Jason Howell from TWiT TV joins us live as we get hands on with the Galaxy Nexus. We also take a look at a new nook, and ask what a dude thinks about his girl phone. All of that an more on this week’s episode of Android Atlas Weekly for November 2nd 2011. Now playing: …

Hours after launching the hotly anticipated Gmail for iPhone app (and for all iOS devices), Google pulled the broken app from the Apple App store and apologized on Twitter. “The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications,” the tweet reads. “We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up.” Google later followed up …

Sprint Nextel is working with Apple to figure out the connection issue affecting some iPhone 4S devices on its network, but doesn’t yet have an answer for the problem. “We’re taking the reports of problems from a small number of customers seriously,” Fared Adib, head of product development for Sprint, said in an interview with CNET today. “There’s nothing of …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Sprint Nextel is working to take its flagship smartphones and eventually sell them to its prepaid and wholesale partners, according to product chief Fared Adib. Sprint could eventually take a high-end handset such as the Samsung Electronics Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch and re-brand and sell it to different providers, Adib said during the company’s developer conference …

Oh, Duke Nukem. We had to wait so many years for you to return, and now we can’t get rid of you. The videogame world’s favourite musclebound misogynist is making his way to your Android mobile, courtesy of a port of his classic 1996 adventure Duke Nukem 3D. It’s available to download now from the Android Market, priced at a mere …

A federal judge today allowed Sprint Nextel and C Spire to continue with its lawsuit to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA. AT&T and T-Mobile had attempted to dismiss the lawsuit. But Judge Ellen Huvelle allowed both companies to persist with their lawsuits, which claim they would be squeezed by market pressures if the consolidation were to be …

Last year it was the antenna on the iPhone causing issues, this year it seemed it was the battery’s turn to start annoying owners of the latest Apple handset. But now there’s another reason to be annoyed at your 4S: an echo on voice calls. There are dozens of messages on the Apple support forum from owners complaining of an …

The LG Optimus 2X will at some point be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, as will “other LG high-end smart phones”, the company has promised in a statement on its Facebook page. The statement was made in response to rumours that the Optimus 2X wouldn’t be getting the Ice Cream Sandwich treatment at all. While it’s good to …

It may be a few months late to the BlackBerry Torch party, but T-Mobile announced today that it’s finally getting its own BlackBerry Torch 9810. We first saw this updated vertical slider model this past summer for AT&T. The BlackBerry smartphone runs BlackBerry OS 7, and hooks into T-Mobile’s “4G” HSPA+ network. RIM’s signature QWERTY keyboard finds a home on …

The T-Mobile Sonic 4G Mobile HotSpot, though fast enough for most Internet applications, wasn’t the fastest mobile router in terms of data speed I’ve seen. In fact, in my testing around San Francisco, on average, it was actually slightly slower than the previous model, the T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot ZTE MF61, which came out a while ago. Still, overall, it …