One of the perks in owning a Nexus One is that you are first in line to get the latest and hottest updates well before everyone else. It’s the Google developer phone. Not saying I’m a developer but that’s what they call it in Viva Nexus One! with developer accounts. I’m sure you’ve heard of … Read more
From London newspaper City AM: “The second Google-branded mobile phone will hit the UK in time for Christmas through an exclusive deal with Carphone Warehouse, City AM has learned.” The paper says Google sees it as a second at-bat to try to market their own phone successfully, and this Carphone outfit is the largest mobile … Read more
Wrote about how awesome my new Google TV is. Charlotte’s own Stephen took exception articulately. Here’s his comment followed by my response: This device is lame.. To do any type of DVR management (search, schedule shows, watch stuff) you have to use Dish network, which is awful. Since I have Directv (will not leave, have … Read more
Don’t mind spoiling part of the imminent Android Gingerbread surprise if it means firing up the latest and apparently leaked version of Youtube for Gingerbread fairly cleanly ported to work on Eclair or Froyo? No problem big guy, XDA’s rolle3k, hailin’ out of Germany, delivered. Check his thread for the download and installation instructions which just … Read more
Remember that WSJ mobile OS poll brawl which began with Google killing until MS-sympathizing sites like this one rallied their troops to distort the results? Refresh that poll page which as of my writing this has Google in the lead with almost half a million votes or so trailed by Microsoft at 14K, 96% vs … Read more
Android’s market has hit a milestone, surpassing 100,000 apps today. From a media perspective, that’s a big story since everyone talks in terms of numbers these days. Practically speaking, that doesn’t address the quality of the apps and includes things like wallpapers and ringtones which are all ‘apps’ for counting purposes. When I check for … Read more
Sprint subscribers won’t wait that much longer than the T-Mobile Mob that will have some Samsung Galaxy S goodness November 10th, as a matter of fact, it will only be 4 days! Sprint will debut the Samsung Galaxy S Tab on November 14th but will start taking preorders as early as today. So if you … Read more
Which means the Android Gingerbread SDK will likely hit in a matter of days with OTAs beginning a few days after that based on the timing of the Froyo statue (WP7’s release is not something you’d measure in days), and also based on Froyo, Gingerbread will not be a disappointment. No sir. And further based … Read more
T-Mobile subscribers waiting patiently for the Android powered Samsung Galaxy Tab can now see light at the end of the tunnel! A leaked doc is making it’s way around heralding the arrival of the Tab on November 10th. We already got the goods on the pricing, $649.99 Dealer Price and $399 with a 2 year … Read more
Dell Streak owners get ready for some Android 2.2 goodness coming within “weeks” according to Dell’s Steve Felice, president of the Global Consumer, Small and Medium Business division. "We wanted to get the product to market, we weren’t ready for 2.2, so we went ahead," Felice said. "Maybe we should have waited. But we’re getting … Read more
The Wall Street Journal is running a poll asking readers, “Who makes the best mobile operating system?” You can take the poll yourself and find out the results and let the suspense build up in order to find out the results, or if you’d prefer I’ll just go ahead and spoil it for you, dumping … Read more
Got a DX or D2 and want to crank the clockspeed up to an insane 1.3GHz for no good reason at the risk of bricking your phone? Yeah? How about undervolting it to save some gas? Do that with no fuss (other than dropping 99 cents) using DX/D2 Overclcoker, on the market and developed by … Read more