Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Phil Nickinson One of the first questions we get from new Android users is "Great phone. Now how do I get my music on it?" And one of the first answers we give is "doubleTwist." The free software syncs with just about every smartphone out there, has the Amazon MP3 Store built in, and -- best of all -- frees you from the shackles of iTunes. And the Windows applic...

Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Phil Nickinson As if Android needed yet another endorsement, it turns out that Martin Cooper -- the inventor of the cellular telephone who pretty much is responsible for all of us being here at this fine Web site today -- is the proud owner of ... wait for it ... a Motorola Droid.Cooper did a piece on C-SPAN last week where he talked (a lot!) about spectrum and the politics thereof ...

Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Take a look at the latest smartphone usage numbers from Comscore, and you're likely to do a double-take -- Android increased by 4.3 percentage points from November '09 through January 2010 over the three previous months, giving it a 7.1 percent share. There's no doubt that Android's popularity continues to grow. But those numbers likely can (and should) be attributed ...

Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Phil Nickinson  There are upwards of 20,000 apps in the Android Market. Some good, some not so good, and many are flat-out great. So what do your favorite Smartphone Experts editors have on their Android phones? Read on to find out. read more ...

Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Stories have been going around that a botnet was being spread by the HTC Magic on Vodafone. Specifically, it was Panda Security that sounded the alarm after they plugged in said Android phone and had all kinds of alarms go off. However, it turns out it was an infected memory card that was the culprit, and not a bad batch of phones, as original post author P...

Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Phil Nickinson You know all those stories about developers getting free Android phones this conference or another? Our pal Rene Ritchie (of TiPB) is at GDC in San Francisco and got to witness the carnage in person. Check it out after the break. read more ...

Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Phil Nickinson We're well into our review of the Motorola Devour (check out our initial hands-on), but we wanted to take a station break to mention how to get at the battery and microSD card. Because the Devour is one of those newfangled "unibody" devices -- as in cast from a single piece of aluminum -- it doesn't have the traditional battery door on the back. Instea...

Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Chances are if you've been hanging around Android for a while you've run across the Pure series of widgets. There's Pure calendar, Pure messenger and now, Pure music.The widget works with the stock Android music players (or HTC's music player, if that's how you roll) and like the other Pure widgets is skinnable, so you can make it look however you want. The widget als...

Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Phil Nickinson If you're in the market for an HTC Droid Eris on Verizon, you might want to hold off for a few weeks. BerryScoop has it on good authority that the HTC Incredible is going to replace the Droid Eris, the end-of-life date is April 1, and that we may see the Incredible about the same time.Also, BerryScoop's source says that the Nexus One won't actually be sold i...

Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Phil Nickinson The folks at Otterbox -- makers of some of the most rough-and-tumble cases out there -- just released a pair of cases for the HTC Droid Eris. And we're giving away 10 cases -- five from the Commuter series, and five from the Impact series.Here's all you have to do to win: Head on into the AndroidCentral Forums and leave a post in any of our Droid Eris threads. W...