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2011 was a great year for Android. We saw a gobs of new devices launching with cutting edge dual-core processors, in what seemed like more of an arms race, than an attempt at giving the consumer what they needed. New devices launching, what seemed like, every few weeks on just about every carrier (except Sprint) [...]

We’ll admit it, we didn’t get the point of Sprint ID when they first announced it. It’s grown on us over time, though, and for more reasons than one. For some of Sprint’s ID enabled phones, like the Epic 4G Touch, it can help you say goodbye to TouchWiz. If for some reason you don’t [...]

Ever since an FCC filing cropped up back in February, word of an AT&T-bound Nexus S has been circulating. Abundant evidence has appeared since then, right down to a white Nexus S with AT&T radios showing up at an online retailer, subsequently making its video debut. Plans have been all but confirmed with the very [...]

Ever wanted to get android on your iPhone? Now you can! **Also, with the new openiboot, you can access it without recovery mode anymore! Just turn it off and turn it back on and vulva!** **NOTE You CANNOT Be Jailbroken With Spirit (It Causes Issues With OpeniBoot) ** Steps: 1. Download iPhodroid from the link [...]

Well, looks like one of the social networking monkeys over at AT&T just let a biggie slip and got yelled at for it. In response to a question regarding the rumored Motorlola Olympus phone – which has a Tegra 2 processor and which Gizmodo’s lucky source says is an absolute iPhone killer – someone from [...]

PayPal is about to announce Android Market integration for app purchases, in fact they already did. Someone must have had an itchy trigger finger when they threw up the blog post announcing the new payment method, boasting the ability to do business through PayPal on the markets of the big three mobile platforms. That post [...]

We were all waiting for it, even though it seemed like Motorola might not have any plans to release the Droid 2 outside of the United States. But thanks to an error on someone at Moto’s part, for but a brief moment an official promotional video for the Motorola Milestone 2 found its way to [...]

When it was discovered that Facebook’s updated app for Android contained a bit of code that prevented your phone from fully entering standby and therefor having an adverse effect on battery life, we didn’t think the fix would come so soon. But lo and behold, after acknowledging the issue they have released a new version [...]

Let’s face it: no one was all the impressed with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. No multi-touch, Android 1.6, and interface issues all seemed to add up to an all around sad Android from SE. Then again, apparently no one in Japan reads Android blogs, as Barclay Capital is reporting that the X10 — known [...]

The black variant of the HTC Desire for Orange was announced seemingly ages ago as an exclusive for the carrier. For the patient or those unable to pick up the standard brown version, the black Desire can now be ordered from the Orange website and should be shipping immediately…er, it was. It is now listed [...]