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This is “The Moment” For a Samsung Android OLED QWERTY Slider on Sprint

It appears that Samusng has dropped the InstinctQ branding on their upcoming Android-powered QWERTY slider to something that sounds like a lyric in a cheesy ballad. At any rate, complete details about the upcoming Sprint phone have been revealed. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-android-instinctq-for-sprint-spotted-in-leaked-5341134 Features include a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2 megapixel camera and an…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Dell Bringing Mini 3i Android Smartphone to US?

We knew Dell’s Mini 3i Android-based smartphone would be coming to China, but now Crunchgear hears that Dell might bring an altered version of the device Stateside. https://gizmodo.com/dells-android-smartphone-new-photos-and-specs-5337228 The Chinese version of the phone was simply not fit for the US market, lacking 3G and Wi-Fi, but according to a tipster, Dell will change some…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Verizon’s HTC and Motorola Android Phones Caught Red Handed

Verizon said this morning that it will drop two Android phones “within the next few weeks.” And all signs point to these being them. That’s likely an HTC Hero on the left and the Motorola Sholes on the right. Updated https://gizmodo.com/verizon-promises-android-phones-with-google-voice-suppo-5375244 So nice of Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam to keep…

Tech News Joanna Stern

Verizon Promises Android Phones with Google Voice Support

Verizon has some of the crappiest phones available, so there’s been no shortage of leaks about it getting an Android phone. Now the Verizon/Google love-affair is official: Big Red will introduce two Android-based handsets “within the next few weeks”. https://gizmodo.com/why-verizon-customers-cant-have-nice-things-5361903 Verizon plans to support Google Voice, saying you either have an open device or you…

Tech News Danny Allen

Verizon Motorola Sholes With Android Will Be On Sale By The Holidays

‘Tis going to be the season of new cell phones. Boy Genius Report has gotten a hold of holiday inventory lists from Target and Sam’s Club. The details are juicy and include the rumored Verizon Motorola Sholes Android phone. You can check out the raw material in the leaked documents below, but here is the…

Tech News Joanna Stern

Samsung Behold II Hits T-Mobile, Pairs Android with TouchWiz Interface

Wow, another T-Mobile Android phone (Sprint’s HTC Hero is the only Android-handset on another carrier). The Behold II has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, and TouchWiz UI (now with 3D cube menu for quick access to multimedia). https://gizmodo.com/sprint-hero-review-faster-stronger-uglier-5361245 Those multimedia features include music, photos, videos, the Web, YouTube, and Amazon MP3 for music downloads.…

Tech News Danny Allen

Flash 10.1: Full Flash for Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. and it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? Nothing for the iPhone. “Still a closed device and not much progress there,” Adobe told…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Best Buy Employee Holiday Guide Pseudo-Reveals BlackBerry, Nokia, Android Launches

Today’s Best Buy leak takes the form of a who’s who of holiday hardware releases for the retailer’s mobile department: Nokia Booklet netbook – October 25th launch (AT&T activation) Sprint HTC Hero – October 11th Sprint Palm Pixi – launch date TBD Verizon Storm II – launch date TBD Verizon Android device – launch date…

Tech News Jack Loftus

More Details Surface on Motorola’s Verizon Android Phone

Android Central has more details on Motorola’s Android phone for Verizon which may or may not have a 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 3.7-inch 854×480 screen, 5-megapixel camera, video recording and Android 2.0 Eclair (w/ native flash support!). https://gizmodo.com/motorolas-verizon-android-phone-looks-like-we-thought-5327291 The phone has floated around under the names “Sholes,” “Tao” and “Droid,” the last of…

Tech News Adrian Covert

T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now

Alas, not for everyone: Having sent the update to Ion developer phones just a few days ago, T-Mobile is commencing a gradual rollout that should finish up in the next few days. Here’s what you’ll get, with this Donut: • Universal-ish search with an updated “Quick Search” box • Much fast camera performance, with a…

Tech News John Herrman

ODROID Gaming Handheld Runs Android; Now Available for Pre-Order

No, it’s not a new Wonderswan, it’s the ODROID. This curious little gaming handheld has a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen, Android 1.5 OS, 512MB of RAM, and the same 833MHz Samsung CPU as the iPhone 3GS. A developer version is now up for pre-order, and includes a charger cable, serial console debugging board, and batteries. It…

Tech News Danny Allen

Motorola Cliq Android Phone Ships November 2 For $200 on T-Mobile

You will be able to buy the Motorola Cliq, their social networking-focused version of an Android phone, on November 2 for $200. If you pre-order the device from Oct. 19 to Nov. 1, you’ll be guaranteed to receive it first. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-cliq-gallery-and-impressions-5356943 T-Mobile also says that their voice plans start at $30 a month, with the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Cyanogen Custom Android Builds Will Live On, Sans Google Apps

