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Palm Gets All Lawyer-y Over The Pre Theme For Android

Palm has a problem with the Pre theme that has been floating around for Android phones. I could go on about copyright infringement, lawyers and other shenanigans, but the bottom line is that the skin is now discontinued. It also appears that the iPhone version, Palm Prefection has also been nixed by Palm. Of course,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

MyTouch 3G Rooted, Ready For Your Custom ROMs

It was only a matter of time before this happened, but the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G has been rooted, i.e. cracked wide open, meaning that it’s ready for all kinds of customization that the stock Android installation keeps out of reach, including cooked ROMs. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-review-5331798 In real terms, this means you’ll be able to port the…

Tech News John Herrman

Android 2.0 Debuting Multitouch with Motorola?

According to CNET, Android multitouch is on the way and should arrive by the end of the year. You know, if you haven’t hacked it. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hack-android-for-multitouch-web-browsing-on-the-5146797 Backing up for a second, It’s easy to think that Android supports multitouch, since Android phones like the HTC Hero use special builds of the software that include the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Dell Android Phone Is Real, If You Happen to Live In China

Remember that strange little rumor that Dell would be releasing a China-only Android phone? It’s true, apparently! Dell is expected to draw back the curtain on the “Ophone mini3i” in the next few days. But wait, Ophone? That sounds…familiar. https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-dell-android-based-phone-announcement-in-c-5333630 Apparently the “Ophone” moniker is part of a wider initiative by Chine Mobile, which is…

Tech News John Herrman

Rumor: Motorola “Morrison” Phone Gets Specs, Release Date

Remember Morrison, Motorola’s rumored first ever Android phone? Well it just got some specs and a tentative release date, courtesy an early Monday morning leak. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-motorolas-first-android-phone-5299453 The Morrison will purportedly be a budget line phone boasting the following not-too-shabby features: Qualcomm 528 MHz CPU 256 MB of RAM 512 MB flash memory microSDHC support (32GB)…

Tech News Jack Loftus

HTC’s Android-Based Fiesta Coming to AT&T?

Cellpassion found the UA Profile (kind of a spec list for phones) for the upcoming HTC Fiesta, an Android-based smartphone we know very little about. But an internal link indicates that this could very well be AT&T’s first Android phone. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-sig-filing-drops-clues-about-htcs-next-androi-5209627 There are a couple interesting tidbits here: The phone is slated to have a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Review

See Google Ion Review. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-google-ion-review-most-improved-5272229 Done? Good. This phone is exactly the same, except that the myTouch has a slightly different finish, and T-Mobile released an App Pack filled with two handfuls of essential apps on the Android Marketplace for it. That’s what we’re going to review today. Also, keep in mind that this is…

Reviews Jason Chen

Motorola’s Giving Android a Full Makeover, Just Like HTC and Sony

HTC kicked it off with Sense, and Sony wasn’t far behind with Rachael. Now Motorola, with their upcoming “Blur” social-networking-centric Android interface, has confirmed the trend: plain vanilla Android is a thing of the past. https://gizmodo.com/htc-debuts-hero-with-fresh-face-for-android-5301948 BGR coaxed a few details about the skin/shell/application set/whatever from a Motorola insider: It will combine all personal contacts…

Tech News John Herrman

Opera Mobile for Android Means Flash, Glorious Flash on Every Android Phone

“But Opera’s already on Android,” you protest. That’s Opera Mini, the Opera browser that serves up pages pre-crunched for crappy phones by Opera’s servers. Opera Mobile is their full-fledged, feature-packed browser that promises Flash and Google Gears support. https://gizmodo.com/opera-mini-for-android-leaves-beta-fixes-nagging-bugs-5141722 The latest build was missing Flash and Gears, but Opera Turbo—speedier page loading with some help…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

HTC Hero Coming To Sprint

Earlier rumors suggested that the HTC Hero might be headed to Sprint in October. This appears to have been all but confirmed through this shot taken directly from the HTC support site. https://gizmodo.com/is-sprint-landing-the-htc-hero-in-october-5327146 This also confirms CEO Dan Hesse’s claim that an Android phone would be on Sprint by the end of the year. The…

Tech News Sean Fallon

TeleNav Turn-By-Turn Navigation Lands on the MyTouch 3G

It’d be weird if this didn’t happen, but here you go anyway: TeleNav’s turn-by-turn GPS Navigator app, of G1 and iPhone fame, is coming to the MyTouch 3G. Just like last time around, it’s $10/mo after a 30-day free trial https://gizmodo.com/telenav-brings-turn-by-turn-gps-to-android-and-the-g1-5152170 People have a tendency to balk at charges like that, but that’s not entirely…

