Within the Android Developers Guide there is a section outlining the guidelines app developers should follow for creating their application launch icons. I actually posted an article about it a while back because I noticed that 1) it was very specific and almost too controlling and 2) almost no developers were following it. Well, with [...]
Gesture Search Your Android
Google released a new “labs” application for Android 2.0+ devices called Gesture Search. It adds the ability to search your phone using your own finger writing skills instead of the keyboard. It will search all through your phone just like the regular search does, but instead of needing to type in letters, you can simply [...]
Dell Mini 5 – Android 2.0+ at Launch
Dell has confirmed that the Mini 5 will indeed have at least Android 2.0 at launch. This is nice news as it appeared that the Mini 5 would come with Android 1.6 under it’s belt, but now Dell has stated “something newer” will be on there by the time you are able to purchase your [...]
Google Maps 4.0+ for Android 1.6+ now with more Buzz.
In order to experience Google’s latest craze, Google Buzz, on your Android mobile in full feature mode, you’ll need to update your Google Maps application to 4.0+. Or course, this is only available for devices running Android 2.0+, which to this date is just the Motorola DROID and the Nexus One officially. My mistake. This [...]
Motorola MOTOROI Coming to US in March
Well this is certainly nice news. Apparently, the Motorola MOTOROI, which we reported on just a couple days ago, yeah the one the Koreans are getting, will make its way to the rest of the world and should be in the US this March. This is very nice indeed, because the hardware specs on the [...]
Motorola Intros MOTOROI for Korea
Today Motorola introduced the MOTOROI for Korea. It’s an Android 2.0 powered phone similar to the XT701 introduced to China recently. It has a 3.7″ 480×854 screen, an 8MP camera with Xenon flash and 720P video recording capabilities, and an HDMI port for playing that high definition video straight to your HDTV. Speaking of TV, [...]
T-Mobile and ICD Bring Android Vega Tablet to UK
T-Mobile and ICD have officially announced that the nVidia Tergra 250 powered, Android 2.0 running, Vega tablet will be available for those in the UK. This is a large 15″ tablet that they are dubbing the “family hub tablet”. It’s designed to be used around the house for everything from cooking instructions to twittering about [...]
Flash Player 10.1 Runs on Nexus One
The word has been out for a while that Adobe is actively developing a Flash player for the Android platform, but until recently we haven’t been seeing much demoing of the software. Until now that is.
Sprint Tweets – Andoird Updates Next Year
Sprint announced via twitter that their Android powered phones, the HTC Hero and the Samsung Moment would be getting Android 2.0 updates 1H of next year. This really isn’t surprising news, it was inevitable news and posting that it’ll happen 1H of next year? Yeah, nice big window you’ve saved yourself there Sprint. By June [...]
HTC STILL Can’t Talk about Eclair and Hero
Yesterday, HTC sent out a tweet that plainly states: Believe it or not, I STILL can’t say anything more about Eclair coming to Hero. Working as fast as we can, promise!
