T-Mobile to offer The Avengers movie for free for Galaxy S3 owners starting September 25

The overall excitement surrounding Marvel’s The Avengers movie might have toned down a bit in the past couple of months — after all, everybody’s seen it — but I’m sure there are a still a lot of comic book and film fans eagerly awaiting the Avengers’ assembly on Blu-Ray and DVD.

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PlayStation Mobile with 30 games comes to Android on October 3

Sony’s PlayStation Mobile will be open for business on the Android platform from October 3. It’s basically a section in the PlayStation Store which Sony will use to sell a hand-picked selection of “bite-sized games” for Android smartphones and tablets.

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Android 4.0.4 ICS update heading to AT&T’s Sony Xperia Ion

Releasing a flagship phone with an outdated version of Android was one of the factors that led to a not-so-impressive Sony Xperia Ion. But to the delight of owners of the phone, Sony is making good on its promise to provide a swift upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich. After we saw the Android 4.0 firmware hitting the LTE variant of the phone a few days back, the update is reportedly coming to the Xperia Ion on AT&T.

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Google beating Facebook in the advertising war

It’s easy to forget that Google is primarily an advertising company. Everything it does is about capturing more eyeballs for adverts and getting better at serving those ads to the right demographic. The company is very good at it too.

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ZTE Warp Sequent is available at Boost Mobile with ICS and low-end specs for $200

It usually takes a leaked phone some time to see the light of day, but when the specs aren’t great, manufacturers and carriers skip a few hype-building marketing steps. Therefore, we should not be too surprised to see Boost Mobile’s pretty modest ZTE Warp Sequent handheld already up for grabs, just ten days after its first online leaked appearance.

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Sprint CEO: 1 million LTE devices sold, wishes Windows Phone luck

Betting on the wrong wireless technology (WiMax, anyone?) has caused Sprint’s 4G LTE deployment to lag behind its rivals – especially Verizon, which has now covered 75% of the U.S. population with its LTE network, across over 370 markets. Despite the disadvantage, Sprint announced that it has so far sold more than 1 million LTE-equipped devices, with the Galaxy S3 and EVO 4G being the two most popular handsets.

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LG’s official Optimus G demo video shows off features we didn’t know about

LG has just uploaded a six minute video to YouTube where they demo several of the new features in their most recent flagship device, the Optimus G. We’re a little upset with some of the language that the company used. They say the video is the “first review” of the device, which it isn’t, because companies can’t review their own devices.

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Third series of famous Android toys out next week

So you say you like Android? You like to collect robot figurines? Well, fellow Android enthusiast, you’re in good company with Dyzplastic, maker of Android figurines worldwide. The company’s third series is due starting next week via Dead Zebra.

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Facbook is testing an automatic photo uploading feature for Android

You know that person at the party who takes a photo of someone doing something stupid and then spends the next 60 seconds or so fiddling with their device to put that image on Facebook so that everyone in their timeline can see how much “fun” they’re having? No one likes that person, and Facebook is trying to eradicate that kind of behavior.

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Samsung to build a new R&D Center right in Google’s backyard

Google, the company that makes the Android operating system that everyone should be using, is based in Mountain View, California. Samsung, the company that makes a significant portion of the Android devices that we spend our hard earned money on, has just announced that they’re going to open a new R&D Center in that very same city.

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