Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones — Facebook’s Phone Project Lingers, But It’s None Of Those (Source: TechCrunch) Facebook wants to be everywhere. They’ve made this very clear. They want to be on your desktop, on your laptop, on your smartphone, on your tablet, and on your dumbphone. The latter, they directly addressed  with a new SIM [Read More]

Android Media Player doubleTwist Hits 1 Million Active Users (Source: TechCrunch) Today, the Android media player doubleTwist reached a big milestone: 1 million active users between its mobile and desktop apps. We’ve been following the media player closely for over a year now, watching to see if it would find enough adoption to make it [Read More]

3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram (Source: TechCrunch) Back in late December of last year,there was a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. It took them only three months for Instagram to hit the mark. That’s crazy when you consider it took [Read More]

Sonos Android App Controls Wireless Music Systems (Source: Mashable) This free Android control software for Sonos wireless multi-room music systems includes unique features that aren’t available on the iPhone version. If you’re not familiar with Sonos S5 wireless speakers, you can place them in any room in your house, or pair two of them [Read More]

Samsung Google Nexus S review Another year, another heir to the Droid throne – and Google are trying to be democratic about it. Which is a roundabout way of saying they’re not monogamous. For the Nexus One, Google teamed up with HTC. This time around, they trusted Samsung to do the job, using the Galaxy [Read More]

HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, But Native App Development Is An Oncoming Rocket Ship (Source: TechCrunch) HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek community that HTML5 [Read More]

comScore: Android Passes iOS For Overall US Smartphone Subscribers (Source: TechCrunch) comScore’s monthly smartphone data is in and it looks like for the first time Android OS has surpassed Apple’s iOS in terms of U.S. smartphone subscribers share. The data, which measured smartphone usage from September until December of 2010, showed that [Read More]

Google I/O Tickets Sell Out In 59 Minutes (Source: TechCrunch) Maybe Google hasn’t lost its mojo, after all. This morning, a little after 9 AM, tickets to the tech giant’s annual developer conference Google I/O went on sale. 59 minutes later, Google VP Vic Gundotra tweeted that tickets were now sold out. To put that [Read More]

Tango Takes Face-To-Face Video Calling Beyond The iPhone With 8 Million Downloads (Source: TechCrunch) One of the best built-in features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, the video calling feature that lets you see who you are talking to by using the cameras on both phones. But it only works over WiFi and if both [Read More]

For InMobi, Apple And Android Are Eating Up Global Mobile Ad Share (Source: TechCrunch) InMobi is the world’s largest independent mobile ad network with operations in Bangalore, Mumbai, London, San Francisco, Singapore and Tokyo Global mobile ad network InMobi is making a big push to gain smartphone ad share. Back in June, it announced a [Read More]

Zynga Brings Newtoy’s Crossword Game ‘Words With Friends’ To Android Phones (Source: TechCrunch) Zynga (English pronunciation: /ˈzɪŋɡə/) is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social [Read More]

Can Android beat the iPad? (Source: TechCrunch) Honeycomb Is The First Shot Fired Along Apple’s Bow. Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb means Google is now officially at war with Apple. The lines are drawn. The sides chosen. This is going to get nasty, but there doesn’t have to be a clear winner for consumers to win. [Read More]

In-App Purchasing Finally Coming To Android; Disney Brings Tap Tap Revenge To Take Advantage (Source: TechCrunch) Today at their Honeycomb event at the Google HQ in Mountain View, Google had a lot of information to share. First, they gave a demo of the new Honeycomb features. Then they shared the new Android Market Webstore. And [Read More]

First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google’s iPad Rival (Source: TechCrunch) This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn’t much news around the OS , but the team did show off some of Honeycomb’s slickest features, like widgets and an [Read More]

Review: Dell Streak 7 (Source: TechCrunch) Short Version: Here we go again: another impressive 7-inch Android tablet with a Gorilla Glass screen, 4G networking, and a suave interface. But is this thing more of the same or something new. The tried-and-true 7-inch tablet is, by now, old hat. In fact, little about the Dell Streak [Read More]

