Motorola Droid is a brand-new phone today. Like many smartphones before it, the Droid has been rooted so that owners of the Android 2.0-based smartphone can install multitouch support (including pinch-to-zoom gestures), enhanced themes and other previously forbidden goodies. A hacked Droid would allow you to modify the operating system any way you want, and [...]

Google today introduced a beta of their navigation app for the Android 2.0 powered Motorola Droid. The application is an extension of its Maps.app for Android but it has a lot of the qualities of personal navigation software products from TomTom, Navigon and Garmin. The application includes conventional navigation features such as 3D views, turn-by-turn [...]

Motorola and Verizon introduced the Droid Wednesday at a New York City press conference. The Droid phone is amazingly thin for a device with a slide-out keyboard. It is a half-inch thick, with a metal top and a brilliant 3.7-inch touch screen. In the hand, the Droid feels hefty, and it’s sliding keyboard mechanism is [...]

Google on Tuesday released an SDK for Android 2.0, revealing some new features that will come with the upgraded mobile operating system. Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs, you can write applications to enable users to sync their [...]