Now that the Amazon Kindle Fire has been rooted it’s time to start booting up some custom ROMs. Standard choice CyanogenMod has made its Amazon debut, as xda member JackpotClavin has the first shots of CM7 running on the new media slate. All is not cherry, though. While many features seem to be working properly (including [...]

Google Maps has come a pretty far way since its first incarnations. Real-time navigation has expanded to include public transit and walking directions, once 2D map data has turned 3D, and now the app is taking us inside buildings for the first time. Indoor maps are a fresh addition to Google’s web version of maps, [...]

Box.Net is quickly coming up to challenge DropBox and they’re making some partnerships of their own. Sony Ericsson and Box.Net have teamed up to offer 50GB of free storage for any Sony Ericsson Xperia user (PLAY, Arc, Arc S, Mini, Pro -you name it). That’s an eye-popper for sure and it has me wishing I [...]

Adobe has mentioned that their Flash Player and AIR plugins will be heading to the Galaxy Nexus sometime next month. The fact that they were coming was already known but we didn’t know exactly when. If you don’t remember, Adobe discontinued Flash and AIR mobile to focus on HTML5, though they remained committed to continuing [...]

The HTC EVO Design 4G is the latest HTC phone to get an official bootloader unlock via HTCDev.com. If you were waiting for HTC’s method and want to apply it, this process is usually so simple that people who haven’t rooted a device before will be able to get through it easily. Anything you do [...]

Just as Samsung promised, Galaxy Nexus units have returned to retailers’ warehouses everywhere. Following a volume-related bug (it was easily fixed through software), Samsung had to pull units and cease shipment to reflash phones with the fix in place. They said it’d be back sometime this week and it turns out things happened sooner rather [...]

It’s been a long time coming, and quite frankly it’s rather sad how long it took for this to come, but the Motorola Milestone 2 has finally received its Gingerbread upgrade. European users of the device have been complaining to Motorola regarding the lack of updates and it seems this book can finally be closed. [...]

I suppose RIM is putting a stake into the ground for the future of mobile business with this move. They have introduced Blackberry Fusion, a suite of security tools for Android (and iOS) devices that gives IT administrators and managers a way to secure and manage employee devices from an abstract web console. Here are [...]

ARM is introducing a new tool for Android developers called the ARM Development Studio 5 community edition. It allows applications written in C and C++ to be optimized for ARM hardware (pretty much every chipset inside every Android device) even more than the Native Development Kit provided by Google allows. With this, developers can achieve [...]

Cluzee has released a personal assistant application in the Android market today and it adds similar functionality that has iPhone 4S users going crazy – Siri-like voice commands. While we’re not sure of Cluzee’s library of responses is as vast as Siri’s, their promo video shows it looks to be a lot more deep. Instead [...]

Fitness buffs in the UK who have been looking for a fitness watch of sorts can look forward to Motorola’s MOTOACTV finally launching on December 1st. You’ll be paying £249.99 for an Android-powered watch that can track your workout statistics and history and sync with the MOTOACTV website to keep track of your workout history. [...]

Lenovo has unveiled their updated line of Android tablets and phones. Starting with their tablets, we have the S2007 and S2010, 7 and 10 inch tablets, respectively. We’re looking at 1GB of RAM, a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, 1280×800 resolution, an 8 megapixel rear camera and a 1.3 megapixel front camera for both devices. [...]

We’ve been hearing that the reason the Galaxy Nexus isn’t out on Verizon by now is due to it not exactly being ready. Verizon usually has no problem delaying a device to ensure a worry-free experience for users out of the box. Some test users have begun to receive test updates to Android 4.0.2, and [...]

Greetings, Phandroids! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend full of turkey and amazing deals. Now that things are calming down around here, we can finally get back to some good ‘ol Android news. And we have a lot of it. Although we’ve covered all the big stories from throughout the day, there [...]

According to the New York Times, we may have some new insight on exactly what AT&T has up their sleeves to salvage their acquisition of T-Mobile. Apparently, some unnamed sources told The Times that AT&T is already “knee-deep in negotiations” to sell a good portion of T-Mobile’s customer accounts and some of their spectrum to [...]

I know a lot of you have been lusting after the 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note ever since it was released last month in Europe. We’ve known for quite sometime now that a North American release would follow but the rumor mill has been rather quite with nary a peep or leak — until now. The [...]

Cyber Monday is just about over but before we bid it farewell I wanted to let you guys in on one more deal, this time from Woot.com. If you hurry, you can snag yourself a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (16GB version) for only $320. That’s a helluva deal, if you ask me. Keep in mind, [...]

Well, this is interesting. Looks like Samsung is showing some home court love to their homeland of South Korea with the addition of a bonus battery pack found bundled inside their version of the Galaxy Nexus. The higher capacity 2000mAh battery comes along with the standard 1750mAh, giving Koreans the option of a slightly thicker [...]

You may remember the “Glowball” demo you were drooling over the first time Nvidia showed off the graphics capabilities of their upcoming Tegra 3 processors. Well, the game has popped up in the Tegra Zone app and apparently it will be available for download sometime in December — most likely along side the ASUS Transformer [...]

Some huge news shook the wireless industry over Thanksgiving weekend with the announcement that AT&T has formally withdrawn their bid to the FCC to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion. Before you get your hopes up — T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, said that although they have withdrawn their application to the Federal Communications Commission, they [...]