| by Kevin Krause on July 28th, 2011 |
The Samsung Galaxy S II US sign up page that went semi-live last night is now ready to accept your information in exchange for the latest updates on the handset that has been selling like hot cakes in other regions of the world. Word from Samsung is that the phone is on schedule for an [...]
| by Kevin Krause on July 28th, 2011 |
Last week T-Mobile announce the beginning of the slow roll out of Gingerbread for the myTouch 4G. HTC celebrated with cookies, while owners of the handset tried their best to patiently wait their turn. But T-Mobile is attempting a new update strategy for those who just don’t have it in them to wait it out. [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
Our friends manning the @VZWSupport Twitter account are back with more (seemingly reliable, this time) information. It’s regarding the DROID X2 Gingerbread’s update. They’ve confirmed that rollouts are beginning in stages over the air today. Go on, I know you want to check that update menu. It would step folks up to Android 2.3 and [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
The Logitech Revue – the first Google TV device – launched at a pricey $300. Many folks didn’t want to pay $300 for an unproven platform and their skepticism was definitely justified. We imagine market penetration was low initially as Logitech has had to continue to lower the price of their product to this very [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
If you needed a reminder, here it is – the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 4G LTE is now available from Verizon. 16GB and 32GB models are available for $530 and $630, respectively. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been touted as the thinnest and lightest 10.1 inch tablet in the world, and rightfully so. I [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
If you are one of many souls looking to purchase the Motorola Photon 4G and just so happen to also be a Sprint Premier customer (read: anyone with an Android phone for more than three months currently on Sprint), you’ll be glad to know that the Motorola Photon 4G is now being offered to you. [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
A couple of days ago, SPB Shell 3D was updated in the Android market. Alongside the ability to view the launcher in landscape mode and switch between handset and tablet mode, they have added a biggie for those with autostereoscopic 3D phones. You can view the launcher in glasses-free 3D, but they’re tagging this feature [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
We’ve come to get used to this by now, but here it is anyway – Android was the top smartphone in terms of US smartphone market share in Q2, eating up 39% of the pie. Apple’s iOS sat a tad lower at 28%. Meanwhile, Microsoft only accounted for 9% (WP7 and WM combined) and Palm [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
Following the announcement of an exciting new venture between them and Lightsquared, Sprint have publicized their Q2 2011 results. The carrier claims to have achieved a net addition of 1.1 million subscribers (prepaid and wholesale), but still lost a good chunk of contract customers (who are seen as the bread and butter of carriers who [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 |
And now it’s official folks. After it was rumored that Sprint would formally announce their partnership with Lightsquared to build a 4G LTE network using Sprint’s spectrum today, Sprint’s gone and made it all official. The announcement was said to be made on the Sprint quarterly financial call today. Now that the actual press [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 28th, 2011 |
Greetings, Phandroidians. There was a lot of legal news (generally the kind that I hate) so I decided to dump a lot of that into the Android Overload for tonight. This is your one stop – place to shop, for all the little things that didn’t make it onto our illustrious front page. ITC has [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 28th, 2011 |
If there’s one thing I love about Android, it’s the sheer amount of great keyboard apps available. There’s so many to choose from, all tailored to a user’s specific typing style but when it comes to the swiping method of input, Swype reigns supreme. HTC recently began offering a Swype competitor when they started pre-installing [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 28th, 2011 |
Well, this isn’t good. Looks like Verizon is experiencing delays when it comes to those fancy new 4G LTE micro SIM cards that were supposed to arrive in time for the 4G enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 launch tomorrow. You can only imagine what a customer service nightmare this could turn into. Verizon sent out [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 28th, 2011 |
The Samsung SPH-M930 passed through the FCC today. As usual, the device name is sure to change and with it’s 4-row qwerty keyboard the phone is already making its way to Boost Mobile. Before you say, “Meh. Just another underpowered Android slider,” take a look at some of these specs. The phone features a 1GHz [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 27th, 2011 |
As much as I wanted to title this post “BREAKING: Leaked Pics of the Samsung Galaxy S 3″ I refrained myself. Either way, this is still pretty impressive. Normally, I’m completely against concept phones. I think they’re silly. Yes, they always look sexy, but in the end will do nothing but give you tech-balls (no [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 27th, 2011 |
“It’s like raaaaaain on your wedding day..” Looks like some Samsung Fascinate owners are experiencing troubles fit for an Alanis Morissette song. Ironically, after receiving a minor software update that was supposed to fix incoming call quality, some Fascinate users are reporting they’ve stopped receiving calls altogether. That’s enough to steam anyone but don’t worry, [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 27th, 2011 |
After being officially announced by T-Mobile a few weeks ago, the HTC Wildfire S looks to be hitting a few more carriers here in the states. The device cleared the FCC once again today this time with CDMA bands making it a perfect fit for U.S. carriers like Sprint. It’s almost guaranteed to hit US [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 27th, 2011 |
Those Chinese are at it again! This time they’ve managed to snap a few quick pics of this Moto Atrix looking device complete with AT&T branding and the new version of MotoBlur. At a quick glance you would mistake it for a regular ‘ol Atrix but upon closer inspection you’ll notice a few minor tweaks [...]
| by Chris Chavez on July 27th, 2011 |
For all 4 of you who picked up Kyocera’s dual-screened Echo and were worried the device would simply be lost in time, stuck with it’s customized Android 2.2 firmware, fear not. Kyocera is increasing their Android “street cred” thanks to an Android 2.3 Gingerbread update making its way to Echo’s all over the country. The [...]
| by Quentyn Kennemer on July 27th, 2011 |
It’s time for another edition of apps of the day. I have to admit, I felt kind of guilty putting a near-exact clone of a very popular game as one of two honored apps, but how can you deny bananas? I mean, seriously – bananas are awesome. And yellow. Farfetch’d justification to curb the guilt [...]
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