Last night I was lucky enough to hold the LG Thrill 4G in my hands for the better part of a few hours at a concert event in NYC hosted by the LG. Aside from capturing some of Jane’s Addiction’s set in full 3D glory (a 60-minute documentary of compiled concert footage will be available [...]

The Android 2.3.3 update said to be headed to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play this week is turning up just as expected, making its first appearance in Italy and ready for download and installation via SE’s companion software. Aside from the standard Gingerbread upgrades the phone will also receive deeper Facebook integration, WiFi hotspot an [...]

Yesterday when a render of an unknown Samsung handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard surfaced, we raised the question as to whether or not it could be AT&T’s variant of the Galaxy S II. Turns out, that is exactly what the device will be. Images of the handset have surfaced clearly showing the SGH-I927 model [...]

Verizon has finally gone official with the release details of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 4G LTE, and not a moment too soon. As expected, the tablet will be on shelves by the end of the week, launching July 28th in both 16GB and 32GB flavors. Pricing starts at $529 for the option with [...]

Starting this fall, RadioShack will say bye-bye to T-Mobile’s lineup of mobile devices and hello to Verizon’s. Starting September 15th you can expect the Shack to be offering up deals on all of your favorite Droids (the Bionic might even be out by then), a move that saw a rise in the retailer’s stock despite [...]

Horace Luke, the man who shaped HTC’s current design philosophy, has parted ways with the company after logging five years of service. The departure was chalked up to personal reasons in a statement released by the Taiwanese manufacturer. The company had only nice things to say about Luke and his impact on HTC’s product lineup. [...]

Sprint’s Android 2.3.5 update is rolling out to the Nexus S 4G now, much to the delight of those seeking better 4G connectivity. For those that have been enjoying free tethering with the Nexus S 4G, it’s a different story. The GRJ90 update effectively removes the ability to share your internet connection from the handset [...]

Over the past two year’s Android has rocketed from holding virtually no market share to leading smartphone platforms the world over in terms of handsets shipped, beating out the likes of Apple and RIM. It has been shown in countless statistic after countless statistic, and surveys and projections don’t show Google’s green monster slowing down [...]

  Good evening ladies and gents! Seems we have ourselves quite an Android Overload here tonight. This is the place where we stash all the news articles that couldn’t find their way onto our front page. In an effort to bring you every last bit of Android related news you can handle, I found a [...]

Touch screens? That’s sooooo 2011. In the future, we can launch apps simply by making a few silly hand gestures. Well, that might be the future Qualcomm has in mind thanks to some new gesture related IP’s the company recently acquired from GestureTek. Steve Mollenkopf executive vice president of group president of Qualcomm announced via [...]

This is different. TMo News came across this internal memo from T-Mobile informing stores that they will begin receiving SD cards from HTC for use when updating customers’ devices. Apparently, some customers will receive a text message to come into a T-Mobile location where a sales rep will update their device to the latest software [...]

Some Verizon customers are going to be pretty angry if this pans out. Looks like the guys over at Android Central came across this Sam’s Club internal memo showing the Motorola DROID BIONIC may have very well been pushed back until September. Ouch. Okay, so nothing was ever set in stone but I was under [...]

Today, Mozilla (the Firefox guys) revealed their plans to build an operating system very much like Google’s own Chrome OS where apps run off of a browser but for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. The project is being codenamed “Boot to Gecko” because it takes the Gecko engine from Firefox and transforms it into [...]

Rumors of the G2X being discontinued began to circle around the Android blogosphere when the device was made unavailable from T-Mobile’s site and from retail store shelves. Normally, that is never a good sign for a device but it looks like LG may have had something better planned for the G2X in the form of [...]

If you’re an Android gamer you might wanna hurry on over to the Android Market and download Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty for 80% off! It’s an action game based on the recently released movie and to coincide with the film’s release, it’s only $1 to celebrate the movie’s opening weekend. Call me crazy, but [...]

However subtle, the Android Market just continues to evolve getting better and better every few months. Whether it’s the newest Market for Android or the web version of the Android Market we’ve definitely come a long ways. Today’s latest improvement comes to you in the form of a handy graph showing you the history of [...]

A few weeks back we told you guys about Samsung’s new Galaxy Z smartphone. Later, the device popped up again but was renamed the Galaxy R supposedly for European markets. What we are looking at here is a Galaxy S II, only with some of the key “high-end” features stripped away for slightly lesser specs. [...]

If you’re a Sidekick 4G owner now would be a good time to check for a software update on your phone (if it hasn’t already been pushed to your device). Apparently, the software update will provide various bug fixes and enhancements based on customer feedback. Not exactly sure what that means but I guess it’s [...]

A minor update is being pushed to the HTC Droid Incredible 2 on Verizon. Owners of the handset can check for the update by navigating through their Settings menu to the Software update item. The results of the update include fixes for server connection issues when syncing contacts and email, but will likely go unnoticed. Unnoticed [...]

A new render has shown up depicting an unnamed Samsung handset destined for AT&T. The most notable feature of the phone is the inclusion of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Aside from that hard-to-miss bit of hardware, the phone also looks to feature a front-facing camera and forgoes Samsung’s three-button layout for four capacitive Android buttons. [...]