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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. [...]

UPDATE: Nexus S: No microSD Card Slot, Samsung not the NFC Chip Provider, Best Buy Landing Page Live

It’s easy to get excited and overjoyed with all of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Nexus S news going out today, but we don’t want to flood our front page with it all. (And I’m sure you won’t want to see it all day, as well.) Here are but a few of the stories that [...]

Rumor: Nexus S Headed to Verizon with 4G?

The rumor has it that NEW Nexus S might be headed to VZW. We aren’t sure yet but this is what we have so far on the Nexus S + Verizon 4G rumor: I usually try not to get too excited about rumors, but as a Verizon customer who is eagerly awaiting my first 4G [...]

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 [...]

Manually Install Android 2.2 On Your Nexus One

To manually install Android 2.2 on the Nexus One, perform the following steps: Download the official Android 2.2 firmware for the Nexus One here. Copy the file to your microSD card and name it update.zip (newb warning: not update.zip.zip) Power off your phone. Hold down the VOLUME DOWN button and power it back on. The [...]

[OFFICIAL UPDATE] Manually Update Your HTC Droid Eris To Android 2.1

The official update package can now be downloaded from Google’s servers and installed manually onto your Droid Eris, and for the impatient here is how: Download the Android 2.1 firmware for Droid Eris straight from Google. Rename the file update.zip and copy it to your microSD card via USB. [Note: make sure the file is [...]

Google Will Soon Stop Selling Nexus One Online

It’s sad to hear that Google will stop selling the Nexus One at their online store, but it may be a wiser business decision in the long run.  It is good to hear that Google admits to what isn’t working instead of hiding failures behind curtains. VIA|Google Mobile Blog

Android 2.1 Takes Second In The Lead

This version chart shows who’s currently in the Android OS lead. With 2.1 closing in on taking the lead from Android 1.5 OS, clearly shows that a lot of phones have adopted the Android 2.1 OS. There are some phones like HTC Droid Eris still waiting for its Android 2.1 update. Even though we have [...]

Google Image Search For Android And iPhone

Google revamped its image search feature and made it almost seamless for mobile phones. VIA|Google Mobile Blog

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