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PLEN Robot Controlled by Android [VIDEO]
Those of you with piles of cash might be interested in picking up a PLEN hobby robot for your desk. The roughly 9″ tall “droid” can be controlled via Bluetooth, either by your cell phone or PC keyboard. You know where I’m going with this… …
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Google’s New AdWord Policy Has Users Targeted By Handset and Carrier
Last last week, Google announced a new strategy for AdWords. AdWords will now target users by the device and carrier they use, letting advertisers more directly reach consumers.  This means Android fans won’t be seeing any iPhone ads while surfing, but may see ads related …
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Walmart to Offer Nexus One
Part of my daily routine involves checking my RSS and twitter feeds while I drink my morning coffee as both seem to help me get my day going.  As much as I’d like to think the world stops with Android news once I go …
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Gigabyte’s Budget-Friendly GSmart Has Yesterday’s Specs
When it comes to handset makers, we have a soft spot for the ‘little guys’ who take to putting out handsets, competing against the likes of Samsung, HTC, and Motorola. There’s just something about companies like GeeksPhone and even that long-lost Kogan Agora that have …
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HTC Supersonic in the Wild
Here’s the first look at the forthcoming HTC Supersonic. That is, if you want to believe it. Someone over at AndroidMobileOS was sent a couple of photos of what’s likely to become one of the hottest rumored handsets this year.
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WHERE Update Encourages User-Generated Content
WHERE, a popular location-based app that helps users find cheap gas prices, movie showtimes, and more, has been recently updated. Now, rather than simply giving you relevant information, they have made it possible to add your own content. For instance, if you arrive at a …
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How Much Longer Will Android be the Underdog?
The perception of us Android users is much like the Linux crowd: thick black-framed glasses, translucent skin that hasn’t seen daylight since who knows when, and a foreign dialect that sounds slightly like a techno form of Klingon. BUT for how much longer? For the …
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Conspiracy Theory: Is Apple Orchestrating a Media Attack on Google?
For various reasons, I’ve had plenty of free time on my hands lately. And since I’m an Android Guy, I was closely following the CES 2010 developments. I was also reading all I could about the Nexus One, what kind of impact that it was …
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T-Mobile Announces doubleTwist for Entire Android Lineup
As we previously mentioned, T-Mobile’s new myTouch 3G Fender Edition comes with a custom installer for doubleTwist multimedia sync. It gives the users ability to transfer media and music to and from their computer and handset. Tucked away in last week’s press release was a …
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App Review: Newton Lite
Newton is the sniper to Asteroids spray and pray. According to the developer, a lone coder named Mario from Graz, Austria, Newton is a physics puzzler heavily inspired by the great flash game Gravity Pods and some old DOS and Amiga classics with similar game …
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Motorola MOTOSPLIT Render – New Take on Old Design?
Here’s an impractical looking design if we ever saw one. The folks at Engadget were recently handed a screenshot of an alleged Motorola handset called the MOTOSPLIT. And while it’s pretty obvious that the picture is a render, it leaves us wondering if the phone …
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This is Not Android 3.0 Running on HTC Supersonic
What you see above is being passed around as “Android 3.0 running on the upcoming HTC Supersonic”. The image show a 3-D home screen with the app launcher featured in Android 2.1 with a tab. While it would be great to see something like this …
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Nexus One Dock Details Emerge
We just received an email from one of our readers who had a chance to play with the forthcoming Nexus One docks. Based on his description, we’re in for a pretty nifty little device. We’d previously heard whispers about Bluetooth integration and our guy was …
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Canadian HTC Magic Gets Sense UI and 911 Fix
The first of 2 upgrades to the Canadian HTC Magic is officially underway. The two updates spoken about in an earlier post stated that the first of the 2 updates would be a 911 fix and the much appraised HTC Sense UI. The second which …
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What the #####! Nexus One Censoring Swear Words
If you’re thinking of using your new Nexus One to curse out your ex with the speech-to-text function, you might want to think again. Reuters has discovered that the voice recognition feature converts curse words into a string of # symbols when rendered into text. …
