Vertu creates $10K luxury Android phone for the wealthy and depressed

For roughly $10,000, wealthy and self-aggrandizing egotists will get a luxury phone along with the latest version of Android. Happiness, however, is sold separately.

Aiming to “revolutionize the display experience,” ViewSonic unveils Android-based Smart Display

Is it a computer or a display? The Android-based Smart Display from ViewSonic is both.

From bikes to games to video games to…tablets? Toys ‘R’ Us bets on Tabeo

Done with being a showroom for Amazon, Toys 'R' Us announces the Tabeo, a kids tablet that's all its own. But will Toys 'R' Us "kids" (and more important, their parents) set aside Kindle Fires and iPads for it?

Motorola Atrix HD is official, headed to AT&T July 15 for $100

With the Atrix HD cat out of the bag for almost a week, Motorola is finally getting around to giving the Android phone the offical treatment.

Specs for the device are identical to the ones that were leaked previously: The …

Android 4.0 finally surpasses 10% of devices — it only took 8.5 months

While the Android buzz is now firmly focused on the recently unveiled Jelly Bean, the previous major update, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has finally reached double-digit penetration in the market.

It’s a bittersweet victory, though, as it took 8.5 …

Samsung’s Galaxy S III: It’s good to be the Android king (review)

With the Galaxy S III, Samsung is downright flaunting its expertise with Android hardware. From its gorgeous screen, to its smooth curves, the phone is a beauty to behold. The Galaxy S III joins the latest wave of Android phones …

Spotify for Android cranks it to 11 with ICS support, revamped design, & more

Streaming music service Spotify has massively updated its Android application with support for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), a new navigation bar, an Android widget, and an option for higher sound quality, the company announced Tuesday.

Spotify is now available …

Galaxy S III on fire: Samsung gets 9M pre-orders in two weeks

Pre-orders for Samsung’s next flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S III, have already reached 9 million just two weeks after it was announced. In comparison, the last Galaxy phone took several months to reach 3 million pre-orders.

The early orders …

Google now selling unlocked Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ phone for $399

After Google’s failed attempt to sell the Nexus One smartphone a few years back, the search giant is attempting to sell hardware once more with an unlocked Galaxy Nexus compatible with HSPA+ networks, which is now available in the Google …

Forget T-Mobile’s ad gal, the HTC One S is its real sex symbol (review)

T-Mobile’s iconic ad girl, Carly, has been in the news quite a bit lately, after ditching her pink dresses for black leather and a Ducati in the carrier’s new ad campaign (Lisbeth Salander says hello, by the way). But in …

HTC One X heads to AT&T May 6 for $200

HTC’s new flagship Android smartphone, the One X, finally has a release date in the U.S. AT&T announced this morning that it will offer the One X starting May 6 for $200 with the typical two-year contract.

The phone was …

Chrome Beta update lets you view all open tabs on multiple devices

If you’re a Chrome Beta user, you’re in for a treat. Google’s beta version of its proprietary web browser just got an update that lets you view all your open tabs in Chrome across multiple devices. 

Let’s say you’ve got …

Fake ID holders beware: facial recognition service Face.com can now detect your age

Facial-recognition platform Face.com could foil the plans of all those under-age kids looking to score some booze. Fake IDs might not fool anyone for much longer, because Face.com claims its new application programming interface (API) can be used to detect …

Low-fat Ice Cream Sandwich: Android 4.0 boosts HTC Vivid performance up to 66%

By upgrading to the latest version of Android, HTC Vivid owners will see huge performance bumps with their smartphones — a sign that other Android phones could see similar gains.

AT&T slowly began pushing out an Android 4.0 update, commonly …

After torturing Galaxy S II owners, Samsung finally begins Android 4.0 rollout

After several false starts and delays, Samsung has officially begun rolling out an Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” upgrade today for its popular Galaxy S II smartphones. But those in North America will still have to wait a bit longer.…

Onavo’s data compression makes its way to Android 4.0 devices

Onavo has had something of a split personality for the past year. The company’s iPhone app has won countless awards for its revolutionary data compression capability (including top prize at our MobileBeat 2011 conference), but Android users had to make …

LG kicks off the quad-core smartphone craze with the Optimus 4X HD

LG was the first company to show off a dual-core smartphone last year, and it has once again beaten the rest of the pack with tonight’s announcement of the Optimus 4X HD, the world’s first quad-core phone.

The news heralds …

Meet the ZTE Mimosa X, the first smartphone powered exclusively by Nvidia

Nvidia’s technology powers many cell phones on the market, including the T-Mobile G2X and Motorola Droid X2. But until now, Nvidia only supplied its processors to external cell phone manufacturers. On Monday, Nvidia announced the first phone to be powered …

Samsung debuts 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 with tasty Ice Cream Sandwich

Samsung has unveiled the successor to its first 7-inch Android tablet, but this time the device will run the latest feature-rich version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich.

The Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) will be one of the first tablets available …

Samsung’s Galaxy S III may be just 7mm thick, making it world’s thinnest phone

At some point, the mad quest to create the thinnest phone on the market will end — but not today.

Samsung is reportedly aiming to make its upcoming Galaxy S III flagship device just 7 millimeters thick, a full 1.49mm …