We’ve all gone through the dilemma of painful battery life on our Android devices. You root your device just install a custom ROM from one of the awesome developers in the community simply to get battery life from the optimized kernels. But the question that is asked time and time again is Why do we [...]

CyanogenMod 7 has made its way to an interesting “new” device. Remember the HTC Universal? If not, here’s a quick refresher for you — the phone was originally released almost seven years ago, back in 2005. It was the world’s first 3G device to boast a VGA 3.5″ pivoting screen and it originally came sporting Windows [...]

Well looky what we have here. Android on a Windows Mobile device, sort of. XDA member lesscro has gone and done it. He has put his skills to work to create a skin for Windows Mobile devices with screen resolutions of 480X800, like the HD2. The skin is built to mimic the look and feel [...]

There are no end of rumors flying the Internet and it’s always hard to know whether to pick them up and run with it or simply ignore it as pure and utter garbage.  When someone hits you up who you’ve never heard of before and tells you some news that is so big, it could [...]

Call this a knockout if you will. One UK online retailer, MobilesPlease, reported on its blog that Android phones are outselling Windows Phone 7 (WP7) by a whopping 15:1 margin. According to the MobilesPlease blog: Windows Phone 7 has got off to a sluggish start as far as our customers are concerned, accounting for just 3% [...]

Last week I sent these questions to Jonathan Sasse of Slacker Radio.  He was kind enough to answer all of the questions that I asked him.  If you haven’t heard, Slacker Radio is one of the leading streaming music providers in the United States.  They offer an app on every major smartphone and tablet platform. [...]

Are you still wondering why Netflix has not yet released an Android version of its app? After a recent announcement of Netflix on the Windows Phone 7 platform, Netflix finally decided to speak on the absence of the Android version of the streaming app. The product development team, via The Netflix Blog, provided an update on [...]

WOW, I wish I had that much spare cash to burn…LOL. Recently launched on the EZGrill channel on YouTube is this latest hilarious showdown between the T-Mobile G2, an iPhone 4 and Windows Mobile 7 device as they take the term “cook off” to an absolute extreme. The guys at EZGrill actually took the 3 [...]

Not only is this little device supposed to dual boot between Windows 7 and Android, but it also has dual touch screens making it stand out a little more then just a dual boot piece of hardware. Mintpass is known in Korea for its Mintpad that was released back in 2008. It has been a [...]

According to an article on the Wall Street Journals Blog it does. Lets take a look at these charts for a minute. I can honestly say I am not overly surprised by this graph. iPhone users have a much higher credit card spending habit then any one else. Statistically of course. If we take into [...]

  Looking for a tablet that offers the best of both worlds in terms of operating systems? Then this 10” multi-touch device might just be what you are looking for. Meet the ViewSonic ViewPad 10 – the bigger, dual-booting brother of the Android Viewpad 7. The ViewPad 10 can run either Android OS or Windows 7. The [...]

If you’ve been following recent development news on the HTC HD2, then you probably know by now that the HD2, codename Leo, is on the verge of a breakthrough that will transform this device forever. The HD2, which was released by T-Mobile US in late March, is a beautiful piece of hardware. It’s equipped with [...]

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Android BBQ in Austin and asked at one of the seminars what the developers and the rest of the folks in the room thought about the upcoming release of the Windows 7 Phone.  Basically everyone roared with laughter and had outright dismissed Microsoft with shouts [...]

Swype is in the record books once again for breaking the record for fastest typing on a mobile device. This time it shattered the record with an Android device – the Samsung Galaxy S! It took Melissa Thompson of Salford, England, 25.94 seconds to become the Guinness World Record holder for fastest typing on a [...]

So, it looks like HTC has an event planned in London. Well, we’re going to generalize what could launch and leave it alone. With all of the device names we have heard lately and images floating around, I really can’t point my finger to one device. The only devices that we can associate to Europe [...]