With the Samsung Galaxy S series of phones launching across the US, with its controversial Touch Wiz UI, it doesn’t surprise me that it has been made available for others. Developer rolle3k over at XDA-Developers has managed to create the Touch Wiz UI in a simple APK file. You heard that right. It’s not a [...]

It seems like everyone is trading in their current phone these days a shiny new smartphone. You pick out the phone of your dreams only to have hopes cruelly dashed when the sales clerk tells you they’re sold out. Oh, the humanity. Possibly as a result of the HTC Incredible and Evo shortages, rumors were [...]

enomther has released an update to Enomther`s [ROM] TheOfficial Nexus1 – v2.9.3.Now at version 2.9.3. 7/13/2010 – v2.9.3 — NOTE: Just a bug-revision update, had a few hours to look into these issues today.  – fixed – (perhaps) .. reduced kernel/boot.img size by a bunch, should solve the WRITE error on boot.img in recovery when [...]

With the Droid X making its way to the launch pad, it seems the Droid 2 is staying in the shadows. That is until BGR got their hands on Verizon’s summer catalog. Along with the Droid 2, we see an appearance from the Motorola Droid X, the LG Ally, and the HTC Droid Incredible. Confirmed [...]

ihtfp69 has released an update to Sky Raider 1.7 Beta [Froyo+Sense][GPS!!!] .Now at version v1.7. Change Log: v1.7 GPS works!!!! Added wallpapers Added voice library files Baked in the APN (MMS is temporarily broken, though) Added the TV OUT files (could not test this) We have a 3G phone again Added HTC Mail Added Chrome [...]

There has been a lot of Android tablets in the works, but very few to I actually find appealing. Coming in August with a $200 price tag, Velocity Micro’s Cruz reader is serving as an ebook reader. Of course, Velocity Micro has bigger plans for their tablet line offering a $300 tablet with 4GB more [...]

Three weeks ago, we learned that the Samsung Galaxy S has been rooted. With the U.S. variants making their way to their respected carriers soon, the question has been asked. Will the same root method work for all Galaxy S devices? Yes. Thanks again to the community over at XDA, with some minor tweaking, this [...]

Eugene373 has released an update to Froyo RC1~ Now Daily Driver Form! *7/13/2010*.Now at version RC1. *Change Log* -Camera Works, Just no Preview. -Camcorder is Still Broken -Youtube Video working -BT works & Now Picks up Devices / BT Calling untested.. No BT -Wifi Works. -Charging Light now Goes out after un-plugging -Keyboard FN button [...]

Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse, has gone on record stating that Sprint is still considering a merger with T-Mobile at some point down the road. Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company feels that T-Mobile is doing well, even though reports are suggesting that T-Mobile will die in 2011. Sprint feels that a merger would be beneficial to [...]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is by far the most appealing tablet we’ve seen in the works so far and in a recent interview with Forbes,  we are seeing more features of this tablet come to light. JK Shin, Samsung’s Mobile chief, tells Forbes that the Samsung Galaxy Tab will feature 2 cameras, one for taking [...]

Two weeks ago, the Samsung Galaxy S hit 100k units sold in Korea and just days after that, the device reached 200k devices sold. There is no slowing this device down as they have now hit 300k units sold. The Samsung Galaxy S is being sold exclusively with SK Telecom in South Korea and obviously [...]

chromersmith has released an update to [2.1] [G1,MT3G, MT3G1.2, Dream, Magic] Chromatic 3.9 .Now at version v3.9. Includes: Full ROM Google Apps Major theming Anderwebs` newest launcher (all themed up) Compcache upped to 32mb from 12mb. *recommended for all G1 users* OC/Multi Task kernel included (must install SetCPU here) Changelog: SMS notification and icon changed [...]

This is the second OTA update to hit the Droid X in less than a month. The updates file was 18Mb, but Phil, from Android Central, explains that his device is still an Android 2.1 update1. With the update to 1.13.604 from 1.13.516, Phil cannot see any noticeable change in the device. The Droid X is getting [...]

The Motorola Charm is not the Android superphone that most of you were expecting for T-Mobile, but people are still excited about this device. The fully exposed keyboard gives it a Blackberry look, but with the punch of any other Android device. The Charm has been advertised on T-Mobile’s Back to School promotion as this [...]

LeeDroid has released an update to LeeDrOiD Mod V1.2a (13/07/10 l Froyo+Sense l Odexed l Fast l Stable l free space!).Now at version v1.2a. Changelog: V1.2a Fixed update script Fixed fixsuperm Fixed false widget Reduced size What you get : Based on UDk`s 2.2 sense rom odexed system files 120mb Free space on 1st boot! [...]