For those of you who haven’t heard about it yet, the revolutionary virtual keyboard app, “Swype”, is now officially accepting beta testers. This is quite exciting because the beta release boasts significant improvements over the leaked pre-release that has been floating around the forums and twitter. The response time, stability, and presentation of the app have been [...]

HTCClay is continuing to develop ROMs for the T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream with a new release that’s supposed to be a flyer. There isn’t much of a change log yet so here is everything we know: What you get / what you need – a rom similar to Super D with a few graphic & tech [...]

KingKlick has released a new ROM based off the HTC DROID Eris dump that appeared recently. The new ROM called KiNgxKxKlair DroidEris2G1 v0.1 is a beta release so be warned Changelog Version 0.1 – First release, very beta – Port of the 2.1 Droid Eris leak – A2sd is automatic! Just have that second EXT [...]

We just received this tip from AndroidSPIN user John… Thanks John about the upcoming Android 2.1 update for the Motorola DROID. Drum roll please….. According to John, The Motorola DROID 2.1 update (Android 2.1 ESE53) will include live wallpapers.  We were given this link to a YouTube video that shows a Motorola DROID running 2.1 [...]

I’m pretty sure this will excite all our DREAM/MAGIC users. I don’t know if you guys know but supposedly video/3D is coming to OpenEclair 1.3! Hopefully this means the camcorder to. I don’t know how this is possible but I’m just gonna sit back and let wesgarner do his thing! When this build is released [...]

The Android Hackathon – Silicon Valley is the first hackathon in the SF Bay Area focused on Google Android-based applications. It is a free working event for developers, designers, and testers to build native applications for the Android platform. The event is inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and iPhoneDevCamp. Attendees, which include developers, web developers, UI designers, and testers, come together [...]

User Moosefist over on XDA has released a SYSTEM dump from the Motorola Backflip. The images does NOT include the boot.img or recovery.img, It’s strictly the /system/. We do NOT recommend flashing any of this to your phones until the developers have had a chance to analyze it’s contents and create something we can all [...]

A new PASSION system dump has been released by user football from XDA. We do NOT recommend flashing any of this to your phones until the developers have had a chance to analyze it’s contents and create something we can all use. Firmware version: 2.1 update-1 Baseband Version: 32.26.00.24U_4.04.00.03_2 Kernel Version: 2.6.29-01117-g4bc62c2 android-build@apa26 #1 Build [...]

Okay, so Android hasn’t advanced that much, but Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman, hobbyists from California, are working to let Android out of your pocket and interact with the world–without you. The bot they recently finished building — Truckbot — is still relatively simple. It’s got an HTC G1 phone for a brain, riding on [...]