Well Simmons may not be ready to admit to a fault in his beloved Android ecosystem, but Google’s Android platform manager Eric Chu went on record with Forbes stating that he’s “not happy” with the purchase rate of paid apps in the Android Market. Now it’s pretty clear why they wouldn’t be happy. The Android … Read more
Found a trick to let Gingerbread use the native SIP client without wifi restrictions, involved messing with a system APK. Long/short, damn near drove myself crazy trying to sign the APK until voila, came across a thread for Signapktic by XDA’s Fnorder and Stericson. Signapktic signs APKs on your phone. Tell it where the file … Read more
We just posted that there were 76 new Tablets announced at the CES Show in Las Vegas this year and one noticeable absentee from that list is HTC. Premier smartphone manufacturer HTC I know for using the most cutting edge technology in their smartphone and having unsurpassed quality. So when you read about HTC entering … Read more
AT&T has been beaten to death over their poor offering of Android devices. The best thing any customer could get today would be an out dated Android 2.1 operating system on a Samsung Galaxy S device called the captivate. T-Mobile has got one called the Vibrant, Verizon has got one called the Fascinate, and T-Mobile … Read more
So Google finally got around to fixing a 6 month old SMS bug that sent texts to the wrong recipient and now they have to deal with an older one – over a year in fact. According to ZDNet users get a low storage warning and cannot receive text messages until they delete older texts … Read more
Looks like Google wasn’t done with just announcing Google Cloud Print for mobile today. Late this afternoon the folks at Google announced that they have added some “fun” features to their in browser weather page. All you need to do is from your iPhone or Android powered device, do a search on “weather” and enable … Read more
I hope I’m not blowing up his spot but XDA’s morphic and simms22 have produced a 1.5GHz Nexus S kernel, an otherwise very fast 1GHz phone which is just fine at the stock speed but damnit we gotta paste excessively large screenshots of our Quadrant tests in the threads. If 1.5GHz sounds too white hot … Read more
If you got one of the new Samsung Galaxy Tab Android Tablets and wanted to do some Custom ROM Flashing you may have run into some serious issues with Samsung locking the bootloader on some of the newest Firmware Versions that they have released. If you have such a new device (listed below) and you … Read more
I told you we have a bunch of Sony XPERIA Arc stuff for you today and to sum it all up, we are pretty excited about this device. Sony is too and have had supplied us with a sixty second video showcasing the Arc’s beautiful Bravia powered Screen with is a 4.2 inch diameter with … Read more
If you are waiting for the Sony XPERIA Arc, well then you are going to have to keep waiting because it’s still not launching yet. But we can show you the next best thing which some more video goodness of the Arc. In case you haven’t been following our drooling over this device, we have … Read more
Last year Google announced Google Cloud Print on PC based browsers and last month opening it up to the Chrome Notebook users. Today they announced that they were going to start rolling out in the next few days Cloud Print for Mobile Documents and Gmail. This will allow users to print from within their smartphone … Read more
The biggest disappointment jumping from Windows Mobile to Android was the loss of being able to listen to Howard. Howard for whatever reason had it in his old contract to keep it off phones. Could circumvent it but it was tricky and possibly against Howard’s wishes. Well folks, no more need to set up audio … Read more