All posts by Phil Nickinson

Moto Matt stirs the Droid 2.1 pot

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 12 March 2010

Ask us when the Motorola Droid is getting its long overdue (but not yet late) Android 2.1 update, and we'll tell...

We've got a Best Buy gift card to give you [contest]

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 12 March 2010

AND ... WE'RE DONE! Winner will be receive an e-mail shortly.

We found a $150 Best Buy gift card under a stack of phones and decided it'd be better off in your hands. (We'd probably just spend it on more Lost DVDs anyway.) So, as to not make a big deal out of it, just...

Verizon updates (erm, fixes) Nexus One listing; no Sense for you!

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 12 March 2010

Well how about that. Looks like Verizon has updated its

Motorola releases source code for Backflip

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 12 March 2010

If you're the type of person who's into Android source code -- and let's face it, you probably are -- then you should know...

HTC Desire, Legend are 'Coming soon' on Vodafone

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 12 March 2010

Good news for those of you in the UK who are waiting for the HTC Desire and...

Nexus One confirmed to only be sold online, (and to feature HTC Sense?)

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 12 March 2010

Far be it from us to say we told you so, but, well,

Your favorite Android Twitter clients

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 11 March 2010

We asked for your favorite Android Twitter client, and you answered. Boy, did you ever answer. So, after wading through more than 300 responses...

Hands-on with the Opera Mini 5 beta browser for Android

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Thursday, 11 March 2010

Opera Mini 5 beta hit the Android Market this morning, and we've...

Motorola putting Bing on some Chinese Android phones in lieu of Google

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 11 March 2010

This is another one of those deals that's likely to raise a few eyebrows, or at least produce some unwarranted exclamation points. The long and short of it is that Microsoft and...

T-Mobile G1 users seeing OTA update, but it's not Android 2.x

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 11 March 2010

We're getting word that T-Mobile G1 users have been getting OTA updates over the past couple of days, but...

Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid [update]

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 11 March 2010

As if Android needed yet...

DoubleTwist for Windows releases major update, adds podcast support

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Thursday, 11 March 2010

One of the first questions we get from new...

Android sees huge growth through Jan. (what phone could have caused that?)

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Take a look at the latest smartphone usage numbers from Comscore, and you're likely to do a double-take -- Android increased by 4.3 percentage points from November '09 through...

Win one of 10 Otterbox cases for the Verizon Droid Eris [Contest]

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 10 March 2010

The folks at Otterbox -- makers of some of the most rough-and-tumble cases...

Android Central Editors' Apps of the Week

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Wednesday, 10 March 2010

 

There are upwards of 20,000 apps in the Android Market. Some good, some not so good, and many are flat-out great. So what do...

Memory card, not Vodafone Magic itself, responsible for Android botnet strike

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Stories have been going around that a botnet was being spread by the HTC Magic on Vodafone...

Free Android phones at GDC! (Or, how to make a mountain out of a molehill)

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 09 March 2010

You know all those stories about developers getting free Android phones this conference or another? Our pal Rene Ritchie (of TiPB) is at...

New pics of the HTC Incredible surface on Twitter

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 09 March 2010

If there's anything we love for breakfast, it's more leaked shots of unannounced phones. And here we have more of the

How to: Get at the Motorola Devour's battery and microSD card

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 09 March 2010

We're well into our review of the Motorola Devour (check out

Android Quick App: Pure music widget

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Tuesday, 09 March 2010

Chances are if you've been hanging around Android for a while you've run across the Pure series of widgets. There's Pure calendar, Pure...

HTC Incredible rumored to soon be replacing HTC Droid Eris on Verizon

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 09 March 2010

If you're in the market for an HTC Droid Eris on Verizon, you might want to...

New Android 2.1 build coming soon to your favorite Nexus One ROM

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 09 March 2010

For those of you who are into putting custom ROMs on your Nexus One (and...

Samsung Galaxy Spica now available on Rogers

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 09 March 2010

Attention, people of Canada: The Samsung Galaxy Spica and its 3.2-inch, 320x480...

Who says Google failed with the Nexus One retail strategy?

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 08 March 2010

On the heels of Goldman Sachs cutting its sales forecast for the Nexus One -- which at the time...

HTC Supersonic makes brief appearance

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 08 March 2010

New Android NDK brings Open GL ES 2.0 support

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 08 March 2010

Seriously, we're not going to try to explain to you the ins and outs of this one. But know this: The Android NDK (that's native development kit) has been updated and with it comes new Open GL support.

