Archive for January 29th, 2010

If you’ve been living in a cave for the past few days, you wouldn’t have heard about Apple’s new gadget the iPad.  The iPad is an Apple tablet that’s a basically an enlarged iTouch with a not-so-appealing name.  It’s packing a 9.7″ Touchscreen, weighs in at 1.5lbs...

Don’t worry all of you disgruntled iPhone users…here comes Nexus to the rescue, maybe… Our friends at Engadget may be on to something… The photo above shows two very similar but slightly different labels. And when I say slightly different, I mean off by a mere one digit. The...

News is spreading of a MyTouch OTA update being pushed to your devices.  Nothing too much to get excited about, according to the peeps over on AndroidGuys. The update is purely a fix for a missed call notification bug on your phones.  I never knew there was an issue but apparently you do not receive...

A few days ago we questioned if your privacy was important,  today I wanted to bring your attention to an app that protects your money and your privacy. Ah, I see I got your immediate attention A new app in the Android Market, ‘VIP Access’ can give you just that. The app is from Verisign,...

ROM Review URL: AndroidSpin DB Based off: Eclair 2.0.1 Created By: KingKlick Download: KingKlick’s AndroidSPIN Developer Homepage First Impressions This ROM boots at a decent speed, Full setup wizard works 100% no force closes. Change log looks good including Voice input* and Live wallpapers...

Remember the hoverboard in Back To The Future II? Well they added a QWERTY to it… And this is supposedly the line to replace the Sidekick series? If this is indeed the MyTouch 3G Slide (aka HTC Espresso or MyTouch 2), good luck with that…I doubt we’ll be seeing it on the sidelines...

My Nexus One data is back up and I have received a few other reports of it as well. I’m still looking into what caused the issue and who is claiming blame. In the meantime, leave a comment and let me know if yours is restored as well.

I woke up this morning, turned on my Nexus One, went to the browser and got directed to a page that said I need a webconnect plan from T-Mobile to access the internet. So I checked, absolutely no data connection whatsoever. I called T-Mobile who proceeded to apologize for “any inconvenience I was...

FINALLY HTC releases a ROM update for the HTC Magic that adds the Sense UI, ROM Version:3.05.401.3. If there are some brave souls out there with an un-rooted phone that want to try this out and send me some screenshots… I have a feeling that if I put this on mine, I will lose root and probably...

WesGarner has released another update to his WG-DOnut ROM. WG-Build Y has been updated with more enhancements to make your experience even better.  The new build also includes some of the Beta code that is being used for the OpenEclair project Now Active Issue Tracker: WG-Build and WG-Kernel Issues:...

Want to deposit a check without the trip to the bank? Well now you can using your phone and USAA’s Deposit@Mobile app. After success on the Iphone platform with their app, with users depositing over $300 million using their phone; USAA has decided to release their app on Android. All you have...

Hey guys, remember that sexy Samsung Galaxy? Well it is now available in Germany for €69.99 (which is just about $97.99) with a 2 year contract. 5 MP camera, 8 GB SD card, 3.2″ AMOLED screen, and with 7.2 Mbps speeds, who wouldn’t want this phone at a price like that? So if you’re...

After a recent study done by the App Store analytics company Distimo, it has been determined that areas in the European zone (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Spain) tend to price their apps higher then other Android carrying regions (United Kingdom, the U.S. and Japan). The average...

MSI’s 10″ tablet, first seen at CES 2010, has a release date for the second half of 2010 for $500. The MSI tablet is packing Nvidia’s Tegra SoC and has a beautiful 10 inch display to work with and rival the 9.7″ Apple Ipad. With the Tegra Cortex A9 in there, this tablet can easily...

It would seem a 1GHz processor is mandatory in upcoming smart phones now. This amazing looking phone is packing one of them just like the Nexus One. No release date as of yet, but it is most likely coming soon. Specs are: 4.3-inch Touchscreen 1 GHz Snapdragon Resolution of 480×800 HTC Sense UI 3.5...