How much did you pay for your shiny new Smartphone?  Is it made of rubber and protected?  Do you throw it in your pocket with anything else or in your purse with the rest of your daily necessities?  In the good old days when your phone didn’t cost much and maybe it was a flip [...]

Hello my Android friends. Another episode of The ManDroid Show has come upon us. I totally forgot to add the hot nerdy girl of the week. Next week it will for sure be back. Enjoy the show! News topics T=Mobile pushing ads on notification bars? HTC One S coming to T-Mobile April 22nd? Google selling [...]

O2 in the UK originally aimed for a mid April release date for an Ice Cream Sandwich update to their Samsung Galaxy S II customers. Looks like they beat that target by a few weeks. I personally don’t mind getting an update a head of schedule rather than dealing with another push back. The update [...]

I can remember back in my early teens, dropping $10 or $20 a week in the SNK machine at the  bowling alley. Mostly playing Samurai Showdown, Metal Slug and of course, The King of Fighters. It is a classic side scrolling fighting game with 20 fighters to choose from. It features five various game modes to keep [...]

Samsung might not always have an amazing track record getting updates out to their devices. It isn’t always their fault, the carriers to play a n integral role as well. They do however keep their open source portal pretty well updated. Last week Samsung dropped the Ice Cream Sandwich update (Android 4.0) to various regional versions of the Galaxy S II.  While [...]

Oh that dreaded bloatware. Us die hard Android users hate seeing the carrier smear their apps all over the app drawer. Apps we do not care about, nor do we need. Rooting the device and getting a ROM that does not have any bloatware is the nice luxury that us Android users have. Now there are certain [...]

In the wonderful world of Android that we live in, there are a few constants that many can count on. Many of which aren’t timely updates from a manufacturer or the death of a despised UI. The constants the exist in our lives and keep up going and buying these high-end devices lands solely on [...]

Rumors fly around the web like wild fires in the high desert. But guess what, this one isn’t a rumor anymore. Instead it is an actual announcement from Samsung from both their Twitter account and Facebook page. Looks like the original slip up last week stating the 10th was pretty close. Even though Samsung official [...]

Welcome once again my Android friends, to another (hopefully) great episode of The ManDroid Show. I think this one might be the last full Friday show. Hoping to break things off into three seperate videos next week. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday will be when they arrive. Triple shot of me with short bursts. Anyways, enjoy [...]

Heads up Samsung Galaxy S II owners! Your long wait is almost over and that purchase is about to pay off. Thanks to a heads up from The Verge, we now know Sammy has officially announced the highly anticipated update to Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich for the SGSII. The update will be available [...]

Like many, I use Dropbox and Box as my preferred storage location for photos and videos. Some of you may not be aware that many carriers also offer similar services to their customers. T-Mobile does, it is called MobileLife Album. Similar to what you are already used to with out the ability upload and retrieve other file [...]

Many of you may remember when the White Samsung Galaxy S II launched back in December. At the time, the only way you could get your hands on one was to go online, order one and wait for it to ship out to your doorstep. As of tomorrow, March 8th, all that changes. Thanks to [...]

Samsung is hands down the leader in smartphone sales around the globe. Shipping nearly 300 million handsets in 2011, they have single-handedly dominated the market since the first Galaxy S device came to light. While many other manufacturers have done quiet well for themselves, Samsung and what is next, is a hot topic everywhere. While their [...]

Good golly, miss Molly! Looky what the rumor mill has dropped in our laps this morning, good ladies and gentlemen of the Android community. Thanks to a claim from ZDNet Korea, an April launch date has been confirmed for the Samsung Galaxy S III, by Cheil Worldwide, Samsung’s marketing and advertising agency. Apparently, the firm has [...]

It should really come as no surprise that Samsung is winning more awards and selling phones like hotcakes. Samsung was just awarded two prestigious awards today by the GSMA, hosts of the MWC.  Taking home ‘The Best Smartphone” award and “Device Manufacturer of the Year.” Last year HTC took home the award for best device manufacturer. Samsung [...]