The spied out Lenovo OPhone looks like something that many expected from HTC in the first go-round- a beautiful, all-touch screen device that looks super sleek. And while Lenovo is known best for their brand of laptops, at least on the surface they appear to know what the heck they’re doing.
While it looks really nice, [...]
One of the most popular Mobile Social Networking apps - Loopt - is now available on the Android Market. You can also download the application by visiting http://loopt.com on your G1. Rather than explain ourselves, here is how Loopt themselves describe their creation:
With Loopt, turn your T-Mobile G1 into a social compass and never be [...]
It’s not exactly a surprise that Sprint - a member of the Open Handset Alliance - is launching an Android Phone. But after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse reportedly dissed Android saying in its curent form - isn’t “good enough enough to put the Sprint brand on it,” there were lots of folks questioning Sprint’s timeline. [...]
Remember that story about the guy who went abroad, thought he turned data roaming off and somehow racked up $100+ in data charges? Yeah, we know… it could have been worse, right? And it is… kind of.
T-Mobile sent an official response to Engadget and it seems that yes, you CAN turn off Data Roaming BUT… [...]
Android Phones. Perhaps even more than an abundance of killer Android applications, people want Android Phones. For the most part, folks are looking to the future to learn about what NEW handsets will come out sporting Android. But others, like the guys on XDA Developers, are successfully putting Android on existing handsets.
Now showing, Android on [...]
Starting this morning, the Visa Mobile Application became available on the Android Market. We’re pretty excited because it’s the first financial application for Android from a “heavy hitter” and it offers some great features of which at the moment, only select Chase Visa card holders can take advantage.
Alerts - track your card transactions WHEN they [...]
It’s amazing what a little poking around can do. After extracting and unzipping Market.APK from the T-Mobile G1, a little browsing reveals that Google has placeholder icons for Ringtones and Wallpapers. Found in res > drawable > the answer lies in two files called ringtones.png and wallpapers.png, seen below:
If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, it [...]
With yesterday’s announcement that Sony Ericsson (and 13 others) joined the Open Handset Alliance, it was obvious they would be working on an Android Phone for 2009 release. We have learned that the first Sony Ericsson Android Phone will be a high-end handset tentatively set for the summer of 2009.
This news comes from a Swedish [...]
If you’re a business customer playing the waiting game on Android and the G1, hoping that support for Microsoft’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDFs will come to the rescue, you’re in luck. Dataviz has officially announced that they’ll bring those technologies to Android phones with a Market Application version of their “Documents To Go”!
This is [...]
Today was a very big day for the Open Handset Alliance as all of the following companies officially joined the Android bound ranks: AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek Computer Inc. , Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone.
People are making a REALLY [...]
