Archive for August, 2009
Developer Sheds Tears For, Light On Android Market
The battle of the app stores rages on! Despite recent woes and plummeting public sentiment for the iPhone App Store, it is regarded as the biggest and best mobile application market on the planet. We Android fans fiercely defend our robot shop and there obvious advantages/disadvantages to what each has going. But there is one thing we can’t [...]
Say Hello to the LG GW880
It looks as if the GW620 “Eve” is no longer going to be the first Android handset to come out of LG’s camp. Instead that honor now belongs to the GW880. We’ve got a few specs and pictures of the device to ogle thank to a site called sina (translated). Here’s the details on the hardware so [...]
First Look at the New Android Market
Taylor over at cnet’s Android Atlas has a few reliable sources who have been providing a steady stream of fresh Android intel. If you haven’t had a chance to visit the, we definitely recommend it. Today’s crop of goodies include a pair of pics that show how the new Android Market refresh will look. According to the tipster, [...]
Wikitude Drive: Augmented Reality Navigation
On Friday we told you about a company called Mobilizy who announced two new projects for Android : Wikitude 3 and Wikitude.Me. We’ve just spotted a 3rd project the company is pursuing and it combines your typical GPS navigation turn-by-turn software/app with Augmented Reality concepts. The result is an app called Wikitude Drive: The [...]
Hey Rogers Customer With HTC Dream/Magic… Read This!
If you’re a Canadian with the HTC Dream or HTC Magic and Rogers’ mobile service you’re going to want to do as we say. Head on over the HTC support page for your given phone - Dream here and the Magic here - and download the updates provided. The update includes several key enhancements that will improve the overall functionality [...]
LG GW800 Leaks, Headed To China Mobile
We were SO excited to learn more about the first ever LG Android Phone… and then we learned it would be a Wi-Fi-less OPhone heading to China Mobile. Excuse our lack of excitement, but we’ve currently got our eye on the LG Eve (GW620) which DOES have Wi-Fi and is much more likely to land in North America and Europe. We won’t let [...]
39 Pics Of the Dell Mini 3i OPhone
Dell’s first foray into the Android Market (confusing, eh?) is with the Dell Mini 3i for China Mobile, dubbed an OPhone by way of the Open Mobile System that the carrier has custom applied to Android. With the fortune of being located in China, the folks at Sina.com got access to the first DellDroid and gave it a thorough run through the [...]
Flyscreen now available for Android
If you want to make your lock screen on your Android device useful for something other than preventing you from hitting buttons accidentally, here is your chance. The developers behind FlyScreen have an Android version available now. The Android version of the program allows the user to install a collection of widgets onto the home screen to [...]
Mobile TV app for Android hits
There have been times when I was stuck somewhere without a TV or anything to do for a while where being able to watch TV on my mobile phone would have been a great thing. Android users can now get an application that allows them to watch mobile TV. The app is called SPB TC and is a subscription free mobile IPTV viewing that turns available [...]
FlyDroid: The Mobile Web While Your Phone Sleeps
A company called FlyScreen has produced an application called FlyDroid that takes your phone’s sleep/lock screen and uses it as a portal to access the mobile web with various widgets and syndicated content. Check out what I mean in this video demo from one of the company’s founders: You can even tweet directly from your lock screen [...]
