Verizon confirms it’s working on a tablet with Google

Not much by way of detail here, but Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam just confirmed that his company is working on tablets with Google in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, that’s all we’ve got to work with at the moment — McAdam said tablets are “part of the ‘next big wave of [...]

Google Maps for Android adds bike routes, sharing, dedicated navigation icon

If you’re running an Android phone and you’re lucky enough to be using 1.6 or above (our deepest apologies, CLIQ owners), we might recommend you pop open the Market and score the latest version of Google Maps that just launched today. What’s new? It adds support for bicycle routing (something they’ve had on the [...]

Lenovo LePhone unboxed, exhaustively reviewed ahead of launch in China

We’re not sure how we missed this one, but it’s better late than never — turns out some lucky jerks in China were given a Lenovo LePhone to play with back in mid-April, and the guys at Sooyuu have just finished the fifth and final part of their lengthy review, just in time for [...]

iPhone 3G gets an Android port to call its own

You’ll recall, studious little gremlins that you are, that we recently saw the venerable first-gen iPhone prancing about with an unusual little green droid providing it with operational commands. Well, the coder behind that project, David Wang, has now stepped his game up to the iPhone 3G, which has been outfitted with an almost [...]

Twitter for Android Review: This Is the Future of Twitter Apps

The official Twitter for Android app isn’t simply the best overall Twitter experience on the platform—it’s a peek at the future of Twitter on every smartphone.
From the second you open the app, it’s the most polished Twitter experience on Android, by about ten thousand light years. High quality graphics, a true sense [...]

Dell Aero slips though the FCC, ready for Q2 launch

With FCC approval out of the way it looks like the Dell Aero is all set to meet the leaked Q2 launch goal. Sure, we’ve already seen a generic Dell Mini 3iX (model V02B) pass through the FCC with AT&T (Canadian Bell Mobility, Telus, Rogers) bands back in November. But today’s Mini 3iG (model [...]

Official Twitter for Android app goes live, will go open source

Twitter had committed to rolling its own client for Android not long ago — and like clockwork, here it is. Looks like the OS integration goes pretty deep, too, with support for Éclair’s Quick Contact bar and tweeting straight from the Gallery app; you’ve also got a timeline widget for your home screen, and [...]