Archive for April, 2009
Samsung i7500 To Denmark In September
While the HTC Magic is plotting an all-out European Tour of its own, some attention has been diverted to the first ever Samsung Android Phone - the Samsung i7500. And if Mobile.nu (translated) is right , it will touch down in Denmark this September, giving the HTC Magic some room to breath and citizens of Denmark reason to anxiously [...]
Samsung i7500 Gets YouTubed, Goes Private
The Samsung i7500 went from rumor to official to getting its own demo videos on YouTube pretty darn quick! A YouTuber put up some footage of Samsung’s first Android Phone, the Samsung i7500, online for your viewing pleasure. But apparently the user didn’t want his 15-minutes of fame, probably for fear of NDA violation and/or job [...]
Cupcake is catastrophe, claims Big in Japan dev
Everyone’s looking forward to Cupcake, right? Not so fast, says Big in Japan - the team behind the popular ShopSavvy application - Android 1.5 presents more than a few problems for developers. According to Alexander Muse, applications currently running on Android won’t necessarily be compatible with Cupcake 1.5; that means a mad [...]
Backward compatibility for Android applications
Android 1.5 introduced a number of new features that application developers can take advantage of, like virtual input devices and speech recognition. As a developer, you need to be aware of backward compatibility issues on older devices—do you want to allow your application to run on all devices, or just those running newer software? In some [...]
Samsung I7500 caught on video
Smudgy pictures be damned: what we want is HQ footage of the Samsung I7500 to a storming foreign-language rock track. Happily just such a thing has dropped into our laps, showing off the I7500’s 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen to perfection. The smartphone also looks decidedly thin, and the design of the hardware buttons at the base is very [...]
Vodafone HTC Magic gets video unboxing
Vodafone Germany surprised us all with a sneaky early launch of the HTC Magic this week, and the first handsets are being delivered. Our friend Sascha is one of the first to get his hands on the Magic, and he put together an unboxing video of the new Android smartphone. Unlike the white Magic handsets that we’ve seen the most of in the [...]
Android 1.5 Cupcake released for Devs; Video Demo
HTC and Google have released Android 1.5 Cupcake for owners of the Android Dev Phone, available as a free download from the manufacturers site. Cupcake adds video recording to Android, including one-touch uploads to YouTube, plus a new on-screen QWERTY keyboard. There are also tweaks to the browser, predominantly to increase speed in [...]
Skytone Alpha 680 Android video demo
A two-part video demo of the Skytone Alpha 680 netbook running the Android OS has been released. The Alpha 680 is intended to be a budget netbook with a target price of $250; for that, though, you’ll at least get a touchscreen. Unfortunately the touchscreen is pretty much the start and end of any decent specs, with the rest of the Alpha [...]
Samsung I7500 Cleared for Launch
Even though an Android powered Samsung has been in the works for a few months, it looks like Samsung just set the land speed record for rumor to fact in, what seems to be, less than a day. She’s slim, she’s sexy, she has no keyboard and she’s heading for “major European countries from June, 2009”. So let’s break it [...]
Android Developer Event Of The Year: Google I/O
Android Developer Advocate Dan Morrill just made a post on the Android Developer Blog saying that Google I/O 2009 will be the Android Developer Event Of The Year and explains why Android Developers should be especially amped. First and foremost is the technical sessions, 9 of which are already listed on the Google I/O sessions site which [...]
