What a good way to kick-start CES 2011. LG officially announced the Optimus Black today loaded with a 4-inch NOVA display that LG states “is designed to be the brightest, clearest and most readable among mobile screens with 700 nits of brightness for optimal visibility” in either indoor and outdoor. Another quick fact about the [...]

Almost 2 weeks ago we reported about how Samsung Canada had pulled their Android Froyo update from Kies for the Galaxy S Vibrant (on Bell) because it was very buggy and was causing some serious problems like rendering phones completely useless. Well the other day Samsung Canada finally released an updated version of Froyo (Android [...]

Samsung Canada is having a long conversation with many customers who tried updating their Galaxy S Vibrants to Froyo (Android 2.2). Seems the update is causing the phone to become unusable (a.k.a. ‘bricking’ because about all a phone is useful for if there’s no software on it is as a brick). This update has been [...]

This news is sure to make most Android fan boys salivate just a little. LG has just announced the worlds first dual-core processor smartphone - the Optimus 2X with Tegra 2 processor and honestly it couldn’t be sexier. Its official specs. include: 1Ghz Dual-core Processor (NVIDIA Tegra 2) 4-inch WVGA display 8 megapixel rear camera and 1.3 [...]

Alright, I know what you are thinking “there must be a catch, right?” Well, my friends you read it correctly, you can now drop some unauthorized Froyo love on your iPhone 2G/3G (no iOS4 support just yet) without a computer using a new Bootlace app in Cydia. It won’t be the exact look and feel of [...]

They’ve done it! HTC’s locking of the NAND memory on their newly-released Android phones, the G2, Desire Z, Desire HD and myTouch 4G, has been broken, achieving what many thought impossible: permanent root access to system files. Basically, what happened was that any files added to the system (before this) were added onto to the [...]

Update [November 9th, 2010]: I have been running a heavily modified version of Froyo on the Galaxy S for the past few weeks, and I have to say that the development community has done a great job of augementing All of Samsung’s various improvements into a single ROM. The GPS issue seems largely fixed, though [...]

The Nexus One received an updated version of Adobe’s Flash 10.1 plugin this afternoon, cementing and making official the biggest advantage Google and its Android platform has over the iOS ecosystem. While most of the features were already in place, the final version improves the quality and reliability of video streams and games. This momentous [...]

This week’s big Android news mostly revolved around the launch of the Motorola Droid 2 on Verizon, but that’s certainly not all that is going on in the world of Android. Google also announced their new voice commands feature for phones with Android 2.2 as well as officially launching the service Chrome to Phone. There’s [...]

[Click here for mobile friendly viewing] Google seems to be on a roll with first-party apps these days. Not one day after they update Gesture Search to include an intuitive new way of activating the app, the company releases Voice Actions to complement the already-comprehensive voice control of the device. These updates are only available [...]