Category: Android News

Android 2.2 "Froyo" is Almost Here, and it's Going to be FAST

Android 2.2 “Froyo” is Almost Here, and it’s Going to be FAST

Our good friends over at AndroidPolice have their hands “all up in the ‘Froyo’”, snagging a tasty build of Android 2.2 for their Nexus one.  Of all of the rumored features of the upcoming Android 2.2 release (Adobe Flash, Apps2SD, 3D improvements etc.), the “Fuzz” is calling out Froyo as an absolute speed demon based [...]

Sprint Rejects The Nexus One?

Sprint Rejects The Nexus One?

As first reported by our pals over at Gizmodo, Sprint won’t be selling the once highly touted super phone, The Google Nexus One. Reports say with the upcoming release of the HTC Evo 4G, Sprint rejects the sale of the Nexus One similar to what Verizon has done with the HTC Droid Incredible.
What does [...]

Entry-level Android ZTE Link hits Bouygues Telecom in France

Entry-level Android ZTE Link hits Bouygues Telecom in France

Our friends over at Android France hit us up today dropping the scoop on Bouygues Telecom’s latest budget Android, the ZTE Link. The Link is is a 3.2″ resistive screen Android 1.6 handset, aimed at the budget market with an entry-level price.
Aa 3.2 Megapixel camera, Qualcomm MSM7227 CPU (though clock speed is absent), 100MB ROM [...]

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide Gets Official - Coming in June

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide Gets Official – Coming in June

T-Mobile USA, Inc. has added a new handset to its T-Mobile myTouch 3G lineup of smartphones running under Google’s Android operating system, namely the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slider. According to the press released today, the myTouch 3G Slide is set to become available for purchase in June, bringing to the table a spacious QWERTY keyboard, [...]

Aigo-n700 A New Tablet In The Market With Android 2.1

Aigo-n700 A New Tablet In The Market With Android 2.1

With a name that we could include in a famous manufacturer of phones, the N700 Aigo is the bet to enter the world of tablets of the Chinese firm specializing in mobile devices. Further evidence that no one wants to stay out of this sweet young business.
Aigo N700 is a new Tablet Android that has [...]

HTC EVO 4G Spotted in a Sprint store - Price tag says It's Free

HTC EVO 4G Spotted in a Sprint store – Price tag says It’s Free

Mr. Blurry cam man has spotted the upcoming HTC EVO for Sprint. Apparently someone from PPCGeeks forum saw the device on display at a Sprint Retail store and took a picture with his Touch Pro 2. Now what does this means to us? Well, perhaps Sprint Managers are training their staff with this beast or [...]

Droid Incredible Getting Some Nasty Reboots

Droid Incredible Getting Some Nasty Reboots

Members of the Verizon Forums are reporting that they are getting some random reboots on their Droid Incredible. The cause of the reboot appears to be a low signal from the Verizon towers which causes the phone to reboot it self.
My incredible (purchased at the store this morning) kept rebooting… I took it back [...]

Samsung Galaxy 3 Already In The Works

Samsung Galaxy 3 Already In The Works

One of the next models to be launched by Samsung to the market is the i5800 a.k.a Samsung Galaxy 3, i5800 / i5801. Well, According to i5800’s UA profile, the device has the Android browser, which is quite clear that the operating system will be Android (though not which version). The screen resolution is [...]

First Advertisement Of The Android Samsung Galaxy-S

First Advertisement Of The Android Samsung Galaxy-S

Looks like the first TV commercial for the Samsung Gallaxy S just went live and it sure does look kind of cool. I’ll let you folks watch the video and then I can tell you all about this phone.

The Samsung Galaxy S will be powered by a 1GHz processor, and shoots 720p HD videos with [...]

Twitter's Official App For Android Is Out

Twitter’s Official App For Android Is Out

Android may currently may not be at-par with iPhone Apps but, it is surely covering ground. There has been many Twitter Apps around but have not delivered much when it came to a feature-packed App.
Twitter itself has made it easy with itself officials interacting with the officials at Google and finally, coming up with Twitter’s [...]

