AT&T and T-Mobile have called off talks of a merger after some serious federal opposition, but there is still some unfinished business left to attend to. As repayment for the failure to close on a deal, AT&T owes a sum of $3 billion to T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom. TMo will see none of that [...]

People across the globe ring in the new year in a variety of ways, but one of the most iconic celebrations occurs in New York’s Times Square as the Waterford Crystal New Year’s Eve Ball descends at the stroke of midnight amid a teeming crowd of revelers. It’s a moment no one should miss, and [...]

Adobe has updated their AIR platform for Ice Cream Sandwich support, just as promised. Other than minor maintenance updates or a big change in plans, the new build will be the last major release of AIR for Android. It joins Flash Player 11.1, which also recently received an update to provide Android 4.0 support, to [...]

What’s better than a $200 tablet? A $200 tablet with Honeycomb. ARCHOS has unveiled their latest budget-priced tablet, the 70b Internet Tablet, a slate featuring a 1.2GHz processor, 1024 x 600 7-inch capacitive display, 8GB of storage, and 512MB of RAM. The ARCHOS 70b also sports WiFi connectivity, HDMI output, and expandable microSD memory. The [...]

News has broken today that Vlingo has agreed to sell to Nuance for an undisclosed amount of money. Nuance, as you may know, is the driving force behind many voice recognition applications on mobile and desktop including yours truly – Siri. With their purchase of Vlingo it would appear that Nuance will make a very [...]

The NFL today announced that the Super Bowl will be streamed live to viewers on the internet and on Verizon Wireless mobile devices that have the NFL Mobile application. The reason it’s exclusive is because Verizon is the official wireless sponsor of the NFL. Alongside the big game, which is set to kick off on [...]

 Google began rolling out the Nexus S ICS update in several regions a short time ago but it seems they’ve already had to suspend the upgrade for an issue that is affecting battery life. Alongside abnormal battery drain users are seeing high spikes of CPU usage, two things that could be directly related. If [...]

TWRP – the exciting recovery project that would transformer the way we backup, restore and flash ROMs – is making great progress. In fact, version 2.0 is now available for download! For now, only a few select devices are supported including the Nexus S, the HP Touchpad and the Kindle Fire but we’re sure the [...]

Rumor has it that the Motorola Droid 4 – an LTE-enabled entry into the original keyboard-laden DROID series – will be headed our way December 22nd. As we know, Verizon doesn’t usually announce sequels to existing series too far ahead of time so that December 22nd date could hold up. We won’t know for sure [...]

Following the launch of the third title in Gameloft’s Modern Combat series, they have launched another new game to the Android market: NFL Pro 2012. It’s an NFL football game adapted to the small (or medium, depending on what device you have) screen for football action on the go. It’s going up against a heavy [...]

Notebook Italia has heard word that the Acer Iconia Tab A200 will launch in Europe starting February 2012. The A200 is a minor follow-up to the A100 and A500 Honeycomb tablets released earlier this year. My early thoughts? Pass based on knowledge of specs alone. With a dual-core Tegra 2 processor and 1GB of RAM [...]

Samsung’s not keeping quiet on their plans to upgrade some of their consumers to the latest and greatest version of Android. They’ve already committed to an early roadmap that should see most of their dual-core devices getting the upgrade. Starting out, the Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II are expected to receive their upgrades [...]

Greetings, Phandroids! I hope you all had a great weekend because it’s time for more and news and with that — comes the Android Overload. Here, we’ve gathered all the top news stories from throughout the day that didn’t quite make it onto our front page. But we’ve placed them conveniently here to make sure [...]

Kindle Fire owners should be well aware that software version 6.2.1 is rolling out for Amazon’s latest tablet and just as before, root will be completely removed from the device. The only difference is this time around, it will pretty much be impossible to re-root using SuperOneClick utility. Yep, it looks like Amazon has patched [...]

It’s been rumored and leaked that the Motorola’s Droid 4 — the newest 4G LTE equipped version of their QWERTY slider — could be arriving on Verizon as early as the 22nd of this month (just a few more days). Well, adding a little more fuel to that fire, a new leak has surfaced today, [...]

If you were looking to cruise in style and outfit you new brand new Verizon Galaxy Nexus with the official Samsung vehicle dock, you may want to hold that thought. Apparently, the American/Verizon version of the car dock (pictured above) is without the three-pin connectors you see in the UK/GSM version of the dock (pictured [...]

While this isn’t exactly the 10 cent app sale were enjoying a few days ago, Google Music is having a blowout sale of their own, offering up over ten million tracks and/or entire albums from some of the hottest artists in the biz right now, for a little over 50% off. Artists range anywhere from Drake, [...]

WordPress for Android has been updated to version 2.0 in the Android. With the shiny new new version number comes a significant upgrade to the UI of WordPress, like an all new Dashboard and Quick Action Bar, giving users 1-click access to the most used functions in WP. Also new to this version is the [...]

It’s not like we didn’t already know what Sprint’s reaction to AT&T’s pulling out of their T-Mobile takeover was going to be. With the proposed merger dead in the water, Sprint would like to take a moment to tell everyone — “We told you so.” Number 3 issued a statement today also reminding everyone that [...]

If you’re unsure what this whole "Holidroid Contest" thing is all about, be prepared to get excited. From November 24th through December 25th, Phandroid is giving away a Kindle Fire every single day along with other great prizes like the Galaxy Nexus Galaxy Tabs, JAMBOX, SmarTouch Gloves, Android Phones, Android T-Shirts, Seidio Vouchers and more. Read our announcement post for details. [...]