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While it may not have happened prior to the release of the device, as we’ve seen before, the Motorola Droid 2 has officially been rooted (#), paving the way for custom Android ROMs to someday be available for the latest Verizon Android phone. The awesome devs over at XDA have done it yet again, only…
The Motorola Charm for T-Mobile is now available for your enjoyment and you can order it straight from the carrier’s online page. It should come as no surprise to anyone, however, as the little Android candybar phone has landed right on time. And as we mentioned last time, the Motorola charm packs a 3 megapixel…
If you “got get drunk,” have we got an app for you. The Bartab app is launching this Thursday (August 26) and the Apple iPhone and Android program will enable you to send vouchers for real-life drinks for only $1. The concept is simple: use the app to buy a drink for a friend for…
If you had any doubt that the much-anticipated T-Mobile G2 was the HTC Vision, we’ve got your confirmation here. An Android 2.2 Froyo test ROM for the G2 has been leaked, and while you can’t install the ROM on any device right now, it did yield some interesting information nonetheless. In the image above, which…
If you have a thing for seeing tech and gadgets stripped to bits and torn right down to the transceiver, you’ll enjoy this tear down of the Samsung Galaxy S. Apparently, the Galaxy S i9000 is pretty well built, but far easier to take apart than the Omnia, also by Samsung. So what exactly does…
We had heard about a new Motorola Quench dubbed XT5 crossing the FCC awhile back, and the Bluetooth SIG before that, but had few details to run with. A nice batch of specs, including a hardware overview have surfaced to provide a clearer picture of what to expect. Much like the Backflip, the XT5 has…
As much as I love the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant, I’d love it that much more if there was a stock (no custom UI) Android ROM available for it. Well to my surprise, it turns out that there is, sort of. One of the awesome Android developers, Eugene373, has cooked up a vanilla Android ROM for…
If you were waiting for the Samsung Captivate for AT&T to drop in price, your wishes have been answered. The Galaxy S phone is now available for a single cent on Amazon, with a two-year contract attached, of course. Yeah, we know, a lot of smartphones can be found for about a penny online, but…
It looks like Motorola has snapped up a programming company called 280 North for about $20 million, according to reports. 280 North has been around for two years and it is known for a programming framework known as Cappuccino. This supposedly makes it easier to create rich web applications and Motorola will be using this…
If you want to be like Shia LaBeouf in Wall Street 2 (let’s face it, you do), then you’re going to need to be able to keep track of your stocks on the go. Google is trying to help with this problem and it has just introduced a sleek mobile web version of Google Finance…