I am not sure why, since the failure of the Palm Pre, other manufacturers seem to want to make portrait slider phones in the same vein. Either way, this “Droid Mini’ as it is being nicknamed, will be of a CDMA variety, and is rumored to hit Verizon in the near future. Other than the [...]

It was kind of a slow week for the Android community with the iPhone signal issues and press conference stealing most of the spotlight. Still, we had two highly-anticipated device launches this week-the Motorola Droid X and the Samsung Vibrant. The Droid X and the Samsung Vibrant launched Thursday the 15th for Verizon and T-Mobile [...]

Can’t wait till July 21st to feast your eyes on the Samsung Vibrant? Then you’re in luck because we have a couple shots of the to-be-released T-Mobile handset for you. Now the actual device isn’t going to be released for another week but that doesn’t mean we can’t get excited with some leaked photos of [...]

YouTube today revamped their mobile website for WebKit browser-equipped devices, specifically the iPhone and devices running Google’s Android OS. The new site uses HTML5 for video viewing which allows mobile browsers to view YouTube videos without the need for flash capabilities. With the new version of YouTube’s mobile site, even the native Android YouTube application [...]

After seeing the Motorola Droid X’s teaser page go live there was little doubt that we would see the handset become official very soon. Today at an event in New York City the phone was made official by Motorola and Verizon. As expected the Droid X will boast a 854×480 4.3″ screen, an OMAP processor clocked [...]

There have been two leaked builds of Android 2.2 AKA FroYo since it was announced last month. The first came literally days after the announcement, leading to speculation that indeed it was not a final build of the OS. This was soon confirmed. Then, for weeks, we heard nothing from Google. Last week, a new [...]

Today Adobe announced the release of Flash for any Android smartphone running FroYo, also known as Android 2.2. For now this only applies to Nexus One users and those who have flashed a custom 2.2 ROM to their Android phone. Other Android will users will have to wait patiently for their 2.2 update before they [...]

Another awesome story this morning from the Google world, this time for more phones than just the Nexus One (and this one is an official update, unlike previous ones). Google has updated its Android Navigator software to be used in more countries around the world, including Canada and most of Western Europe. Navigator has been [...]

This is an older article, and was written before the Spirit untethered jailbreak was released to the public. Since then, there have been a lot of changes to the iPhone community, and the iPhone 4 has been announced. Much has changed, but the core tenets of the article are the same. This is going to [...]

There has been a veritable deluge of information regarding the Samsung Galaxy S. It’s supposed to have a killer 1GHZ processor (though noone knows anything about it yet), 512MB RAM, 8-16GB internal storage, and a bunch of nice other features, all decked out with a beautiful 4-inch Super AMOLED screen. The whole thing stinks of [...]