For those of you who do not know, the second annual Big Android Barbecue is going to be held on October 3 in Austin, TX. That weekend, which begins October 1, is when Android fans, enthusiasts, carriers, partners, developers and vendors will meet in Austin and celebrate Android’s two year birthday. There is going to [...]
For many, battery life is usually an after thought when purchasing a new smartphone. We spend so much time evaluating the UI the feel the look, it’s only once we start using the phone in our day to day life that we realize how important battery life really is. A quick look at the battery [...]
XDA Developers Forum has done it again! Only two weeks after launch, Motorola’s DROID 2 has been rooted. This time, epic props go to Sebastian Krahmer at C-Skills blog. If you use his procedure and it works for you, please show him some Paypal love with a donation to 7-4-3-C@web.de. Needless to say, this is [...]
If you’ve been waiting for an official car dock for your brand new EVO 4G, wait no longer. Pick one up at your local Sprint retail store for a hefty $59 and prepare to be disappointed. My biggest gripe with this car dock, intuitively named the Car upgrade kit for the EVO 4G, is that [...]
For all users of the Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile, listen up! If you have been waiting for someone to release a stock Android 2.1 Eclair then today is your lucky day. From xda-devlopers forum, developer eugene373 has heard your cries for a Vanilla Android and has delivered the goods. Now you don’t have to sift [...]
Motorola has agreed to purchase two-year-old software startup 280 North, co-founded by three USC graduates. 280 North created a well-respected web development framework known as Cappuccino. As their developers phrase it, “Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.” The rumored sale price [...]
Froyo rumors come in all flavors, and which smartphone will be the next in line for a tasty frozen snack is one of the perenniels. The HTC DROID Incredible has been waiting its turn, and has already had one rumored day come and go. That was August 18th, but all that happened was Verizon confirmed [...]
The MB520 aka “Kobe” from Motorola wiggled it’s way through the chatter pipeline a few days back. Now it’s found its way on camera. Here are some images thanks to Engadget of the sensation. As said in the previous days it seems to be finding it’s place on the AT&T network. It is supposed to [...]
As T mobile gears up for the highly anticipated launch of their G2, we questioned the look, we got the leaked pictures and now we wonder what’s inside of the G2? Well now we can put that to rest as the specs have been leaked, and I must say the G2 is looking to be [...]
This leak confirms that HTC Vision and T-mobile G2 are one and the same phone. The leaked ROM can’t be installed into any device yet, but the phone is going to appear in a month or so anyway, so this doesn’t matter. However, we can still get some information out of that file, because apparently [...]
Google has been hard at work once again to provide the best for their users and now they come through with direct calls via your Gmail account. According to Google for the time being calls within the U.S. and to Canada will be free until further notice and world wide calls will be at a [...]
Vodafone lose the plot The beauty of Android, well one of the beauties, is the level to which you can customize your handset. The open source nature of the platform means custom ROMs that can transform your phone, provide added functionality and make it feel like it’s truly yours and not just on loan from [...]
It’s okay if you have no idea what OpenFeint is, I didn’t either when I took this story. Apparently it’s pretty popular on the ol’ iPhone though. OpenFeint, in a nutshell, is a social gaming application that tracks your scores and achievements from within games and rewards players with “Feint Points” which are used to rank [...]
The Motorola Flipout has made news since June. It is available in some parts of the world. Here are the specs: 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen Android 2.1 (Eclair) Motoblur QWERTY keyboard 3.0 mp camera 600MHz processor 512MB of both RAM and ROM 150MB for user storage This phone is not yet available in the US, but [...]
Did you know Polaroid was still in business? Neither did I. I thought the digital camera revolution pretty much pushed them over the edge of the Internet. But they’re still around, and now they’re doing Android. The Polaroid PoGo 3×4 Instant Print portable printer can print photos right from your Android phone using their free [...]
Telus has made little movement with the Black’s Photo brand after purchasing 113 locations about a year ago. Unless you count the fact they’ve found more places to sell Telus devices, and sometimes including prints or frames with new service. (Their current promotion: 1000 free prints a year with every new three-year contract. Not a [...]
Chitika which is an online ad network has conducted a survey about from which o.s has the maximum clicks for advertisements have been received,and the winner was our beloved android platform with the ipad finishing second and the iphone the last.On an Io.s vs Android showdown the android users clicked 81% more than its iphone [...]
If anyone walks into the AT&T store to buy or check out which phone you have to buy next and all you see is many of these low end android phones and at the otherside you see the iphone,so your choice is obviously going to be the iphone,although i am sure that no one likes [...]