HTC Q2 Sales Are Going To Be Impressive, Android Is the Reason

HTC Q2 Sales Are Going To Be Impressive, Android Is the Reason

HTC are expecting another jump in sales in Q2, up to $1.6 billion from $33 million in the first quarter as they they look to shift 4.5 million handsets. The Financial Times quotes Chief Financial Officer, Cheng Hui-ming..
From our first and second quarter numbers, you can clearly see that we have maintained competitiveness and can [...]

Review: HTC Desire Flip Case from MobileFun.co.uk

Review: HTC Desire Flip Case from MobileFun.co.uk

Here at LeakDroid we don’t just love Android phones, we also love Android phone accessories. Whether it be a dock for your new phone, a skin or simply a protective case, we love them. Here we are looking at a leather case for the HTC Desire available through our favourite online retailer in the [...]

Google I/O 2010 Developers Conference Schedule Announced

Google I/O 2010 Developers Conference Schedule Announced

Today Google announced the schedule for their 2010 I/O Developer Conference sin San Francisco.  I/O is dedicated to developers who are interested in learning more about Google’s products, ranging from Android and Chrome, to Enterprise, Social Web, and Fireside Chats.  In short, it covers all things Google, and not only is there a lot to [...]

Fennec for Android 2.0+ Goes Live - Public

Fennec for Android 2.0+ Goes Live – Public

Looks like the long waited Firefox Mobile browser Fennec has finally landed.The guys (Michael Wu, Brad Lassey, Alex Pakhotin ) from Vladimir Vukicevic have officially released Fennec to the public but it’s “pre-alpha” stage. This means there are still some bugs with this build and they want us to give them a feedback.
We should [...]

LG GT540 Optimus Ready For UK Launch on May 1st

LG GT540 Optimus Ready For UK Launch on May 1st

We reported last month about the availability of the LG GT540 device from April 30th on Play.com. Originally named the Swift (and still is on play.com), the device is now named the LG Optimus and is supposed to drop in the UK on May 1st.
Although it is not known if the phone will only be [...]

HTC Desire Delayed for the O2 Network (UK)

HTC Desire Delayed for the O2 Network (UK)

Bad news for people of the UK who like to enjoy the Android experience and are contracted to the O2 network. The HTC Desire was due for release round about now, but it looks as if it’s availability has been put back to May.
The O2 Blog are reporting that due to further testing the [...]

Vodafone UK says April 30th is Google Nexus One Day

Vodafone UK says April 30th is Google Nexus One Day

The Google Nexus One is nearing  launch on Vodafone in the UK, due for release into their retail stores on April 30th.  The Google N1 made waves when it was first announced back on January 5th, and this is the first opportunity that Great Britons can get their hands on a fully subsidized Google Nexus [...]

HTC Issues an Apology for the HTC Hero Update Delay

HTC Issues an Apology for the HTC Hero Update Delay

So HTC has appologized to owners of the HTC Hero handset due to the delay of Android 2.1 once again. The handset was released last year and users of the device are still running Android OS 1.5 (Cupcake).
The update was first expected at the turn of the year, but was pushed back to March-April, and [...]

Watch Two FREE Movies On Your HTC Desire Courtesy of T-Mobile (UK)

Watch Two FREE Movies On Your HTC Desire Courtesy of T-Mobile (UK)

Good news for T-Mobile UK customers that have purchased or are purchasing a new HTC Desire. T-Mobile are going to bring a video service offered by Saffron Digital to their customers via a partnership with Warner Bros. In the first month of purchasing the HTC Desire users will be able to get access to Warner [...]

ZTE Racer Running Android OS 1.6 to Hit the UK

ZTE Racer Running Android OS 1.6 to Hit the UK

Looks like ZTE will be taking the UK by storm. The company said they will be releasing ten handsets into the wild and that’s all before the end of 2010. The Chinese manufacturing firm said two of these handsets will run Google’s Android OS with the first one being named the “Racer”. The bad thing [...]

Breaking: Blackberry Joins Android!

Breaking: Blackberry Joins Android!

This just came in Blackberry has joined the open handset alliance “Android” RIM has officially dump it’s Blackberry-OS and all new Blackberry devices will be ship out with Google’s Android-OS. We didn’t see this one coming but it’s official.
Noooo not really this is not true! Apparently the guys from Bestbuy got mess up with [...]

