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Spotted In a Newspaper Advert: the Unannounced Motorola Droid 2

This must be one of the most leaked phones in the history of tech blogs. Found in a newspaper yesterday, this Verizon advert shows the Droid 2, keyboard splayed and all, with the words “coming soon.” Yes, but when? Just like the Droid X, and the Droid before it, it’s said that the Droid 2…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Leaked Shots of Verizon and HTC’s 1.2 GHz Android World Phone?

AndroidGuys has photos of a 4″ HTC slider set to land on Verizon sometime in 2011. That’s a ways away, but if the speculated 1.2GHz processor and CDMA and GSM compatability are for real, it’s worth getting excited about. The prototype, they say, was sporting a Vodafone SIM card, suggesting it could be an elusive…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s roundup: dogfights, fought; dates, creepily charcted; Osmos, miniaturized; friends, made into zombies; entire songs, recorded on your iPhone; your workout routine, streamlined, and much, much more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-august-6-5606751 Android To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/android-apps-august-6th-5606145 We are so crazy about apps…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Droid X Froyo Update Coming “Early September”

It was a shame that Droid X didn’t launch with Android 2.2, but owners won’t have long to wait for Froyo: a Motorola employee let slip that it’ll be deployed by early September. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-x-subtle-like-an-asteroid-5570931 The statement came in the company’s official message forum, where user Matt explained: Some Droid X users are experiencing an issue…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Symbian: “Hey Google, We Sell 300,000 Phones Every Day”

Symbian has unzipped its trousers and flopped out 100,000 more daily activated phones than what Google showed off the other day. https://gizmodo.com/200-000-android-phones-are-sold-every-day-5605017 The other open-source platform has quoted analyst company Canalys’ records, showing that 300,000 Symbian phones were sold daily in the second quarter of 2010, 50 per cent more than what Eric Schmidt claimed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How You Can Still Buy a Nexus One From Google

It was a sad day last month when Google announced that they would no longer sell the Googlephone, the Nexus One, through their website. But wait! The company’s now offering the Nexus One as a developer phone, unlocked, for $529. https://gizmodo.com/google-receives-last-nexus-one-shipment-5589205 In a post on the Android Developers blog, Tim Bray delivered the good news…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Androids, iPhones Prepped for Battle in Army’s First-Ever App Contest

Unleash the iPhones of war! The Army’s announced the winners of their first-ever mobile phone app development contest. And the general behind the program says some of the applications will be in the field “within a year.” A total of 141 soldiers and Army civilians participated in the contest, called Apps for the Army (A4A),…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Google Returns Personal Data-Collecting Wallpaper App to Android Market

After security company Lookout revealed 1 million people’s personal details were at risk after downloading an Android wallpaper app, Google has done its own investigation and decided Jackeey Wallpaper wasn’t actually causing any harm to users. https://gizmodo.com/over-1m-android-users-details-were-compromised-thanks-t-5599435 The app has been returned to the Android Market, and while we knew last week that the app…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

200,000 Android Phones Are Sold Every Day

Yup, people do love Android: Eric Schmidt‘s claimed that 200,000 Android phones are sold every day, with market tracker NPD stating that 1/3 of all smartphones sold between April – June were Androids—mostly Motorola Droids. [Reuters, Reuters]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Android Gets a Pretty Pretty Facebook App

Rejoice, Facebook users with Android smartphones, because there’s a new Facebook app looks good at last. It also comes with a handful of useful new features: • There’s a notifications bar. • There’s a new photos drawer on the home page, for easy access to photos and videos from your news feed. • Events support.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Square’s Phone Payment Dongles Back On Track for Summer Launch

After delays affected the shipment of their payment-processing dongles, Square is almost ready to press “go” on mobile payments, with the WSJ reporting that it’ll be open to the elbowing-public later this summer. Apparently, their Chinese factory is able to produce 10,000 dongles each day—which is a lot of mobile payments. [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/square-payment-system-beset-with-delays-5567742

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free

Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivating that extensive friends list. Logging into Facebook with the free Vonage Moible For Facebook app will indicate which of your friends…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Leaked HTC Glacier Could Be T-Mobile’s Ultra-Fast Project Emerald Android Phone