Blekko Takes Curated Search Mobile With iPhone And Android Apps (Source: TechCrunch) Blekko, the search engine that is fighting the good fight against web spam with human editors, is joining biggies Google and Bing in the mobile search arena today with an Android and iPhone application double whammy. Says Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta, “In a [Read More]

War Maneuvers: Android Event Will Battle iPad Event For Press Love On February 2 (Source: TechCrunch) If asked, about the timing of events is on purpose or purely coincidental, the companies not only do they almost always say that it’s purely coincidental, but they often try to claim that didn’t even realize a rival was [Read More]

Leaked: Motorola DROID X 2 (Daytona) Features 1GHz Tegra 2, Higher-Res Screen 2011 may be heralded as the Year of the Tablet, but we’re thinking it will really shake out to be the year that mobility finally hit it big. Smartphones as a whole are becoming insanely popular, and more people are gravitating towards Android [Read More]

RIM to allow Android apps on BlackBerry devices? According to more than one trusted source over at BGR, Canadian manufacturer RIM is about to make a move that could allow certain BlackBerry devices to run Android apps. According to the report, RIM is looking at having a Java based Virtual Machine added to its QNX [Read More]

The 10 Best Upcoming Cell Phone (s) Sure, you want a new phone right now, but carriers and manufacturers have promised some truly spectacular, knock-your-socks-off phones coming to U.S. shelves between now and June. With 4G right around the corner and mobile hardware and software getting better and better, you should take a look at [Read More]

Sony Ericsson Announces Integration Of Facebook’s ‘Single Sign On’ Across All Android Phones (Source: TechCrunch) In an industry first, Sony Ericsson Strategic Business Developer Martin Essl just announced that Sony Ericsson will integrate Facebook’s Single Sign On system across all its Android phones in the next couple of months. Launched [Read More]

Specs for HTC Flyer tablet are leaked The HTC Flyer, expected to be launched in March. The gang at Amobil have found the leaked specs for the tablet which will be rolled out with a 7 inch screen featuring 1024 x 600 resolution which matches that belonging to the Samsung Galaxy Tab. No dual-core action [Read More]

Android source code, Java, and copyright infringement: what’s going on? So it’s been a fun day of armchair code forensics and legal analysis on the web after Florian Mueller published a piece this morning alleging Google directly copied somewhere between 37 and 44 Java source files in Android. That’s of course a major accusation, [Read More]

Dell Streak 7 – Better and Faster with T-Mobile 4G (Source: GreekieGadgets) Dell continues their series of lucky streaks with their latest addition to their tablet family – the new Dell Streak 7. If the hybrid combination of tablet and smartphone of the previous generation of Streak didn’t get your attention, the collaboration of Dell [Read More]

PicPlz Pretties Up Android App And Begins Accepting (Beta) API Applications (Source: TechCrunch) Last week, we noted that mobile photo-sharing app PicPlz rolled out a bunch of improvements to their app in an effort to better compete with rival Instagram. Sadly, that new polish was only for their iPhone app at the time. But today [Read More]

Google Voice Is About To Take Off: Number Porting Coming Soon For $20 (Source: TechCrunch) We’ve been huge fans of Google Voice for quite a while now — it makes screening calls and managing multiple phones a breeze — but there’s always been a huge thorn in its side: it didn’t allow people to port [Read More]

iPod Touch Now Accounts for Half of iPod Sales (Source: Mashable) iPod Touch was launched on September 5, 2007, at an event called The Beat Goes On. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line. It is the first iPod with wireless access to the iTunes Store, and also has [Read More]

Motorola i886 to be the first non-touch Android Intended for Sprint, this rugged phone secretly packs in Android but without a touchscreen On the surface the Motorola i886 iDEN might seem like just another rugged Motorola phone but as Phone Scoop found out after a brief hands-on, turns out the i886 is running Android, which [Read More]

Evolve Maestro Tablet triple-boots Android, MeeGo, Windows 7, Gives upto 16h of Battery backup Can’t decide which tablet you should go for? Get the one that boots all 3 popular Tablet OSes. Evolve III Maestro has built world’s first tablet that Triple boots Android, Windows 7 and MeeGo. The tablet has a 1.83GHz Atom N475 [Read More]