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    Acer Liquid Finally Gives Android the Snapdragon It Deserves

    T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now

    Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All

    Android Donut Build Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance

    Google Android 2.0 Donut Has Universal Search and Text-to-Speech Powers

    HTC's Android Interface Makes Us Temporarily Forget All About Palm Pre

    Android 'Donut' Build For HTC Hero Caught On Tape
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    10/14/09

    In reply to Acer Liquid Finally Gives Android the Snapdragon It Deserves
    Dang. Another sweet looking Android phone. This is making my choice really hard.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Acer Liquid Finally Gives Android the Snapdragon It Deserves
    Tell me this is going to have a D-Pad of some sort...
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    Image of know1 know1
    10/14/09

    @HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.:

    Are D-pads really necessary anymore for touch screen phones? The closest thing the G1 has is a trackball, and seriously, it's pretty useless outside of tabbing through a block of multiple hyperlinks on a webpage where your finger might hit the wrong link.

    My only concern with this phone is that beyond the initial specs (which sound good so far), the device itself is pretty boring in form factor and aesthetics. I looks like the engineers told the designers to just put a plastic box around their hardware. It has no "pick-up" appeal.
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    10/14/09

    @know1: See, my thing is, I'm a gamer. A D-pad is de rigeur for me. Especially when that Snapdragon could make for quite the mobile gaming experience.

    Touchscreen controls are nice if a game is built around them, but I like emulators, and touchscreen controls suck for emulators.
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    Edited by HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. at 10/14/09 1:30 PM HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. was starred HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Neight Neight
    10/02/09

    In reply to T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now
    I've been rocking the HERO OS on my G1 for a week or so now and can honestly say I don't know why you would want to use anything else. I wish they would come out with a HERO phone with a qwerty is all I'm sayin..
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    Image of logruszed logruszed
    10/01/09

    In reply to T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now
    You know I've tripped a lot of circuits, oh lord I've maxed a lot of capacitors; but I never touched nothing that my logic board could kill.

    you know I've seen a lot of machine intelligences ambulating around with BSODs in their eyes, but the pusherbot don't care if you simulate life or if your main-board fries.
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    Image of cudthecrud cudthecrud
    10/01/09

    In reply to T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now
    I've cyanogen'ed my phone already. Should I restore it to Tmo OS just to get their legit Donut or is it the exact same thing I've been running?
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    Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?! promoted this comment cudthecrud was starred cudthecrud was unstarred
    Image of Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?! Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?!
    10/01/09

    @cudthecrud: why would you do that when Cyanogen's ROM still gives you functions that the legit 1.6 update isn't going to give you? Apps2SD ALONE is reason enough for me not to give a rat's ass for the legit update.
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    10/02/09

    @cudthecrud: Just give it a few weeks and i'm sure there will be a cyanogen update with all those extras put in there (if they're any better than what it's already packaged in 4.0.4).
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    Image of Bloodbeard Bloodbeard
    10/01/09

    In reply to T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now
    I've been running Donut features for a few weeks. Most of the changes are good, but I can't stand the new camera.
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    Image of Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?! Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?!
    10/01/09

    @Bloodbeard: same here. Been running Donut in one form or another for weeks thanks to Cyanogen. Overall it's good, new camera blows though. It runs faster when a lot of things aren't going on in the background. It's great when you're trying to do something, like, send a text message while on the phone through bluetooth but you have some other crap running in the background.

    Ahhhh Android....so much potential, hamstrung by shit hardware....thanks HTC...really, I mean it thanks for the brillance that is the G1.
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    10/02/09

    @Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?!: I know right? HTC has had a long history with putting yesteryear's technology into new phones and trying to make it sound shiney. Can't polish shit.

