If Android is trying to differentiate itself from Apple's iOS and the iPhone, this is probably not the ideal approach. Legions of us Android pioneers are coming off 2-year contracts, and would at least appreciate a warm hug.

"you can keep your unlimited data even if you get a 4g phone" "nope, my wife just upgraded to a Samsung stratosphere and couldn't keep her unlimited plan." Clear as mud.

Xyboards are rebadged Xooms. Who's fooling whom? I didn't work the first time, what makes Motorola think it'll work again, especially with the likes of the awesome Asus Transformer Prime?

That Sony isn't a player in the mobile space is an astonishing reality I thought I'd never live to see. Maybe it has to do with management's preoccupation with building robotic dogs.

"We wondered about Charlie Sheen, speculated about the Sony NGP, and raved (or raged) about Rebecca Black. And we tYp3ed LyK tHi5."

First, tiered data plans. Now a 50% increase in hardware outlay every two years. It all reinforces our understanding of why the Feds want to nix the AT&T/T-Mobile merger doesn't it?

Thanks to an interesting analysis of the photo we can now understand why, from a technical perspective, that moment in time resonates so well, and has become one of Sports Illustrated's most endearing photos.

For those coming off 2-year old contracts, mostly from the original Motorola Droid (November 2009), it's another hilariously frustrating (yet entertaining) episode in the will the Nexus ever launch mini-series.

I've been on the beta program for this one for a while, and liked it so much, that I bought multiple copies. I routinely use SK X and SK Tablet X on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 7 (original) and on my trusty Moto Droid (soon to be replaced by Nexus... maybe).

News app from Mobiles Republic to be preloaded on 4 new Lenovo Android models.