All posts by Phil Nickinson

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

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...

Well how about that. Looks like Verizon has updated its

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

As if Android needed yet...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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. <...

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

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

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

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

Just like it was promised, the...

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

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

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:

Update:&...

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...

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...

If you have a hankering for the

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

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

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...

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

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

For those of you still rotting away...

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

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...

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...