Verizon Wireless told gearlog that they will be offering tethering through the “Broadband Access Connect” plan. You can tether your phone as a modem and surf the internet anywhere you get Verizon signal on your laptop if you wish, however there is a catch. You are limited to 5GB/month, so I wouldn’t go and watch [...]
GSM Droid to be called Milestone in Europe and have Multitouch
Many people are wondering why there is no “multitouch” on the Verizon Droid. After all, it is in Android 2.0. The support API is there, so why not implement it. One reason: Apple? It seems that perhaps Motorola and Verizon don’t want to get into trouble with Apple over a multitouch patent. So, while there [...]
Best Buy Offers Droid Pre-Orders sans MiR
Best Buy has already started offering pre-order sales for Motorola’s Droid handset, and as expected they are doing this at $199 without the customer having to send in the MiR. This is nice for those people who just hate MiRs. I am one of those people most the time and it reminds me of a [...]
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 [...]
Motorola and Verizon: Droid is Go
Start Well that didn’t take long today. There are already news reports that it’s official, with the biggest missing piece of the puzzle. Droid will be $199 on a two-year contract after a $100 MiR. Let’s hope stores such as Best Buy continue their tradition of making that a $100 instant discount and skipping the [...]
Verizon Training for Droid Eris
Looks like the rumors of a multi-Android holiday season at Verizon Wireless are true. Android Guys got a tip and a screen shot of the training page for Droid Eris by HTC. It looks to be a version of Hero, or something very similar , running Sense UI. Reports are stating it will be out [...]
Motorola Droid
Verizon is having it’s Droid party on Wednesday, Oct 28th. This will most likely include the official announcement of the availability of the Motorola Droid, along with prices and official specs. We’ve already seen the leaked Droid page show up and quickly disappear from Motorola’s website. Engadget has a great set of photos with all [...]
Verizon and Android 2.0
Verizon may have yet another Android 2.0 before the end of the year. This time it supposedly comes with a 1Ghz snapdragon and it’ll be called the HTC Passion…though I’m thinking if the reports that Droid is a series of phones and not just one phone, then it’ll be something more like Droid Passion? It’s [...]
Android Thoughts.
Today is the 23rd of October 2009. It’s been a very active Android month and we’re coming toward the end, but still have a few more weeks of excitement ahead of us. Notably, we’ve seen the announcement and release of several Android powered phones and devices. Sprint has officially been letting Android play on it’s [...]
Android 2.0 Walkthrough
The BGR has a great walk-through with tons of screen shots of Android 2.0. Looks like they got a hold of a Motorola Droid to review and have posted all the nice screen shots and details. It appears Google is taking some of the best of the customizations and improving it and making it native [...]
