From Htcyou: As AT&T; customers angrily know, their carrier cripples their phones, and the HTC Aria is no exception. Well, eugene373 (unofficial HTC rooting guru) has applied the same HTC MyTouch 3G Slide hack on the Aria. Also, Sony’s once promising Xperia X10 has also been rooted, but instructions for the procedure are pending. More »

From Htcyou: AT&T; got its Samsung Galaxy S variant called the Captivate, and Sprint is getting the slider version named the Galaxy S Pro, so what is poor little T-Mobile going to do without a high end Android? Samsung comes to the rescue with the Vibrant for T-Mobile. More »

It has been a long and painful journey, but Adobe has finally given Flash 10.1 to its mobile platform partners using the following operating systems: “Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone 7 Series, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian.” Flash 10.1 on Android requires 2.2 FroYo, which is unofficially available for Google’s Nexus One and will be run on many Android smartphones by Q4 of this year. Adobe had kept its supporters waiting, but now the “F” ball is in their courts. Let the hunt for crashes, bugs, and security holes begin. The iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch will be spared from Flash 10.1’s havoc. More »

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Smartbooks will try to intellectualize the dumb and slow netbook. Toshiba’s Android 2.1 powered AC100 is a 10.1-inch (1024×600) smartbook with a muscular NVIDIA Tegra 250, which is based off the duo 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor. More »

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Nokia is also anticipating a massive hit in its global smartphone market share to Google Android handsets and Apple iPhone. Among the four main American carriers, BlackBerry has slipped from the top spot. Sprint’s top seller is the HTC Evo 4G; T-Mobile’s front-runner is the MyTouch 3G Slide; the Droid Incredible and Motorola Droid are kings of Verizon, and the iPhone 4 is obviously AT&T’s darling now. More »

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From Htcyou: Blog Android and Me is the first to be graced with a preview of Motorola’s Droid 2, which looks like its predecessor (except for the re-worked keypad) but internally is housing a beastly 1GHz TI OMAP3630 processor (Droid has 550MHz TI OMAP343) with integrated PowerVR SGX530 graphics and 512Mb RAM (over 256Mb in the Droid). Benchmarks conducted show that the Droid 2 is substantially faster than the original, which is still one of the more powerful smartphones out there. More »

Quite a bit of speculation has surrounded the processor and graphics of Nintendo’s 3DS handheld, which some had guessed might have NVIDIA’s Tegra. Digital Media Professionals (who?) has just quashed many rumors by officially announcing that its proprietary 3D graphics chip Pica200 is inside the 3DS. Check out the video of DMP’s 200MHz CPU in action. More »

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From Htcyou: A “tried-and-true tipster” is spilling the details regarding Sprint’s second WiMAX 4G Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Pro S. Most of the specs are in line with what we are expecting, but the SIM card slot is a pleasant bonus that might not make it into production. More »

From Htcyou: Do you recall the iPed that stole some attention during Apple’s Chinese iPad launch? That iPed is a bottom rung slate with a 7″ touchscreen and a slow processor. The Orphan M16 has a 10.2-inch (1024×600) display, Android 2.1, and a fast 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, and it is obtainable for $290 USD. More »

From Htcyou: Straight from Google is build FRF72 of Android 2.2 for the Nexus One. Before you venture off to perform the non OTA update, ensure that you have the FRF50 build, which must be installed on an unrooted unit. More »

From Htcyou: Open to UK residents 18 years and over, Mobile Fun’s Love Your Mobile contest is giving away an unlocked HTC Desire worth £399.95. Entries will be accepted until July 5th. More »

From Htcyou: With smartphones increasingly reliant on multi-touch for web and app navigation, how well the touch sensors on the display perform matters more than ever. Every phone’s multi-touch performance will, as always, be measured against the benchmark iPhone. How does AT&T;’s new HTC Aria fare? Find out from the video. More »

From Htcyou: iPhone 4, HTC can do it too. Sprint’s game changing WiMAX smartphone is going white and will be available exclusively at Best Buy starting July 11th. More »

From Htcyou: To confound and frustrate fans some more, Verizon had mistakenly - just like the commercial slides leak - proclaimed that its forthcoming Motorola Droid X had a “720p display.” The unforgivable typo has been corrected, but fanboy hearts everywhere remain broken. More »

From Htcyou: Not long after Virgin Mobile snatched North America’s debut of the HTC Legend, another Canadian GSM carrier has received the coveted aluminum unibody smartphone. Bell Mobility is selling the Legend for $79.95 with a 3-year contract or $399.95 CDN out the door, commitment free. Canada 2, USA zero. More »