Android News

Greetings, Phandroids. With so much news making its way past our desks, it would be impossible to get to it all. Before we send off the stories that didn’t make the cut into the bottomless abyss of the ocean we put them here, in the Android Overload. It’s here you can turn to fill you [...]

Truth be told, I haven’t visited the Google Store in quite sometime but maybe that’s a good thing. The sheer amount of Android related memorabilia on their site would have my house looking a Google/Android freakshow. Just in time for the holidays, I managed to stumble upon this Android shaped cookie jar hidden in Google’s [...]

Greetings Phandroids! So many stories come our way that it would be impossible to write all of them up. But for those that almost slipped through the cracks, we gathered them here, in the Android Overload. We felt these stories deserved a final once-over, so feel free to take a look around. Find something that [...]

Google launched their “Google Music” cloud service over 5 months ago and although its been been great for consumers — label executives weren’t exactly too fond of the idea. Google Music, in it’s current form, is definitely great for your current music library but if there’s one area where it’s sorely lacking it’s being able [...]

CNN reports that Verizon will be announcing Verizon Apps later today at a Las Vegas Conference. It will be an Android app store exclusive to Verizon customers and the store is expected to be preinstalled on new handsets going forward and offered to existing Android smartphone owners. Details are a tad scarce at the moment, [...]

Preach2k posted these images he found on Howard Forums from a user by the name of ceb unit after he had a brief run in with a Motorola rep today at his local Verizon store. Once again, we have even more pics of the Motorola DROID BIONIC but this time, also captured was the optional [...]

If you own an Android device, you should already be familiar with something that’s we’ve been seeing a lot in Android – app exclusives. With the release of the Xperia Play, we’ve seen certain apps that are supposedly optimized for and can only be found on that specific device. Nvidia may have started off the [...]

When I say the words “app” and “store” together, what is the first thing that comes to mind? If you said a store in which one buys apps, you’re wrong according to Apple. In a recent response to an Amazon counterclaim that Apple has no right to sue over their use of the term “app [...]

If any of you AT&T customers were worried that the carrier won’t take kindly to the Amazon App Store, guess again. Ma Bell has gone as far as creating an entirely new site just for those who want access to the newly-launched alternate market on their Android devices. Amazon’s App Store was launched this week, [...]

A while back we heard that HTC wanted to take a cue from the book of Apple and other manufacturer’s by opening their own chain of retail stores geared specifically towards peddling their line of phones and mobile devices. Today marks the opening of their first concept store in Europe, as HTC welcomed a line [...]