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Vonage is trying to make it easier to speak with your Facebook friends on the go and its new iPhone and Android app enables free VoIP calling to your contacts on the world’s largest social network. This isn’t the company’s first mobile VoIP app, but the Vonage Mobile for Facebook app focuses on connecting you…
Wind Mobile has just announced their first Android handset, the Huawei U8100. It’s not the HTC Magic, but it’s a start. For $160, you get a 2.8″ QVGA touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3G, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, and Android 2.1. Not a bad deal at all. It’s high time Wind offered something with Android, as its popularity…
Is it any surprise to anyone that Android is very quickly dominating the U.S. smartphone market? The Apple iPhone is just one phone on one carrier, so it’s not shocking that it’s being toppled by Android. And RIM, well, despite having several handsets on every major carrier (and some smaller ones, too), just isn’t looking…
Facebook for Android has finally been updated, and it now seems easier to navigate and much more pleasant to use. From the user interface changes to some of the new features added, Facebook for Android really needed this. I used to guage the quality of Android apps versus iPhone apps based on ones like this–apps…
The HTC Vanguard, which has also been going under the names “G1 Blaze“, “Vision”, and now more recently “Glacier” has been benchmarked prior to going live on the T-Mobile HSPA+ network and it’s quite the speed demon. When compared to the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S, two of the fastest mobile phones on the…
The LG Ally marks the introduction of the Korean smarphone maker’s first Android device available in the US, and just one of the many devices in their Android invasion. The Ally sports a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen, 3.2-megapixel camera with LED flash, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and is powered by Google’s Android 2.1 OS. LG…
Look out Apple because Motorola is reportedly prepping a 10-inch Android tablet which will go head-to-head with the iPad. This isn’t the first we’ve heard of an Android tablet but the latest rumors indicate the Motorola Android device will one-up the iPad by including television service from Verizon FiOS. This is all rumored, mind you,…
It looks like the Motorola Droid 2 may be set to launch with Verizon on August 12th, with the official announcement coming just two days prior. Coming from a leaked internal document from possible the worst photo ever, things are starting to fall into place, and the successor to the original Motorola Android phone may…
It’s here folks – the official Android 2.2 Froyo update has been leaked for the Motorola Droid, and we’ve got the instructions on how to manually install it! As expected, Verizon is rolling out the Android update to their original Motorola Android phone this week, but we know waiting for an OTA update can be…
Android 2.1 (Eclair) is gaining more and more ground as the weeks go by. This time around, it has managed to grab a total of 59.7% of all active devices, up from 55.5%, in just a few weeks. It looks like Google is slowing seeing their mobile OS ecosystem becoming more and more consistent as…