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Motorola Droid Reviewed: “You’re Going To Love It”

Boy Genius came away with a great first impression of the Motorola Droid, but their expanded review of a pre-release version of the handset reveals more about why it might have the right stuff to take on the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-motorola-droid-first-impressions-the-android-5384796 We already knew that they loved the build quality, but in this in-depth review we…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Verizon’s Android Lineup Gets an Addition With HTC Sense…Yahoo Starts News Blog, Contributes to Death of Legitimate Journalism…Vuzix New Video Glasses Look Like Oakleys, Not as Hip as Wayfarers…AOL Hints at Some Mysterious Surprise, I’m Surprised AOL Still Exists… Remember when Verizon had the best network and the worst phones? Actually, you don’t have to…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Female Android Can Only Be Activated By Sex Power [NSFW]

A super-advanced female android is almost ready to awaken: she just needs a flesh-and-blood woman to have sex near her, so she can absorb the female energy. Or something. Luckily, her dorky brother android gets laid nearby, in this clip. 1982’s Android is a truly wretched movie, but it does have some hliarious android-sex-related scenes.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Motorola Droid Unexpectedly Appears on Motorola’s Site Ahead of Schedule

Motorola is set to officially announce the Droid for Verizon on October 28th, but it popped up on Moto’s official site with full specs and more detail than we’ve seen so far. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-hosting-droid-event-on-october-28-5387081 This leak (or whatever it is) confirms a lot of things we already knew: The Droid will be packing Android 2.0 (Eclair),…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Lala iPhone App And Its 10-Cent Songs Might Be Reality By Year End

We heard of Lala’s iPhone app a year ago, but now, along with their connection to Google’s music service, we’re hearing that the app is going through the approval process with hopes of availability by year end. https://gizmodo.com/lala-unveils-iphone-app-unusual-10-cent-song-sales-5066225 Songs are a mere ten pennies through Lala because they would be streamed to your phone, but…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

HTC Spills the Hero’s Guts (And By Guts, I Mean Kernel Source Code)

HTC’s posted a nice fat package of code on their developer portal, labeled “HTC Hero Kernel Source Code.” This isn’t nearly as tantalizing as it sounds, but it’s pu-ret-ay exciting nonetheless. Here’s why: The Hero’s kernel is the bottommost part of its software; it’s the part that manages basic functions like memory allocation, device drivers…

Tech News John Herrman

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Microsoft Takes Aim at App Store‘s Useless Fluff…Monster Cable‘s Miles Davis Headphones Cost a Month’s Rent…Baseless Analyst Speculation Over Google Hardware Makes Me Furious…New Partnership May Mean Cheaper Ebook Readers… Microsoft’s new “Inside the Apps Lab” video takes the App Store to task for its boatloads of useless apps—a valid point, to be sure, but…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Motorola Droid Probably Going on Sale November 9th

According to a postcard that Verizon is mailing around, the Motorola Droid (the first phone with Android 2.0) is probably going announced on October 28th before going on sale November 9th (or November 2009, depending how you read the card). But it’s one of those teaser things so we can’t say that’s the plan for…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Leaked Video: Dell’s Streak MID with Android 2.0

We heard Dell was developing a couple of Android prototypes, the first being its Android phone. Is this mini-tablet with 5-inch touchscreen, 3G and Wi-Fi the second? Video, pics, and a size comparison after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/dell-builds-prototype-android-and-windows-mobile-phones-5142507 This apparent engineering sample was leaked by Vietnamese site, Tinhte.com, and appears fairly legit. It suggests the Streak…

Tech News Danny Allen

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Motorola Scares the Crap Out of Children, Pets…Meteor Shower Visible in Just a Few Hours…Drawn Models Wearing Novelty Earbuds Look Appropriately Sad…Disney Tries to Curtail Piracy With Universal Download Code… Motorola sent out a teaser for their upcoming Verizon Android phone, the Droid, and it uses Verizon’s new tagline, “In a world of doesn’t, Droid…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Motorola Calgary Is Verizon’s Other Android Phone: Cheap and Blur(r)y

Motorola’s other Android phone for Verizon ain’t no Droid, but it’s gonna be cheaper (targeted at fickle teenagers) and run Motorola’s Blur interface from the Cliq. It’s also a QWERTY slider, with a 3MP camera and oh yes, Wi-Fi. [BGR] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-seen-booting-up-and-running-android-2-0-5383905

