supply chain. While we don’t know too much about the rumored device, these sources leaked that Acer’s new slide tablet will feature a 10-inch display, ARM-based processor and [...]

So, it looks like Google has opened the invite system for those cool kids already in their new Google+ social network. Maybe the club isn’t so exclusive after all. Of course, you have to have someone already on the inside and even then, they’re only allowed to send out a limited number of invites. If [...]

Good news for music lovers, popular music discovering service, Shazam, has been updated in the Android Market. While the last update brought with it unlimited music tagging until Jan 1st, 2012 and social networking options, this new update brings with it music previews — something that has long been missing from the app. Now, after [...]

We broke this story not too long ago when a tipster sent us some pictures of his SPH-D600 on Sprint. We didn’t have an actual name to go on but it looks like that has changed with Samsung’s newest unveiling of the Conquer 4G for Sprint. While I wouldn’t call the device a low-end phone, [...]

Need a quick and easy way to view those Inventor Publisher instructions on the go? The folks at AutoDesk has just the thing for you. Simply named AutoDesk Inventor Publisher Viewer, it does exactly what its name implies. Alongside viewing a list of instructions for a certain build, you can follow along with interactive tutorials [...]

Last time we visited podcast style, Google had just pushed the +1 button live. Now that they’ve taken the wraps off their entire new Social Network, Google+, it’s about time we chatted again. Only a very select invited few have access to the platform so while we live vicariously through them, Quentyn and Chris are [...]

We’ve seen it with countless phones and tablets before it, and here it is again – Ubuntu, running on a device that’s supposed to be running Android. Mind you, it’s not natively running the Linux distribution. Instead it’s running the installation inside of what we’d call something of a virtual machine. If you know how [...]