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A lot of people were blown away by the cool docking ability and webtop app that the Moto Atrix is coming with on the AT&T network, and rightfully so. Now it seems that Motorola has taken notice of the excitement around the docking capability from consumers, and has decided to include this capability in all it's "High Performance" Smartphones that come out after June of this year. Read More »
Here is another pic of the Honeycomb statue, all setup for display. Credit for the image goes to... Read More »
It's pretty official now, Samsung is working on Gingerbread for it's Galaxy S line. And how do we know? The beta ROM has been leaked on some vague Polish forum. Read More »
The AndroidGuys Weekly Roundup is back, after a short hiatus! We covered a good chunk of news last week, so let's jump right into it! Read More »
UPDATE: In my excitement I forgot to attribute this picture to Dan Morrill who tweeted it out. Our... Read More »
Let the image above sink in some. If you don't yet own a Xoom (like me), then you can begin to be envious of the sheer power that owners of the latest Android device have in their grubby little hands. The folks over at Boy Genius Report found the above screenshot and the news that a dev in the community has successfully overclocked the Xoom to 1.5 GHz. Which, as you can see, blows away the current smartphone benchmarks we have right now. Read More »
Barnes and Noble have certainly gotten on board the Android gravy train, with both their app and their... Read More »
That's what Engadget reported this past weekend, citing a "trusted tipster". They are reporting that in Verizon's inventory system, a new listing for the HTC63503 has popped up, with a description of "INCRD2" Read More »
Pictured to the left may look like the toy stereo we all had when we were kids from Fisher Price, but it is actually an officially licensed Google product! The people over at Electric Pig stumbled across this beauty while they were at the Sound and Vision Bristol Show. A quote from their article tells the story: Read More »
Big in Japan recently shared some statistics that put their ShopSavvy app on more than 140 Android phones and a trio of BlackBerry phones. Yep - an Android app on a RIM device. Sounds familiar, no? Read More »
Are 4G LTE and a large screen size crippling the life of the Thunderbolt? Will a firmware update fix things so we can get a launch date from Verizon? Let's get this 4G war going! Read More »
Mobile startup announces a secure, cloud-based platform that brings a full suite of business apps to your personal phone. Tell your IT guy to keep the BlackBerry, you've got all you need with your Android. Read More »
Late last week, news broke that PhoneFusion's Visual Voicemail app had been pulled from the Android Market by Google. Speculation has swirled since then about the reason why, but no explanation seemed to quite ring true. The extent of Google's official statement is that "we remove applications from Android Market that violate our terms of service." However, after speaking with people with knowledge of the matter, we can rule a couple of speculative explanations out and take a stab at what's likely the case. We'll also see how Google could have avoided a lot of distress and bad press by handling the situation differently. Read More »
Before I begin, I want to point out that this is an opinion piece, and does not necessarily... Read More »
Good ol' HTC has confirmed that the Desire Z, Desire HD, Desire, and the newly announced Incredible S will all be getting some Gingerbread love soon enough. Read More »
