Today at Google’s Press Conference, they introduced what they say will be the next best thing in mobile payments. They have named this product Google Wallet. Google Wallet will work hand in hand with Near Field Communication, or NFC for short. For those of you who do not know how NFC works, here is a [...]

The power of the Android community is something that HTC underestimated, and after a large scale petition was unleashed on HTC to try and influence their decision to lock bootloaders, HTC announced that they where going to review their policy on locking bootloaders on Android devices.  They had so much feedback from the community that they just announced [...]

I am in SHOCK!!!  I’m not joking, this amazes me.  The first phone that was going to push the limits of what Android could be.  The hardware sounded like it could easily have lounged at the top of the food chain but Sony Ericsson decided to launch it with a very outdated version of Android. [...]

We have a few updates regarding the exploit-heard-round-the-world. Manufacturers  along with a few security sites have contacted Android Police in regards to the discoveries that occurred last night. One of those security sites, Lookout, has aptly named this trojan “DroidDream“, which was the name most commonly used in the coding of the exploit. More details [...]

It was ultimately unavoidable, sooner or later someone would take advantage of the open-state of our wonderful OS and attempt to exploit and use it for malicious purposes, and this day has come unfortunately.  The Android Market was flooded with 21 clones of popular apps. Lompolo from Reddit discovered that these duplicated versions were injected [...]

HTC had just officially announced the HTC Merge Friday, and as far as release date we just got “Spring of 2011″. However, Ebay seller xyellowfrizbee didn’t feel you should have to wait, as this unreleased device has been put up for auction on Ebay and is ready for Verizon activation. The phone is said to [...]

While we don’t have any pricing or an exact date on this release T-Mobile did state via Twitter that they would indeed inherit the new superpower amongst the Galaxy S line. Of course this really comes as no surprise with them also carrying the new Galaxy S 4G. This phone however is no comparison to [...]

Best Buy announced that their Buy Back program has been extended to February 26th. In order to qualify for this option you must purchase the Buy Program option, At $69.99, upon buying your device. It’s currently being offered on new laptops, netbooks, tablets, contracted-phones, and TV purchases. Any device enrolled in this promotion will give [...]

Not a huge amount of information came about from the live blogs that I have been reading.  Basically LG has attempted to find that perfect medium regarding tablet size.  ”The right size needs to be struck so it’s big enough to be useful, but small enough to carry around.”  The Optimus Pad is a tablet [...]

LG is currently holding their news conference over at Mobile World Congress.  They have just announced (officially) the LG Optimus 3D.  With dual-core processors and dual memory channels this phone is designed for power and speed.  LG ran Quadrant for the attendees and it’s result was 2,958. The processor is a TI OMAP4 (Model 4430) running [...]

The new Snapdragon family is built to offer the highest performance but sipping the least amount of power.  It is built upon 28nm technology, codenamed “Krait.” The new family will come in “single-core MSM8930™, the dual-core MSM8960™ and the quad-core APQ8064™” flavors.  With speeds up to 2.5GHz per core, delivering 65% lower power usage, as [...]

All of LG’s phones and tablets had already been announced (or ads played)  prior to Mobile World Congress, or so it would seem.  In the past month we have either had hands on, benchmarked, or have seen obnoxious advertisements for their upcoming products.  The Press release below states that YouTube and LG have teamed up [...]

The Galaxy Tab 10.1″ is coming to a country far from you – if you are stateside, that is.  Engadget reports this: Samsung says the 10.1 will be launching in March in both Asia and Europe — Vodafone will be the first carrier to nab the Tab — but it had absolutely no timing details [...]

Rogers customers can begin celebrating now.  The Xperia Arc and Xperia Play are both confirmed to be coming to Rogers.  Rogers is the largest wireless operator in Canada so this is a great announcement for many of you in the north. As many of our readers might remember – Simon, Allen, and myself all were [...]

Hot off the CES debut of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc come three new phones.  Below are just the standard photos with a quick breakdown of the specifications for each phone.  I will dive into more detail after I read the press releases.  I just wanted to get these out to the masses. Xperia Play [...]