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30 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

It’s official — Evo to get Froyo starting Tuesday, August 3

Sprint has just announced what we all were hoping for — the Evo 4G will be getting Froyo starting August 3, making Sprint the first carrier to upgrade their devices to Android 2.2.  Hit our story HERE to see what’s included with the update. …

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29 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Froyo for the Sprint Evo 4G as early as tomorrow?

What you see above is a document leaked to Engadget, showing that Android 2.2 (Froyo) is about to roll out for the HTC Evo 4G as early as this weekend.  Supposedly an announcement will be made tomorrow, and the software will be made available for …

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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Is HTC commencing its Froyo rollout?

HTC’s European representative, Mark Moons, let it slip through a tweet that there’s a chance Froyo will begin rollout to their many devices starting with HTC Desires in the Netherlands as soon as tomorrow. A Dutch tech news s…

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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Sprint adds Evo 4G, 111,000 net subcribers in the second quarter

Sprint this morning announced its second-quarter earnings, and more than a few investors likely had to be picked up off the floor after learning that the carrier had a net gain in subscribers for the first time in three years.We’ll let that soak in for…

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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

G1 – tonight we bid you a sad farewell

The G1. The founding father of Android as we know it today has finally been removed from the T-Mobile website. This device has had quite a run since its launch in the fall of 2008, and we have seen a lot more happen for this device then we ever thought…

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Screen wars! AMOLED vs. S-LCD vs. LCD vs. Super AMOLED

HTC recently announced it was going to start outfitting certain handsets with SLCD screens rather than AMOLED, due to short supply of the latter. The SLCD screens may be easier more plentiful, but do they look as nice? The people over at Howard Forums …

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26 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Review: Mobi Products skin case for the Sprint Evo 4G

The Mobi Products skin case for the Sprint Evo 4G protects your Evo from bumps and scratches and feels great in the hand while doing it.  Made of some secret variety of rubber, it feels like silicon without the slipperiness.  It wraps your ph…

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25 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

HTC Vision pops up with T-Mobile branding, may be called the G1 Blaze

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the fabled (and unannounced) HTC Vision, but this one looks a little more finished, and with T-Mobile branding to boot, and the tipster who sent it to Engadget notes that it may well be called the G1 Blaz…

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23 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Nexus One retrospective

Call the Nexus One what you want — failed experiment, iClone, ahead of its time, whatever. We’ll call it a solid phone, born from Google’s desire to "shake up" the smartphone market, both in terms of available hardware and the way it w…

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23 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Review: HTC Skin Case for Evo 4G

The HTC Skin Case for the Sprint Evo 4G is one of the easiest ways to protect your phone. It’s a basic rubber skin that fits around the Evo with cutouts for the camera, speaker, flashes, kickstand and ports, and it leaves the phone’s ma…

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