The breakneck pace of awesome Android phones continues: this is a leaked picture of the Verizon Samsung Continuum, an Android phone with two OLED displays. One screen acts as the main display while the second screen acts as the “Ticker”. More » FORMFACTOR FISERV FIRST SOLAR FINISAR

Samsung I-400 breaks cover, coming to Verizon Big Red really likes Android phones (probably a true fact). The dude, or rather, the guy, over at The Droid Guy, has posted a blury image of the new Samsung I-400. You’re probably already looking at this phone and saying, "meh." Sure it may look like a basic [...]

Samsung I-400 breaks cover, coming to Verizon Big Red really likes Android phones (probably a true fact). The dude, or rather, the guy, over at The Droid Guy, has posted a blury image of the new Samsung I-400. You’re probably already looking at this phone and saying, "meh." Sure it may look like a basic [...]

Just a quick heads up, folks, that this week’s Android Central Podcast — normally on Thursday night — will instead be live Friday at 7 p.m. EDT / 4 p.m. PDT.We were trying to come up with a really cool excuse but decided that, in the end, truth and openness are the best: Jerry’s doing [...]

PSA: Podcast pushed to Friday this week Just a quick heads up, folks, that this week’s Android Central Podcast — normally on Thursday night — will instead be live Friday at 7 p.m. EDT / 4 p.m. PDT. We were trying to come up with a really cool excuse but decided that, in the end, [...]

Filed under: Video, web 2.0 YTTM apparently stands for “YouTube Time Machine,” although that’s not specifically mentioned on the site. What it does is very easy to understand, though. You move a slider to a specific year between 1860 and 2010, and you get a bunch of YouTube videos related to that year. Yes, I [...]

Epic 4G OTA specifics [From the Forums] Sprint already announced that they will be rolling out another maintenance release update for the Epic 4G, starting today.  It wasn’t too long ago that we saw an update, so it’s good to see Sprint staying on the ball with this one.  As promised, Sprint has released the [...]

Swiftkey spends 7 days at the top, catch it before the sale ends Swiftkey, an Android keyboard replacement that many of us have grown to love, has spent the pas week since its official announcement as the No. 1 downloaded paid application in the market. As you can imagine, with all the various paid applications [...]

German site BestBoyZ has delivered a string of HTC leaks in recent weeks, and the latest is a fairly legit-looking handful of alleged press shots of the Mondrian. As a refresher, the Mondrian seems to be one of the many code and commercial names floating around for Windows Phone 7-based devices HTC is looking to [...]

Google Maps gets an update, adds weather to live wallpapers   Google Maps just got itself a little update to add weather to the live wallpaper. Haven’t actually seen any weather yet in Version 4.5.1, but I’ve been accused of living in a vacuum before. Get it now in the Android Market. [via Android Central [...]

“Of course the new Apple TV gets a teardown, silly,” is what we would tell you should you have the audacity to question its inevitability. But alas, we’re too busy analyzing every photo of iFixit’s gallery to even dignify your raised eyebrow with an unprovoked response. The site gives it 8 out of 10 in [...]

Google Maps gets an update, adds weather to live wallpapers   Google Maps just got itself a little update to add weather to the live wallpaper. Haven’t actually seen any weather yet in Version 4.5.1, but I’ve been accused of living in a vacuum before. Get it now in the Android Market. [via Android Central [...]

Apple TV (2010) first reviews Apple TV (2010) doesn’t seem to be getting as traditional or coordinated a release as most iOS devices, but some media outlets have gotten their geeky little hands on the all new a little early and shared their impressions… and their videos. Follow on after the break for the early [...]

Nokia’s N8 is now shipping to those of you who pre-ordered. It may not be the device that’ll make you leave your beloved BlackBerry, iPhone, or Android phone but Nokia’s N8 with its significantly enhanced Symbian^3 OS is without a doubt the best you can do if you’re one of the millions of Symbian users [...]

Sprint 4G goes live in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis-St. Paul   Sprint’s 4G data service just went live in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis-St. Paul, meaning you Steelers fans with the Samsung Epic 4G and HTC Evo 4G can get the latest as old man Charlie Batch leads the Steelers over the Ravens on Sunday, and you Vikes fans can [...]

Droid 2 R2-D2 edition launch parties starting soon! Everyone loves launch parties, especially when the R2-D2 edition of the Droid 2 is hosting!  Verizon is throwing a bunch of them tonight, hit the break to see the list.  If you go, be sure to snap some pics to put a smile on this old Star [...]

Many apps beam usage information—some of it enough to personally identify your phone—to marketers, behind your back. Programmers at Penn State cooked up TaintDroid (ew) to reveal the offenders and help you protect yourself from prying data miners. More » ATandT AUTODESK AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AVNET

Angry Birds iPhone app gets significant update Arguably one of the most addictive games for iOS, Angry Birds, has just received a pretty significant update that is now available in the App Store. The update gives you the following improvements and add-ons. Game Center support Retina Display compatibility 15 new levels This is a free [...]

