A month ago, a small American carrier known as U.S.Cellular announced through Facebook that they will be carrying the Android powered phone known as the Samsung Acclaim, but they didn’t provide any image of the phone. Later, Engadget showed us an image claiming that it was the Samsung Acclaim, but unfortunately they were wrong. We [...]

If you’ve got one of the small WebStation tablets from Camangi, you may want to head over to the Camangi support site and download the latest update.  The update is still cupcake but it adds some functionality and fixes a few bugs. Summary of Release Note (WS171 Revision2 RTM2) Release Date： 2010-06-14 Model：WS171 OS：1.5 Kernel： [...]

The same amazing developer who brought us HelixLauncher, Faruq Rasid, has now brought us a one of a kind app, and great one at that. This app proves that there are no limits to a developer on Android with a very innovative idea. QuickDesk is an app that lets you set a combination of widgets [...]

We’ve seen what Verizon has to offer soon as they are preparing to launch their two newest members of the Droid series, the Droid 2 and the Droid X. AT&T released the HTC Aria today as what people are concluding as an HTC “budget phone.” The only other carrier that has been doing well with [...]

We’ve all been waiting for more information on the top secret Motorola Droid 2.  We now have some new information for you as I managed to get my hands on the new device for a short time. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to take any photos.  You’ll just have to use the photo from DroidLife [...]

Artifex14 has release an update to his Hero based ROM for the T-Mobile G1/T-Mobile MT3G called HTC Hero 2.1 Artifexed.  Currently at Version 03 Beta.  We don’t have a changelog yet, but the new ROM is available for download. UPDATE: Changelog has now been added. Changelog: v03: new base: Smoki 6.9 camera broken LWP and [...]

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any better with TheShack and T-Mobile offering rip roaring deals on all their phones for Father’s Day, Amazon has jumped on the bandwagon and is offering all T-Mobile phones for just a Penny until June 21st. So if you missed out on the deals yesterday, fear not, head over to [...]

Cyanogen has dropped the next version of his Stable ROMs all at the same time.  The new version 5.0.8 has been released for the Dream/G1, MT3G and Nexus. Cyanogen and his team have become very organized and controlled in their releases and anyone wanting to seriously start developing for the Android platform, or any other platform come [...]

We hope you all got the gifts you wanted and have a very happy and relaxing fathers day.  Did you get breakfast in bed? Have you sent the kids out to mow the lawn yet? Did you get your free device from T-Mobile for their fathers day special? With so much going on in the [...]

Hi folks, we are back again with another “This week in Android” weekly review. I hope you like this regular segment by AndroidSPIN. If you missed something during the week, you can easily browse through the weeks headlines. This week has been very busy, thanks to our first full time writer, Alex Smith. Alex will be sourcing [...]