Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
After several months of waiting, Motorola has finally made the Android 2.2 Froyo update available to Motorola Milestone users.
The update comes after a lot of testing and fixing from what we understand. What you get with the new Android 2.2 install is the ability to run Adobe Flash 10.1 as well as get faster hotspot capabilities. [Read more…]
It seems like Google has taken notice of the bad apps that started showing up in the Android Market recently.
A total of 21 free (and popular) apps have been taken down due to them having alternate motives… ie, they had malware in them designed to take control of any Android smartphone installed on. [Read more…]
At the moment, the only place you can read The Daily is on the Apple iPad. This is about to change though as it seems there is an Android tablet version being prepared for launch.
It is expected that The Daily will launch on Android devices at the beginning of the second quarter of this year and when it does, it will break the current exclusivity.
The Daily launch on the Android platform is likely to be related to the release of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb release that first arrived today on the Motorola Xoom. Now that Android will become a serious competitor in the tablet market, The Daily can look towards them for getting its content to more readers. [Read more…]
iDisplay has been launched for Android OS based devices. What it does is allow you to use your Android smartphone or tablet as a secondary display for your computer. Once installed and connected, you can then drag windows on to the smaller screen such as a Skype conversation or perhaps a media player you want to be able to see but not clutter up your main screen.
To get it to work, you need to first download the app on your Android device and once installed, you then need to install some software on your Mac or Windows computer so that your Android smartphone/tablet can hook up and get the data it needs. [Read more…]
Earlier this week, some URLs were uncovered on the Android Market that hinted we would be seeing a specific music, movies and books section. When visiting the Android Market URL and putting one of those three words on the end, the store actually loaded up whilst with other words and typos, nothing but a 404 was available.
What we see now is that the Books URL has officially gone live in that when you visit here, you are able to download books like the one from Glenn Beck pictured below for $9. [Read more…]
For those of you a little too impatient to wait for the Nexus One and Nexus S Android 2.3.3 update to arrive OTA, XDA Developers have you covered as they now have the roms available for you to download and install now.
The updates are the same as the OTA ones that Google is gradually pushing out over the next few days/perhaps weeks, and as they are official you “shouldn’t” have any problem running them. [Read more…]
The Android Developers youtube account has uploaded a video that shows the progress of Android activations. The graph shows data for every day from October 2008 to January 2011.
Although it starts off quiet, some noticeable action happens right when large products launch such as the Nexus One, Incredible and Galaxy S. [Read more…]
Yesterday, Google updated the GMail app for Android smartphones. If you are trying to get to that update now then you will be out of luck, for now, as a few bugs have surfaced which has caused Google to take it down from the Android Market.
If you managed to get the update before it was taken down and are seeing problems, Google recommends uninstalling the updates to the GMail app. [Read more…]
Angry Birds has been available on Android smartphones for a while now. But unlike the iOS version that you need to pay for, the Android version is free. The downside is that it is supported by ads.
A number of people would prefer to pay a dollar or 2 to get rid of the ads. When asked on Twitter when an ad free version was due to launch, Rovio responded as follows
@rbtdev @thetechchat give us another month and we’ll be there
Google is beginning to roll out Android 2.3.3 to the Nexus S and Nexus One smartphones. This will bring both models up to the very latest version and bring new features to each device.
One thing to note is that the Nexus S is more advanced than the Nexus One in that it has NFC built in. This particular Android 2.3.3 update is mainly for updates to NFC in terms of being able to write to tags instead of just reading like in 2.3. [Read more…]
Google has announced that the Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK is now available to download for developers. The SDK is the final release which in turn, means that developers can start creating apps and testing them on a stable OS.
By releasing the Android 3.0 SDK, Google has also raised the API level to 11. [Read more…]
Samsung has launched the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the Epic 4G.
The update isn’t available OTA via this method, but is official in that you can download it direct from Samsung. To get it, you need to download an executable file on your PC, load it up while your Epic 4G is connected. Another option is to use the update.zip file that can be put on your Epic 4G microSD card and once there, you can install the usual way by booting the device up. The latter method is only designed for the devices that run the DI18 build though, so for others not on that build you need to stick to the PC method. [Read more…]