    And I swear the first person who cites the mythbusters episode is getting a trout to the face.
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    Image of OpalNarcissus OpalNarcissus
    08/04/09

    In reply to Android Donut Build Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance
    Which 'official' Google handset would that be? The G1 is made by HTC. The Dream is made by HTC. The Hero? Made by HTC.
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    Image of Ursus Maritimus Ursus Maritimus
    09/25/09

    @OpalNarcissus: The Dream IS the G1.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/26/09

    In reply to Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All
    So I guess the discussion now is that Donut isn't 2.0 like cupcake wasn't 1.5. So multitouch might not be part of Donut but it might be part of 2.0 (or 1.6 or whatever).
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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/26/09

    In reply to Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All
    sounds more like a donut hole.
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    Image of Andrew Kameka Andrew Kameka
    07/26/09

    In reply to Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All
    Cyanogen (http://twitter.com/cyanogen/status/2854273258) says

    "Regarding multitouch in Donut.. Nothing in the Android code itself, but there ARE new kernel commits to support it."
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    Image of Chon Chon
    07/26/09

    In reply to Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All
    What ever happened to that multitouch hack a couple months back? I never did get put it on my phone. Did the updates patch that up?
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    Image of Lazzzara Lazzzara
    07/26/09

    @Chon: Cyanogens latest roms all have multi touch zoom in the browser, but it's not like the multi touch zoom on the hero roms - it just recognises the "pinch" movement and hits the zoom in or zoom out button accordingly. It's quite accurate, but only zooms into the centre of the screen.
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    Image of orthorim orthorim
    07/26/09

    In reply to Android Donut Build Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance
    As a software engineer, I am not surprised at all.

    They know what they need to do - hello iPhone. They have a young, fresh code base without a lot of legacy issues. They have good programmers. All that means that Android is well positioned to kick some serious butt.

    WinMo, Symbian, and even BB are all hopeless comparatively, they have a huge legacy code base that acts like a ball and chains. The best coders can't change this.
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    Image of PhineasJW PhineasJW
    07/25/09

    In reply to Android Donut Build Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance
    Word of a new release leaks. Google's Android engineers start posting on some blog fan pages. TONS of new features suddenly appear -- Multitouch, search gestures, built-in VPN.

    And, no sign anywhere of a legal statement saying their lawyers require they charge for all of this. Why? Because the whole damn thing is FREE!

    Imagine that!
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/26/09

    @PhineasJW: Um....Shocker? If you're meaning to imply that Apple has ever charged PHONE users for an update, you're categorically wrong. Phone != music player
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    Image of Crashproof Crashproof
    07/26/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:Oh, so original iPhone buyers can record video without having spent any money to upgrade anything? Good to hear that Apple is just as friendly as Google then.
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    Image of freakout freakout
    07/25/09

    In reply to Android Donut Build Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance
    One thing we can all thank Palm for: inspiring other manufacturers to start implementing full multitouch. Patented my ass, Steve.
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    Image of dallasmay2 dallasmay2
    07/26/09

    @freakout: I'm sure they had plans to implement multitouch long before the Pre. The hardware was always capable and underlying code base was there from the beginning. The only thing Apple patented was one Method to do it. Everyone else simply found another method.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/26/09

    @dallasmay2: Win. Ignorance doesn't stand a chance against the informed.
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    07/26/09

    @dallasmay2: Actually, Apple have a metric fuckton of multitouch patents, due to their acquisition of Fingerworks. And Steve made a big show of this at the first iPhone keynote. Remember "And boy, have we patented it"?

    The fact that the code was there from the beginning and that it just wasn't turned on speaks volumes. Google, for some bizarre reason, was afraid of Apple. Not anymore, it seems.

    http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/02/09/apple-asked-google-not-to-use-multi-touch-in-android-and-google-complied/
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    Image of ProperBritish ProperBritish
    07/25/09

    In reply to Android Donut Build Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance
    mmmm donuts
    why did they name their OS versions after tasty patisserie items?
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    07/25/09

    @ProperBritish: It was either that or skin diseases, and no one in their right mind wants to touch a leper.
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