This afternoon I noticed a few people complaining of being unable to see certain apps on the Android Market of their Sprint Hero. This is a complaint we often get from users asking for QR codes or links for apps we mention, but then I saw the same complaint on another website and decided to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
It seems that the Google Campus has recently had a new addition to the over-sized Android related props. This time, as you may have already guessed, it comes in the form of a giant eclair, which coincides with Android 2.0. Basically, what we have is three YouTube videos that show off the installation of the eclair, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Touchpal Keyboard can provide another option for Android users looking to upgrade to a better onscreen keyboard. The just released Android app greatly improves on the default keyboard with a strong capability to predict and AutoCorrect text among other key features. Touchpal Keyboard has three keyboard layout options, including phone, half QWERTY, and full QWERTY style. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
According to a recent post over on MobileCrunch it looks like T-Mobile users here in the US still have two more Android updates coming this year. “Apparently, T-Mobile will be pushing out four Android updates this year or I’m lead to believe, but four updates were definitely mentioned.” It was noted that two of those are [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Yesterday, Google introduced the Android 1.5 NDK (native development kit) that will offer developers the ability to “call into native code from your Android applications.” According to the details, the Android 1.5 NDK will allow developers to “generate native code libraries from C and C++ sources.” That said, this is good news for developers looking [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 29, 2009
Cupcake is coming. For real this time. If you haven’t already installed Cupcake manually, you’ll be happy to know that a number of T-Mobile USA subscribers are reporting getting an over the air update for Android 1.5. The update is going out randomly, so don’t check your phone every five minutes to see if it [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sick of playing the waiting game for T-Mobile USA to roll out Cupcake? Well, quit the game and install Cupcake right now. Yes, right now, with no rooting required. Late last night, I was linked to a simple tutorial showing how to download and install the US version of Android 1.5 firmware. Within 15 minutes, I [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Dell, or more specifically Doug Anson a Technology Strategist at Dell has offered up a nice video of the recently released Dell Mini 10v netbook running a few different operating systems. He highlights the Mini 10v running the Dell customized Ubuntu as well as the recently released Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix. Of course there [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
Unfortunately this latest post is being written with a little sadness, however it seems like we here in the US will be waiting at least another week for the now long-awaited Cupcake update. Yup, the previously posted OTA update schedule has officially been delayed. According to the message posted on the T-Mobile Forums, the update has [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 17, 2009
Despite a few false starts, it looks like we have some details on when we can begin to see the Cupcake update actually hitting users phones here in the US. Anyway the latest “leaked” and/or “rumored” release schedule has it set to begin rolling out on Monday May 18 and ending a week later on [...]
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Monday, November 23, 2009
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