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Casual games are all the rage these days thanks to the huge success that is the Nintendo Wii as well as mobile devices like the iPhone. One such company, Brass Monkey, wants to take advantage of this trend by transforming your smartphone into a veritable Wii controller. Recently gaining $ 750,000 in funding, Brass Monkey [...]

The National Transportation Safety Board made a rather extreme recommendation today when they reached out to ALL US states to ban all non-driving related use of “personal electronic devices” even of the hands-free variety. Although they were pretty specific about wanting to ban the use of phone calls, text messages and updating Facebook while on [...]

When it comes to your smartphone, some people may find it worthwhile to sacrifice specs/features for a lower monthly bill on a cheaper carrier. If you’re sick of paying upwards to $ 100 to keep your Android powered device connected then you may want to take a look at Republic Wireless. These guys are looking [...]

As promised, Minecraft Pocket Edition has left its period of Xperia Play exclusivity and launched in the Android Market for all handsets capable of supporting the game. Though Sony Ericsson no longer holds exclusive dibs, they are still issuing a challenge to the Minecraft community to build comedian and Xperia Play spokeswoman Kristen Schaal an [...]

Greetings, Android phone fans. It’s time for another wonderful episode of the Android Overload. This is the place all good stories go before they die. It’s more like a second chance for the stories that didn’t get a chance to make it onto our front page throughout the day. By all means, it doesn’t mean [...]

AT&T has just announced a new smartphone that they’re hoping will cure your “smartphone envy” as your friends, family, coworkers and peers wave their big fancy phones around you. It’s being called the “Huawei Impulse 4G” and will be a 3.8 inch device that, wait for it, apparently won’t feature any custom UI (now that’s [...]

The Android wrist computer/wristwatch isn’t a new concept — the Sony Ericsson LiveView comes to mind, but its dependency on an connecting to an Android handset to realize its true functionality eliminated a large part of its usefulness. What good is running with the LiveView strapped to your body if you still need to carry [...]

In the ongoing legal between Google and Sun Microsystems-owned Oracle, the latter has striked back. Their latest antics see them sticking to their guns on the eight or so patents infringed upon by Google, and even offering up a rough figure for Google to pay in a potential settlement or decision by the courts. That [...]

Greetings, Phandroids! It is I, Chris Chavez. After a week of running around the Electronics Entertainment Expo and subsequently trying to recover from the post event plague that gripped my body shortly thereafter, I am officially back. Today, we’ve posted a fair share of exciting news to our front page but for everything else, there [...]

Sprint is launching a new contest in promotion of the upcoming HTC EVO 3D The carrier is asking you to “Be a 3D Star” by uploading a picture of yourself to be superimposed over Present/Tense, a 3D short starring the latest EVO. Through June 12th, Sprint Premier customers can enter for the chance to win [...]