According to Bloomberg, a rep of the Justice Department’s shared that they have launched an investigation into Verizon’s recent purchasing of spectrum, namely the $3.6 billion deal struck up between them and the coalition of Bright House, Time Warner and Comcast. That alongside another deal with Cox Communications has them worried that Verizon may soon [...]

Sony Ericsson earlier committed to bringing the Android 4.0 upgrade to all of their 2011 handsets and now they’re detailing which phones are getting it when. Rollouts start in late March or early April 2012 for the Xperia™ arc S, Xperia™ neo V and Xperia™ ray. Shortly after, from late March or early April 2012 the Xperia™ [...]

The folks at Fingerlab have just announced that their game, MultiPonk, is now available for Android. MultiPonk is a play on the word multi-pong and that’s exactly what this game is – a game of multi-pong. Up to four people can play MultiPonk on devices from smartphones to tablets. Seven game modes, eleven bonuses and [...]

We just received a save the date notice from Huawei for February 26th, 2012. That date and the location, Barcelona, coincides with Mobile World Congress, of course, and there they will be on hand to showcase their “smartest, fastest and most high-performing smartphone yet.” Their words, not ours. We’re not sure what Huawei is cooking [...]

Firefox has introduced version 9.0 of their browser to the Android market this morning and tablet users will want to get their hands on it. Mozilla has overhauled the interface to make for a more pleasant browsing experience on the big screens that Android tablets provide. Other than the fact that they’ve adapted the user [...]

If you woke up to your phone this morning hoping to turn WiFi off and leave the house with some sort of data connection and you’ve found that you don’t that, don’t panic. Verizon’s network appears to be experiencing another round of outages and this time it seems to be affecting users on a national [...]

Greetings, everyone! It’s time for your extra helping of Android/mobile news here in the Android Overload. This is the place where we stash all the top news stories from throughout the day — the ones that didn’t make it onto our front page — before we turn in for the evening. We like keeping our [...]

Show of hands — who wants to preview the all new Dropbox for Android? Luckily, Dropbox was kind enough to let me know of their all new version 1.3.0.6 preview available for download on Android devices. This is a pretty substantial update bringing about Ice Cream Sandwich compatibility and an all new and improved UI. [...]

They’ve done it again. The boys at Apple must have some kind of strange patent voodoo because once again, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded them with another IP to stick inside their portfolio, this time with a patent for a “portable electronic device with graphical user interface supporting application switching.” Sound [...]

Tis the season for sales! And I’m not just talking about clothes or gadgets but those sweet little apps you have running on your phone as well. Taking a note from Google’s sale, independent app market, Getjar, has begun offering up some of the hottest paid apps in Android and all for absolutely free. Getjar [...]

AudioTool Sketch was recently released onto the Market giving Android users everywhere the opportunity to mix their own scary monsters and nice sprites. Sketch features full featured emulation of three beat mixing devices allowing users to create beats using drum machines, switch up patterns, add delays, change tempo and more. The app features full multitouch [...]

Not sure exactly how accurate this information is but the implications here are so huge, so monumental, so tremendous — that I felt I should share it with our readers. We’ve been receiving multiple reports from both Sprint customers and employees that apparently… wait for it… the Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus is safe [...]

It’s official, folks. There are now 700,000 Android activations each day — a statement made just a few minutes ago by Google’s Senior Vice President of Mobile, Andy Rubin, via his Twitter. This is up from 500,000 back towards the end of June and at roughly 8 new Android activations every second, it’s a number [...]

Motorola is throwing a new contest for the holidays, giving away 7 DROID RAZRs via their Twitter. Kicking things off is a Mr. Cee-Lo Green acting as Santa Clause and hiding the first of 7 Droid Razr’s somewhere in Lost Angeles, CA (follow him on Twitter for clues). If running around downtown LA doesn’t sound [...]

In what could be seen as a loss for Motorola (and is being reported as such from various media outlets), the International Trade Commission has just announced their initial ruling on Moto’s alleged patent infringement — declaring that Motorola violated 1 of 7 Microsoft patents (number 6,370,566) that dealt with “generating meeting requests and group [...]

You may have seen our Happy Holidroid contest that was posted only a few hours ago where the challenge had you guys searching for a hidden image, located in a random post. To us, here at Phandroid, the rules seemed pretty cut and dry but like most things in life — they were anything but. [...]

Disney has updated their successful puzzler Where’s My Water? with 20 all new levels. The levels are part of a new “Stretched Thin” campaign that adds a new element to the game in the form of water balloons. Now players not only have to deal with guiding water to Swampy the Alligator, but they must [...]

Since the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, many a user has noticed fewer 4G LTE status bars than they are used to, leading to the idea that the phone must be suffering from some sort of radio bug. The one or two bars of service were accompanied by reports of dropped calls and low [...]

Myriad is bringing their Alien Dalvik concept to the living room with the introduction of Alien Vue. Alien Dalvik is a software emulator that allows non-Android devices such as the iPhone to run applications designed for the Android ecosystem. Alien Vue takes the next step, giving TV service providers and manufacturers the ability to run [...]

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. [...]