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June, 2010 Articles

Winner #2: App Review Contest!

by Rob Jackson on June 10th, 2010

It’s time to give away our 2nd of MANY phones for our Phone-A-Day Contest promoting AndroidApplications.com. Keep the reviews coming in because yet again tomorrow we’ll be selecting the best App/Game review from today! As usual we had a really, really difficult time selecting the winner with so many great submissions. Ultimately we chose the [...]

T-Mobile Set to Begin Pushing Apps Harder Than Ever? A 200-page App Book Coming Soon

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

PhoneDog’s leaked an internal screen from T-Mobile detailing their plans to start handing out Android App guides and books to new customers. In the screen, they’ll be offering an app guide that will give new Android users some initial app suggestions as well as tips on how to discover new apps in the Android market. [...]

Flash 10 Player Beta 2 Released

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Looking in the Android market, I can’t tell if Adobe’s updated that version of their Flash player, but Droid-Life is reporting that Beta 2 has been released in the form of a .apk file and leaked over at XDA. I won’t provide a direct link to that download for several reasons, but you can go [...]

Expansys Bringing a Silver Desire to the UK, But Act Fast

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

EuroDroid’s reporting that online UK retailer Expansys is bringing out a silver version of the HTC Desire – Europe’s designated Nexus-like alternative – for British customers sometime soon. The phone can be had unlocked for £449.99 pounds, but you might need to act quickly: it won’t be around for long. It’s the same Desire we’ve [...]

A New Garmin-ASUS Phone With AT&T Bands Sneaks Into the FCC, Android?

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Now that the Garminfone is out on T-Mobile, another device by Garmin-ASUS – the GPS and turn-by-turn navigation specialists – has appeared. The model number is E600 and is being branded as a Nuvifone. The FCC describes the device as a “PDA Phone” but those are the only details we could come by. While no [...]

Singaporean Carrier StarHub Launches the Motorola Milestone XT

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Motorola and StarHub – a carrier out in Singapore – have launched the Motorola Milestone XT. The phone is a localized version of the recently announced Motorola Milestone XT720. There’s no difference between the two, as far as I can see. The phone will be free on a two-year contract. If you don’t remember, this [...]

O2 UK Caps Data For iPhone 4 Users

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

In what looks to be a series of VERY unfortunate events, O2 UK‘s going to impose a data cap on users of the iPhone 4. You can get up to 1GB of data for (on the more expensive tariffs) and you’d be able to purchase additional data after you reach that cap. 500MB will cost [...]

Motorola To Bring the Superphone of All Superphones This Year?

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Yesterday, Motorola’s CEO Sanjay Jha told us to expect four Android handsets which include front-facing cameras by the end of this year. Today, we learn that at least one of those handsets will be packing a 2Ghz processor (over-compensation is a myth, by the way). There were no details on which architecture would be used [...]

Fennec Development Moves Along, Gets Multitouch

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Fennec probably isn’t due out for Android for a long while, but that doesn’t mean the folks at Mozilla are just sitting on their hands doing nothing. They’ve released the latest nightly build of Firefox’s mobile offspring yesterday, but their biggest change has to be that multitouch is now functional. The developer who updated us [...]

Another Samsung Galaxy S Website

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Yesterday was only the beginning, apparently. The website we saw Samsung launch was USA specific, but yet another promo site for the Galaxy S has popped up. This one is a lot more interactive and informative giving you a closer look at how their first Android “superphone” ties into every part of your life. They [...]

Federal Regulators to Apple: We’re Not So Sure Your Terms Are Acceptable

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Yesterday, we learned that the terms Apple set for the new iAd platform to be introduced with iOS4 were designed in such a way that many of Apple’s competitors – including Google – are excluded from eligibility. Specifically, the terms say that you cannot serve ads that would collect usage data unless you’re a third-party [...]

Sprint CFO: HTC EVO Can Take on iPhone 4

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

In a not-so-surprising statement made at a Sprint investor conference yesterday, Sprint’s CFO Robert Brust believes that the HTC EVO 4G can keep up with the launch of the iPhone 4 when it hits AT&T later this month. He calls the state of the industry (for competitors, anyway) “iPhone introduction” trauma whenever Apple drops their [...]

Android Engineer Adam Powell Helps You Make Sense of Multitouch

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Are you a developer who just can’t make multitouch work for you? It’s a cool feature that draw many users into their apps of choice (if you haven’t read some of the comments by people in the Android market regarding lack of multitouch, I’m just going to go ahead and suggest you don’t: it gets [...]

Yet Another Android Tablet: 10-inch Malata SMB-A1011

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

While the Android tablet race has gotten pretty crowded in recent months, we still have yet to see any of these devices pushed to market. Still, it doesn’t keep us from getting excited every time we see a new one. Malata’s SMB-A1011 tablet does just that on their extremely attractive offering. Inside, it sports a [...]

Woot for Root! Droid Incredible Finally Breaks Its Chains

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

After a very long wait, it’s being reported that root access has finally been achieved on the tough-as-nails HTC Droid Incredible. The team behind Unrevoked – the same team that came out with one of the root methods for the HTC EVO 4G – are the benefactors in this milestone, however the process for rooting [...]

HTC EVO 4G is Back Up on Sprint.com

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Looks like EVOs are finally beginning to show back up. A couple of days ago, we learned Sprint sold out of their online stock of the HTC EVO 4G. While the state of the device’s availability wasn’t immediately apparent with other retailers, reports all showed that most – if not all – of the phones [...]

20 is the Magic Number: LG Bringing That Many Androids This Year

by Quentyn Kennemer on June 10th, 2010

Well I’ll be. Motorola isn’t the only manufacturer looking to make a big splash in Android’s growing pool in 2010. After hearing they’d be bringing 20 handsets (for a variety of different carriers and markets) by the end of this year, it looks like LG’s suiting up and following in those footsteps. According to Korea [...]

VIA Shows Off a Handful of Cheap Tablets

by Kevin Krause on June 9th, 2010

It takes a lot to hit the sweet spot between cheap and quality, and for the most part it looks like these tablets spied at Computex fall more on the “cheap” side of the scale. That being said, they still leave room to impress in the UI category, which dazzled those that got hands on [...]

Motorola Milestone XT720 Gets T-Mobile Bands

by Kevin Krause on June 9th, 2010

Just as it was rumored a while back, the Motorola Milestone XT720 looks like it could be headed to T-Mobile when it lands in the States. With its 1700/2100 Mhz HSDPA bands it could very well be sitting alongside the likes of the myTouch 3G Slide and the rumored-release of the Samsung Galaxy S sometime [...]

RoadSync Gets Major Update in Version 2.0

by Kevin Krause on June 9th, 2010

RoadSync has just updated their app for Android with a good deal of improvements and tweaks to further enhance your Microsoft Exchange experience. The latest version brings compatibility with Exchange Server 2010, several new widgets, and a quick contact toolbar to get at your contacts in a hurry. In addition to a revamped UI you [...]