Cranking out news for the geeks, music buffs and gossip junkies, my way. -Greg

Most are aware that if you buy 1 of the 3 current Android phones from AT&T, that you won’t be able to sideload apps. That is you won’t be able to install apps that come from sources other than the Android Market. I should say you can’t easily do it, as there are 2 options to do this. First, you can root your device, which you will have complete access to do as you please with your phone. The second is using the Android SDK and load your apps that way, like you are “testing” it on your phone. Now the AWESOME guys over at Android Central have created a third and surely the easiest way to sideload apps on AT&T Android phones. The “Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine” is a Windows app that allows you to install any .apk file (Android App) you want from any source directly to your phone. Link to the get your copy and a video below. Android Central, you’re the best! -Greg

Get it here –> ”Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine”

Samsung’s Captivate has an enormous amount of hardware and software features. One of the things it does lack is a flash for its 5megapixel camera. I don’t really think a flash is big feature, as I’m not about to replace my real digital camera for my phones camera. When the camera in my phone begins near the 8+ megapixel mark then I would think a flash would become necessary. Short of the flash, the photo (5mp) and video (720hd) camera have quite a collection of features. The videos below quickly run through just about every feature and setting for both. I shot both of these videos using my fiancé’s HTC Aria and I have to say they turned out pretty well. I’d have to say the quality and tons of extra stuff for Captivate’s camera, make this first piece I reviewed a win for the Captivate. -Greg

Thanks to my good pal, Liam, at the AT&T Store in South County (St.Louis, MO) I am now the proud owner of the Samsung Galaxy S, Captivate! I should point out the obvious, this is 2 days earlier than the release date! I’m not going to give my review just yet, cause I have to play with it first. I will say that Swype is AWESOME. Here are some pictures of my new baby, enjoy! -Greg

The Samsung Galaxy S has an ad that popped up, which is just verifying that its coming and soon. Here is the video.. -Greg

Samsung’s newest bad boy the “Galaxy S” has recently been said to be hitting all 4 major carriers. According to an article by the Android Guys, Broadpoint.AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie says it will be heading to T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint by the end of June with Verizon slated as “sometime later this year”. BGR reports the following specs for the Galaxy S:

The Galaxy S sports the features that grace other cutting edge Android handsets including a gorgeous four inch AMOLED display with 800 x 480 resolution, 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel rear-facing camera with support for 720p HD video recording at 30fps, front-facing VGA camera, Swype keyboard, HSDPA connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, WiFi, microSD expansion (16GB included, up to 32GB supported), and Android 2.1. To set it apart from its competition, the Galaxy S includes bundled software for the “Smart Life’ which adds an on-device Social networking hub, advanced location-based services, the Layar Reality Browser, and HD video playback.

 Nuff said? Yeah, there is no doubt this is one bad Android phone and seeing as it will be hitting AT&T about the same time that Dell’s two Android phones will, I might actually have a choice. Ok, not really I’m thinking this Galaxy is my now 1st choice over Sony’s Xperia X10. One of the options that BGR doesn’t mention in the above is the camera will have panoramic support, how is cool is that?! More about the Samsung Galaxy S and the full press release is over here.