All posts by Phil Nickinson

T-Mobile officially (and finally) unveils G2

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 09 September 2010

T-Mobile has finally pulled the curtain out from over the HTC G2, the follow-up to the smartphone that marked the launch...

Verizon Samsung Fascinate hands-on and initial impressions

Phil Nickinson News, Featured Wednesday, 08 September 2010

The Verizon Fascinate is the fourth...

Those three-dot buttons on the G2 keyboard? They're still three dots

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 08 September 2010

Remember the trio of keys on the HTC T-Mobile G2 that don't really appear to have much function,...

Verizon Samsung Fascinate on sale now online for $199, in stores Thursday

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 08 September 2010

It's that time, folks. The Verizon Samsung Fascinate is now...

Adobe uses small words, pictures, to show which phones Flash supports

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 07 September 2010

We don't know about you, but the last thing we want to worry about when determining whether our smartphones are supported is what exactly what...

Best Buy backs off the Samsung Gem

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 07 September 2010

Whoopsie. Looks like when Best Buy showed off the Verizon Samsung...

Google Voice now alerts to missed calls

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Tuesday, 07 September 2010

Google Voice just added another feature to its arsenal -- missed-call notifications...

Dual-core Tegra 2 smartphones are coming from LG in Q4, and Android's a pretty good bet

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 07 September 2010

LG has announced it plans to use the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor in its Optimus line of high-end smartphones, starting in the fourth quarter of 2010. LG and Nvidia aren't saying...

Verizon Fascinate officially on sale online Wednesday for $199, in stores Thursday (sound familiar?)

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 07 September 2010

None of this could come as any surprise to any of you, seeing as how we've broken the launch info on the Verizon Samsung Fascinate several times over now. But...

Even more Sept. 9 confirmation for the Verizon Fascinate

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 06 September 2010

Accept no substitutes, folks: We brought you the first news that the Verizon Fascinate

Poll: Did you ditch the Evo for the Epic?

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 06 September 2010

Verizon Android world phone at the FCC

Phil Nickinson News Sunday, 05 September 2010

If there's ever been any doubt that Verizon is the current king of Android, you can put it to rest now. The HTC PD42100 -- a horizontal slider dual CDMA/GSM ...

Samsung releases Epic 4G source code

Phil Nickinson News Sunday, 05 September 2010

From the forums: Custom boot animation

Phil Nickinson Hacks, News Saturday, 04 September 2010

Fresh from our Droid X forums, Natemz brings us a couple of cool custom boot animations. On the left, a spinning Android logo. On the...

Angry Birds for Android is here!!! [video]

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Friday, 03 September 2010

No time to talk. Too busy playing. Go get the beta now in the Android Market. (QR code after the break.) And if you want to help out the developer, give the beta a spin, then

Verizon Fascinate: $199 on contract, plus buy-one-get-one!

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 03 September 2010

We just got some pricing info on the Verizon Samsung Fascinate, and it's...

Sprint: Epic 4G one of its best first-day sellers

Phil Nickinson News Friday, 03 September 2010

Sprint this morning trumpeted the Epic 4G, saying "it became one of Sprint's best-selling devices for first-day sales." Redundancy notwithstanding, no numbers were given, and that's

Motorola clears up Droid X battery tab confusion with design change

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 02 September 2010

Remember this one? When the Motorola Droid X launched in July, it did so with a little...

Samsung Galaxy Tab specs versus the Apple iPad

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 02 September 2010

Samsung Galaxy Tab photo gallery

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 02 September 2010

Skype Mobile update does not allow use of Wifi after all [updated]

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Thursday, 02 September 2010

Skype Mobile for Android now works over 3G *and* Wifi (but still Verizon-only)

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Thursday, 02 September 2010

Great news for those of you rocking Skype Mobile on Android -- the app has been updated, and...

Samsung announces the Galaxy Tab 7-inch Android tablet

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 02 September 2010
7-inch Android tablet coming this year

Twitter still down? It's not just you

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 02 September 2010

Yeah, Twitter's been borked for many of you for a good bit of the day -- or longer. We've heard you, especially those of you using HTC's Peep or Friendstream clients (found...

Sprint Epic 4G review: The Samsung Galaxy S grows a keyboard

Phil Nickinson Smartphones, Featured Wednesday, 01 September 2010
We review the Sprint Epic 4G to find out if it's worthy of its name

 

If you put the word "Epic" in the...

Verizon Fascinate benchmarks, pics

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 01 September 2010

We're not-so-patiently awaiting the arrival of the

Sprint launches 4G service in Boston, Daytona Beach, Fla., and Providence, R.I.