Applications targeting Android 2.0 (API level 5...

Yeah, yeah, we get it -- you think Google's evil

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 08 March 2010

So by uploading your little "Google is Evil" manifesto to YouTube which is ... wait for it ... owned by Google, you're saying what? Cute picture, though. <...

AT&T locks down its first Android phone, the Backflip [and so what?]

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 08 March 2010

As Android reviewers and the hacking faithful are finding out this week, the Motorola Backflip

Verizon shows off its (newly) exclusive Skype service for Android phones

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 08 March 2010

Meet the new Skype, same as the old Skype. Except that

AndroidCentral asks: What's your favorite Android Twitter client? [Contest]

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Monday, 08 March 2010

Twitter clients are nearly as ubiquitous as Android phones these days. There's

Leaked Droid 2.1 update shows live wallpapers

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 08 March 2010

We've had discussion of the ESE53 build of the Android 2.1 update for the Motorola Droid (yeah,...

Motorola Backflip -- AT&T's first Android phone -- now available for $99

Phil Nickinson News Sunday, 07 March 2010

Just like it was promised, the...

HTC Legend in hands overseas

Phil Nickinson News Saturday, 06 March 2010

The HTC Legend -- you'll remember it from our hands-on at...

HTC: Don't sit on your Nexus One

Phil Nickinson News Saturday, 06 March 2010

So CNET UK had a Nexus One whose screen mysteriously cracked and turned purple while merely...

Swype for Android now officially in beta

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 05 March 2010

The Swype keyboard has been incredibly popular, despite not being openly (or legally, for that matter) available for download for Android. But Swype just opened up a beta program for our beloved platform. Here's what you need to know:

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Throwing fuel on the Nexus One and Motorola Droid multitouch fire

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 05 March 2010

Update:&...

Why you won't see 'I am T-Pain' on Android any time soon

Phil Nickinson Applications Friday, 05 March 2010

Been holding your breath waiting for the "I am T-Pain" auto-tune app to come to Android? Ain't gonna hAAAaaa-pen. At least right now. In an...

When you should blame Google (and when it's not their fault)

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 05 March 2010

Our pals at JK on the Run put up an excellent piece today breaking down Google's supposed (or blatant, depending on who you ask) favoritism regarding the latest OS...

HTC Desire and Legend to be available on April 1 from Amazon UK

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 05 March 2010

If you have a hankering for the

Friday Fun (?): Apple-HTC lawsuit and the Joy of Tech

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 05 March 2010

Yeah, we went there. And, yeah, kinda not funny, we suppose. Great web comic, though. [

Patent lawsuits 'explode' into oversimplified NYT infographic

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 04 March 2010

No movement on Day 3 of the Apple-HTC patent saga (or quagmire, actually). Hey,...

Enter to win 1 of 10 Epik Cases for the Nexus One or myTouch Android phone

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 04 March 2010

The folks at Degasis.net have offered up 10 free cases to 10 lucky AndroidCentral readers. And let's just get down to it: Leave a comment below and...

Hands-on with the Motorola Devour, with Android 1.6 and Motoblur

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 04 March 2010

The Motorola Devour (running Android 1.6 with Motoblur on Verizon) made...

Android 2.1 leaked for Droid Eris, appears to be the real McCoy [updated]

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 04 March 2010

For all of you Verizon Droid Eris fans out there chomping at the bit for...

Hands-on with Google Gesture Search

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 04 March 2010

For those of you still rotting away...

Microsoft releases its Tag application for Android, still doesn't do QR codes

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Thursday, 04 March 2010

Google launches Gesture Search for, um, searching Android contacts

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 03 March 2010

Droid's multitouch not the same as Nexus One's (and there's a reason for that)

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 03 March 2010

That at least some Nexus Ones suffer from some apparent...

Apple Inc. v. HTC: Day 2

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 03 March 2010

Woke up this morning. Checked the news. Yep, Apple's still suing HTC. (Have a feeling a number of people in Bellevue, Wash., did the same.) Here's a roundup of the latest in the patent battle launched by the iPhone-maker on the Taiwanese manufacturer of a...

Your favorite podcatchers [AC Asks]

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 03 March 2010

Just a few short days ago we asked you to list your favorite Android podcatcher and, boy howdy, did you folks answer. In fact, we're going to wrap this up a couple days early, declare a winner...

 
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