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How To: Get Multitouch On Your Droid or Nexus One

This generation of Android phones is faster, more powerful and generally awesome-er than anything before. But for whatever reason, they don’t have one thing other smartphones take for granted: multitouch. Here’s how to fix that, and so much more. Google’s Nexus one and Verizon’s Motorola Droid are, in a sense, miles ahead their competitors in…

Tech News John Herrman

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Motorola Droid

Your Motorola Droid supports mulitouch, so why isn’t it included in your stock browser? Don’t know, don’t care: here’s how to get it, along with lots of other help tweaks, right now. WARNING: You should be fine if you follow the instructions closely, but there’s a slim chance you could brick you phone. And unless…

Tech News John Herrman

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Nexus One

Your Nexus One supports mulitouch, so why isn’t it included in your stock browser? Don’t know, don’t care: here’s how to get it, along with lots of other help tweaks, right now. WARNING: You should be fine if you follow the instructions closely, but there’s a slim chance you could brick you phone. And unless…

Tech News John Herrman

Nexus One Multitouch Available Now; Floodgates Open for Hackers

For every Android phone, the hacking process comes in waves: it’s tinkered with, then rooted, then flashed with totally new ROMs. At under a month old, the Nexus One’s landed its first native multitouch hack, and soon, much, much more. https://gizmodo.com/android-hacking-for-the-masses-5341915 Virtuoso Android hacker Cyanogen, who maintains the definitive custom Android ROM for the G1…

Tech News John Herrman

Motorola Working Around Google For Android Phones In China

Google’s war with the Chinese government could end up hurting Motorola, one of its Android mobile handset partners that plans to sell phones in China. So how can Motorola continue with its plans to sell Android phones in China — the world’s biggest mobile market — without Google’s help? By working AROUND Google, by establishing…

Tech News The Business Insider

Archos Wheels Out Android 1.6 Update For Archos 5 Tablet Yet Again

After giving Archos 5 owners the Android 1.6 update and then taking it back again cruelly, Archos has rereleased Donut (with new Quick Search feature) for the masses. [Engadget]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Viewsonic VTablet 101 Has Decent Specs and Terrible Timing

Let’s take a moment to appreciate Viewsonic’s new Android tablet while we can, before it gets crushed in the tidal wave of coverage that a certain other tablet’s debut will get next week. And it’s got some things worth appreciating! The VTablet 101 will come equipped with Tegra T20 graphics, a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Android Nuvifone From Garmin-ASUS To Be Revealed Next Month, Possibly WinMo Handsets Too

A year ago, the satnav people at Garmin made an alliance with Asustek, the computer people. A while later, the G60 and M20 went on sale. In October, we branded the G60 with a ‘DO NOT BUY’ review tag. https://gizmodo.com/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m20-a-surprisingly-cute-winmo-6-1-5152088 So why do I think Benson Lin’s (the president of Asustek’s mobile division) boasts of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

SlideScreen Android App Replaces Homescreen With Beautiful Information

Android’s stock homescreen is fine; usable, not thrilling. SlideScreen, a homescreen replacement, is a wild departure that totally changes how you use your phone. It’s a mix between Zune, MotoBlur and HTC’s Sense. And I just made it my default. Instead of the standard grid of icons and widgets we’ve seen in handhelds since Palm…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Apple Dominated With Nearly 100% of Mobile App Sales in 2009

Say what you will about platforms, but in 2009, Apple’s App Store absolutely pwnd the paid mobile app space—selling 99.4% of the $4.2 billion market single-handedly, according to ars technica. All this data is based upon research by Gartner, who claims that, should sale trends continue, Apple could retain 2/3 of the paid mobile app…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Google Delaying Launch of Two Android Phones in China Due To Censorship Row

Whoa, the dispute between China and Google just got even more messy, with Google being forced to delay the launch of two Android phones from Motorola and Samsung on the China Unicom carrier. https://gizmodo.com/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china-5446712 The launch was initially slated for tomorrow, but with Google announcing last week they’d no longer be censoring search results in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Will Be Released Worldwide In March

That lumpy Android MOTOROI phone from Motorola that was only supposed to launch in Korea WILL actually be released worldwide, according to executives. And very soon too, we hear, with March being the proposed month. [Korea Herald – Thanks Cliff_Dangers!] https://gizmodo.com/lumpy-motorola-motoroi-gets-official-not-much-use-to-y-5450693