Goldline might be a bust (sorry, Glenn), but you’re not gonna let that stop you from preparing for the imminent collapse of society. Or maybe you just want to hang with your friends at the Ayn Rand Book Club (The Fountainhead again?) and they prefer Krugerrands to the fiat currency of the USA. Any way [...]

Sprint getting the Samsung Transform, another Galaxy S phone? The Samsung Transform has surfaced in a picture that displays some of Sprint’s upcoming phones. Little to no information has been released relating to the Transform, which is intriguing enough. To make the leak more interesting, however, the device looks exactly like the recently released Epic [...]

iPhone live tonight, 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST You know the drill, come 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST, we’ll be live over at: http://live.tipb.com/live/ Be there, and be ready to chat. We want to hear from you. iPhone live tonight, 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST is a story by TiPb. This feed [...]

Yeah, Super Mario Bros. was kind of a big deal, and we can’t fault Nintendo for wanting to celebrate: September 13th marked the 25th anniversary of the game’s launch, and Nintendo is pushing out special editions of the DSi and DSi XL (pictured) to celebrate, along with some pretty sweet swag. We mentioned the handhelds [...]

AutoCAD WS now available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch We knew it was coming, but today, Autodesk have released AutoCAD® WS for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Open DWG drawings uploaded to your free* AutoCAD WS online workspace See all aspects of your DWG file, including external references, layers, and image underlays Use Multi-Touch zoom [...]

Here are some of last week’s stories on CrunchGear: Twee Altoids Tin BBQ Grill For Micro-Cookouts I Want A Complete Set Of These Excellent Puma Cargo Bikes Round-up: Our Take On Apple?s New Media Devices Skitterbot Is A Creepy Electronic Cockroach Why Is There A Pony In The Apple Store? ELPIDA MEMORY EMC FIDELITY NATIONAL [...]

Kobo, the independent e-reader company that could, has updated its popular e-book. It gets a price-drop, a few tweaks and one big new feature. Kobo started out as client-software on mobile devices and now exists on everything from the iPad to the PC to the upcoming Blackberry PlayBook. It has also been selling well in [...]

How to get Apple to do a non-warranty repair [Tip] What’s the best way to get Apple to do a non-warranty repair on your bricked or broken iPhone or iPad? Simple: tell the truth. I have seen all kinds of schemes cooked up by people who have done something ill-advised to their devices. They have [...]

If you’ve been waiting for the special edition Star Wars R2D2 Droid 2 smartphone from Verizon, you’ll be happy to know that will be available on September 30th. Show off your geekiness by sporting a Droid 2 with cool R2D2 graphics on the back and exclusive Star Wars inspired content such as: Exclusive content comes [...]

  The up side to being the first kid on your block with an HSPA+ device? You get stupidly mad speeds on the T-Mobile G2. This comes not from our boy Jeremy Sikora’s G2, but from an anonymous tipster (geographically unknown as well as anonymous in name), so you can argue the validity all you [...]

ToDo for iPhone Updated to support local notifications and much, much more… ToDo for iPhone by Appigo has long been one of my favorite productivity apps.  I’ve been desperately waiting to see this app updated mainly with support for local notifications.  The fact that you’d have to open the app in order to update the [...]

Logitech expects to ship 500,000 Revues this year (but when do we get one?)   Note that "shipped" is not the same as "sold", but the Logitech, maker of the Revue Google TV  set-top box, expects to ship around 500,000 units through the end of this year. It was rumored earlier this month that the device would [...]

This HyperMac Stand for iPad from HyperShop looks surprisingly like the GroovyStand Dual I reviewed some time ago.  The HyperMac Stand is made of plastic instead of wood, and it has rubberized slots to protect the iPad.  It also has two slots that can accomdate the iPad in horizontal or vertical orientation, and it will hold a naked [...]

Filed under: E-mail, Google A while back, Henry Blodget caused a bit of a stir by informing the world that he really wasn’t a big fan of Gmail’s conversation view. At the time, however, it was love it or leave it — Gmail didn’t have an option to return to an old-fashioned, unthreaded inbox. That’s [...]

Apple releases iTunes 10.1 beta to test in-app iOS 4.2 AirPrint Alongside iOS 4.2 beta 2, Apple has also released iTunes 10.1 beta for developers to help them get their apps ready for the new firmware due in November. This is a pre-release version of iTunes 10.1 beta to support testing of printing from your [...]

Is BlackBerry’s iPad competitor about work or about Play(Book)? BlackBerry maker RIM didn’t name their new iPad competitor the BlackPad as rumored, they named it the PlayBook while at the same time saying it was geared towards enterprise. PlayBook may be a football reference but football isn’t enterprise and the first thing anyone will read [...]

Dell’s 7-inch Looking Glass tablet to launch within weeks   After being announced way back in April, and teased by CEO Michael Dell just recently, the Dell Looking Glass tablet is set to launch in the "next few weeks", according to The Wall Street Journal. They spoke to Dell’s own Greater China President, Amit Midha, [...]

Apple has updated its social network for music, Ping, which it released at the beginning of the month to less than rave reviews. The changes address a major complaint from users upon its initial rollout — the dearth of social features. To be sure, Apple hasn’t addressed all the issues — or even the main [...]