Top 15 Android Phones Currnetly Available

  If you haven’t kept up with the mobile market, we got news for you—Google's mobile OS is kicking ass. That’s right. Andy Rubin’s operating system, which Symbian, Nokia, Microsoft, and yes Apple, considered “no major threat” a few years back is now the leading U.S. mobile platform. But Android phones aren’t just killing it on American soil. Recent reports from Gartner have the mobile OS selling over 427.8 million units worldwide in just the first quarter of 2011. The little OS that could has definitely come a long way since 2008 when the first-ever Android device, the T-Mobile G1, was released.

Verizon: No 3G Handoff for VoLTE Calls

Verizon Wireless does not plan to let voice calls placed over its LTE network roam on to its CDMA network when it introduces voice over LTE (VoLTE) smartphones next year.

AT&T’s LTE 4G speeds could blow away Verizon

The battle for 4G dominance is ramping up this year, and it looks like AT&T may have a heck of a contender with its LTE 4G network.

Family data plans being considered by Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless smartphone subscribers knew it was too good to be true.

Suit: AT&T overbills for iPhone, iPad data

AT&T allegedly overcharges for data use on iPhones and iPads, and bills for "phantom data traffic when there is no actual data usage initiated by the customer," according to a class-action suit against the Dallas company.

AT&T demos their upcoming 4G LTE network

During a visit to AT&T’s Foundry Space in Plano, Texas, Stacey Higginbotham, a writer forGigaOM, asked if she could get a demo of the soon to launch 4G LTE network and the engineers were more than happy to let her run some speed tests. The numbers she got: 

Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread Coming To Xperia Play, Arc Next Week

Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of Facebook Inside Xperia, the deepest Facebook integration we’ve seen to date on a mobile device, it’s also looking like the gaming-centric Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and the Xperia Arc smartphone will be receiving updates to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread next week in the UK, according to Recombu.

Logitech Launches Tablet Accessories for iOS and Android

After Logitech's recent release of the rebranded Zaggmate Keyboard Case($99.99 direct, 3.5 stars) for iPad, the peripheral manufacturer has finally decided to dive into the tablet market with its line of Android and iOS combatable devices.

10 Thing Microsoft Must do Now to Save Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 is having an exceptionally hard time catching on in the marketplace. Not only is its market share far behind that of Android and iOS, but Microsoft has yet to prove that it can rebuild its ailing mobile division, which continues to appear slow to adapt to the changing demands of today’s consumers and enterprise customers.

Apple patent adds clues to streaming music service

A patent application released this morning has provided clues to features Apple might add to iTunes and iOS to make entire music libraries take up less space on mobile devices with limited storage.