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Modaco's Paul O'Brien has extracted the Gingerbread launcher out of the emulator ROM and made it available for all devices running Froyo. Combined with the Gingerbread-keyboard, this can give you a bit of an impression what Gingerbread is like. Read More »
David Ko, the SVP of Mobile at Zynga was speaking earlier today at the LeWeb conference in Paris where he divulged a bit of exciting news. Ko indicated that the popular game Mafia Wars would be coming to Android in December Read More »
If you're planning to do any air travel over the coming holiday weeks, you'll want to check out FlightView for Android. Available in two editions, it helps keep all your travel info in one handy place. Read More »
There's a really neat little service available from Google (Voice) that makes it possible for Santa to call... Read More »
The official YouTube application for Android was updated last night to v2.1 which saw the addition of four new features. The app, which is designed for Android 2.2 phones and up, is looking more like the desktop client all the time. Read More »
Notion Ink has just confirmed the pre-sales of their Android-based Adam tablet will begin today. The Tegra 2 powered device will first be offered to registered users from the blog with general public following six hours later. Read More »
Ratrod Studio has just released their 3D Unity based drift racing game, Drift Mania Championship into the Android Market. The 99ยข game has been a success for iPhone, selling more than 2 million downloads over the last few months. Read More »
Get Set Games passed us a note yesterday to tell us that they are fearing up for the Android release of their popular Mega Jump. After already seeing more than 7.5 million people download the game in six months, the Android version should also do very well. Read More »
Andy Rubin, Vice President of Engineering at Google, sent out a tweet at about 11:37 PM ET saying,"There are over 300,000 Android phones activated each day." Read More »
A new set of studies conducted by Arieso reveals that Android users love to consume data. According to their findings, phones running Android tend to have more data call volumes, time connected to the network, and data volume uploaded and downloaded than iPhone counterparts. Read More »
In the wonderful world of XDA there are many developers working towards getting the most out of their... Read More »
We know a lot of you guys and gals are anxious to get your Gingerbread fix, however we should remember that there are folks who still want Froyo. One such handset, the HTC Legend has been out for more than a few months now, yet it has been waiting for Android 2.2 to arrive. Great news - the wait is nearly over! Read More »
Samsung UK is using the power of free to help attract new Galaxy Tab owners, and satisfy the... Read More »
We've seen our share of corporate speak and PR mumbo jumbo before but Samsung might have just become the current king. When asked by Pocket-Lint whether or not the Galaxy S would see Android 2.3 'Gingerbread', the handset maker replied with a very vague, albeit technical technical sounding answer. After reading the entire response a few times, the best we can gather is that they are still looking into the matter. Read More »
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was in the hot seat today with Walt Mossberg at the Dive into Mobile conference. When pressed about the carrier's plans to offer a tiered data plan, Hesse said they aren't planning to change things up. Read More »