Now, how about that? Droid X and Droid 2 have just been launched and it seems like Verizon has already signed their death sentences for March 31st, 2011. That’s just 8 months from now, and well before your contract expires. So what i going on here? The end of life they are mentioning is NOT [...]
Lately there has been some more evidence that the HTC Vision (aka T-Mobile G2) will be here within the next month or so? Some new Federal Communications Commission filings have just hit the web for a mysterious HTC PC10100. The HTC PC10100 name is new information that we aren’t familiar with, but looking at the other factors [...]
Gameloft, a leading international publisher and developer of downloadable video games, is launching a special offer that allows you to experience the new HD games available for the latest generation of Android smartphones by trying before buying them. Eleven titles are already available including best-sellers such as: Real Football 2010, Asphalt 5, Assassin’s Creed, Dungeon [...]
The Motorola Charm is now available for purchase at T-Mobile. The charm seems to a great for texting and inputing text. It is geared for social media a great catch if those are the qualities you need in a phone. In more specific information about this device is that it has quad-band GSM, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, 3 megapixel [...]
No one can question the meteoric success of of Android. Gaining nearly 20% market share this year in a highly competitive industry such as mobile, is no small feat. But where are the other players? We saw the operating system race escalate between Apple and Microsoft develop throughout most of the 90s and 2000s. Microsoft [...]
What would you say if you could use that vibrant Super AMOLED screen from your Galaxy S model, to watch DivX HD videos on it? Well now you will be able to do that, because Samsung Galaxy S has become the first certified Android phone to support DivX HD. This means you will be able [...]
Anyone remember the DROID INCREDIBLE? This phone was released through Verizon and was very popular at launch. The phone was so popular that supply couldn’t keep up with demand. The Incredible finally has caught up and has inventory available for sale. That was the good news. The bad news is that the Droid X, the [...]
The FCC has gone to work examining the Sony Experia X8. They have posted a user manual and a lot of pics both inside and out for all to see. There is a lot available so follow the link to the FCC page to view them. The Sony Xperia X8 comes with a 3-inch HVGA [...]
Digital Trends has a nice feature comparing all the Samsung Galaxy S smartphones, spec by spec. The four large US carriers each are selling their own flavor of the Galaxy S. AT&T’s Samsung Captivate and T-Mobile’s Samsung Vibrant were launched in July. Sprint sold out of pre-orders for the Epic 4G almost immediately, which is [...]
Huawei has shown love to android from the very begining of this year,infact they were the ones who brought out the worlds first HSPA+ android phone and have introduced many more android phones since.Huawei is a chinese comapny which emphasises more on the cost factor than the specs of a phone.they try to provide more [...]
If you’ve been interested in seeing more of the Motorola Charm, here is your chance. Wirefly has posted their first-look at T-Mobile’s Charm, which is slated to release in stores tomorrow. One of the first things you’ll notice about the Charm is its design is rather unconventional for what we’d expect an Android phone to [...]
Want a tablet, but not sure what OS you want with it? Viewsonic might have the tablet you are looking for. This tablet is rumored to be dual booting with Windows and Android. It will have a 10″ screen. Viewsonic is also working on a 7″ version that sports 3G, Wi-Fi, an accelerometer, USB port, [...]
Motorola has updated their Android OS update plan, and once more, Canada has to wait its turn patiently. The Milestone, which is essentially the same phone as the Motorola DROID, had its update to Android 2.2 (Froyo) “under evaluation.” Until today. Moto announced on their support forums that the Milestone will indeed get the tasty [...]
Have you ever wanted to run very complicated codes or run very complicated calculations but you could not because you needed a super computer?Well your problem has been solved use an android phone instead of a supercomputer.Yes its true!Your android device can also be used as a super computer. The guys at MIT were successful in [...]
Cellpassion received this photo of the Motorola Quench XT5. Sure looks like illustration this came from a user guide, and those buttons under the screen tell us Moto’s got Yet Another Android Phone. But… whoa, a trackball? Seriously? The trackball with the Send and End keys make this phone look like the love child of [...]
Yesterday an Android developer discovered a relatively simple workaround that allowed him to break the Android Market License Verification Library. It has only been a month since it launched. It supports all versions of the Google Android mobile operating system, 1.5 or higher. All it takes is some hacking knowledge and changing an app’s code. The Google Developer’s [...]
CNET Australia surveyed 1000 smartphone users to find out what’s changing. Some highlights: People spend more minutes a day surfing the net than they do using the phone to make actual phone calls. Instant Messaging use takes up almost as many minutes as the calls. 75 percent of responders websurf more than 30 minutes a [...]
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