Tech News Matt Buchanan

enTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous

Have you ever wondered how a bunch of people come up with the same brilliant idea at the same time? Like an ereader with two screens? Half of the enTourage eDGE is an e-Ink reader. The other’s an Android tablet. It’s an ugly little mutant, like a Courier screwed an EeePC and Kindle. The e-Ink…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Highs and Lows of Installing Android on a UMPC

Those Android-powered tablets from Archos are pretty neat, but if you’ve got a UMPC (like Samsung’s Q1UP) lying around, you can try Android thanks to the Android-x86 project. The catch: despite great performance, there are still a few major limitations. The good news is that you can run Android from a USB drive or Live…

Tech News Danny Allen

Apple: “People Are Still Just Trying to Catch Up With the First iPhone”

Surprisingly the one real moment of shiitake in the Apple earnings call was prodded by an analyst who asked Apple COO Tim Cook what he thought about iPhone wannabes “like Android.” Tim Cook flings some poo at everybody else: https://gizmodo.com/apple-crushes-recession-by-selling-more-macs-and-iphone-5385183 “Frankly, I think people are still just trying to catch up with the first iPhone…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Verizon Motorola Droid First Impressions: “The Android Device to Beat”

Well this explains those Android 2.0 shots, and the Droid boot-up video that Boy Genius Report ran last week. They’ve scored a hands-on with a near-final production Droid, and say it’s the most impressive handset they’ve used since the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/android-2-0-first-look-fresh-face-sick-speed-5383485 That’s some high praise right there. Apparently it’s slightly thicker than the iPhone 3GS,…

Tech News Danny Allen

Asus Android Phone Landing Before 2010, Honest

I want to believe Asustek Computer chairman Jonney Shih when he says his company’s Android phone will arrive “this year,” because the more people use Android handsets, the more hardware options we’ll have, the better the software gets, the more vibrant the App Market will become. Plus, I crave balance: the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 was…

Tech News John Herrman

Mystery HTC Android Phone Appears, Discloses Nothing

An HTC Android phone popped up today, offering few clues—aside from a few hastily snapped pics—about what it’s called, what it does, or what it wants. Touch sensitive menu keys? Check. And there’s our pal Android, and a camera of indeterminable mega pixelage. [The Unlockr via BGR]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Verizon Levels Guns At Apple, Not AT&T, With Droid Phone Blitz

This 30-second Droid spot started airing last night during the ALCS. Dan may not like it, but even so there’s no denying that Verizon, in the words of Matt Buchanan, went totally balls in with an Android phone. https://gizmodo.com/ii-ihate-iverizons-inew-imarketing-icampaign-5384013 An Android 2.0 Motorola phone, to be precise, which we’ll officially get to see sometime in…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Xperia X3 Might be Hiding Snapdragon Under Its Good Looks

Let’s hope this Android/Snapdragon pairing becomes a trend. Along with a live pic of the X3/Rachel in the wild comes a rumor that the X3 will join the Acer Liquid in the Snapdragon club. https://gizmodo.com/acer-liquid-finally-gives-android-the-snapdragon-it-des-5381384 As if the last round of specs weren’t enough to get you excited, now it’s looking like that 8 MP…

Tech News Chris Jacob

Motorola Droid Seen Booting Up and Running Android 2.0

Assuming it’s real, this teaser video confirms a few things about the Moto Droid: that Droid is indeed the name, and that it will run Android 2.0. Not much to see here, but apparently there’s “more coming soon.” [BGR] https://gizmodo.com/android-2-0-first-look-fresh-face-sick-speed-5383485

Tech News Chris Jacob

Motorola Droid Reviewed: “You’re Going To Love It”

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Female Android Can Only Be Activated By Sex Power [NSFW]

Motorola Droid Unexpectedly Appears on Motorola’s Site Ahead of Schedule

Lala iPhone App And Its 10-Cent Songs Might Be Reality By Year End

HTC Spills the Hero’s Guts (And By Guts, I Mean Kernel Source Code)

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Motorola Droid Probably Going on Sale November 9th

Leaked Video: Dell’s Streak MID with Android 2.0

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Motorola Calgary Is Verizon’s Other Android Phone: Cheap and Blur(r)y

enTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous

The Highs and Lows of Installing Android on a UMPC

Apple: “People Are Still Just Trying to Catch Up With the First iPhone”

Verizon Motorola Droid First Impressions: “The Android Device to Beat”

Asus Android Phone Landing Before 2010, Honest

Mystery HTC Android Phone Appears, Discloses Nothing

Verizon Levels Guns At Apple, Not AT&T, With Droid Phone Blitz

Xperia X3 Might be Hiding Snapdragon Under Its Good Looks

Motorola Droid Seen Booting Up and Running Android 2.0

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