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February, 2010 Articles

Nexus One Car Dock Spotted, Looks Awesome!

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

When I heard the Nexus One Car Dock accessory was coming I wasn’t at all surprised – the Motorola Droid had the same thing and it became necessary since Google Navigation was featured on Android 2.o. But I just watched the Nexus One: Day One video and… guess what was spotted in it? The Nexus [...]

Nexus One: Day One (VIDEO)

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

We’ve finally got Episode 5 – the final of a five part series on the making of the Nexus One (view them all here). This one is called “Nexus One: Day One” and pretty much just acts as a 2-minute “Day In The Life Of” type of commercial: In many ways, you could view this [...]

Inbrics M1 Launches at MWC and Controls All

by Anthony Perez on February 8th, 2010

Inbrics has announced the launch of their Android based MID M1 at next week’s MWC in Barcelona. Inbrics hopes the M1 will serve as a media controller for other devices as well so that users can share photos, music, movies and more. It boasts the following: 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display Slide-out QWERTY keyboard with separate [...]

HTC Legend Looking Good!

by Anthony Perez on February 8th, 2010

HTC’s Legend is looking pretty sweet! No official device info is out there but there are some of the rumored info we’ve already told you about. Engadget’s photos, shown below, show the Legend with the older look of the HTC Sense. The HTC Legend features a chrome logo with an aluminum shell and the new [...]

Rogers Freezes HTC Dream Data And Forces Update

by Anthony Perez on February 8th, 2010

HTC Dream users have been reporting that those who have not updated to the most recent mandatory upgrade have had their phone services cut off. Apparently, those with the old OS attempting to make a call are automatically rerouted to Rogers Customer Service and asked to apply the update. Once applied and updated, Rogers Customer [...]

Acer’s Liquid Android Phone Destroying Predictions

by Anthony Perez on February 8th, 2010

The Acer’s Liquid A1 device has been smashing company predictions and expects its smartphone sales to total around 2 to 3 million units this year, according to Gianfranco Lanci, president of the Taipei-based company. Acer expects to ship at least 250,000 Liquid handsets by the end of this quarter, which is way ahead of the [...]

Motorola Invests In TuneWiki

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

Last week we heard that Motorola invested in ScanLife/ScanBuy. Now we’re hearing about ANOTHING investment with ANOTHER application developer with a heavy foot in the Android door. In a press release published today, Motorola announced their investment in TuneWiki. t We first wrote about TuneWiki way back on May 10th, 2008 on our post about [...]

Big Disappointment Or No Biggie: Xperia X10 Launching With Android 1.6

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

When the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 launches, likely in April, it will come packing Android 1.6. We all know that the most current Android Phones will be running Android 2.1 or beyond. So it should be no surprise that Sony Ericsson reps are feeling the heat when they demo the product, with people claiming the [...]

LEGO Robot Car Controlled By HTC Hero Android Phone

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

This is a pretty cool look into the future of Android capabilities and with those new Bluetooth APIs I’m sure we’ll be seeing stuff like this come out for consumers as well. The LEGO Mindstorms robot below is controlled with an HTC Hero accelerometer and actually it connects via Wi-Fi (not Bluetooth). Check out the [...]

Nexus One Manufacturing: Episode 4

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

We’ve seen Episodes 1, 2 and 3 so you should know what comes next: here is Episode 4 (Manufacturing the Nexus One) : I remember going to the Coors Light brewery/plant tour in Colorado and seeing all those cases and cases of beer made me feel like I was in Homer Simpson heaven. Well… seeing [...]

Nexus One Testing Video: Pre-Production By Google & HTC

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

What type of testing goes on behind the scenes to ensure that when a phone hits the market, it is strong and sturdy enough to live a long life as your numero uno compadre? In the third episode of Google’s Nexus One video series, they show us just that: I found some of the specific [...]

T-Mobile Pushes Swype On myTouch 1.2

by Anthony Perez on February 8th, 2010

News for myTouch 1.2 users, check the area inside the square in the middle of the screen shot. It states that the myTouch 1.2, which is the same as the myTouch 3G with 3.5mm Jack, will have the new Swype text input method. This will be the first touchscreen T-Mobile device ever to feature an [...]

Dell Mini 5 Passes FCC With AT&T 3G

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

The guys at Engadget have done a pretty darn good snooping job through which they’ve figured out that the Dell Mini 5 has passed the FCC with the bands needed for AT&T, Rogers, Bell, and Telus 3G. This wasn’t an open and shut case of finding Dell’s paperwork, this time it was a little bit [...]

Flash Lite On The Nexus One

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

Things like this just make me… jealous: That’s Flash Lite running on the Nexus One. And I don’t mean Flashlight as in something that will brighten up a room in the pitch black – I mean Adobe’s video/animation platform. I can hear half of the readers thinking in their head “Thus are the beauties of [...]

Moto Droid’s 2.1 Update Coming Soon

by Anthony Perez on February 8th, 2010

I, just like any other Droid owner out there, have been envying Android 2.1 since the release of the Nexus One. Well, we’ve got news for you – Engadget reports that the 2.1 update is making its way through Verizon’s testing department! Here’s what the update is reported to include: Current build is 2.1 Version [...]

Motorola Devour Ad, Coming February 25th?

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

I was happy to see Megan Fox in a tub during the Motorola SuperBowl advertisement – trust me I was. But overall I was disappointed in the ad and I’ll tell you why after you watch: Overall the ad was good. Hot celebrity. Funny approach/integration. But why would Motorola show a BRAND NEW PHONE and [...]

Watch All The SuperBowl Ads

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

This year’s SuperBowl had a few ads very relevant to phone lovers and Android lovers specifically. But since the SuperBowl is all about ads (and football), we thought we would embed this neat little HULU widget that allows you to watch every single advertisement shown during the big game! Included of course are the Motorola [...]

Google Taking Translate To The Next Level

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

When I downloaded Google Translate and associated language packs on my Motorola Droid one of the FIRST things I did was attempt to speak into the phone using the speech-to-text function, have it translate in a different language, and then hear it read back to me in the translated language. Unfortunately Google Translate can’t do [...]

HTC Incredible Pictures Leak!

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

The good old HTC Incredible isn’t doing such an incredible job at remaining secretive. The folks at PocketNow were able to get their hands on a bunch of pretty darn good pictures of the upcoming Android Phone and there is also a video floating around: The rumored/assumed specs that came along with the leak/tip: Android [...]

HTC Dragon, A6388, Huashan, Tianshan Headed To China’s Dopod

by Rob Jackson on February 8th, 2010

You’ve gotta love it when not only 1 device gets leaked but an entire roadmap! Chinese carrier Dopod left the faucet on and take a peek at what dripped out: A bit hard to make out but you’ll notice a bunch of Android related stuff in the green “development” phase and one in the yellow [...]