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If you’re holding onto an Epic 4G, then you’ll be happy to hear thatAndroid 2.2 Froyo is on its way. Sprint’ kicking off President’s day (21st) with an over the air update that will be sent in batches, with all devices having access to the update by the 25th. It may be outdated at this…
You didn’t think the Nook Color would be having all the fun did you? The Honeycomb SDK preview has been ported over to the EVO 4G, Desire HD and Droid Incredible and there are three videos to show the progress of the builds. While the ROMs are in no way fully functional, it’s exciting to…
It’s been a while since the CyanogenMod team began working on the next version of their popular custom ROM, CyanogenMod 7. This Gingerbread-toting ROM has been available in the form of ‘nightlies‘, which are development builds that almost certainly will give you bugs. