Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
Samsung has been really pushing their Galaxy S line as hard as they can so you get one of the Super AMOLED-equipped Android smartphones in your hands. The most anticipated of said line is definitely the Sprint Epic 4G, which will be launching next week. We now have a new TV ad for the Samsung…
If you’ve been rocking Android 2.2, otherwise known as “Froyo,” on your Motorola Droid but have been wondering where the heck Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is, you’ll be happy to know that Verizon should be pushing out a software update tomorrow (August 24) which will enable your Droid to play nice with Flash content on…
Adobe Flash 10.1 Player is here for the Android platform, but even though it’s out of beta only the Nexus One with Android 2.2 Froyo is officially supported. That all changes today, as now the official Flash Player app can be installed on any Android phone that’s running 2.2 (Froyo). The Flash Player 10.1 application…
Remember when Google rolled out an Android Market Server License server in order to make it difficult for pirates to swipe apps without paying for them? Well, it looks like that deterrent is very simple to crack. The cool folks at Android Police have put together a demonstration video (at the bottom of the post)…
Have you ever heard the unbelievably fast clicking and clacking of smartphone keyboards inside of a Journeys or during the trailers before a Twilight movie? If you thought teens were fast at texting, you should meet Melissa Thompson, a 27-year-old British woman who just smashed the Guinness World Record for the fastest text message ever.…
Toshiba doesn’t want to be left out of the Android tablet tsunami that should be approaching any time now, and they’re prepping the SmartPad to help buoy the computer maker’s tablet-game. As it stands, we’re just wading in the water with the Streak and that other, unmentionable Android tablet. But, with an Android tablet either…
As Google continues its rise to smartphone platform domination with Android, being available on over 20 handsets with every major carrier, the problem with its openness has become evident: if you leave your platform wide open, you’re leaving it open to bloatware and crapware from the carriers. Unlike Apple, who convinced AT&T not to brand…
One of the good things about the impending flood of Android tablets – like the Allgo Stamp tablet that you see above – is that they will drastically vary in price ranges. We’ve seen tablets ranging from $35 to $500, and while we’ll likely see hardware that tops $500, it’s clear that there will likely…
Remember that hot Samsung Galaxy Tab we told you about a few months ago? The one sporting Android? Yeah, that’s the one. It looks like it’s already out in the wild for testing, and it has been spotted in a land down under. That’s right, the TouchWiz packing, Android tablet is already floating about, which…
Verizon’s joint tablet offering with Google may include a multitouch display from N-Trig, a highly-regarded Israeli company known for producing top-notch TabletPC displays. N-Trig has produced two- and four-fingered multitouch displays for HP, Dell, and Lenovo. While N-Trig is focused on Windows 7, Lenny Engelhardt, VP of Business Development, has hinted that the company is…