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Your Motorola Droid Will Update To 2.1 By Tomorrow

You’re hanging on the edge of your seat, just waiting for the Droid 2.1 update to be sent down the chute from Verizon Wireless’ HQ and into your phone. Watched paint never dries, but a Droid update does eventually appear—with Verizon telling us it will be rolled out to all handsets “by the end of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Careful, Amazon: A Kindle 3 iPad Clone Would Be Suicide

Everybody’s talking about Amazon retaliating against the iPad with a multitouch, multimedia, app-heavy Kindle 3. But it’s not as obvious a move as you think. In fact, it’s a bad idea. As I pointed out yesterday, Amazon is going to do well by the iPad—and plenty of other platforms—as long as they keep their software…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Google Removing All Games from South Korea Android Marketplace

There were rumblings last month that South Korea was going to block Android Marketplace because some games hadn’t been reviewed by the Korean Game Rating Board. Oh, yeah, Korea? Well, Google’s gonna just go ahead and exclude all games preemptively. The report, from Yonhap News, quotes a Google Korea spokesperson as saying that the move…

Tech News Brian Barrett

ICD Gemini Comes with Loaded Feature List

There are people out there who are interested in a tablet computer, but refuse to buy the iPad on principle. Well, take a gander at ICD’s Gemini, an 11.2-inch tablet that’s got a damned impressive spec list. With the 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC running the show, this thing should be able to handle 1080p video…

Tech News Adam Frucci

CallTrack Android App Lists All Calls On A Google Calendar

Our brothers at Lifehacker have highlighted a nifty sounding Android app called CallTrack, which shows all your calls on a Google Calendar. Those who claim calls as work expenses would get the most use out of it, but it’d also be interesting to see how many times a month you call your friend—and how few…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

First Android-Based Television, From Sweden’s People of Lava. Wait, Who?

I’d normally be on the fence about the utility of an Android-based television set like Scandinavia (above), but if it’s made by a company called People of Lava it has to be pretty awesome, right? Or at least ridiculous? Fortunately, Scandinavia looks like a little bit of both. Their first Android 1.5-run effort will be…

Tech News Brian Barrett

HTC Incredible Confirmed by Verizon on Twitter

After weeks of speculation over when the HTC Incredible would officially surface, Gearlog spotted Verizon’s VZWOffers Twitter account referencing the “superphone” in a tweet yesterday. Verizon hasn’t revealed any official specs or plans for a release date (nor do they plan to for the time being), but here’s what they did say: “@studentbuddha It’s a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Acer Lets Slip A Dual-Booting Android and Windows Netbook Is Incoming

It’s not official just yet, so don’t go Google Imaging it until we say so. It’ll be a follow-on from the Aspire One D250, and will dualboot both Android and Windows. Acer’s mobile product manager Martino Mombrini let it slip yesterday to Electricpig, saying that the chassis of the D260 dualbook would be redesigned so…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Android Froyo Update 2.2 Leaked (Update: No)

You’ve got two choices: either wait for Google to push Froyo out officially, or download the leaked ROM from some dude named “Steve” today. What’ll it be, Neo? [Steve via The Gadgets] Update: And we’ve fallen for our first April Fools prank of the day.

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How to Manually Update Your Droid to Android 2.1 RIGHT NOW

Android 2.1 is here for Droid. That’s good! But it’s a staggered over-the-air rollout, meaning some of you won’t get it until next week. That’s bad! Fortunately there’s a way to take matters into your own hands. https://gizmodo.com/android-2-1-update-finally-live-for-motorola-droid-5505520 MobileCrunch outlines a game plan for a manual Android 2.1 update on Droid, and it’s surprisingly straightforward:…

Tech News Brian Barrett

DoubleTwist Gives the Android App Market a Desktop Interface

It’s nice to able to search, browse and download mobile apps from your computer as well as your handset. (See: iTunes.) Google doesn’t seem to realize or care about this, so 3rd-party syncing app DoubleTwist picked up their slack. In theory, this is Android’s iTunes: It’s a place where Android users can sift through apps…

Tech News John Herrman

ASUS Preparing One Google Tablet, One Windows

Forbes is reporting in an interview with ASUS’ Chairman Jonney Shih that they’re preparing their “own iPad rivals,” two models which will launch “in the coming months” and run on Google Chrome (or Android) and Windows. ASUS still hasn’t decided between Chrome or Android for their first tablet, but presumably if it’s the former choice…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Try Firefox (Fennec) For Android Right Now

Watching Firefox Mobile (Fennec) has been frustrating. First, it arrives for Nokia tablets. But who uses Nokia tablets? Then, for Windows Mobile, which is dying. Thankfully, Fennec for Android—its only viable platform, for now—is coming along nicely. https://gizmodo.com/mobile-firefox-hits-beta-1-available-for-nokia-n810-5172917 It’s obviously, and literally, not quite up to speed, and it’d be a pain to use as…