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Look At This Broken Nexus One

Poor reader Paul ordered a Nexus One and only had it for five days before this happened. No finger pointing—he said he dropped it—so just cry at the sad, broken gadget. Paul does say that the touchscreen still works and there’s no change in the display. It just, well, looks like that. And even worse,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ninjas Employ Their Own Method Of Unboxing a Nexus One

In this Google-sponsored video by Patrick Boivin, stop-motion ninjas show us only the second unboxing that I can describe as “action-packed.” They easily defeated the Nexus One packaging, but their arch-rival Blister Pack won’t go down so easy. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/the-most-realistic-unboxing-of-all-time-5050076

Tech News Sean Fallon

‘Froyo’ Is the Next Sweet Flavor of Android

We thought the next version of Android would be called Flan, but Engadget is reporting “Froyo” to be the codename for Google’s next iteration of mobile OS. On a slightly related note, with the current resurgence of the froyo craze, I feel sorta bad for TCBY. [Engadget]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Gets Official, Not Much Use To You Unless You Live In Korea

Remember that leaked Motorola, with the right-side tumor? It’s just got official as the MOTOROI (great fun if you say it aloud), and while it’s destined for Korea only, it has an extra trick up its sleeve: handwriting recognition. https://gizmodo.com/sholes-tablet-gets-specs-and-press-shots-it-s-still-lu-5430385 In actual fact, the MOTOROI has five ways to get those words across, with a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Motorola Shadow: a Droid For the Light Side?

There’s not a whole lot that’s certain about these images, which popped up at Mobile01, showing Motorola’s Shadow as a friendlier-looking Droid. But they’re interesting. These aren’t the first rumors that have trickled out about the Motorola Shadow. One leak, a few weeks ago, pegged it as having a super-thin body and a 4.3-inch, 800…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Motorola Droid Parts Worth More Than iPhone 3GS or Nexus One’s, At $179.11

iSuppli has already revealed that the Nexus One parts cost $174.15 and the iPhone 3GS $178.96 (including manufacturing), but the Droid? Thanks to a recent teardown, we now know Motorola’s more generous, with parts totaling $179.11. https://gizmodo.com/googles-nexus-one-costs-174-15-5444350 If you add in $8.64 for manufacturing the Droid, the final cost is $187.75. Breaking it down, the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Cuts Nexus One Upgrade Price by $100 (and Refunds Early Adopters)

Angry T-Mobile customers have complained about the exorbitant $379 upgrade price for the Nexus One, and Google just responded by lowering that price by $100. Plus, they’re sending out refunds to the poor souls who paid the higher price. Those who paid $380 will get a rebate in Google Checkout within two weeks, according to…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Someone Needs To Sell The Android Plush Bag

What you are looking at is a lovingly-crafted Android robot plush bag created over the course of two weeks as a birthday gift. And you can totally rip this idea off. “On and off it took about, I guess, two weeks? I needed to pick the materials, figure out the design and of course, a…

Tech News Sean Fallon

How To: Get Multitouch On Your Droid or Nexus One

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Motorola Droid

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Nexus One

Nexus One Multitouch Available Now; Floodgates Open for Hackers

Motorola Working Around Google For Android Phones In China

Archos Wheels Out Android 1.6 Update For Archos 5 Tablet Yet Again

Viewsonic VTablet 101 Has Decent Specs and Terrible Timing

Android Nuvifone From Garmin-ASUS To Be Revealed Next Month, Possibly WinMo Handsets Too

SlideScreen Android App Replaces Homescreen With Beautiful Information

Apple Dominated With Nearly 100% of Mobile App Sales in 2009

Google Delaying Launch of Two Android Phones in China Due To Censorship Row

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Will Be Released Worldwide In March

Look At This Broken Nexus One

Ninjas Employ Their Own Method Of Unboxing a Nexus One

‘Froyo’ Is the Next Sweet Flavor of Android

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Gets Official, Not Much Use To You Unless You Live In Korea

The Motorola Shadow: a Droid For the Light Side?

Motorola Droid Parts Worth More Than iPhone 3GS or Nexus One’s, At $179.11

Google Cuts Nexus One Upgrade Price by $100 (and Refunds Early Adopters)

Someone Needs To Sell The Android Plush Bag

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