This is just ridiculous (and I mean that in a good way) – Verizon is expanding and launching LTE in 15 different markets on August 18th. Highlights include Tucson, AZ; Albany, NY; Omaha, NE and more. Take a look at the full list of cities getting new 4G services and expansions: New Markets: Frederick, MD [...]

Sony Ericsson has announced impending availability of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc here in the United States. It’s slated to land this August, but not through any subsidy opportunities. Various online outlets, such as Amazon and Newegg, as well as Sony themselves will be offering it for $600. Unfortunately, they didn’t even mention what type [...]

If you haven’t gotten sick to death of this game and all variants of it by now, Rovio has just issued 15 new levels to the main installment of Angry Birds. Mine and Dine is the theme as you traverse through rocky underground tunnels trying to destroy those green bastard pigs. Why they’re even in [...]

Google has just pushed a pretty nice update to Google Maps that seems to focus mostly on Places. They’ve added the ability to upload a photo of a Place from your device. You’ll also get the ability to add a place on the go if it doesn’t exist in Google’s directory. Finally, they’ve added My [...]

The folks at ASUS have announced plans to roll out an upgrade for their Transformer tablet tomorrow, July 28th. It’ll step folks up to Android 3.2 which has a lot of low level changes and minor fixes and enhancements, but nothing that’s going to shake ground. Take a quick look at the main features users [...]

Many of you have probably been waiting to get your hands on the device before you make a decision to purchase it. Well, now’s your chance as the MyTouch 4G Slide has hit T-Mobile stores today. We’re sure they’ll have displays and reps to demo the device on hand so be sure to get a [...]

Just got this package from Samsung. I got a bit excited, naturally – what looked to be a Galaxy S II was starting at me on my doorstep. I grabbed the box and opened it with glee, only to find that it isn’t, in fact, a Galaxy S II. Instead, there were pieces to a [...]

T-Mobile promised it’d be here “very soon”, and here we are – the T-Mobile G2 has gotten its Android 2.3 upgrade. It’s going out over the air over the coming weeks so don’t fret if you aren’t in the first wave. It also wouldn’t hurt to do a manual check and see if you get [...]

This goes so far from the norm with Verizon that I am very skeptical about this, but I’ll report it anyway – a rep on their VZWSupport Twitter account has mentioned to a user that the Galaxy S II will have 4G LTE. Think about this for a minute – a customer support rep, who [...]

We’ll preface this post by saying you never can be sure how much faith to put in these benchmark tests that often pop up around the interwebs, but if NenaMark is to be trusted we may have just scored some new info on the HTC Vigor, a handset previously only known from an image taken [...]

If you still don’t number yourself among the 5 million who have already bought up the Samsung Galaxy S II, a new color option is headed your way. Fancy the color white? Clove UK will be picking up the 16GB Galaxy S II in the paler shade starting August 15th. Aside from the change in [...]

Invites have just gone out for an August 3rd press event where Samsung will debut a software update for the Galaxy Tab 10.1. At the event, Samsung reps will sideloading the update directly onto the Tab’s of media personnel with a short presentation on the features of the new software version. The update will be [...]

A couple weeks back Google announced that a new version of the Android Market would be making its way to devices running Android 2.2 and higher, and delivering on their word the update is now starting to appear on handsets around the US. Love it or hate it, the update should be delivered to all [...]

Sony Ericsson has issued a statement via their blog that is sure to disappoint at Xperia X10 owners out there. The Android 2.3 update that is supposedly rolling out now is apparently not rolling out at all. The initial announcement was made prematurely, according to a blog post by head of product PR Mattias Holm. [...]

According to a new Walmart flyer, the retailer will be picking up an exclusive for AT&T in the form of the Sharp FX Plus. The handset features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard in a form that is reminiscent of Sidekick handsets of yesteryear along with an Android build also reminiscent of yesteryear. The phone will ship [...]

The PDF hitting Verizon’s support page last night was a good sign for owners of the Motorola Droid X2. The very Gingerbread update detailed therein is now live and headed out to handsets, bringing the dual-core X2 up to speed with its single-core predecessor in terms of software build. The update brings everything you’d expect [...]

Wait a second, didn’t Motorola announce back in June that the Android 3.1 update for the XOOM had begun rolling out to folks in Europe? They sure did, but if you revisit the original Facebook announcement, surprise surprise, it appears the update didn’t quite make it out of the starting gate. We’ve heard that story before, [...]

Those seeking the HTC EVO 3D in the UK have one less carrier to choose from, and you can thank delays in meeting the original launch time line as the reason. Vodafone UK issued a statement saying they will cease offering the glasses-free 3D handset before it even goes on sale. The phone has already [...]

Samsung is reporting that they have sold 5 million Galaxy S II handsets globally en route to an eventual 10 million, and they didn’t even have to release the phone in the US to do it. It took only 85 days to reach the milestone. The original Galaxy S had similar success when it was [...]

Praise the Android gods! Thanks to a Phantip from one of our great readers, we came across this FCC filing for the SPH-D710 otherwise known as the Samsung Within, Sprint’s version of the Galaxy S II. Judging by the extracted pic from the filing, it looks like we could have a variant of the Galaxy [...]