While the NOOK Tablet – Barnes & Noble’s answer to Amazon’s Kindle Fire – isn’t set to come out until Friday online (earlier rumors said it’d be here today), some Barnes & Noble shops have put them on store shelves early. Mistake? Maybe. Or perhaps the 16th is the in-store date and the 18th is [...]

Qualcomm today announced new additions to their chipset lineup, particularly in the high-end S4 class and the low-end S1 class. They don’t go into any specifics for these, but the S4 lineup is seeing the addition of eight new chipsets, including the MSM8660A, MSM8260A, MSM8630, MSM8230, MSM8627, MSM8227, APQ8060A and APQ8030. This brings their total in [...]

As you know, Qualcomm is beginning to move faster than ever in the chipset race. They already have a number of devices with dual-core processors inside and quad-core SoCs are right around the corner. Their chipsets are quite capable of handling the latest video games and Qualcomm wants you to know that and wants to [...]

A bombshell has been dropped over at AndroidForums.com. One of our gracious members, drandrew18, has somehow gotten his hands on a Galaxy Nexus device before it’s set to ship as early as tomorrow. He was kind enough to make a video “unboxing” for it. The reason we put that in quotations is because it’s not [...]

Before there had even been a “Honeycomb,” Sharp impressed me with a couple of its Galapagos tablets. The software was quite decent for an Android tablet at the time, though the advent of Honeycomb has obviously overshadowed that and many other interfaces. Sharp’s looking to take another stab at the tablet market, though. New photos [...]

Now that the source code has allowed itself into the hands of developers everywhere, results of Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich AOSP drop are already starting to look good. Alpha builds of Android 4.0 ICS are in the works for many phones, with a good amount of phones already seeing early (yet still not stable) ROMs. [...]

Amazon’s been really good to us lately. If the $15 QuickOffice Pro suite for free wasn’t good enough, they’re now offering the sequel to one of best games of all time – Bejeweled 2 – for free. Many of you already know how to play this wonderful game and even if you are new to [...]

Watching the Samsung/Google launch event of the Galaxy Nexus, I got the feeling there were many features of the Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich that didn’t make it into their (what I felt was) brief announcement. Turns out I was right. Take the real-time, live video effects feature of the Android 4.0/Galaxy Nexus shown off [...]

Quite a busy day today in the world of Android (just the way I like it). For all those stories that pass by our desk, we don’t always get to feature them on the front page. Rather than throw them in the dumpster of the internets, we bring them to you here — in the [...]

Okay, so it was only a few minutes ago that I told you guys the Kindle Fire source code had been made available by Amazon. Now, that’s all fine and dandy for creating custom ROMs but there’s only one small problem — you can’t install a custom ROM without first getting root onto your device. [...]

Well, that wasn’t too long at all. Complying with the AOSP agreement, Amazon has released the source code to the recently release Kindle Fire. While this may not mean too much for your average Joe or soccer mom, this is how developers and modders are able to create custom ROMs, kernels and generally make some [...]

Android 4.0 AOSP running on the PandaBoard could very well be the first Android build compiled entirely from the recently released Ice Cream Sandwich source code. The talented developer shows off the fruits of his labor and in the video you can see that when outputted to a higher res display, Android 4.0 transforms into [...]

If you’re currently a T-Mobile Sidekick 4G users I have some good news and I have bad news. Let’s start off with the good. An OTA update is headed your way in the form of software update T849UVKJ2 and has begun rolling out yesterday. Now are you ready for the bad news? Just like the [...]

The Android Market not being found on – or anywhere near the Kindle Fire is a turn-off for some prospective buyers. One of the burning questions about the device is whether or not it can sideload apps. This, however inconvenient, could provide for a temporary solution of getting your favorite apps, only be found from [...]

We’ve already gotten word of Lenovo stepping into the quad-core arena later this year and now we’ve learned that Acer is getting ready to do the same. Seems Acer is readying a pair of quad-core tablets to match competitors like Lenovo and ASUS with their own A510 and 511 Android tablets. The Acer A510 and [...]

Gotta hand it to the boys at Google, they know how to have a good time. Take this fun little easter egg located inside of Ice Cream Sandwich. By entering a code of sorts, you can actually find a fun little secret inside of ICS that is sure to make you smile. All you have [...]

We’ve known for quite awhile now that Google was experimenting with their own fiber network, delivering ultra fast internet speeds to lucky in Kansas City locals but we never considered the possibility that Google could also be toying with the idea of delivering cable TV service as well. I know, it sounds crazy… or does [...]

Every day we peruse the Android Market looking for the best, worst, interesting, and most unique apps in an effort to sift out a few gems. We call it Apps of the Day. We can’t guarantee that every app featured below is a real winner, but each is worth at least a quick look. It’s [...]

Last week we learned of what could be HTC’s first quad-core Android smartphone, the HTC Edge , but it will not be the only device of its class headed to the Taiwanese manufacturer’s lineup. A newly leaked render gives us a look at what could be another device sporting four cores, the HTC Zeta. While [...]

Those guys at iFixit are quick. No sooner has the Amazon Kindle Fire hit shelves than it has hit their workbench, opening its front and back cover and revealing the Android-based tablet’s inside. Spoiler alert: this ain’t no paperback. Through the teardown we learn that Kindle Fire is comprised of components from Texas Insturments, Samsunh, Hynix, [...]