Review
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 27, 2010
AT&T gets serious with Samsung's Galaxy S
Finally (finally!), AT&T has a competitive Android smartphone with the launch of the Samsung Captivate. It's as simple as that. Moreover...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 21, 2010
We mentioned in passing the other day that the innards of the Droid X can be a little confusing, so let's do this up right. There's a little tab that sticks out from underneath the Droid X's battery t...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 21, 2010
The Galaxy S class of Android smartphones -- the T-Mobile Vibrant, AT&T Captivate, Sprint Epic 4G and Verizon Fascinate -- bring an all-new Touchwiz user interface. And it has one featur...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 20, 2010
When it comes to installing Android applications, there are two ways of going about it. The most popular, of course, is directly through the Android Market. And that's how most of us do it. But from t...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2010
The T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant was the first of the Galaxy S line of Android smartphones to be released in the United States, and it's quickly becoming one of our favorites of the year. Its 4-inch ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2010
We've had a ton of touchscreen technology thrown at us in the past year -- hell, in the past several months. We've gone from LCD (liquid crystal display) to OLED (organic light-emitting dio...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2010
T-Mobile's Android slider packs a punchThe HTC MyTouch 3G Slide from T-Mobile USA is the Android smartphone that has seemed to fly under the radar. Released at a time when Snapdragon processors ...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 09, 2010
While some of us use our phones to communicate or play awesome games, there are those who take science and spare time to the next level. Mike Partain is one of those people. Using an off-t...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 09, 2010
When it comes to Android apps, we love zombies. And loud music. And the two are combined in the Smudgeware game called Saint ($1.99). It's kind of a reboot of the old Smash TV game. You've got du...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 08, 2010
The Fring app for the iPhone got an update today (see our previous Android-related hands-on) that lets it play nice with Android (and Symbian, too). That means us Android users can have video chats wi...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 08, 2010
Youtube mobile just got a face-lift, bringing a good many cosmetic and functionality changes along with it. Youtube use on mobile devices is growing at an amazing rate -- playbacks were up 160% ...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2010
I admit, I'm an AppBrain fanboy. Using a phone to dig and search through all the 68,000+ apps things in the Android Market is enough to drive anyone insane, so I don't do it unless I have to.&nb...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2010
Verizon's latest Android smartphone is one big, bad (as in good) Droid Droid X does it bigger. Take everything you've come to know and love about Verizon's Droid line of Android smartphones -- st...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 03, 2010
Here at Android Central, we love the whole idea of using voice commands to make our phones work for us. In the smartphone world, Vlingo is pretty well-known, with apps on multiple platforms, and...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 30, 2010
The Bodyguardz Protective Skin for your Sprint Evo 4G's 4.3 inches of glass definitely brings the protection. Many of us (myself included) do not like a case interfering with the pocketability o...
Article
by Dieter Bohn
Jun 29, 2010
We saved the best of the Samsung Galaxy S phones for last: the Epic 4G. It's similar to its other Galaxy S cousins, but adds in a horizontally sliding QWERTY keyboard and, yes, WiMAX 4G. The slider di...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 29, 2010
T-Mobile's version of the Samsung Galaxy S is known as the Vibrant, and it's as slim and sleek as its cousins. Same 1GHz Hummingbird processor, same 4-inch Super AMOLED display. T-Mo just had to ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 29, 2010
The Sprint Epic 4G brings a horizontal keyboard, and it brings some monster gaming power (as do all the other versions of the Galaxy S, of course). After the break, we take a look at the Asphalt racin...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2010
This quite possibly is the greatest thing we've ever seen before breakfast (at least since Zombies crossed our desk). That's right, it's Super Mario, scrolling his way on through your Android 2.1 (and...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 25, 2010
Time to put the Motorola Droid X power plant against the other big boys currently available in the United States. And here we run some benchmarks between it, the Sprint Evo 4G (Android 2.1) and the Go...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 25, 2010
We kind of have the feeling that we're going to be repeating this until we're blue in the face, so let's start now: The Motorola Droid X does not run Motoblur atop Android 2.1. Nor does it r...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 25, 2010
Sure, you could use the Motorola Droid X's 4.3-inch screen to be productive and all, but let's get down to what we really want: Games. Fast, smooth, immersive games. And in our demonstration at t...
Article
by Jared DiPane
Jun 24, 2010
The amount of developer support that the Android has been getting is rather amazing, and the applications have made great strides since even six months ago. Sometimes it can be a bit rough to find a n...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 24, 2010
Sidled up to Logitech at the Digital Experience event in New York City, and lookie what we found -- the Logitech Revue Google TV set-top box. OK, so it's not plugged into a TV or anything, b...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 23, 2010
Oh, you want to see the Motorola Droid X in moving pictures? We've got you covered, with 10 minutes of the Droid X in our hands, after the break, of course. (And don't worry, we'll have plen...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 22, 2010
A tiny Android smartphone with surprising power The HTC Aria. The tiny phone with big potential is the second Android device on AT&T, and arguably the first worth really considering on the U.S. c...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 18, 2010
The touchscreen on the HTC Aria touchscreen doesn't offer as much real estate on which to work as the Evo 4G, Droid Incredible or Nexus One. But how does its multitouch capability match up? We p...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 16, 2010
So long as we have the HTC Aria, let's do some benchmark tests, shall we? The second Android phone from AT&T has a Qualcomm MSM7227 processor at 600MHz. And before you start screaming about ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 15, 2010
The HTC Aria from AT&T brings the Android big-time in a little package, with a 3.2-inch touchscreen at 320x480 pixels. And if you think this guy looks familiar, well, it should. It's a m...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 09, 2010
While it may seem that everybody and their brother are busy poking around the innards of the HTC Evo 4G, developers are still hard at work on other Android phones as well. Late last night I was...
