Skype has released an updated version of its mobile app for Android with two major updates. The first is that you can now use Skype on the Samsung Galaxy S as long as the phone is running Android 2.2 and up. The second is that you can now install the app to your SD card if you’re running Android 2.2 or later. This frees up… Read more »

Skyfire has released version 3.0.1 of its popular web browser for Google Android. As you might suspect from a point release, there aren’t a ton of huge differences between Skyfire 3.0 and Skyfire 3.0.1, but there are a few new features that should make the Skyfire experience a bit better — especially for users running Android 2.2 and up. For one thing, you can now… Read more »

Verizon has released the official Android 2.2 update for the Motorola Droid X smartphone. In order to grab the update, just fire up the Settings menu on your phone, go to About, and then select System Updates and follow the instructions. Among other things, the software update includes: Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which comes preloaded Faster JavaScript performance Ability to rotate the display 270 degrees… Read more »

If you have a Motorola handset running Google Android 1.6 and you’ve been wondering when you’re slated to receive a software update, the wait is over… well, the wait for a schedule is over anyway. The actual updates are just starting to roll out, with the phased rollout of Android 2.2 Froyo for the Motorola Droid in the US. Motorola has released a schedule explaining… Read more »

Two developments are rocking the world of Android geeks who happen to use the shiny new Droid X smartphone. First, a hacker figured out how to create a ClockworkMod recovery for the Droid X. If you don’t know what that means, here’s the short version: The Droid X was first rooted shortly after it came out. That means users can gain root access to settings… Read more »

Google recently introduces the capability to push data from a desktop web browser to a phone running Android 2.2. In other words, you can visit a web site using Chrome, Firefox, or another desktop browser, and with a click of a button you can send that page to your phone, where it will automatically open in your mobile browser. No need to touch your phone…. Read more »

The HTC Dream and Magic (also known as the G1 and MyTouch) were two of the first GoogleAndroid powered phones to hit the market. At almost two years old, these models don’t have the speediest processors, the largest amounts of memory, or any other superlative you can think of. But you know what? It turns out they’re powerful enough to handle the recently launched Android… Read more »

Google plans to roll out a web interface for the Android Market that will let you discover new apps, and install them to your phone by clicking a single button. In advance of that feature, Google added the ability to push actions to your Android device as part of Android 2.2 Froyo. And while Google isn’t actually using that feature yet, third-party app store AppBrain… Read more »

We’ve seen Android 1.6 running on iPhone hardware before. But now the folks who brought us those unholy hacks have upped the game by porting Android 2.2 Froyo to run on the iPhone 3G. You may wonder why anyone would want to install a bleeding edge version of Android on a phone that doesn’t even have the physical buttons necessary to work with all of… Read more »

This past weekend a handful of folks with Google Nexus One handsets got over the air updates that brought Android 2.2 Froyo to their phones. And thousands of folks decided not to wait for an over the air update, and grabbed the installer to perform a manual update — before Google removed the download link. Of course, the unofficial update.zip file is still floating around,… Read more »