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 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 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 Erica Marchand We've seen leaked pictures of the Motorola Opus One, and now we know it as the Motorola i1.  Wish we could give you more about the specs, other then it's an iDEN device (get the name now?) running on Android 1.5 (is this a bad joke?) and a 3-megapixal camera, and will most likely have Motoblur.For those not familiar with Motoblur, it's Motorola bringing all your ...

Published on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Phil Nickinson We've had discussion of the ESE53 build of the Android 2.1 update for the Motorola Droid (yeah, say all that 10 times fast) for a number of days, but now there's video to go along with all that talk. And the buzz is that live wallpapers are included and run just fine. There are only three homescreens, though that's easily fixed, isn't it. Peep the whole video after t...

Published on Sunday, March 7, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Just like it was promised, the Motorola Backflip is now available on AT&T for $99, making it the carrier's first and only Android device. You'll want to check out our hands-on with the phone back at CES, as pictures really don't do it justice.The Backflip -- which sports the Motoblur social networking interface -- has a unique fold-over keyboard and 5-megapix...

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 ...

Published on Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Phil Nickinson The Motorola Devour (running Android 1.6 with Motoblur on Verizon) made its here this morning, and we've had a couple minutes to give it the what-for. Despite playing second fiddle to the Motorola Droid at least as far as specs are concerned -- smaller screen, less powerful processor, etc. -- it's a very well-crafted smartphone. The Devour has a Sidekick-esqe form fa...