Downloading YouTube movies is something that may be occasionally required when you need your video to be available offline. In the paat we wrote about how to download YouTube videos to your iPhone, wrote about how to download YouTube videos to your Windows Mobile smartphone (actually 3 ways: 1, 2, 3) and here’s how to … Read more
Fragmentation,fragmentation, fragmentation. Rumors are pretty strong that Amazon is going to launch it’s own Android app store (which ties in to a possible Android tablet). We’ll get to the details of the market in a second, but this makes the third market for Android. There’s Google’s, Verizon’s and now Amazons. This is one of those … Read more
I decided to try my first after-market keyboard for my Nexus One. I’ve been reasonably pleased with the built-in Android Keyboard, since the upgrade to Froyo, but after reading about Swiftkey I figured it was worth a test run. Swiftkey uses Artificial Intelligence to predict your text. It’s the first keyboard of its kind. Yeah, … Read more
At the 2010 Oracle Open World conference Michael Dell brought a little toy out on the stage. There it is…looking like a 7” Android tablet. It looks like the buttons are all near each other which may make sense in practice so you don’t have them spread all over. Well it’s a start… via The … Read more
We just posted on the AT&T small firmware update for the Android Captivate that covered a few things like a Voice Improved Calling and QuickOffice. What AT&T did not include in their statement is that there was also the GPS fix that a lot of you have been waiting for. From one of Mobility Digest’s … Read more
AT&T has releases a small firmware update for the Android Samsung Galaxy S device they call the Captivate. This is not an operating system update but is supposed to address a few issues with QuickOffice that will allow users to edit various Microsoft Office Documents as well as improve your voice calling experience. This is … Read more
I know promo videos can do all sorts of things (like make Symbian look like a good OS) but if you have any interest in HTC Android devices, or the new HTC Sense or the HTC Desire HD check out this video and make sure you set it to 720HD and have the volume on. … Read more
Twidroyd is a Twitter app for Android that seems to have gotten a ton of positive press from a lot of sources. And today version 4 was let out the door and it’s impressive. Maybe because it seems to cram a lot of the iPad features onto a (relatively) tiny Android screen. Take a look … Read more
A Facebook phone is currently “secretly” in development, according reports emanating from Techcrunch. Fearing the grip that the iPhone and Android platforms have on consumers, Facebook has allegedly put together a superstar team to design an operating system to try to get its tentacles to reach even deeper because knowing every minute detail about 400 … Read more
One of the failures of Google Docs on a mobile device is the inability to edit them – they were view only. That’s about to change: Second, today we demonstrated new mobile editing capabilities for Google Docs on the Android platform and the iPad. In the next few weeks, co-workers around the world will soon … Read more
Bitbop is offering on-demand streaming tv for just $10/month, commercial free, for all you can consume, but you can try one week (up to 3 shows) for free. You can stream over wifi/3G/4G and they even allow ‘temporary downloads’ (presumably so you can watch them on a plane for example but you don’t own the … Read more
Even Google has chimed in on Android tablets and combine the overall concerns of Froyo on a tablet with the Galaxy Tab running at an odd 1024×600 there were some real concerns that Android apps just wouldn’t resize right. Only way to dispel a rumor like this is to take a Tab and run some … Read more