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Get ready, T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide owners, you’ve got an OTA Android update coming you’re way. Starting tomorrow, T-Mobile will be pushing out the update, but don’t get your hopes up for Android 2.2 Froyo coming along for the ride. The update should consist of some nice optimizations and bug fixes for the Slide. While…
The QWERTY-packing Motorola DROID 2 is the next Android handset slated to land at Verizon, and it’s one of the most anticipated smartphones of the year. The side slider has been detailed, benchmarked, spotted as a dummy, videoed, and spotted in the wild. Almost everything that we need to know about this handset, except the…
Rdio is trying to one-up Rhapsody, MOG and mobile music services by slamming some social networking features with its unlimited streaming and downloading of music to smartphones. Like the other music services, Rdio enables users to stream tracks on the desktop or the phone from a catalog of over seven million tracks including the top…
LG is launching a new Android-powered smartphone in its own backyard. The name of the phone is Optimus Z, and yes, we’ve already talked about it briefly. Specs wise, the 11mm-thick (or that’s thin) comes with a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 5-megapixel camera, Android 2.1 (to be upgraded to 2.2), 1350mAh battery, microSD…
If you’ve been kicking yourself for not pulling the trigger on the Android 2.2 Froyo update that was temporarily posted for your Sprint HTC EVO 4G, consider yourself relieved of remorse. We’re getting reports left and right that Sprint has started seeding the Android 2.2 update to EVO 4G units around the country. It’s not…
Android 2.2 Froyo is coming to the original Motorola Droid from Verizon. Oh yeah, we knew that already. Well, Motorola has updated their Android 2.2 (Froyo) timeline for the Droid that now says, “Upgrade to Android 2.2 expected to begin the week of August 2nd.” Well, heck, that’s today! Soon, Droid owners should be able…
The Motorola i1 smartphone is the first Android device for Boost Mobile and it’s one of the most difficult phones for me to review. It packs some decent features like a 5-megapixel camera and push-to-talk capabilities over the iDEN network but it is nowhere near the top shelf of Android where the Motorola Droid X,…
We knew that Samsung has big plans for their Galaxy S phone and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab. We also knew that they intended on releasing a media player of some sort, the YP-MB2, but it wasn’t until now that we’re seeing the thing in the flesh. Or plastic. Surprise surprise, the YP-MB2 looks like…
I definitely needed to hear this bit of news that The Adam tablet computer, from the Indian start-up Notion Ink, may be soon upon us. Maybe. The website has undergone a complete overhaul, and it looks like this bad boy may be rocking a SIM card slot and will be powered by the dual-core NVIDIA…
A new Android handset from Motorola has passed through the FCC and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group bearing the model number MB508 and possibly the handsomest, most rugged name one could give a phone: Sage. This thing has a 3.1″ touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard (likely landscape), runs Android 2.1, and has Wi-Fi, a-GPS, a…