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There are a handful of home replacement applications available for the Android OS now days, but unfortunately, the ones we really want to have on our phones aren’t actually available on the Android Market. There’s another UI in town, which may not be available at the moment, but once launched, it may be the go-to…
T-Mobile is bringing quite a few new Android handsets this holiday season, including the MyTouch 4G, the Huawei Comet and now the LG Optimus T. The Optimus T is said to hit Magenta’s shelves come November 3rd and will cost a mere $29.99. Once the Optimus T hits T-Mobile, we can expect that third-party retailers…
When Google Instant launched this past September, we were told that it would launch for mobile phones sometime this fall, and it seems that the Google Instant feature may be hitting select Android phones right now. If you’re holding onto a Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid, or Droid X, you may treated to a little surprise…
Almost to the day of the 2nd anniversary of the world’s first Android phone, the G1, the Android Market has passed the 100,000 mark in available applications. The G1 would be so proud, even if it couldn’t run half of those Android apps. Counting Android apps seems to be a little more difficult than one…
If this isn’t much of a solid indicator that Android 2.3 Gingerbread is on its way soon, I’m not sure what is. The Google campus just got another tasty treat to go with the other Android sweets, and this newly arrived Gingerbread Man signals the impending release of the Gingerbread update. Now the Cupcake, Donut,…
If you’re holding out for the upcoming MyTouch 4G, you may have made the right decision. The upcoming Android smartphone from T-mobile has just been benchmarked, and it flies. Someone who is lucky enough to get to hold one of these smartphones was nice enough to put the device through its paces by benchmarking it…
Well, it looks like Gingerbread will be known as Android 2.3 OS, we told you so. Actually, Phonedog told us in the beginning of September that Android Gingerbread will be sporting a 2.x version number, and Honeycomb would be the flavor that owns the 3.0 title. According to a Google engineer, Gingerbread will indeed be…
The Wall Street Journal posted a poll to their site today for their readers to answer, asking which mobile operating system is the best. The results aren’t terrible surprising, but the margins between the winner and the runner-up are very surprising. The winner so far is Android, and it’s leaving every other mobile operating system…
Looks like Asus and Garmin are calling it quits come January next year, and we can’t say that we’re surprised. With the crash and burn of the Garminfone, we’re actually more surprised this didn’t happen sooner. This makes strike two for Garmin, with the Nuvifone not quite attracting anyone, either. Now that the two companies…
Sony has been talking about Android for some time now and with the introduction of their new television line with Google TV built-in, it looks like it is getting a little more serious about the little green robot. With the X10, mini/pro and X8 under its belt, Sony is looking to put Android into more…