Two big stories from Gizmodo for all your VZW Droid users; first, details about the Android 2.1 update emerge and now, a tentative release date. According to the article, 2.1 could start rolling out OTA as soon as tomorrow bringing with it things like pinch-to-zoom in the browser, gallery and Google Maps, voice-to-text entry and [...]

Big news out of AT&T and Rogers today with the release Nexus One. Even though we “knew” it was coming, it still came from no where. Unlike the T-Mobile version, the AT&T version isn’t subsidized so it’ll cost you $529 to pick one up. (I did a few weeks back for my TMo one, it [...]

According to comScore MobiLens research, which covered mobile handset usage between October 2009 and January 2010, RIM owns the smartphone market, with 43% market share, up 1.7% from three months earlier. RIM was the only company to gain significantly in total handset numbers, too, up 1.4% to 7.8% share, and that is overall phone numbers, [...]

Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android arrived this morning for the world to try. While it does not support native multi-touch, there are a few benefits to the browsing experience that will make it, if not my default browser (xScope performs that function admirably) then my heavy-image, desktop browser replacement. The reason for this is [...]

Well, not exactly. But close enough. According to Mplayit, a Facebook-based Application Aggregator for smartphones, only 17% of Android applications used are games. Compare this to 63% for iPhone users and 33% of Blackberry users, and the figures are quite surprising. Isn’t Android supposed to be built around openness and touch functionality? The iPhone has [...]

AT&T’s foray into Android has run into a few media-related problems. While the phone has an interesting look to it (it “flips” open to reveal its QWERTY keyboard, and can use the keyboard, face down, as a stand to watch media) the media giant has made an interesting decision to limit some basic functionality in [...]

“There are much our two cultures can learn from one another,” is what I thought when I first picked up a Droid in a Verizon store in NYC in January. The OS UI is smooth and intuitive. With 2.0, Android introduced widgets, and with three customizable Home Screens, and an always-accessible notification bar at the [...]

You know why I love geeks? Because, when they get bored, they do stuff like this! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, is a robot controlled entirely by a phone, affectionately named Truckbot. Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman took an HTC G1 loaded with Cyanogen, added $30 worth of parts and constructed a “being” capable of rolling [...]

Hey everyone, I got a new toy this morning - a Nexus One- and I need your help. This is my first Android device so I’m still learning the ins and outs. If anyone has any good app suggestions, or anything they’d like to see reviewed, please let me know. You can leave comments on [...]

Hey, remember that post a few weeks back about how Google is starting to test their own crazy-fast broadband service? Well it looks like one US city REEEEEAAAAALLLLLYYYY wants to help out. For the rest of the month, Topeka, Kansas will be known as Google, Kansas. Yes, you read that right. There is a US [...]