[Update]: A quick update to let you folks know that this was a hoax to begin with. P3Droid – a developer who I mentioned earlier – had nothing to do with the shenanigans. I was given misinformation on the subject matter and have since attempted to correct the errors. (Due to extenuating circumstances and a lack of cooperation on WordPress’s part, my changes were never saved.)

I’d like to extend a sincere apology to P3Droid, all of his fans, and all of the folks in the DROID community who fell for this plot just as we did. We also apologize for taking so long to get this corrected – please believe me when I say it’s not because we didn’t care. We have been very busy with CTIA and all sorts of stuff and just haven’t had time to address the issue.

I hope P3Droid and the development community accepts this apology. Let me be clear that Phandroid is NOT the party who created this hoax. We simply reported on it. (That was before we knew it was a hoax, of course.) We won’t be so quick to pull the trigger on stories like this in the future.

And I take full responsibility for the misinformation as I had no time to actually research the issue when I was notified of the supposed breakthrough. (Again, I was getting ready to travel for CTIA and literally only had about 10 minutes to get the post up.) I’m sorry this took so long but better late than never, right? I just hope it isn’t too late. -Quentyn