Early today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington joined the department’s lawsuit against the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Sprint was quick to respond on the news saying, "After a comprehensive review of the facts related to AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile, seven state attorneys general have reached the [...]

Once again people, I’m not taking this information as true, I just love juicy gossip. Even still, I’d be lying to say it didn’t give me goosebumps. It’s the weekend! Loosen up a bit. Okay, so first off, we know Samsung has been hard at work on the Galaxy S III and they’ve even semi-announced [...]

I have no shame when it comes to bringing you the latest Samsung Nexus/Droid Prime rumors and today is no different. Seems Dustin Earley from AndroidandMe was cruisin’ through 4chan when he stumbled upon this thread from an anonymous user claiming to have had direct hands-on time with the device. As it goes with 4chan, [...]

President Obama has just signed into law the America Invents Act. This is the biggest step in patent reform the US Patent and Trademark Office has seen in over 60 years. The newly signed law will give the UPTO the funding and manpower they need to not only help companies and inventors avoid delays but [...]

Looks like LG isn’t ready to throw in the towel just yet. The South Korean manufacturer recently put up an extremely impressive flash site for their upcoming LG U+ LTE. So, just what is this LG U+? Well, the model number for the device could be the LG-LU6200 and if you want to do some [...]

Better hurry! Belkin.com is offering 50% off the entire line of products today in an event so huge, it’s bigger than any that one sale the day after Thanksgiving. Well, I suppose you may not want to run too fast. The sale has already spread through all the major deal sites causing so much traffic [...]

It was only about 2 weeks ago we told you guys about an ambitious Kickstarter project aimed at emulating iOS apps on Android. There were more than a few hurdles the iEmu team were facing to get this accomplished but after gaining 100% of their $20,000 funding, iEmu is officially dead in the water. Guess, [...]

The creative force behind the insanely popular Words with Friends has now released another one of their hits, Hanging with Friends, to the Android Market. The game is based of the classic “hangman” but thankfully with better visuals than that stick character you used to draw with pen and paper. Like Word with Friends, you [...]

The Tokyo Game Show is going on and while we didn’t expect much coming out of Android, Square Enix had a few biggies to drop. They’ve revealed they’ll be bringing classic Super Nintendo RPG Chrono Trigger (one of my personal favorites) to Android. We’re also getting Dragon Quest Monsters and Ithadaki Street, likened to Pokemon [...]

Well, that was a lot quicker than what we were expecting (but trust us, we aren’t complaining). The Samsung Epic 4G Touch is now out in stores and online and Samsung has made the source code available at their developer portal for all to download. With this, the hardworking Android development community will be able [...]

If you didn’t hear the news way back when, Twitter bought TweetDeck. We didn’t know what this meant, initially – they’ve bought third-party Twitter developers before and we saw them merge those people into their software team. For TweetDeck, their existence (at least in the way we once knew it) wasn’t wiped off the face [...]

As promised, cvpcs has released the Bootstrap application for the Motorola DROID BIONIC that’ll get you the custom recovery you’re looking forward. Considering how recently this device came out we’re not sure it’ll be of much use to typical users right now, but developers are encouraged to download it so they can begin on their [...]

So today marks the release of the first Galaxy S II smartphone in America – Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G Touch. Having used the phone myself for a few days now, I can tell you that it’s everything it’s cracked up to be and 10 times more. While my official review has yet to come out [...]

Google Voice Actions hasn’t always been the most friendly to non-US languages, dialect and accent. Hell, even some US accents are hard for the software to pick up. Fortunately, we all know Google isn’t ever just sitting around and doing nothing. They’ve added five new European languages to Voice Actions including UK English, German, French, [...]

Greetings Android Phone Fans! You’ve made it through the day and managed to end up here, in the Android Overload. This is your one stop, place to shop for all those Android stories that didn’t get to make it onto our front page. Rather then throw them into the abyss of the internet, we pool [...]

Not satisfied with the rave reviews El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron has been seeing on home consoles, Ignition Entertainment will soon be bringing their legendary master work to Android devices as well. Screenshots were revealed yesterday courtesy of Famitsu showing the Android version of El Shaddai to be more of a sidescrolling action platformer [...]

There has been some talk of Nintendo entering the smartphone gaming market after the creators of Pokemon released a card-based app game for Android and iOS. Even though it wasn’t Nintendo who directly published the game, Pokemon is a uniquely Nintendo franchise which pretty much got the rumor mill churning. During the Tokyo Game Show [...]

Samsung let the cat out the bag today when they posted an image of their upcoming Illusion handset coming soon to Verizon Wireless. The image of the device was posted on their Flickr account along with some information confirming the model number (SCH-I110) and showing off their “green” award for the Illusion. Although no other [...]

Rejoice! The time is finally here, folks. It’s a little past midnight on the east coast and Sprint’s website has finally made available the uber fast, uber amazing, uber sexy, Samsung Epic 4G Touch for sale! With it’s 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processor, 16GB of internal storage, 8MP rear/2MP front facing [...]

(Sigh) This was bound to happen. Yesterday we heard some not-so-wonderful news from the Sprint camp on policy changes and increased fees. Well, it looks like now Boost Mobile is following suit with an extra $5 they will be tacking onto their Android unlimited plans starting Oct 6th. Current subscribers will be grandfathered in without [...]