WARNING!

WARNING!

First let me start this post of by saying I am 100% behind Android and hope it succeeds. With that out of the way, let’s begin. Android won’t succeed if it keeps going down the same route that it is going. Why? Its becoming a flooded market. It seems like [...]

Android 3.0 Is Coming And This Could Be The Real Deal - Froyo & Gingerbread

Android 3.0 Is Coming And This Could Be The Real Deal – Froyo & Gingerbread

Few days ago we reported that the guys from AndroidAndMe.com spotted Android 2.2 on their analytics reports data. Well, Today I’m very excited to let you guys know that our server has pick-up a Android version 3.0. After checking our daily view stats I was digging the top Web-browsers that our readers use (Just for [...]

BMORN Shows Its 8.9 Inch Android Tablet

BMORN Shows Its 8.9 Inch Android Tablet

Looks like another tablet will join the Android Tablet war. BMorn is a consumer electronics company based in China. According to the folks at Shanzai.com, the company is best known for making GPS systems and protable media players (mp3, mp4, DVD & MID).
The company just started to show off it’s Android 8.9 inch touchscreen tablet [...]

Dell Tegra 2 Will Hit The Streets in November

Dell Tegra 2 Will Hit The Streets in November

Dell Looking Glass, is a 7-inch tablet will appear on the market in November. We knew about the departure of two tablets developed by Dell, but did not expect to hear from one of them so soon. The important details are that it will use the hardware platform Tegra 2 of NVIDIA, and the operating [...]

Google Unveils Two New Chrome Ads

Google Unveils Two New Chrome Ads

Google Chrome UK released two new videos (ads) yesterday showing the best features of Google Chrome. Not few long ago Google introduced extensions, themes along with a “Synced” features which syncs your bookmarks with other computers. According to a recent report by computerworld.com Just over a year after its launch, Google Chrome has made quite [...]

Iphone 2G Can Run Android - Say What?

Iphone 2G Can Run Android – Say What?

Boys and Girls We didn’t see this one coming! But it looks like someone from Planetbeing has managed to port Android-OS into a jailbroken iPhone. Wait did I just say Android Ported to an iPhone? Wow, This is big for all you damn iPhone users out there who are dying to get into the [...]

Android Team Already Testing Android-OS 2.2 - Froyo?

Android Team Already Testing Android-OS 2.2 – Froyo?

The guys from AndroidAndMe.com have spotted a Android Version 2.2 on their data from the analytics reports. What does this means? Well, It looks like the Android Team (devs) are already testing the next Android-OS 2.2 which might be called “Froyo, Gingerbread etc” Or it could just be an update of Eclair 2.1. We are [...]

New Motorola Android Prototype? Codename: ZN4

New Motorola Android Prototype? Codename: ZN4

At first glance this pic on Ubergizmo gave me the impression that this was two different phones. When I checked the source links I saw some additional photo’s which now makes me wonder if it’s the same phone only with a flip-down lid type plastic cover.
Check the photo’s below as I may be wrong but [...]

Lenovo Announces Android Powered LePhone for Their Own Back Yard

Lenovo Announces Android Powered LePhone for Their Own Back Yard

The LePhone handset we covered back in January has been announced by manufacturer Lenovo and soon to be released into the Chinese market. The LePhone made it’s first appearance at CES in Las Vegas and had me very interested rite from the off. With it’s snap-on keyboard this is a great addition to the Android [...]

Sprint throwing a party on May 12 for the HTC Evo 4G in New York

Sprint throwing a party on May 12 for the HTC Evo 4G in New York

Well, Hello there! Looks like Sprint is going to get down low low. Sorry about that I just had to say it. Okay back to article, The folks from AndroidCentral.com got a invitation for a party that sprint will be hosting on New York City. The party will pretty much be about the upcoming HTC [...]

Motorola Devour Update Due Today? No Not Android 2.1

Motorola Devour Update Due Today? No Not Android 2.1

A couple of days ago there was a rumor that the Motorola Devour from Verizon Wireless would receive an update today. No, not the Android 2.1 update but a maintenance update that would bring in some nice new changes. The Android OS 2.1 update for this particular handset is still “under evaluation”.
Here is what to [...]