By Fred Salva - 22 December, 2008, 2:23 pm
Ah… the rumors do seem to run rampid at the close of the 2008 year. Well we reported earlier that Motorola was developing mid level and high end handsets for the Android platform but would not come out with anything until late in 2009. Now there is talk from Spain that Motorola is [...]
By Fred Salva - 18 December, 2008, 1:09 pm
Google’s development team has released notes on the new “Cupcake” developmental branch which will roll out a rather large drop of changes in the near future and smaller drops later on that will improve on the core Android platform. The upgrades are broken down into subsets that include but are not limited to: [...]
By Fred Salva - 16 December, 2008, 1:38 pm
Android Market now has the new My Maps Editor by Google. My Maps Editor will allow users to customize their Google maps on Android powered handset. Users can create, edit, share and view customized maps as well as synchronize the maps with the My Maps tab on Google Maps.
You can take your desktop [...]
By Fred Salva - 16 December, 2008, 1:09 pm
We all remember Jeffrey Sharkey, the developer who won a ton of $$ from Google for his CompareEverywhere software. Guess who decided to put Mr. Sharkey on the payroll. Before he starts at his new job at Google, he has been coding overtime to finish up on OilCan. OilCan is essentially [...]
By Fred Salva - 15 December, 2008, 3:30 pm
The Visa Mobile Application showed its face on the Android Market recently marking the first financial application for the Android platform from a big name company. Currently available for Chase Visa cardholders, you can get real time alerts to track purchases making sure that there is no “Unauthorized” use of your card. You [...]
By Fred Salva - 12 December, 2008, 2:01 pm
Check out this image (Thanks to ModMyGphone.com) of China’s pet Android project, code named the OPhone. The OPhone is a cooperative endeavor by Lenovo and China Mobile that will utilize a version of the Android OS melded with TD SCDMA (China’s choice 3Gstandard) known as China Mobile’s OMS or Open Mobile System. China Mobile has [...]
By Fred Salva - 11 December, 2008, 1:16 pm
Well here is the shoe we have been waiting to drop. The beloved G1 has come under fire lately due to the apparent inability to turn the data roaming off during trips across seas resulting in unwanted charges. We have recently reported that a man was recently charged ~$100.00 roaming fees while in [...]
By Fred Salva - 10 December, 2008, 1:42 pm
Wow, it seems someone is having second thoughts about getting in bed with Android. We reported earlier that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was quoted telling a group of reporters that the Android platform was not “good enough to put the Sprint brand on it”. Well… La Di Da… Dan…
It seems that Google and [...]
By Fred Salva - 10 December, 2008, 1:14 pm
Well reported the other day about the new developer version the T-Mobile G1 with for the low, price of $399.00. If you already have the G1 and need, or want the Developer’s benefits (software & hardware unlocked), then you can go here to get the instructions to achieve your goal. Hats off to [...]
By Fred Salva - 9 December, 2008, 6:35 pm
The Open Hand Alliance family is growing by leaps and today adds 14 members. AKM Semiconductor Inc., ARM, ASUSTek Computer Inc., Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International Inc., Huawei Technologies, Omron Software Co. Ltd, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone, welcome to the family. I am sure that [...]
By Fred Salva - 6 December, 2008, 1:39 pm
Well Google has done it and released a developer version of the T-Mobile G1 for $399.00. This Dev Phone 1 is SIM Card and Hardware unlocked. In order to get your hands on one of these babies you first need to prove that you’re a developer. Don’t worry there isn’t a test, [...]
By Fred Salva - 5 December, 2008, 1:09 pm
Androidtrek recently mentioned that roaming is always on even if you turn all data features off. This was a bad thing for a gentleman who traveled across seas recently and was charged roaming fees despite customer service telling him otherwise. It seems that the UK version of the T-Mobile G1 does not have [...]
By Fred Salva - 4 December, 2008, 1:04 pm
Today in Australia, Kogan Technologies released the first Aussie and the second worldwide Android powered handset. The Agora is the lower end version of the two phones released. The Agora features a full QWERTY keyboard, 2.5” resistive touchscreen, microSD slot, 3G connectivity and a central navigation key. The Agora is priced at $299.00.
The [...]
By Fred Salva - 3 December, 2008, 2:29 pm
Going over seas? It might be best if you left your G1 at home to guard the house. Apparently a gentleman (James) who took a trip to the U.K. came back to a $102.85 data bill. He thought he was safe due to the fact that he had turned off roaming data [...]
By Fred Salva - 1 December, 2008, 2:53 pm
Although the G1 has accelerometers changing the display from portrait to landscape, you need to slide the keyboard our or got to compass mode in street view to enable it. Thanks to the open source nature of the Android platform, it is only a matter of time until a dev comes up with a [...]
