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 [...]
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 [...]
First a netbook and now Liquid!
Acer’s netbook showed up on Amazon yesterday and today they have a press release about their first Android powered smart phone, the Acer Liquid. It’s a snapdragaon powered Donut sporting (Android 1.6) smart phone with a nice Wide VGA screen, presumably 800×480. I guess this would fall into the definition of “Large” screen for an [...]
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 [...]
Vodafone plays nice with HTC Tattoo
Looks like the HTC Tattoo will be available starting in October for you ladies and gents over in the UK. Among the typical Android phone amenities, there are a few differences. The Tattoo includes a 2.8″ touch-screen, resistive unfortunately and this particular phone boasts an FM radio, for the Black UK only version. Of course [...]
Android 1.6 SDK – Donut
Android 1.6 SDK – Donut released on 15 September 2009.
