Motorola releases status update on Android 2.1 for CLIQ/CLIQ XT It’s been officially stated that the Motorola CLIQ and CLIQ XT will definitely be receiving an Android 2.1 update, but now the question is: When?  Well, folks, just hold your horses.  Motorola jumped on Twitter this morning and released a statement: For those asking for [...]

Samsung Galaxy S event in New York Introducing the Sprint Epic 4G, Verizon Fascinate, T-Mobile Vibrant and AT&T Captivate Samsung on Tuesday night in New York City unveiled its United States contingent in the new Galaxy S class of Android smartphone, which it first announced in March at the CTIA convention in Las Vegas. Click a phone [...]

Hands-on with the Verizon Fascinate And here comes the Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy S, which forever shall be known as the Fascinate. It’s going to give the Motorola Droid X a run for its money, no doubt. It’s also launching with Android 2.1 but will get a Froyo update sometime later. Hands-on pictures after [...]

Hands-on with the Verizon Fascinate And here comes the Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy S, which forever shall be known as the Fascinate. It’s going to give the Motorola Droid X a run for its money, no doubt. It’s also launching with Android 2.1 but will get a Froyo update sometime later. Hands-on pictures after [...]

Cisco officially expanding to the Android platform In the business world where mobility is king and comes with a high demand, who better to answer the call than Cisco? Cisco announced a new product called the Cius. The Cius is a mobile android-based tablet with the business connectivity and features you expect from every Cisco [...]

Microsoft Office Mobile coming to iPhone? The App Store already plays host to several mobile apps that allow users to view and edit documents and spreadsheets, but how about an official MS Office app for iOS that you can natively edit and view all MS Office formats in? Hints persist that it may be coming.  We’ll [...]

Cisco officially expanding to the Android platform In the business world where mobility is king and comes with a high demand, who better to answer the call than Cisco? Cisco announced a new product called the Cius. The Cius is a mobile android-based tablet with the business connectivity and features you expect from every Cisco [...]

Cisco officially expanding to the Android platform In the business world where mobility is king and comes with a high demand, who better to answer the call than Cisco? Cisco announced a new product called the Cius. The Cius is a mobile android-based tablet with the business connectivity and features you expect from every Cisco [...]

Apple iPhone 4 reception problem support memo leaked? BGR claims to have content his hands on a copy of Apple’s internal support memo for handling iPhone 4 antenna band reception problems. The gist is: they’re to stick to the talking points, probe to make sure it isn’t a different problem (i.e. not related to covering [...]

Hands-on with the AT&T Captivate Lo, look forth on the AT&T Captivate — its version of the Samsung Galaxy S. Just like the other carriers’ versions, it’s thin, light, and flies, thanks to that 1GHz Hummingbird processor. And that Super AMOLED screen — gorgeous. We can only hope that AT&T doesn’t do its usual job of locking down [...]

SPE retractable sync and charge cable for iPhone 4 – accessory review update The Smartphone Experts S&C retractable sync and charging cable for iPhone 4 [$4.95] is something Georgia took a look at recently for iPad and iPhone 3GS but, frankly, I needed a convenient, tidy, highly portable way to sync and change my iPhone [...]

Evo 4G update pulled over problems We’ve heard from a number of you today that the Sprint Evo 4G’s update that was pushed out this morning has left your phones pretty inoperable. And while the odd brick happens, this one appears to be a bit more common. And as such, Sprint has pulled the update, [...]

iPhone 4 vs. HTC Evo 4G [NSFW-L] Warning — This is full of potty language and may well offend you. And it’s funny as hell, and quite probably true.  Using the online tools from xtranormal, Youtube user tinywatchproductions gives us a special treat.  It’s all in good fun, and a nice break from the usual [...]

Finally, you can view Google Docs on Android (and PDFs, PowerPoint and more) Can’t tell you how long we’ve been waiting to be able to view Google Docs on Android — but that day has finally come, all without having to download the file (or even an app, for that matter). It’s all done at [...]

Amazon Kindle Android app out of beta, now available in the Market We brought you a preview of the Amazon Kindle app for Android a month ago at Google IO, and now it’s available for all in the Android Market. The app is free (you must be running Android 1.6 or higher), and with it [...]

Verizon says the HTC Droid Incredible is far from dead Don’t believe everything you read.  Verizon has responded to the numerous rumors that the HTC Droid Incredible has reached it’s end-of-life, telling Mobile Burn that’s simply not the case. It makes sense — the phone is hugely popular, and they even adjusted the manufacturing process [...]

Finally, you can view Google Docs on Android (and PDFs, PowerPoint and more) Can’t tell you how long we’ve been waiting to be able to view Google Docs on Android — but that day has finally come, all without having to download the file (or even an app, for that matter). It’s all done at [...]

