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Rugged Cupcake Pidion BIP-6000

Is your Android too weak?  Want something certified to Military Standard 810, Rev F?  Then this is the Droid you’re looking for; SDG Systems Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000.  Released on Jan 11th, 2010, this rugged Droid packs Android 1.5 Cupcake in there, but the press release indicates it will receive an Android 2.X update late Q1 [...]

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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 [...]

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Samsung Moment In Depth

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 [...]

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Happy Birthday Android

I’d like to extend a great big “Happy Birthday” to our favorite Droid, whichever that may be.  One year ago today, Google first announced the Android OS and released it in all it’s open course glory to the world.  A week later, the G1 was born.  The first few months were rough and some say [...]

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