Either HTC has signed up T-Mobile for a couple of new handsets, or that Project Emerald HTC Vision/Vanguard/G1 Blaze has another new name: HTC Glacier. It’s appeared in GLBenchmark’s database, with results that that are off the scale. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobiles-teaser-site-could-be-for-android-powered-htc-5598407 Only the CPU has been tested, but according to the leaked GLBenchmark figures discovered by AlienBabelTech.com,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorola and Verizon Working on Android-Based, FiOS-Enabled, Dual-Camera, Ten-Inch TV Tablet?

We’ve heard rumors of Motorola and Verizon partnering up for an Android tablet before, but this one’s rather interesting. According to FT, the two companies are putting together some sort of TV tablet: Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Froyo Update for Motorola Droid Located and Available for Download

Although not being pushed to users yet, snooping Android fans have located the 2.2 upgrade file for Motorola’s Droid on Google’s servers. As this doesn’t have Google’s green light yet, download at your own risk—but it appears legit. [Android Forums via Engadget]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Android 2.2 Updates For The EVO 4G Begin Rolling Out OTA

Woohoo! The promised Android 2.2 updates for the EVO 4G have begun rolling out over-the-air. Anyone spot it yet? [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/android-2-2-will-begin-rolling-out-to-the-evo-4g-on-aug-5600126

Tech News Rosa Golijan

New Smartphone Users Prefer Android, Old Ones Prone to Ditching BlackBerry

The folks at Nielsen have crunched some numbers and noticed that over the past six months new smartphone subscribers were more prone to choosing an Android-based device than an iPhone. But that’s not all that shocking though, is it? According to Nielsen: While the iPhone has been the headline grabber over the last few years…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Android 2.2 Download Now Available For HTC EVO

Android 2.2 is supposed to roll out to the Sprint EVO next week, but it looks like there’s a direct download already available through HTC. Here’s how to get it. Update: A warning from HTC. https://gizmodo.com/android-2-2-will-begin-rolling-out-to-the-evo-4g-on-aug-5600126 First you need to download the update from here. Once done, you should save it to the root of…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s multitouch empire-expanding app round-up: images, kaleidoscope’d on the iPad; news, given the Pulse treatment on Android; iPhone cameras, Photo Booth’d; alarm clocks, beautified; Scrabble, made hexagonal; and helicopters, steered into battle on the iPhone, and much more! https://gizmodo.com/apple-magic-trackpad-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-mac-5598828 iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-roundup-gallery-july-30-5600882 iPad To view these…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Verizon Will Roll Out Android 2.2 To The Original Droid Next Week

We’ve heard some good news from Verizon folks: They’ll push Android 2.2—also known as Froyo—to the original Motorola Droid next week.

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Spotted In a Newspaper Advert: the Unannounced Motorola Droid 2

Leaked Shots of Verizon and HTC’s 1.2 GHz Android World Phone?

This Week’s Best Apps

Droid X Froyo Update Coming “Early September”

Symbian: “Hey Google, We Sell 300,000 Phones Every Day”

How You Can Still Buy a Nexus One From Google

Androids, iPhones Prepped for Battle in Army’s First-Ever App Contest

Google Returns Personal Data-Collecting Wallpaper App to Android Market

200,000 Android Phones Are Sold Every Day

Android Gets a Pretty Pretty Facebook App

Square’s Phone Payment Dongles Back On Track for Summer Launch

Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free

Leaked HTC Glacier Could Be T-Mobile’s Ultra-Fast Project Emerald Android Phone

Motorola and Verizon Working on Android-Based, FiOS-Enabled, Dual-Camera, Ten-Inch TV Tablet?

Froyo Update for Motorola Droid Located and Available for Download

Android 2.2 Updates For The EVO 4G Begin Rolling Out OTA

New Smartphone Users Prefer Android, Old Ones Prone to Ditching BlackBerry

Android 2.2 Download Now Available For HTC EVO

This Week’s Best Apps

Verizon Will Roll Out Android 2.2 To The Original Droid Next Week

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