Archive for January 9th, 2009
Getting More Elbow Room
While the T-Mobile G1’s 320×480 screen is a luxury to those who developed apps for less-spacious screens, it always seems like you could use just a bit more room. Here are two tricks for clearing off some Android-supplied UI elements, so your activities can take up more space. First up is the activity title bar. Much like the title bar [...]
AndroidGuys Quoted in CNN Article
There’s an article up on CNN today called “Google vs. Apple: The battle to rule mobile applications” and it features insight from various bloggers and techies as they weigh in on the two mobile platforms. Cherise Fong’s piece gets both sides of the argument fairly and puts together a good analogy. She fairly calls Apple [...]
Google Trying to Clean up Comment Problems in Android Market
If you are a G1 owner and have ever downloaded something from the Android Market, chances are you have seen the ugly side of Android people. I’m talking about the comments. This is especially true in cases of new apps that just recently showed up. People have been leaving crass, belligerent remarks, often veering into racism and other [...]
Movie Finder
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Lunar Lander 3D (Version 1.2)
NOW THE SPACESHIP IS CONTROLLABLE USING G1's TRACKBALL!!! Land the Lunar spaceship on the moon. Ajust the heading of the spaceship in 3-dimentional space, and power up to force it forward. Some gravity but no air resistance, so take care that your spaceship does not drift. The spaceship has limited power. Land the spaceship on a small spot, [...]
Palm To Compete With Android, iPhone
Oh geez, where to begin… How’s the weather? And did you know that Palm is no longer comatosed on its deathbed, connected to a heart monitor with a roomful of monks praying at its bedside? Nope. Instead they announced the Palm Pre - the first phone based on Palm’s new operating system dubbed WebOS - and many critics and analysts [...]
Weekly Apps in Review – Episode II – Samba and Psycho
With CES, Mac World, and everything else going on, one thing will always trump them all: WAR. This week was an interesting one with android apps; and we hope you dig that much deeper into the bizarre comments that are made on the Market to find some actually useful ones. So, without further adu, I present: WAR! (This week will feature average [...]
Android Radio
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Chipsets with Android at CES
Ask a typical person what kind of chipset is in their mobile handset and you’re likely to get a blank stare in return. Most people are not aware of what all goes into the hardware side of phones and assume that one company produces and assembles the parts. Take for instance the T-Mobile G1. A vast majority of the people who have this [...]
Android Gets Skype App Before Apple Does
Here’s one we didn’t see coming. Starting today, G1 and other Android users will be able to download Skype Lite from the Android Market. The official app allows for voice calling to other mobile handsets or desktops running Skype. We would have bet money on the iPhone seeing this first. Oh well! While it doesn’t quite [...]
