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We told you guys yesterday about Microsoft’s Android bashing campaign where they offered shiny new Windows Phone 7 devices to disgruntled Android users and now Nokia is once again, doing some bad mouthing of their own. According to Niels Munkgaard, Nokia’s Director of Portfolio, Product Marketing and Sales, today’s youth are actually confused by Android [...]

Greetings, Phandroids! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend full of turkey and amazing deals. Now that things are calming down around here, we can finally get back to some good ‘ol Android news. And we have a lot of it. Although we’ve covered all the big stories from throughout the day, there [...]

If you needed any more indication that Nokia is shaking in their boots thanks to the recent news of Google’s planned merger with Motorola Mobility, look no further than Stephen Elop’s statement today while speaking at a seminar in Helinski. Seems Mr. Elop isn’t all too happy about the recent news and was nice enough [...]

Another day, another story. These things can pile up on you but that’s why we, at Phandroid, created the Android Overload. This is the place where you can continue to get your Android fix on all the stories that didn’t quite make it onto our homepage. While I can’t guarantee you’ll want to read up [...]

Great, now Apple’s going to be more ruthless than ever in prosecuting Samsung for likeness and patent infringement. Bloomberg is reporting that Samsung sold an estimated 18-21 million smartphone units in Q2. This figure would mean they have surpassed Nokia, who sits at 16.7 million, in Q2 sales. What’s more interesting is that they may [...]

Well, what do we have here? An image of a Nokia N9 running Android? This image is said to be of a real Nokia prototype actually running Android 2.3, and not just a shoddy port of it. The image comes from the guy who leaked the Nokia SeaRay images you may have seen a while [...]

We’ve just been informed that as Nokia shopped their hardware to the two premium third-party smartphone OS providers in the United States, Google took initiative and asked them to join powers. The end result? Well, you already know – Microsoft won. Schmidt said Google expressed disappointment when they made that choice. And it wasn’t exactly [...]

Aaron visited the SF Bay Area, so he and Noah grabbed two GPS-enabled smartphones and hopped in the hybrid for a day of cheesy tourist stuff. What better venue for a Navigation Dogfight between Android’s Google Navigation and Nokia’s Ovi Maps? Forums: forums.phonedog.com Win Free Phones www.phonedog.com More Videos: www.phonedog.com Video Rating: 0 / 5

Recent stirrings within Nokia led us to wonder last week if Nokia might be considering shifting its focus away from their own mobile platform and towards manufacturing hardware running operating systems developed by outside partners. Obviously, we were referring to the possibility of Android ending up on Nokia manufactured handsets, but new rumors are suggesting [...]

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