Now that Ice Cream Sandwich has been revealed to the world, those who recently purchased Android phones are wondering if their device will receive the coveted update. For owners of the Motorola DROID BIONIC, the update could do wonders to erase any feelings of abandonment brought about by the Droid RAZR. Moto may have pushed [...]

There are a boat load of people trying to decide between the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Motorola Droid RAZR. As you found out in my “First Impressions: Galaxy Nexus & Android 4.0” article, I’m one of them (and Kevin’s praises in his RAZR First Look didn’t help). It’s easy enough to take a look at [...]

It might be true that certain elements of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus were designed to avoid potential legal issues down the road, but Executive Vice President of Product Strategy Won-Pyo Hong says he has no idea where people got the idea that the new joint-venture between Google and Samsung was designed specifically to avoid Apple’s [...]

Most will focus on the astonishing iPhone figures reported in today’s Q3 earnings report from AT&T, but that isn’t the only part of the carrier’s smartphone business that is doing well. Though the iPhone still makes up for the majority share of smartphone sales — to the tune of 2.7 million, — Android devices and [...]

Without offering any specifics, Sony Ericsson confirmed via its Dutch Facebook page that the company will bring Android Ice Cream Sandwich to its 2011 lineup of Xperia smartphones. After getting off on the wrong foot with Android upgrades for their initial Xperia offerings, SE has been pretty good with providing new software and features to [...]

When Apple unveiled their latest update to the iPhone, their voice-activated personal assistant Siri took center stage. Many hoped (and some expected) that Google would reveal an equally impressive tool alongside the announcement of Ice Cream Sandwich and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. This was not the case. Andy Rubin addressed the concept while speaking at [...]

It would be easy for HTC to keep Beast Audio, the company they invested $300 million into and gained majority ownership of in the process, all to themselves. Aside from some API tools for their lineup of devices featuring Beats integration, what more could we expect? How about a complete developer API? That is exactly [...]

Every once in a while we see a barometer listed among the specs of an Android device, right next to the accelerometer, gyroscope and other sensors. We saw it in the Motorola XOOM and now we are seeing it included among the components that make up the Samsung Galaxy S II. What has never been [...]

Still suffering from what feels like an Ice Cream Sandwich brain freeze (or hang over), we tried our best to get out as many stories as possible throughout our day. In effort to keep you, our readers, always informed, we’ve grouped all the stories that somehow managed to slip through the cracks here, in the [...]

After doing some snooping around Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus signup page, one of our readers found this image of the device with an interesting URL. Once again, we have the Samsung SCH-i515 showing its face, this time linked directly to the Galaxy Nexus image and Verizon, all in the same Samsung URL. Sounds pretty official, right? [...]

While Motorola didn’t exactly specify the exact 1.2GHz processor powering their newly announced DROID RAZR in yesterday’s announcement, the Motorola’s Developer Network site (Motodev) gave us full specs including the exact dual-core processor being used. As it turns out — the Droid Razr will be housing the same Texas Instruments OMAP4460 processor found in the [...]

I have some good news for all you ROM and flashing addicts out there. The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II has been successfully rooted and the process is almost scary easy. Now, I don’t think there are any custom/modified ROMs just yet but this should give GS2 users the ability to remove any and all [...]

After a plethora of separate posts for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus announcement, it was hard to get an accurate reaction from our readers on how they felt about the device. Now that the dust has settled, I’m left wondering — were you impressed with the Galaxy Nexus specs? Maybe you were looking forward to a [...]

Hey, if Samsung wasn’t going to use the awesome title, at least someone did. Asus chairman Jonney Shih showed off the company’s upcoming Transformer Prime (previously Transformer 2) during an interview at AsiaD today. The Transformer Prime is a tablet/netbook hybrid, rockin’ an all new aluminum form factor and slim 8.3mm thin profile (undocked). Confirming [...]

As most of us already know, any device touting 4G LTE connectivity and a bright 4.3-inch 720p display is probably going to be eating up a lot of juice. Thankfully, HTC will have data-heavy users covered in time for the HTC Rezound launch on Verizon. AndroidForums member jikhead posted this official 2750mAh HTC extended battery [...]

After getting caught up in the hype of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a few videos snuck their way onto Motorola’s YouTube channel showcasing none other than, you guessed it — the all new RAZR. If you notice, there is a complete absence of the typical robot killing badassery found in previous DROID adverts but this [...]

Remember this little guy? I know all of the news of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus event may have gotten us side-tracked for a bit but let’s take a break for a minute to remember the HTC Rezound (formerly Vigor). The device managed to pop-up on a cellphone accessory site giving us a much clearer look [...]

Swype Beta has been updated to version 3.26 but not in the market — no, sir. The only place to get Swype Beta is by registering on their Beta site to become an official “tester.” Really, it’s not as scary as it sounds and if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest Swype features [...]

This sad fellow you are looking at is the creation of Matt Cutts, head dog of Google’s Search Spam Compliancy Team. He took a set of pumpkin carving tools (’tis the season) and went to work on a tasty Ice Cream Sandwich to cut out the form of everyone’s favorite Android mascot. Makes you hungry, no? [...]

The cats at Google are a creative bunch. From their brightly decorated offices to innovative software, the tech giant always enjoys a bit of fun, outside-the-box thinking. An example of the sort of characters running the show at Google comes in the for of Easter eggs hidden within the Android code. Gingerbread had a zombie [...]