Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Jared DiPane Tether, formerly known as TetherBerry, has spent lots of time behind the scenes porting their extremely successful BlackBerry application to Android. Tonight is a great night for many that have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this beta. Tether has sent out emails to those that have signed up for their long awaited beta so that public testing can begin.This anno...

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 Attention, people of Canada: The Samsung Galaxy Spica and its 3.2-inch, 320x480 screen pushing Android 1.5 (it'll be upgraded to 2.1 at some point) is now available on the Rogers network. It'll cost you just $79.99 on a three-year plan (that's standard up north), $349.99 on a two-year deal and $449.99 if you like to fly without a 'chute. And for your hard-earned...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Phil Nickinson On the heels of Goldman Sachs cutting its sales forecast for the Nexus One -- which at the time of this writing is easily one of the top five phones HTC-manufactured phones available -- we're already seeing headlines (at ZDNet) that "Google's online-only phone selling model has failed."Says who?Let's back up. According to Electronista, Goldman predicted abou...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Seriously, we're not going to try to explain to you the ins and outs of this one. But know this: The Android NDK (that's native development kit) has been updated and with it comes new Open GL support.Applications targeting Android 2.0 (API level 5) or higher can now directly access OpenGL ES 2.0 features. This brings the ability to control graphics rendering...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Phil Nickinson So by uploading your little "Google is Evil" manifesto to YouTube which is ... wait for it ... owned by Google, you're saying what? Cute picture, though. Video after the break. [via Walt Mosspuppet, which makes this even more ironic] read more...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Phil Nickinson As Android reviewers and the hacking faithful are finding out this week, the Motorola Backflip on AT&T has been locked down a bit. Namely, you can't load apps from outside of the Android market. It's not just that the option is turned off, as it is by default on most (if not all) Android phones. It's that the option isn't even there on the backflip. [via MobileCru...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Meet the new Skype, same as the old Skype. Except that this Skype is exclusive on Verizon (and is no longer welcome on Windows Mobile, apparently). But no bother. We've got the Android-powered Motorola Droid, Droid Eris and Devour on Big Red, so there will be plenty of VOIP calling to be had. If you're new to Skype and the whole Voice over IP (Internet Protocol)...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Jeremy Sikora From the Forums is a great way for you, our readers, to see the hottest topics being discussed. But you must be a registered member and becoming a member is a simple process. So if you have not already already done so, head on over and register now!How is the screen brightness on your Motorola Droid? All of us here at Android Central have had zero issues but...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Jared DiPane If you are like me and love to take full advantage of the amazing camera that your Android device provides you (at least those of you without Droids), you probably snap tons of pictures. Sometimes they are worthy of sending off to others, and sometimes they could use some touch-ups. Without always having the PC around, having Photoshop Mobile allows quick edits and t...