Why wait for Verizon to officially push the Android 2.1 update to your Droid when you can just download and install it on your own? The Android 2.1 update can be manually installed onto your Droid without voiding any warranties or hacking your phone at all, you’ll simply use the method that Android puts in [...]
Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 Android Very Promising
We first reported on the Samsung Galaxy S when it was first publicly shown at CTIA last week. With a 4″ Super AMOLED screen as the headliner for the Galaxy S, it is sometimes hard to read the other details and features hidden within. After reviewing the phone in more detail, it looks like a [...]
Android Updates – Evo 4G, XPERIA X10, Fennec
Android has definitely been growing over the last few months. Just do a quick Google search and you are bombarded with Android news. Let’s cover a few items that we aren’t covering in specific posts. What’s happening in Android today.
Verizon’s Droid Finally Gets Android 2.1
It appears that after much waiting and teasing the Android 2.1 update for the Motorola Droid on Verizon Wireless’s network is finally getting pushed out to the users. It has already started according to the sources, it began at 12:00 noon EST with a rollout to 1000 users. If all goes well, another batch of [...]
Dell Aero May Be Sadly Diappointing
Dell’s first Android stateside, the Aero, isn’t getting very good press lately, and for a good reason. Probably the greatest travesty against this phone is the lack of the Google Apps, such as Gmail and Maps, and lack of ability to install any apps that aren’t from the Android Market. Secondly, the hardware doesn’t seem [...]
Google Looks to Avoid Android Fragmentation
It wasn’t long ago that I wrote a little article about Android Fragmentation, or the trend of having multiple versions of Android in the market and having many different Applications and Features, most of which were Google born, not compatible between each version. This left many users feeling left out in the cold and behind [...]
Choosing a Smartphone, Part 3: Android vs. iPhone
In our third part of the “Choosing a Smartphone” series, we’re going to take on the 300lb gorilla that is the iPhone. I fully expect that our readers will get a little hot under the collar about this one. In our first post, we incurred the ire of the Windows Loyal, our last post made [...]
Android Really Catching On
On March 25th, AdMob released it’s report for February 2010 covering it’s mobile metrics and ads served to mobile devices. Cleary, Android was a big winner last year. “Android was the fastest growing operating system in the AdMob network year-over-year. Android’s share of smartphone requests increased from 2% in February 2009 to 24% in February [...]
Sprint Evo4 Chipset, QSD8650, Supports GSM and HSPA
The QSD8650 that will come inside each Sprint/HTC Evo 4G phone supports a number of networks, including CDMA2000 1X, 1xEV-DO Rel 0/A/B, GSM, GPRS, EDGE and HSPA networks. However, it’s almost guaranteed that you won’t be able to use over half of those networks because the phone will lack the right amplifiers and/or antennas. I’ve [...]
Sprint Evo 4G – Questions of Pricing and Hardware
When a brand new, ground-breaking gadget is first introduced to the world, often times we are so blinded by the light, we miss some of the details, such as it was with the Sprint Evo 4G. The Evo is a monster of a cell phone with features that were only recently dreamed of, but now [...]
