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OS stability has always been a big concern when choosing which device you’re going to upgrade to. When it comes to the battle between Android and iOS, Apple fanboys would have you believe that their mobile OS is a smooth and steady as an ocean liner, but as history has taught us, some titans — [...]

We’ve been hearing that NVIDIA had a nice surprise in store for us this coming CES and, well, Kevin was on hand at the event to experience what that surprise was first hand. The big announcement? ASUS’s Transformer Prime is now officially the world’s first Ice Cream Sandwich tablet as they are pushing out the [...]

What a shocker. AT&T’s soon-to-be-launched LTE network won’t be compatible with Verizon’s stable of 4G handsets, confirmed Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney to PCMag. The two carriers might have chosen the same next-gen network technology, but a difference in frequencies will insure that devices are not transferable from carrier to carrier. Verizon has opted to use [...]

Just what could the Google Nexus team have in store for us today? A tweet going out to their official account about an hour ago teases a surprise is in store. We know the Nexus S 4G is coming to Sprint on May 8th, so we doubt the news relates to that particular announcement. Could [...]

As seems to be the case more often than not, if you want OS updates for your Android handset, you may be better served turning to the development community if you are the risky type that likes tinkering around with your phone. This time a band of ROM-smiths over at ModMyMobile have built up an [...]

This is an amazing trick on Google. Follow the simple instructions in the video and see a secret ‘meet android’ animation!

Back in February, we reported that Google and their partners were shipping 60,000 devices per day. If anyone was wondering if they’ve slowed down and that number has decreased since then: it hasn’t. In fact, even more phones are being shipped now than they were back then, and no one sees the trend dissolving any [...]

The concept that Google offers revenue sharing to carriers who have Google Apps pre-installed on their Android Phones has recently been brought to light by PaidContent.org and created quite the fuss over the interwebz. Why? I’m not quite sure. For some reason the move is being explained as if its some sort of sneaky, undermining [...]

I would still file this one under the very wishful thinking category, but there has been some recent rumors that a second Nexus One will be available. And in some hope-to-be-true news for AT&T users, that second Nexus One will come packing support for AT&T

It should really come as no surprise to anyone that Motorola is reportedly buying advertising time for the 2010 Super Bowl, given the gigantic TV push of late. And it’s a pretty good guess we’ll see more of the Droid, even though the content of the ad is not yet known. Stay tuned on Feb. [...]