It looks like most of you Motorola Milestone users in Latin America were not too happy with Motorola's previous news that your device would not be seeing the Android 2.2 update. Well, you might want to know that Motorola has listened and is now taking another look at getting you that update. They have changed their update status to "under evaluation" and has sent this statement via Twitter: “To realize the call made by you guys [we] decided to reassess the possibility of upgrading the Milestone w / Android 2.2″ “We are working together with our partners and thus q we ...

Logitech plans on introducing Google TV to the world with the Logitech Revue and how else would you market your latest product? Easy, scare the hell out of them. Logitech has released three new "lonely TV" ads that are just plain creepy. Each advertisement shows how the modern family spends time indulging in the latest technology and how your TV simply can't compete with smartphones and other mobile devices; it is clear they want to bring everything back to the television. Below are the three new advertisements all in one place. Enjoy!       Via: YouTube and Android Police   If you made it through all three, ...

A huge announcement came this afternoon stating that HTC, the handset manufacturer of the G1, has officially joined the rapidly growing list of sponsors for the Android Barbecue which will be taking place at Fiesta Gardens in Austin, TX. As everyone should already know, the event will kick off its activities on Friday, October 1st leading up to the barbecue on Sunday the 3rd. HTC sponsoring the event is huge, as their device was the world's first consumer encounter with the Android OS.  HTC continues to bring new and innovative Android devices to the world, through the many wireless networks. The ...

Samsung's Galaxy S device offers a beautiful Super AMOLED display and the good thing is, Samsung has already made protecting it one of their top priorities. By using Corning's Gorilla Glass, the Super AMOLED display can take all kinds bumps and bruises and the display goes unscathed. We're not saying you should be totally careless with your Galaxy S device, but it takes a lot more to damage the display than you might think. You might remember the scratch and dent treatment this device has had before, knowing that Gorilla Glass is on the device, you can ease up a ...

The Dow Jones Newswire is reporting that LG, the 3rd largest handset manufacturer in the world  (which only holds 1.2 percent of the smartphone category) is releasing 10 more smartphones before the end of the year.  You may remember earlier this year that LG said they would roll out 20 new smartphones with a majority of them being Android devices. So far, we've only seen the LG Ally, a mid-range qwerty slider on Verizon Wireless. Chang Ma, LG's Vice President of Marketing for their handset division, told Dow Jones that the majority of the handsets would be on the Android ...

Android tablets worth buying haven't hit the market yet, so we are forced to wait on top manufacturers to bring us something that's worth a damn. The latest development going down now is that Acer and Motorola are working on bringing a little more to the table. Gingerbread anyone? According to Digitimes, Acer has decided to wait another quarter until they can throw Android 3.0 in their device instead of shipping them early with Froyo. Acer's original plan was to launch their ARM/Android-based tablet in Q4 of 2010 but since Google is expected to introduce Android 3.0 in Q4, they ...

The Droid Guy, for Androidspin.com Verizon vs Sprint, Sprint vs Verizon, everyone loves a huge battle and no one predicted last year that at this time this year we'd have an actual toe-to-toe style brawl between two MEAN pieces of hardware.  Enter the Samsung Epic 4G and the Verizon Motorola Droid 2. Until recently if you wanted a top notch Android "Superphone" with a Qwerty keyboard you had one choice and that was Droid 1, released last November and that was pretty much it.  There have been several mid-range slide out qwerty keyboard Android phones but for top shelf there is now ...

First, we'd like to thank Samsung for providing this device for a review period so that we are able to reach out to the community and let you guys know what we think of the device compared to other Android phones out on the market. So let’s get started. Let's start off by finding out what's inside the box.  Open the box and you will find: the handset charger usb cable 2GB sd card getting started guide, and a few other manuals. See below. Physical As far as the outer casing of the phone, the Intercept is aesthetically pleasing to the eye. It has a nice form ...

I have got to hand it to the guys over at xda-developers. As soon as something new drops, someone somewhere is rooting it for us. Where would we be with out these guys? XDA -Dev Senior member netarchy has already gained root on the 2.2 Froyo update that just came out yesterday. Here is all the relevant information from netarchy. "Have at it folks. You might be able to just flash this over the leaked ota, but I advise doing a full wipe before flashing just to be safe. MD5 Sums: f11ac5b0cc1548c722f8df32440a312a - HTC-OTA-3.26.651.6-Final-Froyo-Rooted-Odexed-netarchy-signed.zip a3d42bf93dce2977748b90d5084d1b44 - Wimax26023.zip 85c7f0e31c66c80397dcc3cece0f5c76 - Radio-2.15.00.07.28.zip HTC OTA Froyo 2.2, *FINAL*, build 3.36.651.6 ...

The HTC Glacier isn't entirely new. It was running around in the rumor mills back in June of this year. Since then, nothing has surfaced about this phone until now.  Recently the device name appeared on the GLBenchmark 1.1 online database. The numbers look great on paper. The fastest HTC device available right now is the EVO 4G running at 516 frames. The HTC Glacier is pushing 1432 frames. That's nearly 3 times as fast as the EVO 4G and just slightly outdoes the Samsung Vibrant. I can make at least one conclusion from this and it is just my own ...

We are all familiar with CyanogenMod by now, I hope. He and his team are probably the most widely know developers for bringing updates to phones that wouldn't normally ever see them, as well as making the OTA updates perform better. Without them, the G1 would never see anything beyond 1.6 Donut. Needless to say, they bring a lot of wonderful work  to the forefront and share with us Android fans all over the word. XDA member vatoloco just released a port of CyanogenMod nightly build for the TouchPro. It is still in an experimental state so be prepared for some ...

Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation took a Nexus One and strapped it to a Intimidator-5 rocket and sent it soaring 28,000 feet straight up. “The purpose of flying the Nexus One is to find a low-cost satellite solution,” says Thomas Atchison, chairman of the Mavericks Foundation. “The radio, processing power, sensors and cameras in smartphones potentially have the same capability as those in satellites.” He continued on to say, “If you put a Nexus One in orbit, how will it perform?” he says. “How does the device handle the thermal temperature and vibrations. We wanted to see the results.” The Nexus One hitched ...

PCWorld wrote a nice article defining "Why Android Will Win the Mobile Platform War." "When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." quote by John M. Richardson, Jr. The same rings true in the cell industry. Android's definitely in the "ones that make it happen" category. I'll let you place the others where you wish. 1. Flexibility - An open platform based around Linux, another open platform, leaves the future wide open for development. Users have more freedom to do what they wish with their ...

According to a recent release by DigiTimes, Acer is going to be showing off its 10.1-inch dual boot netbook at the 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show scheduled for August 5th -  9th. According to industry sources, it will be the first Dual boot OS netbook to hit the Taiwan market. The pricing isn't too bad either considering it's Android and Windows XP. Here's what you'd be looking to spend for the Acer Aspire One: AOD 255,  US$370 or NT$11,900 overseas. How would you like to officially buy a netbook that dual boots to the OS of your choice? Source: talkandroid and DigiTimes

In my opinion, Steve Jobs is spending way too much time and money trying to prove his phone is not the only one with reception issues. My suggestion is "fix it." HTC runs out of AMOLED screens and they find an alternative. Why can't Steve look at an actual solution? I must say, the latest pokes have sure given some of the manufacturers something to play with in their market campaigns. Take a look at the latest ad that will run in today's papers for the DROID X. A good photo of your phone helps it sell but it's the statement ...