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 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...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Not much to say about the video that follows (after the break) other than somebody has an HTC Supersonic and wanted the rest of us to know it. That's it. You see it appears to have a dual flash (or is that a flash and a light sensor?) and there's the camera and speaker. Otherwise, we wait. [AndroidMobileOS via MobileCrunch] read more ...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Casey Chan BGR has heard some whispers that Verizon has started training employees on the Nexus One. When that happens, it typically means that a product launch is right around the corner as employees are getting ready to sell the device to customers in stores. But given that the Nexus One hasn't been your typical carrier branded smartphone, as in it wasn't available in carrier ...

Published on Saturday, March 6, 2010 by Phil Nickinson The HTC Legend -- you'll remember it from our hands-on at Mobile World Congress last month -- at this point remains a European-only phone, and as such it's starting to get into European journalists' hands for review. Don't worry, we fully expect to see a version of it in the States sooner rather than later, and you can already get a taste of the new Sense UI, if ...

Published on Saturday, March 6, 2010 by Phil Nickinson So CNET UK had a Nexus One whose screen mysteriously cracked and turned purple while merely charging on a desk. At Google's urging, they handed it over to HTC for further study. The results: "Putting a phone in a tight pair of jeans and sitting down would usually cause the kind of damage," suggested our support guy. He agreed that it's possible that a...

Published on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Casey Chan  Did you hear that Apple is suing the pants off of HTC? Of course you did. And though the lawsuit will likely all be settled with millions of dollars exchanging hands and business will go on as usual...what if it doesn't? What if Apple has its way with HTC Android phones? Wired examines this potential horror story. The phone and Android UI above is what we'd like...

Published on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Casey Chan  In an interesting move, Vodafone UK has discontinued sales of the HTC Magic. According to a Vodafone rep:Unfortunately the HTC Magic is now end of life, and we don't have stock of that phone.Vodafone UK's decision to stop selling the HTC Magic contrasts with T-Mobile and Rogers' stance with the HTC Magic. T-Mobile still heavily advertises the myTouch 3G and...

Published on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Update: OK, OK. I get it. I've been learned a thing or three over this one. So have at me in the comments, call me a bad person, throw things at my dog, whatever. I only hope one day we'll wake up an our long national multitouch nightmare will be over. :PLet the debate continue! Earlier this week we saw a pretty damning video that illustrated how ...