Archive for December, 2010
HD2 Receives Its First NAND Android ROM
The HD2: The perfect example of great hardware(at release) powering the worst software HTC could possibly think of. Thankfully XDA felt the same way and got to work getting a real operating system on it. The world got to see Android on the HD2 and it was pretty great; with a constant stream of kernel updates and a slew of ROM devs the HD2 got [...]
Android Tablet with Phone Function by ViewSonic to be Showed Off at CES
ViewSonic is expected to bring forth a phone-tablet hybrid sort of device that might very well support 4G at CES next week. It could very will be a doozie. The device will have a four-inch screen, capable of making telephone calls, and will be running some version of Android (seems kind of like everything else so far, right?) Sources speaking with [...]
Tired of Read Only? MAGLRD for HD2 Lets you Boot Directly to Android!
Holy crap! A team of Android and WP7 developers and coders by the name of DFT has found a way to allow you to boot directly to Android, straight from NAND memory! What does this mean? It means that the entire OS is now writeable or otherwise easily modifiable. When you’re messing with ROMs, you’re in Read-Only, requiring that you flash [...]
Motorola Olympus may be unveiled on AT&T at CES
The AT&T Motorola Olympus may be revealed next week at CES 2011. It will most likely be powered by a 1GHz dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 and even run Android 2.3 Gingerbread. At the press conference we may find out if the hardware in the Olympus can compete with the future LG Star, a phone sporting an HDMI out, both front and rear facing cameras, [...]
NFL Reciever Chad Ochocinco to Catch a XOOM Honeycomb Tablet in 2011
This dude has the weirdest haircut. This is NFL Reciever Chad Ochocinco, number 85, a dude who, if you’re not aware, was responsible way back for pushing Verizon’s Motorola Devour earlier this year. Ochocinco has Tweeted his glee on “getting that Motorola tablet” in early 2011, a sure sign that he’ll be brought on to [...]
Samsung Aims for Number 1 Spot in Mobile, Decides to Replace Nokia in 3 Very Short Years
That’s rather presumptuous of them, yes? Not if they’ve got the phones to back up their hopes and dreams it isn’t. Nokia currently holds the top spot for mobile phone manufacturer in the world, but Samsung officials have said that their next 12 months will be very important since they’re aiming to outpace Nokia in three [...]
Security Alert! Geinimi, new Android Trojan has been found
Lookout's blog has announced that there has been a new Trojan found that affects Android handsets. It seems that it started out by being placed inside what looked like legitimate Android apps in China, but the permissions were far outside of what would have been needed. The information was then sent to a remote server where everything could be [...]
LG Wants In On CES+Tablet Game
The Korea Times is reporting that LG wont allow Motorola to be the only Honeycomb tablet unveiled at CES; rather Lucky Goldstar will have their own 8.9″ beast on display in Las Vegas next week. We knew that LG was interested in getting into the Tablet game as soon as Honeycomb was ready, but all of that has been overshadowed by [...]
“HTC Scribe” Trademarked
HTC just filed for trademark status on the term “HTC Scribe”. And that’s just about all the information we have on HTC’s entry into the tablet game. In the trademark, under “Goods and Services”, HTC says it is a “Handheld wireless device, namely, a tablet computer”. That’s about the closest [...]
Motorola Olympus Heading to CES?
IntoMobile just got a nifty tip off: AT&T may be announcing the Motorola Olympus at Las Vegas’ CES, which I just realized is only a week away. Don’t expect this to be another run of the mill phone, rather one that matches the prowess of the LG Optimus 2X. The initial features are rumored to be: 1GHZ NVIDIA Tegra 2 [...]
