Category: First look

Missing Sync Brings Wireless Sync To Our Android Devices

Missing Sync Brings Wireless Sync To Our Android Devices

Missing Sync comes with an update to its implementation of synchronization between the PC and Android devices, It’s now possible to synchronize via wireless, without having to be constantly connecting the USB cable to the phone. Which we thing is a great feature.
Let us explain to you a little bit about “Missing Sync”. Missing Sync [...]

An Android device that will run you between $12,800 - $49,500 PASS!!

An Android device that will run you between $12,800 – $49,500 PASS!!

Take a look at the worlds most expensive Android: the Ulysse Nardin Chairman. This handset takes the biscuit, and doesn’t even look all that great from what I can see from the shots above and below
Ok the specs are not too bad at all but the price? the price is really what takes the biscuit. [...]

Motorola Devour Prototype - Hands on

Motorola Devour Prototype – Hands on

Our friends from androidspin.com got their hands on the upcoming Motorola Devour Android phone. Few days ago we brought the Motorola Devour Packaging and now we bring you live shots of the Devour. If everything goes as plan Verizon Wireless will be selling this bad bod withing two weeks.

The Motorola Calgary Devour will become available [...]

Alcatel makes its first low cost Android Phone (OT-980)

Alcatel makes its first low cost Android Phone (OT-980)

Alcatel will be releasing it’s first powered Android headset to the market in a few months. The Alcatel company is well known for low cost devices and they just joined the Android wagon. OT-980 will be running Android 1.6 and it has a 3.5 mm jack and a battery of 1150 mAh, Qualcomm MSM 7227 [...]

Europe See's Higher Price for Android App's Than in the US

Europe See’s Higher Price for Android App’s Than in the US

So we are getting conned here in the UK, nothing unusal there as thats why it’s called Rip-Off Britain. Analytics firm Distimo have just released their December report on Android applications and this time they focus on location and price’s. It’ seems if your in Europe though, then your getting conned even further with application [...]

Android Power: Android to Become the Second Mobile OS by 2013

Android Power: Android to Become the Second Mobile OS by 2013

I already consider Android the best OS (as if you couldn’t tell), but a recent report by IDC has concluded that Android will be the second-ranked Mobile OS by 2013. They have also reported that by 2013 year end Android would account for 68 million shipped units out of an overall 390 million smartphones. Not [...]

New Motorola Android Spotted? the MOTOSPLIT

New Motorola Android Spotted? the MOTOSPLIT

Above, apparently is what we are to call the Motorola MOTOSPLIT. Doesn’t it look like you could snap it at any given moment? Engadget posted this badboy earlier and it’s rumoured to be running Android and a Snapdragon processor, while getting groomed to hit AT&T in Q3 2010. With a horizontal sliding split QWERTY, all [...]

HTC HD2 Vs Nexus One: The Browser Chronicles

HTC HD2 Vs Nexus One: The Browser Chronicles

Check out these two awesome video’s which puts the Nexus One and the HTC HD2 together for somewhat of a dogfight. Yes i know Android always come’s out on top in our eye’s, and why? because as Rob Jackson always put’s it, we are PHANDROIDS. Clearly on video 1 you can see the HD2 browser [...]

Nexus One – Getting Started Video!

Nexus One – Getting Started Video!

This video shows the phone software and the main features of Android. A sort of tutorial for those who do not yet know the world Android and the peculiarities of the system.

Sony Ericsson X10 With Google Navigation in New York!

Sony Ericsson X10 With Google Navigation in New York!

Here’s the first video of Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 with Google Navigation software installed. Google Navigation is available on Android 1.6 powered mobile phones, and it is currently limited to the United States only. We are assuming though that sooner or later, it will also become available in other countries.

~ Thanks Brian

How to Make a Stand For Your Motorla Droid

How to Make a Stand For Your Motorla Droid

A really nice and quite humour-ridden email came through my Inbox today, and it reveals how one Android Motorola Droid user took measure’s into his own hands and made himself a stand for his new piece of hardware. This looks to be a business card of some sort, and boy did that make me chuckle. No [...]

Dual Sim Android SciPhone, Short Review

Dual Sim Android SciPhone, Short Review

Now here are some video’s showing of the SciPhone N21 that be posted about last month, OK yes it is in Italian i think but gives us a good look at how the phone runs, and by the look of it it runs not too bad. See our older post regarding the SciPhone. Should be [...]

Huawei G6600 Spotted Again, Android or Not?

Huawei G6600 Spotted Again, Android or Not?

Three days ago i posted about a newly uncovered Huawei’s second Android handset which was a rumour, this handset has appeared again via Bluetooth Special Interest Group now off course this does not mean that it is an Android device 100% but as this is the second times its showed its nice looking face this [...]

New Android Internet Tablet

New Android Internet Tablet

Check out the new Android tablet from Mtube, coming in at 7.6 inches with an ARM processor and OLED display. This badboy can stream audio, images and video straight to you TVand also is running Android Donut1.6, take a gander at the video for your viewing pleasure.

(Credit:HD Blog.it)

T-Mobile Pulse Officialy Availabe On Pay As You Go

T-Mobile Pulse Officialy Availabe On Pay As You Go

Reports in today that the T-Mobile Pulse was now availabe on PAYG, however after i checked the website it still stated “Coming Soon” as the picture below shows, so i decided why not contact them but rather than email them i just decided to use the “Chat Now” option via their website and asked a [...]

HTC Hero Going All Spotify UK

HTC Hero Going All Spotify UK

UK network/carrier 3 has taken bold steps in getting into the Android game … they have just announced their plans to include Spotify with none other than the HTC Hero. 3 is one of the main contributors to Spotify and has announced their plan to sell the HTC Hero on a 24 month plan which [...]

