Hey Chicagoans, have any plans this Tuesday night? If not, why not go to the HTC Meetup at Enclave? They’re going to have food and music as well as a giveaway of some HTC phones. HTC is hosting a few parties and you all are invited! We will have food, drinks, music, and phones for [...]
The Droid X is going to hit the shelves on July 15th, and it’s rumored that the new Droid 2 is coming out on August 23rd, but that doesn’t mean that Motorola has forgotten their most lovely Droid ever, the original Motorola Droid. While it is confirmed that Droid will get an upgrade to Android [...]
When a new movie comes out, the studio sends the starring actors around to do interviews. In the case of technology, it’s the CEO that goes out to do the Q & A. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down with the UK’s Daily Telegraph to talk FroYo and the general state of Google. While much [...]
Google has released the latest fragmentation charts, and there are some interesting changes. As expected, fragmentation is still and will always be an issue in some respect. Somewhat of a surprise is how much has changed since the last report in May 2010. Android 2.1, formerly making up a third of the distribution now commands [...]
According to Gaurav Jain, Android’s product manager, Google Music will launch concurrently with Android 3.0 aka “Gingerbread” at the end of 2010 or early 2011 possibly battle Apple in their release of iTunes Live. The feature that will come with Google Music will be closely related to what we saw at this year’s Google I/O preview [...]
We have heard some stories about people and their handsets, but this is one of the best we’ve heard in a while. It seems the user tyler0630, from the Android Central Forums, was out at a beach bonfire and somehow his Droid Incredible had fallen out of his pocket while prepping for the fire. Unaware of [...]
The hacker community isn’t just about rooting Android phones, they don’t discriminate, as this eReader has now fallen victim to what talented members of the Android community are capable of. Now this is impressive, the user Meth from SlateDroid Forums has managed to root the Android-based PanDigital Novel. What makes this even more impressive is that [...]
A CDMA Android handset was previously non-existent in India, until now that is. The Samsung Galaxy i899 is the first Android device with a CDMA radio for use with India’s largest carriers. As you can see by the image below, Reliance has already staked their claim on the device. Specs of the Samsung Galaxy i899 [...]
Normally, users are mostly impressed with an OTA update, whether it be used to fix problems that users were previously experiencing or to add new features. The only result that transpired after Sprint’s latest update was disaster! There were many reports of HTC Evo’s getting “bricked.” For the ones that didn’t receive dead devices, a [...]
Do you need glasses, but purchased that Android handset instead? Thanks to MIT, you can see just how bad your vision is using a $2 box that refracts the image displayed on the screen of your Android smartphone. The Camera Culture team at MIT’s Media Lab has taken the parts of a holographic barcode scanning [...]
rodigezstyle has released an update to RoDrIgUeZsTyLe@FroYo [v3.1] MoDrOm [MCR/FRF91/CM6] Fast & 1A Look [02/07/10].Now at version v3.1. RoDrIgUeZsTyLe @ FroYo [MCR/FRF91/CM6] MOD v3.1 Changelog: – MCR Rom as Base with all New FRF91 Changes/Files – FRF91 Build.prob – CM6 VPN List and Data Connection Values – CM6 LWP + Libs added – Lime Green [...]
According to sources at Droid-Life, your Droid Incredible could be receiving an OTA update soon that will make you appreciate your device so much more. The update is expected to add more features to your monster device. What features you ask? The ability to record in 720p to meet all of you cinematography needs Turn your phone into a [...]
You’ve got FroYo running nicely on your phone, and you’ve got Flash 10.1 installed. So….now what? There are always flash videos to watch, AngryAlien is a good place to go if you haven’t tested your device’s video quality yet. Then there are the games. At one time or another, everyone has found themselves addicted to [...]
Coming just days after the announcement of Qualcomm’s plan to release the SDK for Augmented Reality, the manufacturer of the Snapdragon processor has released the source code from its linux kernel 3D/2D support for all of your development needs. I’m anxious to see what Android developers can do with this. While they have yet to [...]
The guys over at Engadget always seem to get all the latest devices for review and the Motorola Droid X is no exception. Chris Ziegler has released a very nicely written and extensive review of the new Motorola Droid X with plenty of photos and a couple of videos. Motorola is set to release many [...]