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Android Market Update Coming Soon

On Dec. 10th Android Developer Blog announced that Android Market engineering team has been working hard to improve the Android Market experience for users and the developers. The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I’m pleased to announce a significant update [...]

Another Look at the New Google Maps for Mobile 5 on the Nexus S

Google’s Andy Rubin showed off the new Google Maps for Mobile 5 running on his Motorola Honeycomb tablet and said it would be coming to the Android Market in a matter of days, but we have yet to see the upgrade roll out yet. The brief demo we saw showed off the 3D maps and [...]

Android 2.3 Has NO Minimum Processor Requirement

Yesterday a curious customer asked LG if his Optimus One would be receiving Android 2.3 and got the response that “Gingerbread requires 1 GHz processor”. Several sites took the quote and started reporting that Gingerbread has a CPU requirement, but once again Dan Morrill was quick to respond. LG incorrectly states on Facebook that Gingerbread [...]

Free Droid Giveaway From Verizon? #IWANTADROID

Hey guys check this out! Verizon is giving away a free DROID. Read the rules and regulations below to get started. Good luck! The title says it all. I get the feeling some of you are tired of these Twitter contests, but how can you turn down a free Droid phone from Verizon? The carrier [...]

Win a FREE Nexus S!

Many Nexus One owners are debating if the Nexus S is a worthy upgrade and deserving of their money, but how does a free unit sound? In addition to the new Nexus S website, Google also created pages on Facebook and Twitter where they will be giving away free devices to promote its big launch. [...]

Manually Install Froyo on the Samsung Epic 4G

Over the weekend it was discovered that Android 2.2 was available for the Samsung Epic 4G, but a post on the official Sprint forums says it is only a test build. They warn users not to flash any update files that come from 3rd party developer sites, but the test Android 2.2 build (DK28) is [...]

Gingerbread headed to ‘a Number of’ HTC Devices

We all been hearing about Gingerbread for the last few month. I’m happy to say that it’s finally here. Yes! Gingerbread is finally here. We all know that Gingerbread is here, but one of the biggest remaining questions is which current generation phones will receive the treasured OS update down the line. When TechRadar confronted [...]

Motorola and Verizon Score Gingerbread Exclusive

Just like last year, Motorola and Verizon will launch a Droid phone for the holiday shopping season that will be the first device to feature a new version of Android. Motorola is ultra secretive when it comes to big product launches so I might have a few details that are slightly off, but they have [...]

Droid 2 Screen Glimpsed

As you may already know that Motorola’s new upcoming phone Droid 2 is just around the corner. Here’s a screen captured by DroidLife. As you can see it looks exactly similar to the current Motorola’s Droid. But there might be some changes to it here and there to improve the phone. Now we have seen [...]

HUGE CONTEST: Phone-A-Day Give Away!

ATTENTION: Contest has been updated to support international entries. This is a HUUUUUGE contest – we’re giving away an Android phone EVERY DAY until we feel like stopping! What phone? Whatever Android Phone you choose from our Android Phone Store! Call me Ms. Cleo: you’re wondering how you can enter, right? We just announced the [...]

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