Israel based Modu to run Android ?

Israel based Modu to run Android ?

Rumour now has it that Irael based mobile company Modu are about to make their way into the lucrative Android market, i say lucritive but you know what i mean – as it will be!
The company’s Dov Moran said its developing a Android based jacket for the Modu2.

Not only this but a netbook from the [...]

Moto Dext Launch At New Orange UK Store

Moto Dext Launch At New Orange UK Store

Today saw not only the launch of a new multimedia store from UK carriers Orange, it also overseen the launch of the Motorola Dext w/MOTOblur. We reported yesterday the handset was up for purchase via phone4u.com and was scheduled to be delivery after thursday the 9th of October, well this handset was made available today [...]

Sprint-version HTC Hero for $99 on Cellular South

Sprint-version HTC Hero for $99 on Cellular South

Cellular South has just introduced the HTC Hero at a surprising price of $99 w/ 2-year contract.  Cellular South is now accepting pre-orders for the Hero, and is unleashing a new smartphone plan to go with it:
Smartphone Unlimited (Unlimited Voice, TXT, Data) – $79.99/mo + Add a 2nd Smartphone for half-off ($40).  This means you [...]

Is Your G1 Warm? (Be Afraid Be Very Afraid)

Is Your G1 Warm? (Be Afraid Be Very Afraid)

We received a tip from a friend regarding how hot the battery gets with use of the G1, this has resulted in the user’s back cover melting, a similar thing happened with the Apple iPhone however it was simply expolding rather than overheating and melting the device. This infact could simply be unique to the [...]

uStream.tv Mobile hits the Android Market.

uStream.tv Mobile hits the Android Market.

uStream.tv have just released ‘uStream.tv Android Broadcaster’ on the Android Market.
Streaming video firm Ustream has launched its official Android application, allowing users of Google-powered handsets to broadcast live video footage from their phones.
The app is due to launch today, and will compete with the Android app of rival Qik, which launched earlier this year.

The app [...]

Motorola CLIQ Promo Video!

Motorola CLIQ Promo Video!

Here is another Cliq Promo video. I”m starting to like the Motorola Cliq, but this ad doesn’t get me excited.

App Review: Life Aware

App Review: Life Aware

Welcome to the Life Aware application, this application is social networking, general location of freinds and family and a possible chat service all rolled into one. This app is really usefull and then some especially the ability to set up safety zones for friends or family members, if the family member broadcasts the location then [...]

Flyscreen beta gets modded with new wallpaper + quick review.

Flyscreen beta gets modded with new wallpaper + quick review.

Thanks to GIMP and KFC our friends over at wootroot.com got flydroid running with a custom wootroot BG. As you might know TechCrunch gave out 1000 Free beta invites few days ago. We were not lucky to get our hands on one of them to review the application. But here is a quick review via [...]

Pandora out for Android!

Pandora out for Android!

After the long waited Pandora finally releases their Mobile version for the AndroidOs. Pandora has not release any information on their site but we are keeping our eyes open for any info that comes out later on.
If you are not familiar with Pandora here is some information about them.
Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized [...]

LG gets into the game - Picture of "Etna" Android phone surfaces

LG gets into the game – Picture of “Etna” Android phone surfaces

Another week, another new Android phone comes out of the lab and into reality.  LG has gone on record saying that they are developing a line of handsets based on Google’s Android operating system, but details have been scarce, until now.
German website Chip Online attended the IFA trade fair in Germany, and found the new [...]

HTC Touch HD 2 Pulls the E-brake, Does a 180 into Android?

HTC Touch HD 2 Pulls the E-brake, Does a 180 into Android?

Maybe HTC WAS serious when they told us that a much larger percentage of their future lineups would move toward Android.  Of course most of us expected that these would be NEW handsets, but in the case of the HTC Touch HD 2, it seems Android was a better fit and HTC scrapped their plans [...]

New Android Market 1.6 Update Video

New Android Market 1.6 Update Video

We told you it was coming, but only had a few screenshots to prove it.  Now our friends over at Phandroid have found a video showing off the new User Interface (UI), and some of the new features that are going to be included in the upcoming version of the Android Market.

The new market looks like [...]

Unboxing Video of DSTL1 Android Phone.

Unboxing Video of DSTL1 Android Phone.

DSTL1 is a new device based on Android operating sitema House General Mobile. This is the first Android Phone with support for two SIM card! Very interesting feature that combined with the excellent quality of the hardware device may be an asset for marketing.
FEATURES:
- Technology: Double SIM Android ™ 1.5 Cupcakes
- Platform: Marvell ™ PXA [...]

Updated Android Market Screenshots Leak

Updated Android Market Screenshots Leak

Our friends over at CNET’s Android Atlas site have managed to scrounge up two freshly leaked photos of what appears to be a major UI refresh of Google’s Android Market.  The new has excited Android users everywhere in hopes that the new Market update will solve a number of current issues and limitations.

The update shows [...]

HTC Hero200 gets leaked - Sprint?

HTC Hero200 gets leaked – Sprint?

HTC hero200, HTC Hero’s CMDA version, just got FCC approval several days ago, and now the folks on Chinese tech website 8080.net posted a set of pictures, which they claimed is the HTC Hero200. From the pictures, HTC hero200 gets a completely different design from the HTC hero. some specs were unveiled, a 528MHz Qualcomm [...]

XMPP & Home Automation.

XMPP & Home Automation.

[matthias] from intuity media lab put together a nice bit on controlling office lights with xmpp from his android phone. in the article, he explains the components involved in the project, why he chose xmpp, and lists everything you need to replicate it. the project makes use of a wide variety of tools and libraries, [...]