HTC, today posted on of its best spring quarters in recent memory thanks to the large scale adoption of Android. The taiwanese smartphone manufacturer saw its net unaudited profile jump 33% compared to last year, to the equivalent of $268 million ( against $202 million a year ago ). We were impressed with HTC back [...]

We thought AT&T’s android devices were always destined to suck. But now it seems like they are trying to repair that rep. AT&T has just announced their new Super AMOLED Android phone, the Samsung Captivate, which they describe as “a Galaxy S smartphone”. The Android 2.1 powered Samsung Captivate will be specced similar to the [...]

Barnes & Noble has announced that their eBookStore is now available for use on the wide range of Android devices on the market rather than being restricted to the users of their Nook e-reader. This is close on the heels of Amazon releasing their Kindle ebook reader app on the same platform a few weeks [...]

The Android 2.2 Froyo update that became available from Google for a short while on some of its Nexus One handsets came with some cool features. The ease of operation while using the Android 2.2 Froyo can be seen in the video at the bottom of this post. It shows a few new touch gestures [...]

Today, Google are planning on introducing one of the greatest changes in their Google Image Search engine in quite a while. The search engine will be updated to present results in a never-ending stream of pictures which you can hover over to enlarge, and you can keep scrolling downwards pretty much indefinitely, as long as [...]

Google has officially released the source code for the latest version of their mobile operating system, Android 2.2 Froyo. The open source OS now has close to 4000 independent contributors working on it. The new version of the operating system brings in a huge increase in performance with new “Just-in-time” compiler support as well as [...]

AT&T, which has always been going slow with regard to allowing installation of non-Android third-party apps on the phones on its network, will be continuing with that policy for the HTC Aria too. This might extend the disappointment that Android lovers already has with the network, as they were all waiting to lay their hands [...]

The long line of customers in front of Sprint stores in the US on Day One of sales of the HTC EVO 4G has set a new record for the carrier.  HTC EVO 4G sales broke an earlier Sprint record held by both Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre to emerge as the HTC device kept [...]

Google has announced that it will make the playable-on-browser version of Pac-man available permanently for fans of the game. The announcement was made following the huge response received from Google users after the company made the game available for free on the Google Search homepage as a tribute to the arcade game Pacman which completed [...]

Seems like Samsung Galaxy S might soon become the most globally popular handset after the famed Apple iPhone versions. Galaxy S is set to arrive with four of the biggest US carriers and one of them (indeed two), AT&T, has even gone ahead and given the official nod-ahead. Announced today, AT&T users will be able [...]