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More Details on 1.6 Text-To-Speech

Today Google expanded on some more details for the upcoming Text-To-Speech API found in Donut, a.k.a. v1.6.  The Android Developers Blog explains the languages and resources for the TTS API, indicating there are five languages currently supported; English, French, Germany, Italian and Spanish.  There are even two versions of English, US and UK.  It seems [...]

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Sprint’s Android Developer Site

Sprint has released it’s Android Developer tools addition to their developer website.  They reference the Google sources where applicable, mostly describing how to get started with development including the NDK and SDK.  There is a section about emulators, including the Sprint Virtual Developer Lab.  Also included is the Sprint Developer Sandbox area.  There is also [...]

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Teclast T58 Tank, er PMP Rockchip Powered

Taiwan manufacturer Teclast is looking to release a Rockchip RK2808 powered Android PMP.  Supposedly, that RK2808 is a dual core ARM9 based chip, which would make a nice and powerful starting point for the 720P, Android sportin’ PMP.  It’s also rumored to include the usual hardware, sans cellular tech, such as GPS and Wifi.  It [...]

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