LXer Linux News:
Android 2.0 (formerly codenamed 'Éclair') is the latest evolution of the mobile OS developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. This version is a chunky upgrade, superceding the current Android 1.6 software (dubbed 'Donut'), which was actually considered "a minor platform release". The first phone to feature Android 2 (Read More)
Android and Me:
We are sort of disappointed to hear the new T-Mobile Samsung Behold II will launch with the outdated Android 1.5, but I guess that is the norm now with other phones (Sprint Hero, Sprint Moment, T-Mobile Cliq, etc.). However, a new video from Samsung Mobile confirms that the Behold II will in fact support Android 2.0 “when i (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
Round 1 of the 2nd Android Developers Challenge kicked off without a bang and ended the same way. The new element of “user testing/voting” didn’t seem to generate the level of interest some anticipated, but perhaps Round 2 will be different. Google has sent out an Email to 200 developers who have successfully made it to (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The latest round of iPhone rumors reads like a roundup of everything we've heard before. Now the mythical iPhone nano is back, and supposedly said device will be coming to Verizon in 2010 featuring a new hybrid cellular radio. Keep in mind this is all coming from an industry analyst report supplied to Apple Insider, and as (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
For those of you lookin’ to spy on your Android-totin’ wife, bust your shenanigan-havin’ teen or simply monitor your employees – you’re now in luck! With the install of a silent application you can now monitor their every move (or enough anyway) from the interweb networks! On the flip side.. those of you up to no good – (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
Earlier today the FCC approved Dell’s first Android phone, the Mini 3ix. AT&T is expected to carry Dell’s Mini 3iX in Q1 2010.Initially Dell reps said the phone would just be available in China. However, with AT&T falling behind the android market share it would make since to have a proven product.Unlike the Chinese ver (Read More)
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If you got your hands on a Verizon DROID today, be it the Motorola DROID or the HTC Eris, and love music, than you might have notice that Slacker Radio came to the Android Market. The other new thing for Android users today is that Adobe released a mobile version of Photoshop.com for Google’s Android.The Slacker Radio app f (Read More)
Engadget:
We know, today is totally Android 2.0's day to shine, but what would a Friday night be without a little diversity? Windows Mobile 6.5 officially landed on a gaggle of Windows Phones back in early October (a month ago to the day, in fact), but by and large, all of 'em have seemingly drifted off into some forgotten corner whi (Read More)
Mashable!:
In addition to celebrating Muppets today, Google appears to be loudly and proudly celebrating something else on its home page.With the Verizon Droid launch hot and heavily underway today, the search giant is according the highly-regarded Android phone a place of honor on Google.com today. Although it’s not unprecedented — t (Read More)
Android and Me:
Everyone knows that Android is open source, right? Well that depends on who you talk with and their exact definition of open source. Some might claim Android is fully open and others might refer to it as fauxpen source.Google originally created the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) so that the community had full visibility (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the great Google. Here's what you need to know. It's All in the Google Cloud Android phones don't sync with your computer. That's (Read More)
Engadget:
Now that we've got the DROID ERIS in the mix, we're up to our ears in HTC Hero-derivative devices. We decided to sit the whole crew (GSM, Sprint and Verizon editions) down for a little modeling session, and we're finding ourselves reticent to pick a favorite. There are really plusses and minuses to each of them, but any way (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the great Google. Here's what you need to know. It's All in the Google Cloud Android phones don't sync with your computer. That's (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
If you never thought mobile music streaming would become as big of a deal as it already is on the Android platform, then I’m sorry to say that you’ve been sorely disappointed. Android support may be a little late to the game, but the rapid insurgence of new apps from these premier online radio providers shows me that the (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
Photoshop is hands down the most popular professional image editing tool. In fact, the brand has reached the pinnacle of success where the actual brand name becomes a verb like Google, Kleenex, and Xerox. When a picture is obviously edited you say it was “photoshopped” regardless of what picture editing tool was actually (Read More)