Sony has been hitting the Android game pretty hard this week, first the Sony Xperia Ion and now the Sony Xperia S, another incredible device. How can you really go wrong with a 1.5GHz dual-core device with a 720p 4.3-inch display? Oh, you want more? How about a 12MP camera, a rather stylish design, and a 720p front facing camera?

Nothing quite like an earnings call from Google to help break up the day. Long story short — Google is making a lot of money and Android is doing amazing, plus — Ice Cream Sandwich is going to be incredible. If you missed out on any news from today, make sure you get caught up either here on the blogs or in the Android Central forums:

Abode Flash Player wasn’t the only thing to get an update tonight — Adobe AIR has also been updated to version 3, and it’s again full of performance enhancements and improvements.  ActionScript developers will appreciate support for native extensions, and users will love front facing camera support (we want a Zombie Booth AIR version please!).  There’s also support for speaker control and more color depth, as well as better file compression support and more secure streaming to keep Hollywood and the record labels happy.  AIR is deeply integrated into Stage 3D, and the games should be incredible once the new features are finished rolling out.  Get your update from the Market, or hit the install link after the break.

The Sept. 23 Deal of the Day brings us the OtterBox Defender Series Case for HTC Droid Incredible 2 and Droid Incredible S. It’s got three layers of protection that protects your phone from drops, bumps, dust and shock. All features, keys and ports are accessible through the case, providing you with a unique, interactive safeguard. Included with this case is a holster style swivel belt clip. It’s available today only for $24.95. Get yours while supplies last!

We’re getting pinged left and right today that the Gingerbread update for the HTC Droid Incredible is pushing out in earnest following a brief delay. In addition to Android 2.3.4, you can expect:

It’s time, folks. Time to announce the winner of a Verizon-branded HTC Merge — one of the more mythical phones of the past year or so.

We asked you to send in pictures with our beloved Lloyd (that’s the little green guy you see everywhere), and boy, did you deliver. We got more than two dozen entries, and it wasn’t easy to pick a winner, that’s for sure. We hemmed. We hawed. We gnashed our teeth. But in the end, there can be only one. And so the winner of a Verizon-branded HTC Merge is …

 
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It’s not every day that you come across a game with a title that could be read so many different ways. I won’t even go into the various ways to interpret it, but suffice it to say the name doesn’t lie. Because epic and hilarious titles are so few and far between, I had to take it upon myself to check things out.

Cristi and Lloyd catch some history in Southeast Asia

Here’s a final reminder, folks, that we’re winding down our Verizon HTC Merge contest. You’ve got two days left to print out everybody’s favorite Android mascot, snap a pic with him (and we want to see you in the shot as well), and send it in.