I have been mulling over the idea of writing this post for a while now. It was mostly triggered by a video I saw on Android Central. I was excited that they finally had an (apparently) female-centric podcast with female hosts, called “Girls Gone Gadgets”, with hosts Georgia and Ashley. Now maybe the play on “Girls Gone Wild” in the title should’ve tipped me off, or even their logo, (which I think is supposed to be a pink heart with Android antennae and an Apple...

We plan to be back to regular posting on WomenWithDroids starting this week, when we’ll be featuring several female app developers and the great apps they have to offer! If you know a female developer that we should feature, let us know and we’ll set up an e-interview! In the meantime, I’ve started doing news updates via our Google+ Page (circle us!) and Paper.Li online newspaper (subscribe!), which gets auto-tweeted to our Twitter account (follow us!). There’s also a...

In this 2nd follow-up to our Android Phones for Women survey, let’s dive into what you thought about a “feminine” Android device, and how you thought an Android phone designed for us ladies should look: 71% of you are not offended by the idea of phones designed to appeal specifically to males or females 60% of you said that on a scale of 1 to 10, your likelihood of purchasing a phone marketed especially to women (assuming it had all of the features you wanted) was a 7 or...

You all did an awesome job filling out our “Android Phones for Women” survey, ladies! We have some really valuable data here. I think I must have hit a nerve with some of the questions, because we got really passionate answers — sometimes with polar opposite views! I am well aware that you can’t lump everyone into one category, and that every woman is different and uses her phone differently. However, I believe there are some ways that women use their phones, and some...

This blog was started back when the original Droid was being marketed as a “not girly” phone – presumably, that was a bash at Apple’s style-over-power approach, but I believe it also kept some women from getting Android phones for a while. We started this blog to let women know that there were other women out there that used and loved Android phones, and that we could blog about them, too! Now times have changed and lots of women have Androids. The question that’s...

Hello WomenWithDroids readers! One of our goals in the new year is to increase the number of posts that we publish per month. In order to help us achieve that goal, we have decided to bring on a new contributor – which could be you! I want to make it clear up front that none of our contributors are paid for writing for WomenWithDroids.com (yet!), though I have agreed to split any ad/affiliate link revenue among the contributors (or spend it on accessories we agree to purchase for review)...

Thanks everyone for making this a great first full year for Women With Droids, and a special thanks to all of our contributors for helping get this blog off the ground! Let’s take a look back at the articles that were read the most. Without further ado, here are our Top 5 posts of 2010! 5. How to take Screenshots – This somewhat complex how-to must’ve gained us a lot of traffic from search engines before there were any apps to help take screenshots. Now, depending on your...

We’re excited to announce a new interactive feature here on WomenWithDroids.Com: “Ask the Droid Women!” As you probably guessed, you can ask questions in the comments of any “Ask the Droid Women” post (including this one), and we will pick some of your questions to answer. Who are the Droid Women? Find out on our About page here! Each of us will weigh in with our own unique perspectives, then any WomenWithDroids readers out there that want to follow up can add...

You may have noticed a lull in our posts lately as we recover and regroup after the loss of our dear friend and Women With Droids contributor Elmyra Jemison, whom we knew as Ellie. We learned a little over a week ago from her siblings online that Ellie suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. We had all been concerned after not hearing from her for several days (it was unusual for her not to post anything on Twitter for any extended period of time), and this horrible news came as a huge shock...

You’ll see a lot of Android blogs touting the wonders of rooting your phone, and as a programmer and open-source proponent, I know that reducing bloatware can make a big impact on the speed of your device and your ability to customize it. However, I’m not going to root my Droid. Let me explain why. First, what is rooting? Rooting (as far as I understand it without having done it) is basically reducing the Android operating system to its “base”, removing all of the...