-
Sprint HTC Evo 4G Teardown
Now that the Sprint Evo 4G is getting into people’s hands, its come time for someone to do a full teardown of the device, and the folks over at ifixit have done just that. One of the interesting things to note is that it has the Broadcom BCM4329 chip, which is capable of 802.11n, even…
-
Samsung i897 Coming To At&t
Time for another high-end Android phone to join the market, this time its by Samsung and reportedly coming to At&t. Back in January, we reported on the Samsung Galaxy, with recent reports showing the Galaxy S is coming to T-Mobile this year. Now there’s another Samsung device, which is very similar to the Galaxy S,…
-
Notes From Google I/O 2010
Google’s putting on the largest developer event of the year, May 19th-20th 2010, The Google I/O 2010. While they’ll be discussing various Google apps such as Google Chrome, the Google API’s, GWT, App Engine, and open web technologies, we’re mainly interested in Android. This year there will be about 80 sessions, more than 5,000 developers,…
-
NVIDIA Tegra 2 Coming To Android
Most of us probably recall watching a demo video of what the original NVIDIA Tegra chip was capable of since it had most of us drooling over the graphics. There’s only been a couple of phones that have used this chip, the newest being Microsoft’s Kin One and Kin Two. During NVIDIA’s financial report, their…
-
HTC Wildfire Announced
HTC has announced its newest Android handset, the Wildfire. Its an entry-level Android 2.1 device with a smaller screen and a slower processor than the Desire and Legend. It features a 3.2″ QVGA capacitive touchscreen, 5MP camera with LED flash and auto-focus, and the usual Bluetooth, GPS, and WiFi. It has the MSM7225 chipset clocked…
-
PPCGeeks REVIEW: The HTC Incredible
Hello Users! Courtesy of Verizon Wireless, we here at PPCGeeks.Com took a moment and got in depth with the HTC Incredible, a luxury Android 2.1 smartphone. Since late April, the Incredible has been making eyes bulge and mouths water as they took look at the sleek, light, and FAST device, featuring more RAM and a…
-
Google Closing Down Phone Web Store – Changes Coming
We all knew the Nexus One was a project by Google to help change the wireless industry as we know it. They were hoping to make things more open, similar to how GSM operates. By selling an unlocked phone, they were hoping to be able to offer it on every major US carrier, but that…
-
Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G To Debut June 4th
For those of you drooling over the upcoming Sprint Evo 4G Android phone, you don’t have to wait much longer! Sprint has officially announced its availability on June 4th for $199 on contract of course. There’s no mention of required plans to get that price either. Sprint has also announced the ability to do video…
-
Android 2.2 450% Faster Than Android 2.1…Sometimes
The folks over at AndroidPolice are lucky enough to have a Nexus One running Froyo, Android 2.2. You’ve probably seen the slight changes to the homescreen, heard about Flash 10.1 finally coming to Android, make more RAM available for the Nexus One, possibly activate the FM Receiver/Transmitter in the Nexus One, and that it will…
-
Rumor: Sprint Giving Up On Nexus One Too?
With the recent announcement of Verizon giving up on the Nexus One in favor of its HTC Droid Incredible, it looks like Sprint may be doing the same thing in favor of its upcoming HTC Evo 4G. Even though Sprint had an official press release back in March, announcing the Google Nexus One is coming,…
-
Android “Shakes Up” Smartphone Market according to NPD Group
The leading market research company, The NPD Group, has announced that Android has surpassed Apple’s OS market (primarily being the IPhone) to be now only behind RIM in the mobile market. Based on unit sales to consumers last quarter, the Android operating system moved into second place at 28 percent behind RIM’s OS (at 36…
-
Verizon HTC Droid Incredible Update Available
Even though the Verizon HTC Droid Incredible wasn’t released too long ago, they’re already pushing out an OTA update which offers “improved functionality for composing and sending business email”. The update is about 3.5MB and can be installed over the air. For instructions on how to do this, please see this PDF from Verizon.
-
Skyfire 2.0 Available For Android
We already knew Skyfire was working on an Android version of their popular Windows Mobile browser, and that it was in Alpha testing. Now, on the same day that the Droid Incredible hits Verizon stores, Skyfire has released a public beta, available in the Market and on the web. The big news is the new…
-
No More Nexus One On Verizon!
If you’ve been waiting for the Google Nexus One to become available on Verizon Wireless, Google just spoiled your plans. If you remember, back when the Nexus One was launched for T-Mobile, they said a Verizon version would be available this Spring. Now Google is telling you to just buy a Droid Incredible by HTC…
-
Android Market on track to surpass Apple App Store
Google’s efforts to market the Android OS platform to software developers appears to be working. A strong open source community combined with developer events and free developer phones have lead to droves of applications popping up in the official android marketplace. It’s no wonder Steve Jobs and Apple have recently been in the news seemingly…