Tech News John Herrman

Android 2.1 Update Finally Live for Motorola Droid

After a few weeks of bizarre uncertainty, the Android 2.1 for the Droid is finally trickling out, over the air. It’s a staggered update, so it’ll be around a week before everyone gets it, but here’s what’s in store for your Droid: Via BGR: • Pinch-to-zoom is now available when using the browser, Gallery, and…

Tech News John Herrman

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Dark Side Edition

In today’s Remainders: the Dark Side of the Force. Boingo tries to seduce you with $2 Wi-Fi access; Fake Steve Jobs runs into TV show trouble; College Humor espouses the Galactic Empire State of Mind, and more Boingo A Go Go Boingo, the Wi-Fi meganetwork that you love to hate (but can’t help using, once…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

HTC Desire Review: An Even More Desirable Nexus One

You could say we’ve already reviewed the HTC Desire. After all, it’s essentially a jumped-up Nexus One with a few minor changes, right? Wrong. HTC Sense, Adobe Flash support and an optical trackpad make it a brand new experience. https://gizmodo.com/htc-desire-a-premium-nexus-one-without-the-google-5472642 (Disclaimer: Before moving forward, we should let you know that the Desire is available in…

Reviews Kat Hannaford

How the iPhone Could End Up In Second Place

Here are the US mobile web traffic figures for iPhone OS and Android, getting ready to collide: Android, on its way up; iPhone, on its way down. So when will Android overtake the iPhone? Try next month. AdMob’s Mobile Metrics Report sees a predictable continuation of what we’d seen before from the ad tracking firm—specifically,…

Tech News John Herrman

Google’s Solution to Android Fragmentation: Break It Apart

Android’s problem: There’s a lot of Androids out there! 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1, just to name the major current versions. A problem, ’cause spiffy apps that’ll run on 2.0 won’t run on 1.5, and now everybody’s confused. Google’s solution? To split Android up over the next major versions—Froyo and Gingerbread—carving major features and core…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Month’s Best Android Apps

Android apps keep getting better, and—well let’s just cut to it. You need this month’s apps: better Twitter, neato new ways to search your phone, and a super awesome platform game for diehard Android fans. Updated. To see everything on one page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/months-best-android-apps-5503651/ Other Android News • PayPal Bumping Is Coming to Android…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

The Nexus One’s display continues to be less than meets the eye. Ars’ breakdown reveals that the PenTile subpixel arrangement means that, depending on how you count the pixels, it could have an effective resolution that’s smaller than 800×480. https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-ones-dirty-display-secret-updated-5477320 Nouvoyance’s own diagram of the PenTile subpixel arrangement explains it pretty well: it uses a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Your Motorola Droid Will Update To 2.1 By Tomorrow

Careful, Amazon: A Kindle 3 iPad Clone Would Be Suicide

Google Removing All Games from South Korea Android Marketplace

ICD Gemini Comes with Loaded Feature List

CallTrack Android App Lists All Calls On A Google Calendar

First Android-Based Television, From Sweden’s People of Lava. Wait, Who?

HTC Incredible Confirmed by Verizon on Twitter

Acer Lets Slip A Dual-Booting Android and Windows Netbook Is Incoming

Android Froyo Update 2.2 Leaked (Update: No)

How to Manually Update Your Droid to Android 2.1 RIGHT NOW

DoubleTwist Gives the Android App Market a Desktop Interface

ASUS Preparing One Google Tablet, One Windows

Try Firefox (Fennec) For Android Right Now

Android 2.1 Update Finally Live for Motorola Droid

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Dark Side Edition

HTC Desire Review: An Even More Desirable Nexus One

How the iPhone Could End Up In Second Place

Google’s Solution to Android Fragmentation: Break It Apart

The Month’s Best Android Apps

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

Kash Patel’s Email Account Hacked, Iran-Linked Group Takes Credit

Repair Workers Accidentally Stumble Upon Lost Remains of Legendary ‘Fourth Musketeer’

Dreame Aero Pro Wet Dry Vacuum Mop Drops 20% Shortly After Launch in the Spring Cleaning Sale

Darth Maul’s Legs, Ranked

April Set to Unleash Some Wild Weather Across Parts of the US, Meteorologists Warn

Scientists Create ‘Living Pharmacy’ Implant That Doses 3 Drugs at Once

Dyson Supersonic Nural Hair Dryer Cuts Into Its Premium Price Tag in the Spring Sale, Bid Frequent Salon Visits Goodbye

I Wouldn’t Plan on Wearing Smart Glasses to Court Anytime Soon

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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