US Cellular getting in on the Samsung Galaxy S action, too Not to be outdone by the big 4 carriers, U.S. Cellular and Samsung announced that a "Galaxy S device" will also be hitting the regional carrier, too.  Not 100 percent sure of a model name, or a case design yet, but given the recent [...]

iPad live — 1 hour late tonight! 9pm ET/6pm PT (2am BST) Leanna’s traveling and won’t be able to join us, and Georgia, Chad, and I are going to be a tad late, so iPad live is moving 1 hour later tonight: 8pm ET/5pm PT, 1am BST: (We’ve also had to delay the theme music [...]

Samsung Facinate Verizon’s version of the Galaxy S Rounding out the Big 4 U.S. carriers, the Samsung Galaxy S (that’s the stock version up top here) shall now be known as the Verizon Fascinate. Again, same 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, same 1GHz Hummingbird processor, same 5-megapixel camera with 720p video, and so on and so forth. [...]

US Cellular getting in on the Samsung Galaxy S action, too Not to be outdone by the big 4 carriers, U.S. Cellular and Samsung announced that a "Galaxy S device" will also be hitting the regional carrier, too.  Not 100 percent sure of a model name, or a case design yet, but given the recent [...]

Fine tuning the MinFree settings (improving on Android’s multitasking) Hey guys!  Jerry back with another neat trick you can do on your Android phone.  This one helps keep things running smoothly, and gives us some user control over Android’s internal task killer.  Like most things that affect the low level operation of Android, this one [...]

What’s coming in Firefox mobile 2.0 When it comes to the development of Fennec — Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser — the Maemo client is a ways ahead of Android, which is still very much in Alpha status. And so we watch the Maemo development to get an idea of where our version likely is headed. [...]

What’s coming in Firefox mobile 2.0 When it comes to the development of Fennec — Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser — the Maemo client is a ways ahead of Android, which is still very much in Alpha status. And so we watch the Maemo development to get an idea of where our version likely is headed. [...]

Farmville Now Available For iPad Zynga has released an iPad friendly version of FarmVille for the iPad. Oh no, is this is a good or bad thing? The possible scenario’s are running through my mind faster than Apple can sell their next million iPad’s. I’ll try and slow my racing mind for a moment just [...]

$99 iPhone 3GS – Apple’s other huge smartphone launch Though it got completely buried under the hype and hysteria of the iPhone 4 launch, Apple also released another “new” smartphone last week — the $99 iPhone 3GS 8GB running iOS 4. Sure it’s “last year’s model” in many ways, but a week ago it was [...]

iZones Time Zone App For iPad Introducing iZones, one of the coolest new iPad apps. This brand new app for the iPad gives you real-time access to all of the different time zones across the globe. With more and more people doing business on an international level these days it’s important to be aware of [...]

Glasshouse Apps talks the Early Edition RSS for iPad – TiPb at WWDC 2010 At WWDC 2010 I had the chance to sit down with designer Graham Clarke and developer Nick Takayama Glasshouse Apps, makers of the Early Edition RSS reader for iPad, to talk about their latest app, and their impressions of iPhone 4. [...]

The week in Android news The Droid X came and took the world by storm in a week when the iPhone 4 release all but dominated the news. And that’s just the tip of the Android iceberg. Check out some of what you may have missed below. News Droid 2 taken for early hands-on, is [...]

iZones Time Zone App For iPad Introducing iZones, one of the coolest new iPad apps. This brand new app for the iPad gives you real-time access to all of the different time zones across the globe. With more and more people doing business on an international level these days it’s important to be aware of [...]

Sprint roadmap leaked, shows new Android phones, more 4G locations Well what have we here?  Looks like a screenshot of Sprint’s latest playbook, and there are a few interesting things for Android lovers on the list.  July 11 looks to be a good day.  First up would be the Motorola i1 (see our hands-on) hitting [...]

Sprint roadmap leaked, shows new Android phones, more 4G locations Well what have we here?  Looks like a screenshot of Sprint’s latest playbook, and there are a few interesting things for Android lovers on the list.  July 11 looks to be a good day.  First up would be the Motorola i1 (see our hands-on) hitting [...]

iZones Time Zone App For iPad Introducing iZones, one of the coolest new iPad apps. This brand new app for the iPad gives you real-time access to all of the different time zones across the globe. With more and more people doing business on an international level these days it’s important to be aware of [...]

How’s iOS 4 ActiveSync (Exchange/Google Sync) working for you? So how’s iOS 4 Active Sync working for you? iOS 4 allows multiple ActiveSync accounts, meaning iPhone users can finally have their work Exchange setup alongside Google Sync, for example. I’ve got both Exchange (2003) and Google Sync (Google Accounts) set up on both an iPhone [...]

Developer interest in Android tablets is huge, even though none exist yet A report by Appcelerator published today shows that even though developers are very interested in working with iOS, interest in Android, especially Android tablets, is soaring.  62 percent of those surveyed said they would like to develop apps for Android tablets even though [...]

Samsung Galaxy S officially will be the Vibrant on T-Mobile This pretty much leaked out a few days ago, but now T-Mobile has gone and made it semi-official on Twitter and its little game site: The Samsung Galaxy S is coming, and it’ll be called the Vibrant. No word on when and for how much, but [...]