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HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues
Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]
Continue reading...FriendMobilizer Brings Facebook to Android
Friday, March 27, 2009
While Facebook might openly hate Android, it’s hard to ignore the 114 other corporations around the globe that are committing to it’s expansion and rollout across the planet. Unfortunately one of the most obvious missing applications for Android thus far as been a Facebook client — not wanting to hold their breath until the 4 horsemen [...]
Continue reading...Google Finalizing the “Cupcake” Android Update – Includes Virtual Keyboard
Sunday, February 22, 2009
As I’ve been reading more about the T-Mobile G2 plans, I’ve been running across mention-after-mention of this “Cupcake” branch of the Android OS that Google has been working on that will include a lot of updates that people have been wanting – most notably the addition of the virtual keyboard finally. The benefit there for [...]
Continue reading...HTC Magic is Most Likely Going to be the T-Mobile G2
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Speculation has been flying around the web for months now as to which of the HTC phones is going to become the platform for the T-Mobile “G2″ — or rather the follow-up to the popular T-Mobile G1 (Video Review). Back in December or January the general opinion was that the G2 would be based on the [...]
Continue reading...Android Market “MemoryUp Personal” App Possibly Destroying Data
Friday, January 30, 2009
Possible rumors floating around that the MemoryUp Personal Android Market application is destroying personal data as well as installing adware. So far the evidence seems circumstantial, but a connection between installing that app and lost email, spammed email accounts, adware showing up and SD cards being wiped clean are all getting reported. This brings up an interesting [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 (Android Phone) Video Review
Monday, December 15, 2008
As a compliment to our in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1, the Break it Down Blog has also put together an extensive, 4-part video review of the T-Mobile G1 for you as well. The reason we complimented the original review of the G1 with a video review is because buying a cell phone is hard, buying [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 (Android Phone) Review
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Update #1: We have also put up a 4-part T-Mobile G1 video review for readers as well. Summary [7.5 out of 10] The T-Mobile G1 is an excellent “first-mover” Android-based phone from T-Mobile and is truly a “Google Phone”. If you are already have most of your life on Google through one of their many handy and [...]
Continue reading...Massive Confusion Over T-Mobile G1 Data Plan “Messages”
Monday, November 24, 2008
There seems to be a significant amount of confusion online over the terms of the T-Mobile G1 $24.99/mo data plan; more specifically, what constitutes a “message” as described in their FAQ (seen above). At first hint, anyone that heard they have a “400 message” limit would assume that means a “text message” – as it has [...]
Continue reading...How to Use T-Mobile $20 BlackBerry EDGE Data Plan with Android G1 Phone
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing. As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 for [...]
Continue reading...Vodafone BlackBerry Storm Review
Monday, November 17, 2008
Laurence Hartje just sent in a mini-review of the BlackBerry Storm on the Vodafone network, here it is in it’s entirety: I’ve been lusting after a Storm, and since it launched in England before the US (and I’m over here at the moment) I thought I’d swing by a Vodaphone store to play with one. Spent about [...]
Continue reading...Motorola Adopts Google Android and Windows Mobile Exclusively
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Up until this point, Motorola has been shipping millions of devices on it’s custom MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux platform as well as the Symbian UIQ platform. After announcing some disappointing 3Q losses, Motorola announced plans to move their entire device line to Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platforms exclusively, discontinuing development and support for the MOTOMAGX platform [...]
Continue reading...Hackers Already Working on Hacking T-Mobile G1
Friday, October 24, 2008
BoingBoing reports that folks on Freenode’s #android IRC channel are already getting down and dirty with the device, trying to unlock access to some of the device-level functions (like GPS) that currently require signed code to access: I hacked my camera’s firmware manually by using an exploit to cause it to execute arbitrary code – and [...]
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
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