Getting excited over the upcoming G2 from T-Mobile but don’t want to wait for the pre-order later this month?  Head to your local Best Buy and put your name on one.  The national retail giant is offering T-Mobile’s next super phone for $199 with a two-year service agreement.  One reason to consider going through Best Buy is that they typically help eat any mail-in rebates that might come from dealing with carriers directly.  For example, T-Mobile might be selling the G2 at $249.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate.  We’ll have to wait to hear from them until we know for sure.  For those wondering when an actual release is expected, Best Buy claims that the G2 will be in store on October 6th. *****PRESS RELEASE***** Best Buy …

Gartner has released a report today that says Android is well on track to becoming the number two (#2) mobile operating system in the world by year end.  Expected to end up with around 17.7 percent market share, Android will trail only Symbian in terms of reach.  It should be pointed out that this beats their own expectation by two years.  Further, they predict that by 2014, Android will be battling it out for the top spot overall.  Where’s RIM and iOS in all of this?  Selling awesome to be sure, but not enough for an increase in market share.  Gartner also expects that Android will become …

Yesterday, we wrote an article based off information found on The Droid Guy that Verizon would remove Google Search from all future Verizon phones in replacement of Bing. This uproar of confusion started when Verizon’s new Samsung Galaxy S phone, the Fascinate , was noted to have Google Search removed and in fact “blocked” from users installing the software. In addition, Fascinate users are stuck with the VZW Navigation software by default as…

Android 2.1 is of course old news by know, but people rocking the SE Xperia X10 are still stuck with 1.6 and without doubt want a taste of Éclair. A luring video has appeared from the recent IFA tech conference in Berlin, Germany that shows an X10 running Android 2.1. Unless you speak German you will have no clue what the man is saying, but

A few details and pictures of a forthcoming Acer device that is said to be called “Liquid Metal” have appeared, courtesy of Russian site habrahabr.ru. The new Android handset has the same form factor as the previous model in the Liquid series, but Acer has built its casing of stylish brushed metal. The phone will have a 3.61-inch capacitive touchscreen with a WVGA (480

Google recently updates Google Maps Navigation to include Walking Navigation and Google Voice to include Android widgets for the home screen for faster and easy access. Both apps are for Android 1.6+ devices. Google Maps Navigation Walking Navigation Feature: Walking Navigation works similar to the turn-by-turn driving feature except tailored for walking that is more direct and uses pedestrian walk ways. You can have the audible alerts instruct you and simply turn them off and your phone will vibrate when you need to turn…

We’ve been playing a game again. This time it’s Abduction! 2, which maker Psym Mobile kindly sorted us out with a review copy of a few days ago. It’s just gone live on the Android Market this morning, and here’s what it’s like. You should know what Abduction’s about – the original has been downloaded through the Android Market more than two million times, and is a superb accelerometer-controlled platform game in which you bounce silly animals up through increasingly complex levels. What’s changed in Abduction! 2 is mostly visual, with the look of levels given a massive overhaul and the general front end and presentation upgraded …

If you thought you could multi-task on your smartphone now, you ain’t seen nothing yet!  ARM has announced their upcoming Cortex™-A15 MPCore™ Processor.  It’s a low power chip that ranges from single to quad core processors for multiple hardware applications, but we are mostly interested in what we can slap into our next super-powered smartphones.  That being said, for smartphone applications, the Cortex A15 will run anywhere from 1-1.5GHz in single or dual core configurations. ARM is claiming their Cortex-A15 MPCore processor will be capable of delivering speeds up to 5x that of today’s most powerful smartphones. The speed of these releases are crazy considering we just heard about Samsung using the ARM Cortex-A9 that can do dual-core at 1GHz a few days ago .  It’ll be exciting to see …

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Abduction has been one of the stalwarts of the Android Game market for the past year and has been a virtual constant fixture in the top 5 android games.  Android has changed a lot since it was last released and finally the team behind the game have finally decided that today was a great day to unleash the next version of the game on us all. Some of the highlights for the new game ( from their blog ) include: 60 hand crafted adventure levels 60 dynamically generated classic levels 14 colourful and varied landscapes New platform types, including trampolines, spikes, fans, and rockets 38 characters to unlock and play Dozens of accessories to…

One of the most common complaints about the recent builds of CyanogenMod 6 has been that Nexus One owners’ GPS would suddenly take ages to get a fix or wouldn’t get a fix at all. The most frequent solution posted has been to change your Mobile Network APN type to “default,supl” to enable A-GPS through your cellular network. However, for some people this still didn’t solve the problem, including myself. Well, today on the CM forums, user kursed posted a fix that may be the end of many frustrated N1-ers’ woes. The fix involves…

Google has just rolled out several enhancements to Maps for Mobile Android app. Specifically, the Maps application for Android has now been put to state similar to its desktop counterpart. So, aside from the Navigation and Walking features that were previously rolled out to the Maps for Mobile app, the features are now integrated to bring you Walking Navigation.

The rumored Motorola MZ600 Android tablet has surfaced it again.  According to the team over at Phandroid , the tablet appeared in Verizon’s inventory showing demo, dummy and official versions.  This means that the device is a possible go for next year, but obviously nothing is official yet.  Interestingly, there is no mention of the word “DROID” which is disappointing, so who knows if it will

Temperatures dropped about 30 degrees in Hades this morning when Apple announced they were relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps. They will also be allowing 3rd party advertisers such as AdMob, but not analytics software such as Flurry. The changes bring iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch development a bit closer to the laissez-faire policies of Google’s Android Market. Though the latter still does not require any kind of review or approval process before developers can upload new programs, Google can and does sometimes remove apps after the fact if its policies are violated. The new policy removes another self-imposed roadblock that Apple had built in the way of developers hoping to support the popular iOS platform…

If you read our review of the HTC Desire , you’ll already know that the physical design of the phone is hardly the fist thing that needs to be changed. Regardless, we can’t complain about the changes HTC is rumored to be making here: Yep, what we’re looking at is a white version of the Desire, and even though I’m not exactly known to go crazy over white gadgets (especially when they’re phones), I’ve got to admit this one’s pretty hot. As you can see, HTC is also making a silver (and possibly…