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October, 2011 Articles

DROID RAZR Presales Begin Tomorrow at 8AM EST for $300, Ships No Later than Nov. 10th

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2011

Welp, Verizon’s made it official – the DROID RAZR will be going up for presale tomorrow, Oct. 27th, for $300 after signing a new two-year agreement. And just as the rumors suggested, Verizon says it’s shipping no later than November 10th which gives them room to ship to preorderers a bit before then (we wouldn’t [...]

Google: Nexus One is Too Old for Ice Cream

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2011

Those of you wondering whether or not the original Nexus phone would be getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich can rest not-so-easy with the answer Google’s Hugo Barra reportedly given The Telegraph. The Nexus One is apparently too old to receive the upgrade. We’d imagine the CPU and GPU alongside limited internal memory are Google’s [...]

Sprint Posts Q3 Financial Results, Optimistic About Future Despite Losses

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2011

Sprint has finally posted their Q3 2011 financial results. The Now Network gained $8.3 billion in overall revenue, a marginal improvement over the same quarter last year. Despite the gains, Sprint still reported net losses of  $301 million dollars, though they largely improved over the same quarter last year where they lost over $900 million. [...]

WinAmp for Android Adds Wireless Mac Syncing, $5 Pro Version for Equalizer, FLAC and Crossfade/Gapless Playback

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2011

The good people at WinAmp have reportedly issued a significant upgrade to their Android application to add a lot of the features that kept many from making it their default music playing application. Common to all users is the ability to wirelessly sync your music library between Android and Mac OS, a feature only previously [...]

OfficeSuite Pro 5 is Today’s Amazon Free Paid App of the Day

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2011

While we’ve stopped highlighting each and every free paid app of the day from Amazon, we felt this one was big enough to warrant attention. They’re offering OfficeSuite Pro 5 for Android. While there may be better options in the Android market, when you consider the fact that this is a $15 value it can’t [...]

[Poll] Do the New Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 Phones Make You Wish Nokia Didn’t Sign That Partnership?

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2011

So I just woke up to news that Nokia announced several new phones, two of which run Windows Phone 7. I won’t get into the specifics of the hardware and the announcement – I’ll just link to Engadget here and here for their Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 hands-on videos, respectively. But I’m curious… do these [...]

Android Overload: Man Carves Phone Dock Into Prosthetic Arm, Amazon Could Sell 5 Million Kindle Fires and More

by Chris Chavez on October 26th, 2011

Greetings, Phandroids! So many stories pass our way that it would be nearly impossible to write them all up. But for those that almost slipped through the cracks, we gathered them here for you, in the Android Overload. We felt these stories deserved a final once-over, before getting lost in the internet abyss, so have [...]

New Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation Trailer – Coming Soon To Android [Video]

by Chris Chavez on October 26th, 2011

Just in time for the big console releases of Battlefield 3 and CODMW3, Gameloft is looking to bring some of that FPS action to Android with their new trailer for the upcoming title Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation. Obviously the game’s claim to fame is in its console quality graphics — so good in fact, [...]

HTC Thunderbolt Receives Pre-Alpha Ice Cream Sandwich Port

by Chris Chavez on October 26th, 2011

It was only earlier today we told you guys about the Samsung Nexus S receiving an Android 4.0 SDK port and now it looks like it’s the HTC Thunderbolt’s turn to have a little taste of Ice Cream Sandwich. Jdkoreclipse was able to get the pre-alpha ROM booting but unfortunately, not much else is working [...]

T-Mobile Announces Samsung Exhibit II 4G (Galaxy W) For $200 Off Contract

by Chris Chavez on October 26th, 2011

The original Samsung Exhibit 4G is barely a few months old but T-Mobile is getting ready for the upcoming holiday season with the announcement of the all new Samsung Exhibit II 4G for their network. The Exhibit II 4G is essentially one of Samsung’s Galaxy W tired devices and features a 3.7-inch 800×480 LCD display, [...]

