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US Cellular is offering customers another Android phone in time for the holidays, the LG Optimus U. This Android 2.2 Froyo-toting phone will be free after a $80 rebate. Sounds good to us. The Optimus U is basically an LG Optimus S (which is a Sprint phone – hence the “S” in the model name),…
There are more signs that the just-announced Google Nexus S was very close to being called the Nexus Two. Google’s YouTube page for the Android superphone calls to a domain called “nexustwophone.appspot.com.” This is despite the fact that the company’s CEO Eric Schmidt said the company wouldn’t be making a sequel to the world’s first…
Everyone’s favorite Windows Mobile device gone Android, the HD2, has just been blessed with its own Android 2.3 Gingerbread port. This comes from none other than XDA-Developers, and while the port is not available at the moment, we can expect a team of skilled developers to be working on this to get it up and…
The Nexus S broke cover and was made official yesterday by Google and Samsung. The successor to the Nexus One was confirmed to be an unlocked GSM handset that supports T-Mobile’s 1700MHz flavor of 3G. Today, a rumor fresh from the Android-o-sphere suggests the handset may rock a CDMA/LTE radio and land on Verizon Wireless.…
Don’t get too excited just yet, but there seems to be a handful of Android 2.3 Gingerbread ROMs already available for a select group of HTC Android phones. Like I said, don’t get too excited, as these ROMs are not going to be stable enough for day-to-day use. Rather, you should consider these Gingerbread ROMs…
The OnLive on-demand gaming service has just released an app for the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab which enables users to watch others playing video games. While that may seem a little odd, this foreshadows a future which could turn your tablets into fantastic gaming machines. If you don’t know, OnLive delivers cloud-based…
LG and VMware are partnering to bring Android to the enterprise using virtualization. VMware announced its Mobile Virtualization Platform back in November 2008 and promised to created a handset environment that would provide a customer with true multiple profiles. Profiles, when applied to current handsets, refers to a set of ringtones and alert settings that…
One conspicuously absent feature in the Android 2.3 Gingerbread announcement yesterday was the rumoured video chat capabilities. Andy Rubin hinted at the feature in Honeycomb yesterday when unveiling an unannounced Motorola Tablet, but more solid evidence was found right in the Gingerbread SDK. Those familiar with Google Talk will recognize those three camera status icons…
Life is rough for Sprint Epic 4G users who are patiently waiting to get onto Android 2.2 Froyo after seeing their Android counterparts – HTC EVO owners – enjoying the latest from Google since late summer. And like the HTC EVO 4G owners before them, it’s very tempting to update to the latest version of…
Samsung has a huge presence in mobile devices in the U.S., but perhaps it might grow even bigger worldwide. A rumor going around about Samsung’s goals in 2011 include shipping 330 million phones globally, which would be right up there with Nokia who shipped 110 million smartphones this past summer. By shipping that many mobile…