It is official, the Android Team has joined twitter. If you are an avid tweeter and looking for the latest and greatest Android news as it breaks, there are now three accounts that you should follow: @Android, @AndroidDev and of course @Droid_Life.

As of this morning the only tweets were the two you see above. A short” Hello world!”, and a video featuring the unpacking of the Ice Cream Sandwich statue. The account sports an avatar of our robot friend in a delicious form. 

We are totally going hypebeast on this post, there is no getting around that, so take it as that and nothing more.  But what we have above is a quick Twitter conversation between one of our buddies and a Samsung support rep.  Our friend @ClumsyNinja21 has been asking over and over again why Verizon was skipped in the Galaxy S II launch and if there would be something to make up for it in the near future.

Well, after not hearing much of a response for a solid day, he did get one this afternoon after dropping the idea of picking up the DROID Bionic instead of waiting and hoping that Samsung eventually delivers something.  The support rep was pretty clear in that he thought it would be worth waiting, but that he doesn’t have a date.  Wait, date for what?  I didn’t think Verizon had plans for anything beyond the Bionic?  Anyone remember an announcement of any kind on the Samsung/Big Red front?  (Anyone else grinning?)

Could he be referring to the Stratosphere?  I certainly wouldn’t recommend that anyone skip the Bionic for a single-core slideout 4G LTE device that is nothing more than an Epic 4G.  Could he be referring to the rumored DROID Prime?  If so, that could be worth waiting for – assuming all of the rumored everything ends up coming true.

Again, take it for what it’s worth…could be nothing.  Just wanted to share.  

Just today, Twitter has rolled out an image gallery into everyone’s user experience online. The gallery will pick up the 100 most recent images you have used on Twitter and put them in an easy to use gallery for everyone’s enjoyment. One minor feature we are hoping they improve on is video links. So far, there are no video thumbnails in the gallery, and we are hoping soon that Twitter adds them to the gallery, or even begins a separate gallery just for videos.

We will be looking forward to an eventual update to the official Twitter application to add this new feature, and make sharing all of our pictures that much easier. Everyone using the official Twitter app, or are you using a 3rd party? There is no doubt that a lot of 3rd party apps have better features than the official Twitter application. Let us know.

Via: TechCrunch

There is an excellent selection of news readers on the Android Market. FLUD is yet another awesome choice, proving that you can never have enough of a good thing. FLUD brings excellent integration with your Twitter, Google Reader account, and any RSS feed from the web. It has a beautiful UI, with an easy swipe through feed that is super easy to set up. 

Head on over to the Market, and update your Google Videos application. Besides a couple bug fixes, the new main feature is support for Froyo, and Gingerbread handsets. We will stick by our opinion that $2.99+ to rent a movie for 24 hours is completely ridiculous, but to each his own.

Speaking of which, we have a few people over on our Twitter, claiming that their Thunderbolts are getting the new Market pushed to them? Anyone else getting it on their devices?

Market Link

Cheers ___! 

The official Twitter app in the Market has been updated, and it brings along some much needed features. Multiple account support, push notifications, and much better widget options. Looks like they’re finally catching up to all the other 3rd party Twitter apps.

With the widgets, you can now have it show either mentions or tweets, but I still feel they should both come in one widget (like LauncherPro’s), but this is better than nothing. Is anyone rocking the official Twitter, or does everyone use a different client? If you want to learn more about the update, head over to Twitter’s blog.

Market Link

Cheers kaufkin, picolas!

Twitter is sure making the best of June 1st with a couple of major announcements.  This morning they introduced the “Follow” button which websites can embed on their sites to allow for quick follows from readers rather than through that ugly blue bird button we have over to the right that no one uses.  Expect us to toss it into the fold in the next couple of weeks.

The other things they introduced are a new version of search as well as a photo sharing feature.  The new Twitter search will actually give you real results including videos and photos –  the photo sharing feature will allow readers to upload and tweet photos without having to leave Twitter.  It should be available in the coming weeks on the web and in their official mobile apps “soon.”  Twitter will use Photobucket as its photo host.

And in case anyone was wondering, the song is Brett Dennen – Sydney.

Via:  Twitter