Android Phone News

First Official Droid 2 pictures have been spotted!

By Erika Galeano - 19 July, 2010, 3:39 pm

Yes, I know what you're thinking, we have seen pictures of the Droid 2, but these are the official ones. These pictures are just perfection for Droid lovers everywhere. Hey if you didn't get that sweet Droid X, you can always hold out for this baby when we ever find out about it that is.. We just need Verizon to leak an official announcement with price and release date now -- we're...

Android brings nostalgic memories of PDA use with Graffiti for Android

By Austin Woodard - 16 July, 2010, 6:46 pm

Way back when, when PDAs were a must have in the business world they were dominated by Palm and the Palm operating environment. A major part of the operating system was how you would type on the PDAs. Typing on the PDAs used a system of symbols similar to letters that made it more efficient. Whether or not this actually was more efficient is debatable. This shorthand system is called...

Android Was Reported To Have 100K Apps, Now Just 70K

By Austin Woodard - 16 July, 2010, 4:34 pm

Initially reported by AndroLib that their reports showed that the Android market had reached 100,000 apps yesterday was amazing news. However It was reported by Google them selves that the market was only containing 70 thousand apps. Still not a small number to contend with. Some of the issues in the count are having to deal with international market numbers and unsupported apps. Now what...

Rumor: HTC Desire HD (Ace) Specs

By Erika Galeano - 15 July, 2010, 9:19 pm

Last week knowledge of the HTC Ace was leaked thanks to a retailer roadmap. The latest in this weeks rumors state that the HTC Ace is actually called the HTC Desire HD. The Desire HD is rumored to be filled with HD upgrades from the orginal HTC Desire. Further rumors claim that the HTC Desire HD will be arriving in the UK in October 2010.   The Specifications as rumored by the site...

HP Tablet Coming Late, Perhaps Even Not at All

By Erika Galeano - 15 July, 2010, 3:02 pm

HP was plannng on coming out with a tablet,intresting piece of cellphone news isn't it? Well it isn't the newsest news that HP was preparing to come out with an Android tablet soon. The news is that it might not be coming out. Sources that are close to HP are saying that the plans are being delayed at this time. This means that HP's android tablet will not be coming out by the end of the...

Motorola Droid X Teaser Video

By Erika Galeano - 14 July, 2010, 8:23 pm

  Who's ready for the Droid X coming out tomorrow? We certainly are, that's definitely for sure. So everyone is getting ready for the release. Setting alarms to be the first to swipe it, making sure they have enough gas to haul butt over to the store. Maybe even preparing to sleep in their day clothes so they can just run out the door to be the first. Well now there's something to...

SwiftKeys Keyboard is Free on App Market

By Erika Galeano - 14 July, 2010, 7:15 pm

A new piece of cellphone news just hit us, SwiftKeys' application.Not only that but it features a new and amazing predictive text. Predictive text doesn't always work the way we want to, it's useful, but barely ever brings up the right word. Well, this predictive text is way better than the standard one that ends up on our phones. SwiftKeys has been working on a keyboard for the past 2...

$50 Dollars Off a 32 GB microSD Card With the Purchase of a Droid X

By Erika Galeano - 14 July, 2010, 6:43 pm

  Tommorow is the long awaited release of the Droid X, and Verizon Wireless released a recent piece of cellphone news to make the day even more spectacular. Tommorow, those who purchase a Droid X could also buy a microSD card, if they wanted to.Of course would make sense to buy one, it would expand the memory of their brand new phone. Now Verizon has made an offer to nudge people to...

Android Market About to Hit 100,000 Apps

By Erika Galeano - 12 July, 2010, 9:12 pm

Wow! Just look at that! The App Market is just climbing it's way up there. Well we can clearly see that the Market will be hitting 100,000 by the end of July. Sure we the apps aren't always in the best quality but at least the creators are choosing good over evil - Android over Apple. And now we have this awesome new App inventor to play with! This could be the mark of something amazing...

Rumor - Motorola Charm being pushed back to August

By Travis Lelle - 12 July, 2010, 5:53 pm

So all of you T-Mobile users who were looking forward to the charm coming out sometime this month (July 2010), rumor has it - you're going to be a bit disappointed. Rumors received by Androidtrek.com from a reliable T-Mobile source have informed us that the Motorola Charm will now be pushed back into August. The Charm is an Android device which will feature a full QWERTY keyboard, and a...

Find an open spot in an empty parking lot!

By Travis Lelle - 12 July, 2010, 2:15 pm

Something we all could use (at least all of us who can legally drive) is the somewhat psychic ability to know where someone has just pulled their car from a parking spot, thus rendering the spot empty and ready for any passerby to use at their own disposal. Well, Google can't give you the psychic ability to know these things, but they can give you something close - Open Spot. Open spot is...

Borders launches e-reader app!

By Erika Galeano - 7 July, 2010, 6:42 pm

Well Borders seems to know how to attract the everyday Android user; they are bringing its e-reader application to Android and BlackBerry. This latest e-reader app will join its existing programs for the Mac, PC, Apple iPhone and iPad. The Borders eBooks app does exactly what you expect from this type of program: it enables mobile users to access and buy e-books from Borders over the...

Droid X Early?

By Erika Galeano - 7 July, 2010, 4:58 pm

Well it seems lately that if you've pre-ordered a phone the newest trend is early arrivals; iPhone 4, HTC EVO in white, and now the Droid X. It just seems that these companies are so excited to see their new babies sent out into the world to be played with.  Well Verizon does know how to tease us so well, they've been on twitter saying "you might get yours before" July 15th launch date....

Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks

By Erika Galeano - 7 July, 2010, 4:45 pm

Okay guys, check it out; if you're Android owner ( well clearly you're on here! ) then you have Froyo and you must know how fast Android 2.2 is. It's wicked fast, stupid fast. It's just plain ridiculous. Now Android's performances are better than ever. SunSpider and V8 benchmarks show that JavaScript execution in Froyo's Web browser is almost three times faster than in the previous...

South Korea: 200,000 Samsung Galaxy S units sold in 10 days!

By Erika Galeano - 7 July, 2010, 4:32 pm

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? Well yes, yes we can actually. You can't sit there and tell me that you really didn't see the Galaxy S being one of the coolest device on the mark today? I mean it's the Galaxy S! Who wouldn't want one, you know considering that there are like four different ones, so just go to your company and get one when they arrive; T-Mobile - Vibrant, AT&T - Captivate, Sprint -...
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