Gmail Creator: ‘Chrome OS has no purpose that isn’t better served by Android’
A lot of people are thinking it, but former Google employee, Gmail creator, and FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit has come right out and said it. …
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Video of Android 2.3 running on Motorola DROID X emerges, less BLURry [Updated]
Well what do we have here? It looks like a video of Verizon’s Motorola DROID X running an early alpha build of Google’s latest mobile OS …
Android Market update begins rolling out
Google announced Monday that an update to the Android Market has started rolling out to devices. On its Android Market Facebook page, Google stated that …
Google Nexus S giveaway!
Hey, hey, hey! You thought we were going to let the latest (and arguable best) Android handset slip away from your potential grasp? Not a …
Nokia-owned Navteq acquires Trapster
Navteq, a mapping and navigation solutions company owned by Nokia, has acquired California-based Trapster according to a Reuters report. The somewhat controversial move suggests that …
Images of Motorola’s Verizon-branded 10-inch tablet surface
After Andy Rubin, Google’s VP of Engineering, showed off a new Motorola tablet last week, information about the unreleased device has slowly started to bubble …
Rovio introduces ‘Bad Piggy Bank’ in-app mobile payment solution for Android
At a streamed press conference Friday, Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka announced the creation of a new mobile payment system dubbed Bad Piggy Bank. Rovio is …
AT&T Dell Streak Froyo update pushed back to next year
Dell confirmed on Thursday evening that users of its Dell Streak tablet who purchased the device through AT&T will have to wait until next year …
Best Buy posts Nexus S FAQ section
So you want to pick yourself up a Nexus S and live the pure Google life. You probably have questions, no? Recently, Best Buy Mobile …
Image of Android 3.0 on Motorola Tablet surfaces in Taiwan?
Several days ago, we saw Google’s Andy Rubin pawing an unreleased Motorola tablet running Android 3.0… and we liked it. Now, to further whet your appetite, a …
Android dominates Verizon smartphone sales; BlackBerry tanks
Investment research firm ITG has been investigating the sales figures from Verizon Wireless and it has come up with a pretty interesting find: the vast majority of …
Google Nexus S hands-on
The nice folks in Mountain View, CA were kind enough to shoot us over a Google Nexus S, and we finally have it in our …
Motorola DEFY units plagued by defective speakers
The Motorola DEFY might be rugged enough to withstand a long drop, a dust storm and even a monsoon, but it looks as though countless …
Google updates Gmail Android app; priority inbox, improved compose, in-line replies
Today, Google released an update to its Gmail Android application that offers several bug fixes, improvements, and feature additions. Most notably, the new bits add enhanced priority …
Andy Rubin: over 300,000 Android phones are being activated every day
Google’s VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin, utilized the social-network Twitter to drop some knowledge on the world. Mr. Rubin notes that his company’s mobile operating …
Android phones are biggest bandwidth hogs
A study conducted recently by network technology firm Arieso showed that Android users move more data over cellular networks than any other group of smartphone …
U.S. Cellular launching LG Optimus U on December 13th
Earlier today, U.S. Cellular announced that it would begin carrying LG’s Optimus U smartphone starting on December 13th. The device, which runs Android 2.2, has …
New HTC Knight images suggest imminent release
An excited HTCPedia Shop just emailed us several times to show off a handful of new HTC Knight images it received from one of its …
Video chat icons, PlayStation-like gaming calls found in Android 2.3 SDK
Over the past 24-hours, electronic archeologists — of sorts — have been sifting through the Android 2.3 SDK looking for little nuggets of information that could …
New Google Maps coming ‘in a matter of days’; adds offline mode, vector-based map drawing
Yesterday, at the AllThingsD conference, Google’s Andy Rubin demoed a new, improved version of Google Maps that is due to hit Android devices “in a …
Google’s Andy Rubin shows off Motorola tablet prototype running Android 3.0
If you happened to catch Andy Rubin’s talk at the D:Dive Into Mobile event last night, you undoubtedly noticed his demo of an unreleased version …
Google pushes Android Gingerbread 2.3 to Nexus One handsets?
If you’re feeling a little down now that the official successor to the Google Nexus One, the Nexus S, has been announced, don’t feel too …
Google publishes Android 2.3 SDK for developers, details improvements
When it rains it pours in Android-land! Earlier this morning, Google published an Android 2.3 video for developers. While the video focuses mainly on development, …
Google taking Gingerbread out of the oven today? Android 2.3 release due?
Why not start off the week with an unconfirmed and tantalizing Android rumor, right? Thanks to one piece of known information, and one slightly more …
Motorola DROID Pro now $49 from Best Buy Mobile
‘Tis the season, we suppose. Motorola’s latest, and most enterprise-focused DROID device has now dropped to the very appealing price of only $49.99 with new …
New PlayStation Phone videos show PlayStation app
New videos of the still unannounced Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone emerged Friday, giving us our best look yet at the upcoming gaming phone. Codenamed Zeus, …
Google markets Angry Birds as AdMob success story, soon to net Rovio $1 million per month
Google’s mobile AdMob team has posted a YouTube video touting the advertising success of Rovio’s wildly popular mobile game, Angry Birds. In the clip, Peter Vesterbacka, …
Gartner names Samsung top Android provider in States, 3M Galaxy S handsets shipped in U.S.
Samsung has just issued a press release pertaining to kudos it recently received from analytics firm Gartner. Gartner has named Samsung the top Android provider in the …
Samsung Galaxy Tab sales top 1 million units
Less than two months after the Galaxy Tab first became available, Samsung announced that global sales of its Android tablet have surpassed the 1 million …
HTC VP says Windows Phone 7 sales look good; currently evaluating tablet market
A report from DigiTimes Thursday morning contains a few interesting tidbits from a talkative HTC executive. Jack Tong, vice president of HTC Asia, purportedly discussed …
