Impressive, isn’t it, what comes out of XDA. Also impressive is how Microsoft has managed to at least retard the inevitable with Windows Phone OS, the new official name I believe. We’re about half a year in so let’s check the scoreboard because this is a war of genius and tenacity between The Man and [...]

So I was on XDA this morning cruising the Android forums and noticed a global announcement that XDA’s got an official front-end kind of app through the Windows app store barriers. It struck me as interesting firstly because why am I seeing this in an Android forum, secondly because I thought Windows Phone 7 was [...]

Today is the day for official apps I guess. XDA’s official app is in the Marketplace. It seems very very full featured but it’s only available to buy for $.99 and there’s no trial or ad based version which seems a bit unusual for an app of this nature. Anyway, here’s the feature list: This [...]

Android fragmentation my ass! And everything works too — except wifi, bluetooth, data, hardware acceleration, camera, audio, rotation and presumably a lot of other things; but hey man, Honeycomb on a phone! Just finished flashing it, hitting reboot now… c’mon, gimme a sweet splash screen, most important thing’s the splash… Okay I got ANDROID in [...]

Nexus S brothers, I came across a couple new radios you might want to flash. First go into About Phone and check which baseband you’ve got, next do some speed tests both with cellular and with wifi, do some signal level tests if you’re inclined, maybe see how fast you can toggle airplane mode, then [...]

Word is that Google quietly lit up the Android Honeycomb music cloud syncing. Let’s take that for a spin, got two phones, might as well step up for you but just to show you the determination there is in the mind of an XDA junkie to do something he has absolutely no need for when [...]

Here’s a couple surprises for all you Windows Phone owners out there. First, developer “enahs” over at XDA gave us a heads up that he has completed work on his second app for the Windows Phone platform called Chemist Companion V1.0. So what’s the second surprise? This was passed on by our local Android Fan [...]

Something impressive is brewing in XDA (as usual), basic voice recognition that does not require you to be online in order to relay your speech and its transcription to and from Google in order to do whatever you tell it to do. I’m struggling to come up with many scenarios in which you’d want to [...]

I was taking a Sunday stroll through XDA and came across a disturbing post by dazbradbury, author of NameBuzz which assigns unique vibration patterns to incoming callers and texts so you get the text to speech-like identification of who’s blowing up your phone without having to whip it out and look, minus all the noise [...]

Bought a Motorola Backflip and after seeing your buddy’s Focus you got super jealous about the tiles or whatever? Your blasphemous prayers have been answered – that’s right, we’ve now got a WP7-like launcher for Android courtesy of Android Technical dubbed Windows Phone Android sitting on the market. Not joking: You might think that Android [...]