Android-loving consumers have learned all too well that promises of firmware upgrades should be taken with a grain of salt. Way back in November of 2010, T-Mobile UK promised a Froyo 2.2 upgrade to the Motorola Defy by Q2 2011. Well they may be a few days late, but it looks like T-Mobile UK will [...]

Greetings, Android phone fans. Its another great episode of the Android Overload! This is your one stop, place to shop for all the news that didn’t get a chance to make it to our front page. Since, we’ve always been fans of second chances, we’ve given these little news snippets a second chance and brought [...]

Chances are if you’re on Verizon, you’re there for a reason. Because time and time again they have proven to have some of the best coverage and fastest 4G in the country. But what if you’re still not a happy customer? Well, it has come to our attention that Verizon has increased the “regulatory fee” [...]

Now, I wont pretend to know too much about Orange in the UK, other than they’re one of the biggest wireless carriers overseas. Apparently this wireless carrier is so big, that they actually release their own branded devices from time to time. Take this Monte Carlo for instance, which is basically a rebranded ZTE Skate [...]

Andrew Bell, designer of some of the most sought after collectibles in the Android community, has just announced via Twitter that his new summer line-up of Android Mini Collectibles will be available just in time for Comic-Con 2011. Comic-Con is widely known as one of world’s largest “nerd conventions” by many a comic, movie and [...]

Despite all the security breaches and malware scares we’ve had these past few months with the Android Market, Symantec, of Norton Antivirus fame, is still giving Android and iOS the advantage when compared to the security on desktop/notebook PC’s. Symantec performed a mobile device security study and found that Apple and Google mobile OS’s are [...]

For all you museum and art buffs out there, Google is partnering with the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to provide virtual tours using nothing more than their Google Goggles app. The way it works is simple. Take a photo of the paintings in the museam and Google Goggle’s will pull the necessary information from [...]

Now that the Android market has new rating breakdowns for applications, it’s easy to weed out the good from the absolute crap. That’s why today’s Apps of the Day was a breeze to put together. One application is a veteran messaging platform that has blossomed and exploded into a serious BBM competitor. Another is a [...]

One of our favorite developers, Federico Carnales (LauncherPro) has just released a beta version of the Zune-inspired music application we got a sneak peak at a while back. It has a widget, scrobbling support, automatic album art downloading and more. The coolest thing is it’ll use images related to the artist you’re playing as backgrounds [...]

Have you gone directly to google.com on your mobile device lately? If so, you’ve probably noticed that Google’s “pretty-fied” it up some more. If not, well, we’re telling you. They’ve redesigned that all-important “More” tab at the top that’ll give you a list of Google’s many services. The most popular services in grid layout. The [...]

Awaiting some 4G HSPA+ love from T-Mobile? Some of these new markets may not be big, but it’s nice to see them continuing expansion on a weekly and monthly basis. Others could learn a lot from T-Mobile and Verizon, but I’m not naming names nor am I pointing fingers. I’m just sayin’. Take a look [...]

It’s finally here, folks. Google Buzz wasn’t the social juggernaut we were all looking for, and Google Wave has already fallen flat on its face. The former was never meant to be a full-on social networking service, and I already described the eventual fate of the latter in just a few short words. Despite their [...]

The T-Mobile Mytouch 4G Slide is due out next month for $199.99 on-contract, and the carrier is hard at work drumming up excitement for the next entry to their longstanding myTouch line of phones. In a new post on their official Facebook page, TMo is giving us some details on what they are calling the [...]

Angry Birds just got a bit more magical, as real-world location interaction have been introduced into the Nook Color release of the game. The concept of “Magic” places is an idea Rovio has been working on that opens up special gameplay possibilities within Angry Birds based on a players location. With Angry Birds on the [...]

Last week rumors cropped up that the HTC ChaCha would come to AT&T under the moniker HTC Status, and while we still don’t have confirmation of a US release for the device, it looks like the new name will hold true. Canada’s Telus will be picking up the “Facebook phone” soon, though no official release [...]

Luxury watch makers seem to have a thing for making particularly gaudy Android handsets. Take Ulysse Nardin, makers of the Chairman handset. They clad their handset in your choice of precious metals and priced it at $50,000. The Tag Heuer Link, on the other hand, seems like a bargain comparatively. For €4,700 (about $6,700), you get [...]

Yesterday HTC announced the availability of the EVO 3D for European carriers starting in July, and today brings us our first word of where to expect the glasses-free 3D smartphone when drops around the region. The UK will have Vodafone as at least one of their options for the gold-trimmed version of the handset, though [...]

The Motorola XPRT has only aged a couple of months since its launch on Sprint, but it looks like its followup may already be under development. A new Motorola handset in the same QWERTY candybar style as the XPRT has been spied, looking more BlackBerry-esque than ever with a curvier design. Little else is known [...]

The ViewSonic gTablet is once more Woot’s deal of the day, priced lower than ever at $249.99. Actually, the deal comes courtesy of sellout.woot, a secondary deals site designed to offer even more opportunities to save on things you may or may not need. The 10.1-inch gTablet is beginning to show its age in the [...]

According to a recent tweet by Andy Rubin, Android device activations now exceed 500,000 per day. That’s an increase of at least 100,000 handsets and tablets each day since the last tally of 400,000 was given in May at Google I/O. That isn’t too big of a surprise after taking into account that the figure [...]