Great news coming out of the Android Developers blog with the announcement of gaming apps finally being made available for our Android brothers and sisters in Korea. Starting today, Korean users can now download and more importantly pay for games in the Android Market using direct carrier billing. I know, I know — we don’t [...]

If you haven’t been having much luck for our Holidroid Contest here at Phandroid (don’t worry, there’s still plenty more chances), you guys might want to jump on this deal before your local Target or Walmart stores shut their doors for the night. Apparently, some users over at Slickdeals have been enjoying some Kindle Fires [...]

As sick as most of you are of hearing about the Galaxy Nexus and not being able to get your hands on one, in light of the current situation, I am still very much enjoying reading/watching/hearing every bit of Galaxy Nexus news and make it a point to pass along that information with my less [...]

Seems Google is getting in on the Cyber Monday madness with a sale of their own for music lovers. Entire hit albums from artists like Florence and the Machine, Coldplay, Rhianna, Lady Gaga and more are on sale right now in the Android Market for only $2. There’s no better time than right now to [...]

Samsung’s snapping up some names for their 2012 line of phones, it seems, and the latest name thrown into the pot is “Samsung Galaxy Sleek”. The application was filed on November 23rd and it describes “ Telephones, smart phones, mobile phones and tablet computers.” It’s not exactly clear if the name will apply to only one [...]

Many of you Epic 4G Touch owners know about the loss of signal bug. It basically causes the phone to fail to reconnect to the Sprint network if you often dip in and out of coverage. I personally have experienced this bug frequently in an area that is known for really bad coverage. That’s notable [...]

Motorola has finally announced the Dinara – officially known as the xT928 – for China Telecom. The device is no slouch as it touts a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.5 inch 720p display, a 13 megapixel camera capable of shooting 1080p HD video, a 1.3 megapixel front  facing camera and more. Motorola [...]

There have been a LOT of rumors regarding the Galaxy Nexus and its launch date on Verizon. Dates have come and gone and the rumor mongering has just gotten silly. One of the most recent is that the device is coming December 8th – enough credible sources have claimed this date for us to put [...]

Ritche’s Room TV have gotten their hands on an ASUS Transformer Prime unit and took it for a spin. They go into great detail regarding this first early look at the device. It’s so lengthy that you could almost mistake it to be a review. It’s definitely worth a read and watch so head to [...]

We’re not at all surprised by this bit of news considering new devices have one-upped the DROID Bionic since its debut. The news is that Verizon has dropped its price to $200. It’s the standard on-contract price we see from other carriers for their high-end phones so while it’s cheaper than the norm for Verizon [...]

December 8th and 9th will potentially be huge days in the Android world. Not only might we see the Motorola Droid 4 and the Galaxy Nexus, we might also be getting the Transformer Prime on that same day. Newegg’s presale listing for the Android 3.2 tablet shows a December 8th release date for the device. [...]

Google Catalogs – the application that allows you to browse through a collection of items from 125 brands – is now available for Android. The application may not be appealing to those of us who don’t care about fashion and style but if you’re the type to spend a good chunk of time looking at [...]

When I just read that Google I/O’s dates would be pushed back two months from its original date (April 24th-25th) I was a rather disappointed – it usually turns out to be a very good time. But when I heard they’d be adding an extra day of festivities my excitement was restored. Google I/O will [...]

We were expecting AT&T to wait until a press event later this week to take the wraps off the LG Nitro HD, but the carrier has hit us with a Monday morning press release detailing the US version of the Optimus LTE. The handset is the first AT&T smartphone to feature an HD display with [...]

The Motorola Feedback Network is once again making a call for testers of an upcoming software release. The new “project” is aimed at owners of the original Motorola XOOM , but little is known about it at this time. Motorola is requesting confidentiality, which, as you can see, has stopped no one from reporting the [...]

The popular puzzler World of Goo has slimed its way into the Android Market. The award-winning title, named as the “Wii Game of the Year” by IGN, has users deploying globs of ooze in various ways to complete brain teasers. The concept is simple enough but the execution is plain beautiful. If you didn’t have [...]

It didn’t take long for the guys responsible for CyanogenMod to swirl the Android 4.0 source code into their popular custom ROM. Early builds of CyanogenMod 9 for the Nexus S and Samsung Galaxy S are already picking up some polish, according to Koushik Dutta, the developer of CM9 for the Nexus S, and others. [...]

Sony Ericsson has already made the bold claim that all of their 2011 handsets will receive Android 4.0, but now they are among the first to assign a potential timeframe for the arrival of Ice Cream Sandwich. According to Maurizio de Palma, marketing manager for Sony Ericsson Italy, the Xperia line of phones will begin [...]

As smartphone technology advances rapidly, many tools that worked well at one point have simply fallen to the wayside. Sony Ericsson’s Sync service is one such utility that seemed like a good idea when first launched, but has quickly fallen out of favor as better services have come along. With that in mind, SE has [...]

It’s Cyber Monday and that means millions of people will be scouring the web for the best deals of the year. In honor of today’s legendary status, we’re continuing our 31-Day Holidroid Giveaway with our biggest contest yet, including a Kindle Fire, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, Jawbone JAMBOX and a whole lot more. [...]