AndroidSPIN: A Week in Review… 1/16-1/22

This has been our biggest week thus far, with traffic increasing 2 fold!! We want to give a big shout out to all of you who keep us going and thirsting to find you all more information for your Android-powered phones!

With that said, here kicks off our weekly recap of the past week’s events and news… Just in case you may have missed something.

Well it appears that our community has become a one site affair and we are all supposed to  bow down to AllDroid.  Here is an email I have been sent from Brent Fishman, the owner of AllDroid.  This was sent Jan 7th 2010. I would like to inform you that your section and all of [...]

If you have the Nexus One then you know about the cool new feature brought on board to the Android Os. That of course is Voice to Text. Eating pizza and fingers are to greasy to text your friend back because you don’t want to smudge the screen? Or simply because you are driving? No [...]

I promised to give you more info about the Google Nexus One skin from BestSkinsEver and I always try to follow through.  They sent me a test skin and it’s installed and looks real nice. This is the first skin I have tried from BestSkinsEver and I must say that it works really well.  The [...]

Hero_Over has jumped back into the ROM development scene with the release of a new Android 2.1 ROM call eclairOG.  Version 1.1.2 sounds like it has plenty of features to keep us all happy. Version 1.1.2 (buggy app drawer, super stable rom) – LAUNCHER2.APK from Nexus One. Also has regular old launcher – lots of [...]

Benbuchacher has started down the Eclair route with his new Super “E” ROM version 1.0.  His change log doesn’t say much, but expect great things from this release. Features: –Reboot option –Sound Recorder Added –Apps2sd –ext 2 –ext 3 –ext 4 –Genie Widget Added –bbuchacher kernel –only 3 screen launcher as of now will upgrade [...]

All I can do at this point is shake my head… It sounds like this insanely odd (and ridiculously drawn out) 911 issue for Rogers’ HTC Dream and Magic customers could be coming to a close. *crossing my fingers* For those of you who are unaware of the issue, customers that own either of those [...]

Back in December, we reported on the Swype Virtual Keyboard for Android Devices and included installation instructions for you to get the app installed. At that time it would only work on WVGA resolution (800 x 480) devices. Swype inc. has now released a new beta version of the Swype virtual keyboard for Android that [...]