When Google started hurling lawyerisms at the maker of the souped-up, stripped-down Cyanogen custom Android ROMs, the outlook was pretty grim. Luckily for Android hackers, Cyanogen and Google have reached an agreeable, albeit still stupid, compromise. https://gizmodo.com/google-threatens-cyanogen-android-hacker-with-cease-and-5367420 The issue Google takes with CyanogenMod isn’t that it fundamentally changes Android—they’re generally open to that, seeing as…

Tech News John Herrman

Google Threatens Cyanogen Android Hacker With Cease-and-Desist

This is a weird one: Google has just slapped Cyanogen, maker of the biggest and most successful Android ROM mod around, with a cease-and-desist letter. But Google’s reasoning doesn’t make any sense, and we’re wondering what their game is. See, Google’s cease-and-desist specifically states that Cyanogen should stop passing around Google’s closed-source apps like Google…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Free Waze App Turns GPS Navigation Into a Social Cellphone Game

The problem with most turn-by-turn navigation apps for cellphones is that they are outrageously expensive. Not so with Waze. In fact, the app is totally free—and it even turns the driving experience into a fun little game. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-navigation-app-battlemodo-part-ii-the-best-che-5367026 Click to view The video explains the service in detail but, in a nutshell, Waze maps are…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Ustream Video Streaming Android App Out Now

While the Android app store is still far from the gajillion iPhone mark, some software is better on the former because of Apple’s third-party developer limitations. Like the new Ustream for Android, which can broadcast live video to the web. While on the iPhone version you can’t broadcast video straight to the web, the Android…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Archos 5 Android Internet Tablet: Amazon Taking Pre-Orders

The 4.8-inch screen tablet won’t get full Flash support until December-ish, but you can slap down your plastic now if you don’t wanna wait: 160GB ($330), 500GB ($430), 32GB SSD ($380). No word yet on the shipping date. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/archos-5-internet-tablet-hands-on-android-power-but-w-5358355

Tech News Danny Allen

Sprint Hero Review: Faster, Stronger, Uglier

Take the most daring Android phone yet, but make it faster, stronger and better (but blander). You have the Sprint take on the HTC Hero, which happens to be the best Android phone you can buy. https://gizmodo.com/htc-hero-review-ambitious-but-tragically-flawed-5318860 I said the original version of the Hero was “daring” and “ambitious, but tragically flawed.” (Read that review…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Motorola Cliq Review: Most Customizable Android Phone Yet

T3 got an exclusive review on the Motorola Cliq—in Europe, Dext—and they seem quite impressed. They go as far as saying it’s a “new dawn” for Motorola. Here are the basic points: https://gizmodo.com/motorola-cliq-android-smartphone-everything-you-need-t-5356590 The good • Motoblur: Motorola’s combination of user interface and social service seems to be the winner. They say the widgets that…

Reviews Jesus Diaz

Android 1.6 SDK Now Available, Donut Possibly Hitting Phones Next Month

The Android Team released the SDK for Android 1.6 a.k.a. "Donut" which, among other things, promises CDMA compatibility, screen resolution scaling and support for gestures. Even better, Donut might be available on phones as early as next month. All the stuff mentioned in the past, such as APIs for text-to speech and translator functionality, plus…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This is “The Moment” For a Samsung Android OLED QWERTY Slider on Sprint

Dell Bringing Mini 3i Android Smartphone to US?

Verizon’s HTC and Motorola Android Phones Caught Red Handed

Verizon Promises Android Phones with Google Voice Support

Verizon Motorola Sholes With Android Will Be On Sale By The Holidays

Samsung Behold II Hits T-Mobile, Pairs Android with TouchWiz Interface

Flash 10.1: Full Flash for Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

Best Buy Employee Holiday Guide Pseudo-Reveals BlackBerry, Nokia, Android Launches

More Details Surface on Motorola’s Verizon Android Phone

T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now

ODROID Gaming Handheld Runs Android; Now Available for Pre-Order

Motorola Cliq Android Phone Ships November 2 For $200 on T-Mobile

Cyanogen Custom Android Builds Will Live On, Sans Google Apps

Google Threatens Cyanogen Android Hacker With Cease-and-Desist

Free Waze App Turns GPS Navigation Into a Social Cellphone Game

Ustream Video Streaming Android App Out Now

Archos 5 Android Internet Tablet: Amazon Taking Pre-Orders

Sprint Hero Review: Faster, Stronger, Uglier

Motorola Cliq Review: Most Customizable Android Phone Yet

Android 1.6 SDK Now Available, Donut Possibly Hitting Phones Next Month

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