Android News

Last month we got word of an SMS trojan making its way out of Russia and on to Android handsets, and it turns out it isn’t the only one. A second virus has been located fitting the same M.O. as the first, this time going by the package name of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.b as opposed to the original [...]

A new player is getting into the wireless game in the Great White North. Videotron, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media Company, is launching a new network for the people of Quebec, and to make sure the carrier starts things off in style two Android handsets have come along for the ride. The Motorola XT720 (which [...]

Have you heard about Phandroid LIVE in Baltimore? If not you should check out the details cause it’s going to be awesome. We’re going to be giving away a bunch of Phandroid gear amongst other things, but we realized- “hey, what the heck, why don’t we have Phandroid T-SHIRTS?” Now we’re giving YOU the chance [...]

We aren’t surprised that this thing has been rooted so quickly – all of the other Galaxy S phones received day 1 (or day 2) roots as well – but the brief leg work has been done and a root method for the Samsung Fascinate is ready to go. This root method is actually the [...]

The Samsung Fascinate hasn’t been in the hands of the general public for more than a day, but Verizon is already hard at work compiling a ‘known issues’ list reporting various bugs and glitches that will need to be sorted out with future OTA updates. And the list is already quite long. Some of the [...]

Those folks over at TweetDeck sure move fast. It’s only been nearly a month since the beta was announced and already it’s looking to be one of the most fleshed out Twitter clients available after more than just a few big updates. Today’s update brings widgets – three in total –  though I’m not sure [...]

Since 2010 took off, many a hardware manufacturer (mostly the smaller guys) have looked to Android for their tablet offerings. We’ve seen many highly-customized experiences (such as Archos’ offerings, the Dell Streak, and the newly-announced Samsung Galaxy Tab), but other manufacturers are perfectly fine with just slapping Android onto a piece of hardware and selling [...]

The beta is out and your productivity level and social life has gone down just about 95%, but many people have exhausted the generous 15-level version of Angry Birds released into the Android market last week. We want more! Rovio hears you, of course, and they’ve given us a time frame to look forward to. [...]

Yay, research and analytics! Today’s pro-Android projections come from Gartner who just last year predicted Android would be the second-most adopted mobile operating system by 2012. I guess Android did a lot better than they originally expected because they’re now pushing that window up to “by year-end 2010″. According to them, they’ll be beaten only [...]

A launch wouldn’t be a launch without Best Buy getting in on the early pre-order fun. Just a day after T-Mobile officially announced the device would be offered through their own channels for pre-order soon, Best Buy’s stepped in to 1-up them (as they often do any carrier): starting from today, you can pre-order the [...]