Archive : Software

Speculation and rumor have been abound the last week or so regarding Gingerbread and the Nexus S. Is it real? Is it fake? Will Gingerbread be out Friday or Monday? We have all sat on the edge of our seats to see what might be next in the world of Android. The last rumor speculated that Gingerbread might...

Google maps updates it application tonight moving it to 4.7.0. This update brings you Rate places as you can see and a snazzy little on screen widget to help you “Rate Places” you are currently in. This is pretty nice really. A person can now search for say a restaurant and see...

I was cruising around in the xda-forum community tonight and noticed a trend. People want sense. It looks like some developers want to help make that a reality but need some help. I have located 2 projects under way right now. Go HERE if you are interested in working with Eugene 373, barakinflorida, Master...

Holidays are upon us as “Black Friday” is just over a week away followed by “Cyber Monday” and since Google Shopper comes in handy, it only makes sense for it to be updated bringing more features to this handy application. Now at version 1.3, Google Shopper gets some more features...

In an official announcement from Rhapsody, in their official Rhapsody for Android application has been updated to version 2.0.1.29 allowing users to download and listen to their playlists while offline. Along with with the offline playlist feature, Rhapsody has updated their app and now offers the following: Unlimited...

I just received my monthly newsletter from HTC today. After reading through the main topics in the newsletter there wans’t much that we all didn’t already now. Further down though, I did find this little nugget of information. This doesn’t give us a time frame of when the OTA will...

While we would all agree that the T-Mobile Garminfone was a huge flop for Garmin-Asus, we have some news that will get those of you who own this device a little excited. The Android 2.1 update is available for download for this device over in the T-Mobile Forums. We haven’t heard to much positive...

Location-based check-ins are becoming the new “it” thing for a small subset of the population.  The two biggest names (for now) Foursquare and Gowalla have seen some impressive growth over the last year.  Foursquare has 4 million users up from merely 170,000 at the end of 2009 (source),...

Amon_RA has just released a new recovery image for the Google Nexus One.  The new version has quite a few extra features that we’ve seen in some of the beta releases recently, but now they are all packaged in the official release.  The ability to mount the SD and EXT partitions during a ROM...

We all knew it would come, but it sure got here fast. You can now make and receive calls on the new T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Tab. So let’s just skip all the talk and get straight on with how to use this puppy as a phone. The first thing you have to do before anything else is Root your Tablet. Now...

When I purchased the T-Mobile myTouch 4G, it was partly because I was very intrigued with the option of video calling.  Heading out on business trips and calling home to speak to the family to say good night to my girls sounded much easier and much more fun if we could do it as a family video call....

We recently saw a pretty big update come for Facebook for Android and now it looks like they’ve added a feature and brought some bug fixes along with it. Now at version 1.4.1, Facebook for Android gets the following update treatment: Bug fix to improve Places usage for non-English locales Upload...

When it comes to portable gaming I’m generally more a fan of games that you can sit and play for an hour or so, but on occasion a quick pick-up-and-play game comes by that steals my interest, like Flick Kick Football. The premise of Flick Kick Football couldn’t be simpler: flick the ball...

As some of you HTC Desire owners have been running Froyo for quite a while now, it looks like Virgin Mobile is finally pushing out the Android 2.2 update to their HTC Desire users. We understand that carriers have to tinker with the update before rolling it out to their devices, but it’s the middle...

When it comes to rooting your device, the method could be a long and risky process, but once again we have a new one-click root method. Z4 Root was created by XDA member RyanZA and takes the headache out of rooting. Z4 Root is compatible with the following devices: Samsung Galaxy S devices Motorola...