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 01 September 2010

Sprint and Clearwire this morning officially popped the cork on 4G service in a trio of cities -- Boston, Daytona Beach, Fla., and Providence, R.I. We'd...

Yes, you can turn off Touchwiz on the Sprint Epic 4G (but you won't want to)

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 01 September 2010

Yeah, you can turn off Touchwiz on the Sprint Epic 4G and get rid of the static home screen icons and...

Motorola announces the Milestone 2

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 01 September 2010

Motorola this morning announced the Milestone 2 (which actually

Samsung to unveil Media Hub Sept. 16

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Those of you with a T-Mobile Vibrant, AT&T&...

T-Mobile G2 renders break cover; that's one sexy keyboard

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 31 August 2010

We'd be lying if we said we weren't excited about the T-Mobile G2, the carrier's

Sprint Epic 4G available today, and we're giving one away!

Phil Nickinson News Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Today's the day, folks. The Sprint Epic 4G is now

Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab is a go

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 30 August 2010

When it comes to Android tablets, Verizon's name has been thrown around for quite some time, be it an

So when's the Verizon Fascinate launching?

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 30 August 2010

So there's a little confusion of when the Verizon Fascinate is "launching," eh? Can't say we blame...

Xperia X10's Android 2.1 update unchanged, still on track for September

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 30 August 2010

We'd like to say we're excited at the news that Sony Ericsson on Twitter confirmed "that the upgrade to Android 2.1 [for the Xperia...

Microsoft's Bing Android App now available -- if you're on Verizon

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Monday, 30 August 2010

Sprint stores open at 8 a.m. Tuesday for the Epic 4G launch

Phil Nickinson News Monday, 30 August 2010

Our friendly neighborhood Sprint rep (erm, or mass e-mail) reminds us that most Sprint stores will open at 8 a.m. local time on Tuesday for the launch of the Epic 4G, the third in the Samsung Galaxy S line to be released in the United...

More details, plus a new color, on the AT&T Motorola Flipout

Phil Nickinson News Saturday, 28 August 2010

 

We brought you the first pictures of the AT&T version of the

CyanogenMod 6 now stable, download for your favorite phone today

Phil Nickinson News Saturday, 28 August 2010

After weeks and weeks of coding and testing, CyanogenMod 6 is now officially "stable" and ready for download. For those of you new to Android, the CM series of ROMs are based off the Android Open Source Project -- the pure building blocks of the Android OS...

Dear Logitech ... Your Revue Google TV ads are kinda creepy

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 26 August 2010

Sincerely, Palm.

(That said, my...

Sept. 9 a possible launch date for the Verizon Fascinate, tie-in with MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12

Phil Nickinson News, Rumors Thursday, 26 August 2010

Where, oh where, is the Verizon Fascinate? We've been waiting for the...

Droid Incredible Froyo update: Benchmark, full details, screenshots (Update: Plus, a possible OTA date)

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 26 August 2010

We're getting tons more info from you guys regarding

Verizon announces it's pushing Droid update to enable Flash

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 26 August 2010

Verizon this morning made it official: The update for the original Droid that will enable you to...

Droid Incredible's Sept. 1 Froyo rumor a bust, but is the RUU out there already? (Updated with screen shots, root link)

Phil Nickinson News, Rumors Thursday, 26 August 2010

ROM legend Conflipper may be in retirement, but that doesn't mean there's not still...

Epic 4G user manual now available

Phil Nickinson News Thursday, 26 August 2010

We've got a few more days to go before the Sprint Epic 4G is available to the masses. (In...

Samsung Galaxy Tab caught on video again, this time for a close-up

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 25 August 2010

If these videos of the

Motorola MB520 Kobe breaks cover, may be codenamed 'Diablo'

Phil Nickinson News, Rumors Wednesday, 25 August 2010

We're trying real hard to decide whether to be happy that we're looking at leaked pictures of the Motorola MB520 Kobe, or sad in that see the return of...

Slew of Verizon phones may see end of life in March 2011

Phil Nickinson News, Rumors Wednesday, 25 August 2010

A handful of Verizon Android smartphones appear to have their end-of-life dates hung over their heads. Phones that already have shuffled off this mortal coil...

Android's Amazon MP3 app updated to allow for gift/promo codes

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Android's Amazon MP3 app has gotten an update, and if it's a good one if you have any promo or gift codes, which you can now enter to save yourself some dough.

You have...

Samsung Media Hub 'coming soon'

Phil Nickinson News Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Samsung Media Hub is coming, all right. Just a matter of when, and where (OK, to the Galaxy S phones

 
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