After reviewing what appears to be a internal flier sent from T-Mobile to retail partners, the previously rumored Motorola Zeppelin will be henceforth known as the CLIQ XT. The CLIQ XT will most likely be carrying Android 1.5 with MOTOBLUR upon it’s release March 10th, and has no keyboard unlike it’s namesake, the CLIQ. It [...]
Possible myTouch Slide User Agent and Specs
Even more evidence of an HTC built myTouch with a physical qwerty keyboard are surfacing this morning. Following a number of links back from a story on tmonews, took me all the way to Cellpassion who somehow found a link to the user agent string on one of HTC’s websites that might be for the [...]
Motorola BACKFLIP
Motorola announced during CES a new type of Android phone with a “reverse flip” QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard of the phone faces out when the hinged phone is closed, and behind the screen is a trackpad like feature they have dubbed backtrack. It also features Android 1.5 with MOTOBLUR and will be upgraded to Android [...]
Android MID – WebStation
Camangi has just finished up their official product website for the WebStation, a 7-inch high res (800×480) touchscreen MID powered by Android 1.5 running off a 624 Mhz Marvell PXA303 CPU. The WebStation is much like a large cell phone without the 3G connectivity built in, though that can be solved with a USB 3G [...]
A look into Custom UI for Android
Well, after the announcement from Google that the Navigation app would be available to all Android devices with Android 1.6 and above, people with Android 1.5 are feeling a little more sad. At first it was the updated market, a little speed boost and the updated search box that the Android 1.5 users were pining [...]
Sprint Hero Update Details
I posted last week about a Sprint Hero ROM update. It was a small update at about 3.5MB, and at the time there was no official word on what exactly it was supposed to do, but there were rumors it was focused at fixing the SMS issue where the phone would not sleep after an [...]
Samsung Behold II Unboxed at Engadget
Engadget has a breaking report with an unboxing and initial thoughts on the Samsung Behold II, which will be making it’s way to T-Mobile on Nov 18th. Price has been estimated at $199 on contract. So, what makes the Behold II worth looking at? For starters it comes with a 3.2″ AMOLED screen and it [...]
Droid Eris Official Nov 6 on Verizon
Verizon announced today that beginning Nov 6th, you can purchase an HTC built Droid Eris for $99 on a two year contract. As expected, it comes with the Sense UI made famous by the Heroes. This makes the Verizon offering in that phone category $99 (after $100 MiR) while the Sprint version runs you $180. [...]
Eris Docs Reveal Date and Price
It was rumored, but now we might have some more solid info. Leaked documents that explain the Droid Eris will be available Nov 6th at $99. Again, this Android phone has almost identical specs to that of the Hero for Sprint. It’s got a standard 528Mhz Qualcomm processor, 320×480 screen and like Sprint’s Hero Android [...]
Icon Design Guidelines Abandoned
It looks to me that Google has abandoned their own icon design guidelines for Launcher icons. I remember a while back reading through some of the original dev guidelines for UI and one particular page that I enjoyed was the Icon Design Guidelines. It has a really obscure and very detailed requirements list for creating [...]
