Kyocera is looking to get you a smart phone with a high resolution screen running Android for less than you’d expect. How much less? Around $169 to $216 without a contract. Yeah, that’s right, for same price as most Android phones on contract, you can stay contract-less, enjoy high-res 3.5″ Android goodness and still save [...]
Sony Ericsson – Mini X10 and Mini X10 Pro Android Phones
Sony Ericsson has announced two new Android powered phones via Mobile World Congress 2010 called the Mini X10 and Mini X10 Pro. They are miniature versions, as in 2.55″ 240×320 screens, of the previously announced X10, and come bundled with the SE UX platform built on top of Android 1.6 bringing the Timescape feature along [...]
Motorola Devour Officially Coming to Verizon
Verizon Wireless and Motorola announced today that the Motorola Devour will be coming to Verizon Wireless in March. This phone will be a first for Verizon carrying the MOTOBLUR interface on top of an Android 1.6 phone. The phone features a full QWERTY keyboard much like the already available Motorola DROID. This looks to be [...]
ARCHOS 5 Tablet Gets Android 1.6 Again
Looks like the Archos 5 Tablet is getting itself a spiffy new makeover courtesy of Android 1.6 Donut. Archos has optimized this Donut build for the high resolution screen on the Arhos 5 Tablet as well as a few other tweaks to the apps to make them play a little nicer. This comes after Archos [...]
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 [...]
Google Navigation on any Android 1.6+ Device
Google has let loose one of the best apps found in Android 2.0, the Google Navigation app. It’s free, available in the Market now and if you are running Android 1.6+, which includes G1s, myTouch 3Gs and of course Droids, you are in luck. Unfortunately, for those with Android 1.5, you will have to wait [...]
Android Developers Still Not On Board?
I have read quite a few reports lately about Android game developers are either not joining in much and in some cases moving away from Android because they feel the market place just isn’t there. The statement from Gameloft’s finance director is that Gameloft is going to “significantly cut [their] investment in Android platform, just [...]
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Announced
Sony has come clean this morning, finally unveiling their much rumored and videoed XPERIA X10. For those that don’t remember, this was once called the X3 or possibly even the Infinity. Well, here it is, in all it’s press shots glory. It comes with a 1Ghz Snapdragon cpu from Qualcom, none of that 768Mhz whimpyness [...]
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 [...]
Samsung Moment In Depth
Sprint’s second Android phone, the Samsung Moment, has gotten a review from Engadget. While the review talks about some parts of the phone, there are major parts missing from the review such as battery times and screen impressions. Other than a general sentence about the screen, there is no details that state what the reviewer [...]
