Archive | December, 2009

Nexus One – $530 or $180

It seems a tipster has sent Gizmodo some screenshots of the ordering pages for Google’s upcoming Nexus One phone.  It will be sold direct through Google at $530 unlocked or $180 with a 2-Year T-Mobile contract.

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Android Event Jan 5th – Nexus One – Google Phone

Android Event Jan 5th – Nexus One – Google Phone

Engadget and Gizmodo are reporting that special invitations have been sent out for a January 5th Android event hosted by Google at their Mountain View headquarters.  The event invitation does not mention the Nexus One or Google Phone but, it’s a good bet that will be the main subject of the 2.5 hour event.

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Nexus One Full Specs

Engadget has an exclusive set of details to the upcoming Nexus One phone from Google.  Word is, Google will be selling the first batch of phones as an “invitation” only sale.  They aren’t sure how these first invitations will go out, but they are guessing, and it makes sense to me, that it will be [...]

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Motorola Cliq is Rooted

Motorola Cliq is Rooted

And I must say, that the user who rooted, at least in part, had a great user name; TheDudeAndroid.  The rooting is very involved, as it typically is at the initial stages of rooting.  So, if you have plenty of time, patience and are meticulous, go for it.  If not, you could probably wait a [...]

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One Hit Wonder, TheNexusOne, is Gone

I didn’t even notice it to be quite frank, but androidguys have pointed out, and I verified, that thenexusone.com is no longer running.  I didn’t really see this coming, but after thinking about it, I don’t know why I wouldn’t have.  I did find their articles or lack thereof, to be a little annoying (or [...]

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Nook 1.1 Update is Go

Just in case you missed all the other news about the Nook 1.1 Update, here is a little reminder.  It’s out and brings a little speed improvement to your Nook.

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Notion Ink Tablet Looks Good

This is easily one of the slickest looking tablet renderings I’ve seen.  Too bad it’s just that.  A rendering.  At least for now.  Hopefully, Notion Ink will do more than just make a beautiful rendering for us to drool over.  This could come to life in the form of an nVidia Tegra powered Android running [...]

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Android 2.1 on DROID

Apparently, a somewhat stable, if not a little finicky, Android 2.1 build from Nexus One has been ported over to the Motorola DROID.  There are a few steps that must be taken, it’s not a quick throw in a go ROM, but it’s still Android 2.1.  There is a step by step guide on alldroid.org.  [...]

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Motorola XT701 Sholes Tablet Update

The crew over at leakdroid have found a few more shots of the Motorola XT701, which we think is code named the Sholes Tablet in an earlier leaked Motorola road map.  It’s basically a DROID without the physical qwerty keyboard, which could be draw for many people.  Some people just don’t want to carry around [...]

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Sprint Clarifies Android Update via Twitter

Sprint has gone one step further and actually clarified exactly which Android update will be coming to the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment.  With one quick tweet, they have taken all the guessing out of the update indicating they will skip Android 2.0 and go straight for 2.1, but unfortunately they don’t help with clarifying [...]

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