Just a day after HTC’s Vigor – rumored to be a beast of a phone with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor – hit the Bluetooth SIG, the phone has now gotten WiFi certification. All we need now is an FCC approval and we’re good to go for a probable holiday release. Other specs include a 4.3 [...]

Verizon’s LG Enlighten is an interesting phone, combining all that was successful with the LG Optimus One with a hardware keyboard. We’re sure it would have gotten a ton of looks at retail, but now that Walmart is said to be selling it for $.97 as evidenced by its appearance in this upcoming week’s product [...]

If the HTC Flyer is still a viable tablet for you in light of all the Honeycomb-laden tablets as of late, Best Buy UK has a great deal for you. For £329, you can walk away with the 16GB WiFi version of the Android 2.3 HTC Sense tablet. We can’t tell whether or not it [...]

It seems Google’s finally ready to get over this Google TV hump as Eric Schmidt is rumored to be announcing the service (and hopefully some hardware partners) for a UK launch within six months. Google TV’s launch here in the US hasn’t exactly been an easy one for Google. It looked promising from the start, [...]

I stuck with my G1 for a long time when it first came out, but that’s because I kinda didn’t have a choice – it was the only Android phone out. The HTC Hero, HTC Magic and the Motorola DROID – among various Samsung products – were all tempting offerings, but not enough to get [...]

Hoping to get a sneak peak of what Samsung’s bringing to Germany the evening before IFA? For starters, according to Samsung Hub, it looks like we’re in store for LTE versions of two of their existing devices. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, which no one has at the moment, and the Samsung Galaxy S II, [...]

Nexus Prime, Nexus Prime, Nexus Prime, Nexus Prime… It’s extremely difficult to think about anything else right now with all the news of the Samsung Nexus Prime coming through our pipelines. What? Other news? Oh — well, that’s why we have the Android Overload. To give you guys a second chance of reading the stories [...]

The Samsung GT-I9250 which has a 99.9% chance of turning out to be the upcoming Nexus Prime, has just passed its WiFi certification today. Right on schedule with that leaked Samsung roadmap, the eve of the Nexus Prime is almost upon us. In case you needed a refresher, this device will be the premier Google [...]

It was only a few days ago we posted a blurrycam video found on YouTube showing off the Motorola DROID BIONIC booting up, powering on and giving us a rough preview of the device’s 4G LTE speeds. Not only that, the video showed us a little bit of the new Motoblur UI and I have [...]

A leaked copy of BlackBerry OS 7 (7.0.0.353 to be exact) has been making its way around the internets and someone with a very keen perception to detail, actually took the time to read through the copyrights found within. What did they find? Well, apparently RIM felt the need to give credit to the Android [...]

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 was updated in the Android Market to version 10.3.186.6. Contained in this update were a bunch of fixes and enhancements for multiple devices so if you’ve noticed your Flash Player was acting a little funny, now would be a good time to jump in the Market and update. Here is the [...]

The Samsung Hercules (T989), T-Mobile’s variant of their Galaxy S II device, was discovered making it’s way through the FCC today. What’s of particular interest is the fact that the device will be equipped with NFC (Near Field Communications) as seen in the filing above. Not to be outdone by T-Mobile, AT&T’s own version of [...]

Okay, you can file this one under “Laugh Out Loud” if it turns out to be true. Allegedly, in an attempt by Samsung’s legal team at squashing a Nexus Prime leak, they’ve simultaneously managed to confirm its existence. Just take a look at this “Cease and Desist” letter where they don’t sound too happy with [...]

Some patents Microsoft applied for back in February of ’10 have recently gone public thanks to MicrosoftNews. So, why is Microsoft news on an Android site? Well, kids — if granted, these patents could pose a significant threat to our beloved Android OS and her OEM’s. Let’s take a look at Microsoft is trying to [...]

T-Mobile is making some more changes to their customers’ plans with the rollout of a new Pay-Per-Use data feature on all smartphone accounts. This change will affect around 11.4 million smartphone users currently not enrolled in any kind of data plan on T-Mobile’s network. Although technically, Pay-Per-Use wont cost anything extra, those of you who [...]

Sony Ericsson may still have a few surprises up their sleeves with the upcoming release of a new flagship phone code named “Nozomi.” being rumored to launch in Japan later this year. According to a tipster over at XperiaBlog, the device is rumored to launch by years end in Japan under the model number SO-02D [...]

Developer Nordisk Film Interactive updated The Marbians in the Android Market and along with the normal set of “bug fixes” came a few other goodies as well. NFI added a few extra levels in their demo/lite/free version of the game bringing the total free playable levels up to a whopping 16. Here are the rest [...]

There’s this tropical storm headed for New York called “Irene” apparently. She’s said to be bringing 10 inches of cold, cold rain. And you would think those below the ground would have an easier time getting around the city, but that isn’t the case at all. It’ll supposedly flood the subway system as their pump [...]

Well, this is just peachy. Another lucky soul was able to buy an HP TouchPad (for $100) that had Android preinstalled instead of WebOS. Apparently, there’s a bit of a back story as to why this anomaly is happening. It appears Qualcomm, the chipset vendor for the tablet, tested Android on several units. Probably the [...]

Feeling a bit daunted after reading the instructions for rooting the Motorola DROID 3 posted earlier? As with any phone with a great community behind it (read: most of them) the community has come together to make things easier for everybody. Spawned from a consortium of four individuals at RoozWiki is a one-click method for [...]