Tech News John Herrman

2009 Hasn’t Been So Great for HTC (Wait, What?)

By most measures, HTC looks like a company that should be cleaning up: they own the market for Android phones, the press watches their every move, and they’ve got popular handsets on nearly every carrier. So what’s all this about? “This,” in case your index finger is tired, is an announcement from the company that…

Tech News John Herrman

Motorola’s Verizon Android Phone Looks Like We Thought

The first leaked photo of Verizon’s Motorola Android phone looks exactly like the renders. The “Sholes” has a keyboard, a weird D-Pad deal and an HTC-like chin. Sup with that? [Phonearena] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-sholes-android-phone-may-show-up-on-verizon-5326435/

Tech News Jason Chen

Visual Voicemail, AppPack Arrive On Android Market

On the heels of the myTouch 3G release, it appears visual voicemail has made its way to the Android Market. The voicemal app, along with long awaited Sherpa local entertainment app come as part of a larger AppPack bundle. Apparently, a new data plan from T-Mobile that includes visual voicemail also includes an updated “My…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Creative Zii Egg Android PMP Makes Its Hands-On Debut

Creative’s Zii, which is either an extremely exciting platform for Android PMPs or a boring developers’ tool (nobody knows!) has turned up in CNET Asia’s offices. As you can imagine, it didn’t take long before they got a little handsy. Like Creative’s introduction video before it, CNET’s hands-on is more about seeing the hardware than…

Tech News John Herrman

Motorola ‘Sholes’ Android Phone May Show Up On Verizon

We know Verizon is cooking something up with Android, and if motofan.ru’s information is correct, the Motorola “Sholes” render pictured here might be one of their Android projects. https://gizmodo.com/captain-obvious-of-verizon-says-verizon-iphone-is-apple-5302270 According to the site, the device will feature a 3.7-inch (480 x 854) touchscreen, CDMA, EVDO Rev A support, 512MB of storage 256MB of RAM and…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Official Android Facebook App Coming As Soon As This Week

Some solid unofficial Facebook apps have cropped up for Android lately, but it looks like they’re going to be displaced by an official app as soon as this week. It’s going to be different than the iPhone one. It’s going to be more limited, for one, according to TechCrunch’s source. But it’s apparently going to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Creative Zii Egg Plaszma: Android-Wielding iPod Touch

Spotted in a recent FCC filing, the now-revealed Creative Zii Egg Plaszma boasts some of the world’s first “flexible StemCell architecture” that uses 24 floating-point processors. But you may care more because it’s basically an open source iPod Touch. https://gizmodo.com/creative-zii-moniker-resurfaces-on-mysterious-touchsc-5309028 Being seeded to developers as part of a $399 SDK (final units are expected to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All

We thought Android Donut sounded a bit too good to be true yesterday when we saw the latest code, and today that educated guess appears to be correct. According to one Android developer, multitouch is not in the cards. https://gizmodo.com/android-donut-build-out-full-multitouch-universal-sea-5322902/ That developer is one Romaine Guy, an Android framework engineer, and his big revelation today…

Tech News Jack Loftus

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

Google’s dropped new code for Android Donut and it sounds too good to be true. People at XDA Developers are reporting it has system-wide multitouch, universal search, text-to-speech, automated backups, a new camera app, and somehow, supposedly better performance. https://gizmodo.com/google-android-2-0-donut-has-universal-search-and-text-5271590 Also intriguing is CDMA support—as in the kind of network that Sprint runs—adding on to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Palm Gets All Lawyer-y Over The Pre Theme For Android

MyTouch 3G Rooted, Ready For Your Custom ROMs

Android 2.0 Debuting Multitouch with Motorola?

Dell Android Phone Is Real, If You Happen to Live In China

Rumor: Motorola “Morrison” Phone Gets Specs, Release Date

HTC’s Android-Based Fiesta Coming to AT&T?

T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Review

Motorola’s Giving Android a Full Makeover, Just Like HTC and Sony

Opera Mobile for Android Means Flash, Glorious Flash on Every Android Phone

HTC Hero Coming To Sprint

TeleNav Turn-By-Turn Navigation Lands on the MyTouch 3G

2009 Hasn’t Been So Great for HTC (Wait, What?)

Motorola’s Verizon Android Phone Looks Like We Thought

Visual Voicemail, AppPack Arrive On Android Market

Creative Zii Egg Android PMP Makes Its Hands-On Debut

Motorola ‘Sholes’ Android Phone May Show Up On Verizon

Official Android Facebook App Coming As Soon As This Week

Creative Zii Egg Plaszma: Android-Wielding iPod Touch

Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All

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

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