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Google has extended their offer free domestic calls within the US and Canada through 2012, a kind holiday gesture to Google Voice users in North America (excluding Mexico). The catch? You will have to place the calls via Google Voice and Gmail, excluding Android users wishing to make calls from their mobile device. It’s still [...]

During a press preview in New York for the upcoming 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (of which Phandroid will be covering) a company called HzO showed off their water-proofing technology that could soon be making its way to a smartphone near you. The way it works is different than you might think. Rather than keep water [...]

It’s that time again. Time for another string of Android malware, this time using the popularity of Google+ to fool unsuspecting Android users. The malicious code dubbed “Nickispy.C” was discovered by Trend Micro today and although it uses many of the same services as its previous versions, it learned a few new tricks this time [...]

Last week a series of 1,000 speed tests conducted in New York City by BTIG Research concluded that Verizon’s 4G LTE network outpaced Sprint’s 4G WiMAX. Today, Sprint is calling the results of the study “inaccurate.” The tests found Sprint’s WiMAX consistently delivering speeds of about 1Mbps down and up, while the LTE network of [...]

MetroPCS’s CEO Roger Linquist – at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference today – has just announced plans to launch new LTE smartphones throughout the first half of 2011, and he reassured everyone that at least one of those phones would be Android-enabled (and that specific offering would more than likely be outed in [...]

Guess who’s popped back up in the news? T-Mobile and HTC have had their hands full with outcry from an angry community of developers regarding the T-Mobile G2’s “fail-safe” mechanism for disallowing root. Shortly after the device had been rooted, a “bug” was discovered that reversed the process and returned users’ devices back to their [...]

Most should be familiar with fring for Android, and most should also have heard by now that Skype just released their app for all Android 2.1 and higher devices. So not to be outdone in the world of VoIP, fring has flung back with fringOut, their own low-cost calling service that will be packaged into [...]

Google Voice users have been asking for it, and now Google has delivered. Now, Google Voice will send missed called notifications to either your Voice inbox, your email inbox, or both. This can be set up from the Calls tab in the Voice Settings menu. View full post on Android Mobile News

After many believed Skype updated their Android app (a Verizon Wireless exclusive) to allow voice calls over pure WiFi due to an unclear description, they were faced with rejection: trying to use Skype on a WiFi-only device will still cause your phone to yell at you. The confusion came where Skype listed “Simultaneous WiFi and [...]

The folks behind the NitDroid project are not sleeping when it comes to getting Android (2.2, specifically) up and running on one of Nokia’s latest products: the N900. The last time we saw it, they hadn’t quite optimized the port for performance and there were many connectivity features not working. As you begin to watch [...]