Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 25, 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 to enter the code before you a...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 25, 2010
Samsung Media Hub is coming, all right. Just a matter of when, and where (OK, to the Galaxy S phones), and how. Stay tuned, folks....
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 25, 2010
Well, that didn't take too long. The Motorola Droid 2 (read our full review) has been rooted. We're not quite in one-click territory yet -- you're going to need to do a tiny bit of command line ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 25, 2010
Phil and Jerry chat with Adobe Platform Evangelist Ryan Stewart about Flash, AIR, and when your phone will get them. Maybe....
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 25, 2010
You can have it in golden bronze, or you can have it in cabernet -- but either way, you can have the Motorola Charm on T-Mobile today for a mere $74.99 after contract and rebate. With it you get this...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 24, 2010
LG has remained a bit of an enigma in the U.S. smartphone market, never quite able to break through with a high-end device. But that doesn't mean they're not out there. Case in point:&n...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 24, 2010
Android travel app Flightview -- read our initial review -- just announced an upgrade, adding a trio of improvements. They are: Manage Travel Itineraries - with the updated My Trips feature, use...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 24, 2010
Dell this morning announced the available of its first Android smartphone (that's not a MID), the Aero. The 3.5-inch device (Gorilla Glass at an, erm, interesting 360x640 resolution) runs a pre-Ecla...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2010
So help us, we're not even going to try to avoid the whole "epic" thing when it comes to the Sprint Epic 4G. It just is. After the break, check out one of the latest commercials (and be sur...
Tip
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2010
Don't like haptics? Want to turn off that blasted beeping every time you touch the screen? One man's feature is another's annoyance. But the good news is just about everything on Android is tweakabl...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2010
I might have just found my perfect Android travel app. Worldmate is now in beta for Android, and it pretty much combines every feature I need in an app to keep me pointed in the right direction ...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2010
It took half a year, but, finally, the HTC Desire has come to America. Announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010, the Desire -- codenamed the Bravo -- brought an all-new interface -- ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2010
Aaron La, the developer behind Advanced Task Manager, has opened his books and gives us some interesting insight into the Android Market, profitability and his own opinions of the market.We'll let Aa...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2010
Somewhere in a crowded Sydney, Australia, train station, a man uses a handheld device. But not just any device. It's a tablet. And it's not just any tablet. It is, according to Electronista, the ...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2010
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by what Windows Phone 7 will be bringing to the proverbial smartphone table in a few short months. And so when we ran across the Zune Home launcher...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 22, 2010
In the realm of GSM smartphones, there's a phenomenon known as "SIM unlocked," which is the ability to use any SIM card in a phone, meaning you can easily swap from carrier to car...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 22, 2010
A car plows through traffic on the Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City, and the Evo 4G is there to capture the aftermath. It's a hell of a story, and Jerzyiroc tells it in the Android Central Forums."L...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 22, 2010
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise, as the Motorola Devour already is listed as end-of-life, but now it officially won't be getting an upgrade to Android 2.1. In happier news, the Backflip is ...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 20, 2010
A worthy successor to the phone that launched 1,000 Androids
Without question, the the Motorola Droid -- and Verizon's marketing blitz behind it -- is what really put the Android smartphone on the ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 20, 2010
You know we couldn't help ourselves. When a leaked build of Android 2.2 for the Motorola Droid X was outed by My Droid World, we had to take it for a spin. You're not going to find too many UI c...