Sprint Bringing The 4G – Readies 12 LTE Devices For 2012 and LTE-Advanced For 2013

by Chris Chavez on October 26th, 2011

If you’re a Sprint customer, you may have found yourself recently looking for new reasons to stick with the carrier after their “Season of Change” removed a lot of customer perks. As most of you have already heard, ‘Ol Yeller is getting their new LTE network set up for next year but what you may [...]

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Pops Up On Amazon – £540 SIM Free and Unlocked

by Chris Chavez on October 25th, 2011

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has appeared on Amazon today with an “in stock” date of November 7th. The device is being offered for £540 which translates to roughly $864.97 US dollars (although my cart said $930) SIM free and unlocked, which means if you’ve been saving up your pennies, you can expect AT&T and T-Mobile [...]

Wind-Up Knight Now Available For Android – Mixes Classic Platforming With Unique Visual Style

by Chris Chavez on October 25th, 2011

Can’t say I’m too familiar with the developers over at Robot Invader but they sure delivered one helluva doozie in the Android Market with Wind-up Knight. I’ve always been a sucker for unique visual art style and great character design. Wind-up Knight hits all those marks and more. The game is a 3D side-scrolling, run-and-gun [...]

New Day of the Dead Android Collectible Revealed – “Don Pablo Calveroid” Coming Nov 1st

by Chris Chavez on October 25th, 2011

Last year Andrew Bell, the designer of those cute little Android collectibles, gave us a Halloween themed vampire collectible and although it doesn’t look like history will be repeating itself this year — it’s not all bad news. Turns out Mr. Bell may have something special planned for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the [...]

Apple Wins Patent On “Slide to Unlock” – Are Android OEM’s In Trouble?

by Chris Chavez on October 25th, 2011

Well, this could open up a whole new can of worms for Android and her manufacturers. Today, Apple successfully secured patent number 7657849, otherwise known as their famous “Slide to Unlock” feature found on iOS devices. Apple actually applied for the patent back in December of 2005 and after 6 years, the United States Patent and [...]

Galaxy Nexus Listed for Nov. 16 Release in the UK

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2011

UK smartphone retailer Phones4u has the Galaxy Nexus up for order through Orange. The phone isn’t available yet, but the site has delivery of the device pegged as November 16th. No official announcements have been made regarding availability of the new Google flagship device, but all sign point towards early to mid-Novemeber, lining up perfectly [...]

Yes, Your Android Buttons Will Still Work with Ice Cream Sandwich

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2011

There has been some confusion over a very simple question regarding Android 4.0: Will the hardware Android buttons of current phones still function after updating to Ice Cream Sandwich? Provided your phone receives the update, the answer is yes. ICS is built to forego onscreen software buttons in favor of hardware buttons provided they are [...]

Ice Cream Sandwich ROM Patched together for the Nexus S

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2011

Before you get too excited, the Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Nexus S currently floating around over at XDA is far from a complete build. Nevertheless, some intrepid developers have managed to tack together a working build of Android 4.0 for last year’s Google flagship phone. Without a proper source code release to work [...]

Sprint Issues Updates to all HTC Handsets, Addresses Leaky Personal Data

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2011

We reported earlier on a couple of updates headed to HTC devices on Sprint’s network, but as it turns out all handsets from the Taiwanese manufacturer are inline for an over-the-air patch. The new software tweak addresses privacy concerns raised when a security hole was uncovered earlier this month. HTC promised a quick fix, and [...]

ZTE and Orange to Launch San Francisco II (ZTE Crescent)

by Kevin Krause on October 25th, 2011

Orange’s San Francisco (otherwise known as the ZTE Blade) will soon get a sequel. After sales surpassing 2 million units, the the Blade/San Francisco will give way to the ZTE Crescent . The handset will be known as the Orange San Francisco II when it launches on the namesake network, but little other info is [...]