The Philips GoGear Connect 3 is a relatively inexpensive Android powered personal media player. Although it’s not the most of sophisticated of devices, some users may want to achieve root access to remove some of the pre-installed bloatware. ...

Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik, two security researchers with iSec Partners recently showed off a technique they call “war-texting” at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Using an Android phone they were able to show how they exploited ...

Although AT&T has promised a future software update for the Motorola Atrix that will bring HSUPA support, some users are tired of waiting. The latest OTA update for the Atrix did not include a new radio to support the faster speeds. The clever hack ...

George Hotz, better known by his online handle Geohot said in an interview on The Alyona Show that he bought a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and he’s already looking into the security of it. Although it’s already been rooted with custom ROMs, ...

Google has just integrated Google Books with the Android Market website. Allowing you to browse and purchase books right from the Android Market desktop, and send them straight to your phone or tablet. Similar to the existing Google Books site, but with ...

If you’re not familiar with Pwn2Own, it’s a hacker contest of sorts where computer experts try their best to hack into a device, exploit a security vulnerability. The prizes are not only the device (hence the name), but cold, hard cash as ...

Android 2.2 has been partially released only to the Nexus One, but it’s already been hacked onto the HTC EVO 4G, and it’s all up in the air which other devices will get it and when. But like clockwork, the boys over at xda-developers have ...

So someone got their hands on the UK 1.5 image and you can manually update to Android 1.5 Cupcake without having to root your phone and worry about bricking it. I cleaned up the instructions a bit, because the grammar was horrible. I also uploaded to ...

First off, I take no credit for this guide, this is straight from the xda-developers forums, which is an excellent place to learn about HTC phone hacking. So let’s get started. Make sure you backup anything important on your phone as this will erase ...

Now this is a hack I’m really impressed with. By using Apps2SD tools and a bit of hacking skills it’s possible to install a full copy of Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on you G1. If you’re feeling brave and you know what you’re doing, ...