Archive for March 16th, 2010

Android Market to Reach 30,000 Apps Mark!

Arguably, smart phones lose a lot of smart without apps. In fact, the more than 150,000 apps available in the Apple App Store are one of the strongest selling points for iPhones, Pods and soon Pads alike. Fortunately for us, as Android phones increase in popularity, the Android Market grows proportionately,...
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Acer Liquid A1 eViL Eclair v1.8 (Liquid e) now on AndroidSPIN

Acer ROMs are now supported on AndroidSPIN and we hope to get more soon.  The first of the additions is from eViL D.  He has released an updated version of his Acer Liquid A1 eViL Eclair v1.8 (Liquid e) ROM. Aggregated change log Android 2.1 beta for Acer Liquid e Most apps kept from BIN leak Sense...
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Motorola DROID Android 2.1 Update Confirmed To Start Thursday

Sounds like we have a date for the official Android 2.1 update for the Motorola DROID.  According to the guys over at AndroidCentral, the Motorola DROID Android 2.1 update will start rolling out on Thursday 18th March at Noon (EDT). The roll out will be done in 250,000 user batches. No information...
Filed in: News, Rumor, Software
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Daylight Savings Time Glitch – Travel In Time With Your Text

Our good friend richiedaze (dude! do some work on your twitter) gave us a heads on some really funny and interesting news! Did any of you notice the issues as soon as the daylight savings kicked in?  It appears that the Motorola CLIQ and apparently on the T-Mobile G1 has time stamp issues on some GTalk...
Filed in: Networks, News
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Huge Price Cut for Motorola DROID and HTC Droid Eris at Wirefly

The guys over at WireFly, the largest online retailer of cell phones,  just dropped us some information on the amazing new deals they launched for the Motorola DROID and the HTC Droid Eris.  So if your looking for the best prices on top end Android devices, look no further. The new prices are: Motorola...
Filed in: Hardware, News, Phones
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Droid sells over 1 million units, Nexus One a lot less

According to Apple, the original iPhone reached 1 million units sold in 74 days, thus semi-officially making day 74 the comparative benchmark. How did the Motorola Droid do? Fantastic; the Motorola Droid sold 1.05 million units according to estimates from Flurry Analytics. By comparison, it took six...
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2010-03-16 15.38.54

Q & A with Android Developer @Kmobs

Keyan Mobli (@Kmobs) is a 19 year old Android developer. He is currently a Sophomore at the University of Texas. He is majoring in Neurobiology with hopes of going on to medical school. His love for technology began at age 9, when his dad took him into the garage where a disassembled computer was waiting....
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Nexus One Now Available for AT&T and Rogers

Tired of Apple’s tight reign on your iPhone? Want the true feeling of open source? AT&T users rejoice! Today, Google releases the sale of the Nexus One compatible with 3G UMTS bands (850/1900/2100 MHz) and four GSM radio frequencies (850/900/1800/1900 MHz). This means full 3G for AT&T...
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… and the HTC Legend goes to Portugal too!

The new HTC Legend is coming to yet another country in Europe, this time, Portugal. The retailer Fnac is throwing users the new smartphone free of contract for €519,90.  The only but is that it the phone won’t be available till 16th of April, however, pre-orders are open now. So if you rush...
Filed in: Hardware, News
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Oh Canada!

Word on the street this morning is that paid apps are now available to some Canadian Android users. According to Boy Genius Report, both Rogers and Fido customers have confirmed purchases. Unfortunately, BGR goes on to report, the majority of Bell and TELUS customers do not seem to have been equally...
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Mog brings the music

At SXSW, MOG announced the upcoming availability of its Android (and iPhone) application. At $10/month it allows unlimited streaming of 7-million songs, radio stations and downloads. That’s right – although the service is streaming, it allows you to download songs to a “local cache” for playback...
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