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 Erica Marchand       Well it seems like the guys over at Sony Ericsson have taken all the fun with the unboxing of the Xperia X10 for us -- even though we had our hands on it a couple months ago at CES, and again at Mobile World Congress. So if they want to show off the box themselves, that's cool ... We still aren't sure when or if the X10 will ever make it...

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 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Casey Chan  We already knew that the Dell Mini 5 'Streak' was gorgeous when we saw it in pictures, it's good to know that it's looking just as amazing in leaked low-res promotional flyers too. The promo flyers are the first advertisements we're seeing for the Dell Mini 5 'Streak', the Android-powered 5-inch device that pulls double duty as a phone. It also confirms some spe...

Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Casey Chan  The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 might just get an update to Android 2.2. According to CNET Asia, a SE spokesman said that the Xperia X10 will get updated to the "Eclair variant" of Android so "it could be 2.1 or even 2.2" by the end of the year. That'd be amazing news for any other device but for the Xperia X10, a device that still has no f...

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 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 ...