HP, after killing of the TouchPad with a fire-sale, is making a gesture to the TouchPad community after leaving them for dead along with the rest of the WebOS community with the announcement of WebOS going open source. Reports of the TouchPad coming with Android pre-installed had been made after the TouchPad’s release, but RootzWiki [...]

Background Carriers play a large role in the success of the Android Marketplace because carriers have the ability to block certain applications. Applications and their developers can be restricted from their big debut, or new technologies, for example NFC, can be held back, the major example in this case is Google Wallet. Ways around this [...]

Motorola has had countless leaks of the Droid 4 all leading up to a CES announcement. Motorola took the stage today and unveiled the Droid 4 available on Verizon with 4G LTE integration. Inside the Droid 4 has 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of on-board memory with a 32GB expansion slot for MicroSD. On the [...]

The arrival of a Sprint Galaxy Nexus on Ebay has grabbed the attention of the press, but Sprint might have well released an official statement or press release because Engadget discovered a Sprint ad for the Galaxy Nexus on Sprint with 4G LTE via CNET. The ad also clocked the Galaxy Nexus’ processor at 1.5GHz, [...]

During the long holiday season the Android Market reached 400,000+ applications. This number shows how much growth the Android Market has reached in 2011 and it shows the continual growth that will happen in 2012. 2011 was a very exciting year for Android because all the carriers at one point or another had a Flagship Android phone, and also last year included the launch of the much [...]

The Droid 4, Motorola’s upcoming contribution to the Droid series on Verizon, has been leaked various times and the leaks are beginning to become more and more boring. The advertisement, spotted on BestBuy’s Reward Zone, leaves the device unnamed but shows the same renders as previously leaked and continues to include Verizon labeling. Next time we see [...]

We have been expecting the release of the Droid 4 for a long time, the wait beginning with leaked documents and now the wait continues with a leaked document. VZBuzz reports Verizon has officially postponed the release of the Droid 4 up until February 2, 2012. The wait may be for more press buildup or [...]

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have been at war for a long time, but primarily the war has been between fanboy. Battles of this war consist of opinionated mud-slinging and statistical use. Andy Rubin was pleased to announce today on his Google Plus and Twitter that over 700,000 Android devices are activated every day. He [...]

Google has started the rollout of a major update to the fledging Gmail app already available on iOS. The update contains several new welcomed features (not to mention ‘sought after’), including the ability to set a custom signature for messages, as well as a vacation response. Both, are available under the gear icon at the [...]

WSJ reports this evening, that Apple isn’t seeing the success they imagined when they launched their advertising platform, dubbed “iAd”, in 2010. The company, who uses the service to deploy advertisements across their slew of iOS devices, is making some much-needed changes in hopes of attracting more developers and ad-spending in the program. First of [...]

The FBI doesn’t appear in the company’s description of its so-called “ecosystem”. Would you like to know whether or not CarrierIQ – the dialer-and-location sniffing software installed in many mobile devices – is being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for law enforcement purposes? They won’t reveal much about the controversial application to the [...]

So it’s come to my attention that the Android Marketplace has finally caught up to the age- old solution of downloading apps on the iPhone – the Apple App Store. Google is claiming the store has seen exponential growth since its inception in 2008, and statistics show the store was clocking just 1 billion total [...]

Google’s Android OTA (Over The Air) update system has been questioned since its inception because of OEM’s and carriers that hold devices back restricting them from updating to the latest piece of Android software. With the introduction of Ice Cream Sandwich users have been drooling over the possibility that their device will get one of [...]

Several months ago Motorola released the Droid 3, a short lived release because of the recent availability of the Droid RAZR now to be followed by the Droid 4. Droid-Life has acquired a specification comparison spreadsheet and several images of the Droid 4. A timeline below the chart shows the Droid 3, Droid RAZR, and [...]