http://phandroid.com Android Phone News, Rumors, Reviews, Apps, Forums & More! Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:56:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en April Fools Day is coming up, and last year I wrote a fake article claiming that Ford and GM announced an Android Car. Kind of funny, but we actually thought the idea was good. So did a bunch of other people but Chinese Auto-Makers SAIC, makers of luxury cars, is ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/roewe-350-the-android-car/ Google has been busy in the apps department lately, launching both Orkut and Buzz applications to Android Market. But it isn't only new apps that Google has been working on - they've just updated their Maps applications... both of them. Google Maps version 4.1 is now available on Android 1.6+ devices, ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/google-updates-maps-land-and-sky/ If you're in the market to buy a house and you have an Android phone you're DEFINITELY going to want to grab Zillow from Android Market. Built atop of Google Maps, the application displays all of the information you could ever want to know about the houses around you, that ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/zillow-brings-house-hunting-to-android/ UK network Virgin Mobile has announced in a press release that it plans to release 2 more handsets to its Android range showing they're starting to embrace Android. They currently stock the LG intouch Max and the Samsung Galaxy portal but are adding the HTC Desire and the Sony Ericsson ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/virgin-mobile-embrace-android-htc-desire-x10-by-april/ A lot of people don't even know that Google has their own social networking site called Orkut. The dominance of Facebook and Twitter overshadow almost everything else. But there ARE regions where Orkut is the market leader and folks in those places will be happy to know the Orkut Android ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/orkut-lands-on-android/ Sling Media was showing off their wares (the soft kind) at an event in Austin, Texas called gdgt Live and what did they see but a few Android phones using the service. Check out the Nexus One, Droid, Behold 2 and G1 streaming music from a Sling Player: We already knew ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/sling-player-coming-to-android/ While Verizon Wireless Droid owners still dream of the 2.1 they were promised, Sprint customers are getting a promise of their own - "coming weeks" and "April" are some of the open-ended frames used. This is in regards to the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment and the information was leaked ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/sprint-htc-hero-samsung-moment-getting-2-1-in-april/ It will probably be a couple months before your favorite Android 2.x device gets Adobe's Flash 10.1 update, but they continue to convince us that we should want it now. Check out this video of the Nexus One with Flash 10.1 tuning into the CBS Sports website where you can ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/march-madness-on-the-nexus-one-with-flash-10-1/ Two weeks in a row, baby! Phancast, baby! All of those "babies" are courtesy of the NCAA Basketball Tournament a la Dickie V. We'll chat for a second about basketball but Phancast 16 will cover the Verizon/Moto 2.1 debacle, the Incredible, SuperSonic, Sprint/AT&T Nexus One, Buzz, Google rumors, and we'll get ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/live-at-12pm-phandroid-podcast-episode-16/ As some carriers make their move towards 4G, T-Mobile USA is losing some customers for their inability to even provide 3G access, something the carrier is looking to fix for their next generation network.  Rumor has it that T-Mobile is working on a join venture opportunity with Clearwire to support ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/t-mobile-usa-tapping-clearwire-for-high-speed-data/ Former Apple employee Phil Kearney - who worked on the AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express and Time Capsule at Google - just wrote an article on Gizmodo about the potential of Google buying Palm. The underlying motive? Acquisition of patents: So what could motivate Apple to want to sue HTC? I'm in ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/could-google-buy-palm/ The Indian market is about to swallow up some Android opportunity, with the Motorola Milestone coming March 22nd and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 launching in the next week as well. And it won't stop there - the Motorola Backflip and Motorola Dext are both expected to reach India by ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/indian-androids-incoming-milestone-x10-dext-backflip/ Google Buzz hasn't been buzzing much lately, but that might change as an Official Google Buzz Widget has just landed on the Android Market. Oddly enough, it was only visible to certain people - Talton and I both have Motorola Droids on Verizon Wireless but only he could see it ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/18/google-buzz-widget-hits-hides-on-android-market/ Until now, HTC has been mum about the whole Apple patent lawsuit. First Google had their back, then the Apple vs. Google thing heated up, but now we finally hear what HTC has to say and its a beautiful thing. They basically look the world in the eye and say, ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/18/htc-to-apple-first/ Motorola Droid owners were already promised and refused Android 2.1 once before and now it has happened again. Yesterday we saw Verizon announce Droid 2.1 update information and heard Motorola say that at 12 noon a limited number of people would get the update before rolling it out to the ... http://phandroid.com/2010/03/18/droid-doesnt-android-2-1-delayed-a-g-a-i-n/