A modern age saying goes “Where there’s a will, there’s a way and there’s a mobile app for that”. It seems Google has taken this saying a bit too seriously. The company has recently launched the Android App Inventor, a do-it-yourself mobile app creation software which lets anyone create an Android app without requiring any programing knowledge.
Whenever we see deals online that make our ears perk up, we repost them here because we can’t be the only ones that think these are saucy.
From Dealsea
Click here to go to Microsoft Bing.
Click on the Wirefly Bing Cashback link on the top. Your Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless is $49.99 – $50 Bing cashback. 2-year [...]
Engadget covered a story about the company Myriad Group AG that was showing off their “Dalvik Turbo VM” product at the Mobile World Congress. At their booth they had an OpenGL demo running on two Google Ion (HTC Magic) phones, about 1/2 the horsepower of a Nexus One.
In this particular “spinning 3D box” demo, the [...]
For the first day of Mobile World Congress convention HTC decided to take the wraps off of 2 new pieces of hardware that directly re-use the Google Nexus One insides but installed inside some slightly nicer shells with HTC’s much-nicer custom Sense UI running on top of it.
The two devices released are:
HTC Desire (pictured above)
HTC [...]
Update #1: Google has responded to the long thread with an announcement that an over-the-air (OTA) update to help make the 3G connections more stable in 3G-covered areas will be coming out, but if you are outside of T-Mobile’s 3G coverage area (which is small) there will be no change in experience for you. Release [...]
Google’s brand new Android super-phone, the Nexus One, may not be selling as quickly as one would have hoped after the incredibly persistent marketing strategy by Google. Anecdotally-speaking, for 4 days after the phone was released all I saw on almost any site I visited were “Nexus One” ads being hosted up by Google AdSense; so [...]
Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights:
Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]
While Facebook might openly hate Android, it’s hard to ignore the 114 other corporations around the globe that are committing to it’s expansion and rollout across the planet.
Unfortunately one of the most obvious missing applications for Android thus far as been a Facebook client — not wanting to hold their breath until the 4 horsemen [...]
As I’ve been reading more about the T-Mobile G2 plans, I’ve been running across mention-after-mention of this “Cupcake” branch of the Android OS that Google has been working on that will include a lot of updates that people have been wanting – most notably the addition of the virtual keyboard finally. The benefit there for [...]
Speculation has been flying around the web for months now as to which of the HTC phones is going to become the platform for the T-Mobile “G2″ — or rather the follow-up to the popular T-Mobile G1 (Video Review).
Back in December or January the general opinion was that the G2 would be based on the [...]
Possible rumors floating around that the MemoryUp Personal Android Market application is destroying personal data as well as installing adware.
So far the evidence seems circumstantial, but a connection between installing that app and lost email, spammed email accounts, adware showing up and SD cards being wiped clean are all getting reported.
This brings up an interesting [...]
As a compliment to our in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1, the Break it Down Blog has also put together an extensive, 4-part video review of the T-Mobile G1 for you as well.
The reason we complimented the original review of the G1 with a video review is because buying a cell phone is hard, buying [...]
Update #1: We have also put up a 4-part T-Mobile G1 video review for readers as well.
Summary [7.5 out of 10]
The T-Mobile G1 is an excellent “first-mover” Android-based phone from T-Mobile and is truly a “Google Phone”. If you are already have most of your life on Google through one of their many handy and [...]
There seems to be a significant amount of confusion online over the terms of the T-Mobile G1 $24.99/mo data plan; more specifically, what constitutes a “message” as described in their FAQ (seen above).
At first hint, anyone that heard they have a “400 message” limit would assume that means a “text message” – as it has [...]
Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing.
As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 for [...]
Laurence Hartje just sent in a mini-review of the BlackBerry Storm on the Vodafone network, here it is in it’s entirety:
I’ve been lusting after a Storm, and since it launched in England before the US (and I’m over here at the moment) I thought I’d swing by a Vodaphone store to play with one.
Spent about [...]
Up until this point, Motorola has been shipping millions of devices on it’s custom MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux platform as well as the Symbian UIQ platform. After announcing some disappointing 3Q losses, Motorola announced plans to move their entire device line to Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platforms exclusively, discontinuing development and support for the MOTOMAGX platform [...]
BoingBoing reports that folks on Freenode’s #android IRC channel are already getting down and dirty with the device, trying to unlock access to some of the device-level functions (like GPS) that currently require signed code to access:
I hacked my camera’s firmware manually by using an exploit to cause it to execute arbitrary code – and [...]
For all the 10 trillion people that got T-Mobile G1 phones today, you will have an Android 1.1 update pushed out to you over the data network tomorrow. We have no idea how this will work for folks that are still in non-3G areas, it’s possible the phone will detect no 3G connection and prompt [...]
Hot on the heels of the Android open sourcing announcement by Google, celebration around the office looks to be amping up. Iliyan Malchev snapped this shot of Andy Rubin decorating what I think is the front lawn of Google with a giant foam Android Robot:
First thing that popped in my head when I saw it [...]
It’s official, no more waiting, no more secret SDKs and top-secret government handshakes (ok, there never really was), but it’s still nice to hear that Google has officially Open Sourced Android.
The preferred licensing for working with the Android platform is the Apache 2.0 license. For folks wanting to contribute directly to the platform you will [...]
As we move into the fall the announcements of mobile devices are going to start leaking out of our ears… especially sexy, Christmas-fodder devices.
A lot of folks a few months ago were waiting for HTC’s next “Sexy device” after the HTC Touch ended up sucking balls with slow performance, crappy software and not the greatest [...]
Digg v4 Troubles are Symptom of a Bi... 
Monkey Has His Way With a Frog 
Spiders, Scorpions & The Crawlies Motivational Poster Tuesday 
Staring at Boobs Extends Male Life b... 
Insanely Huge Crabs Scare Me 
Australian Mom Brings Baby Back to L... 
10 Amazing Examples of JavaScript an... 
iPhone 3G iOS 4 Jailbreak and Carrie... PS3 + HDMI = Black Screen 
Windows 7 - 4GB vs 8GB Performance 3G iPhone May Not Work on T-Mobile 3... 
Recent Comments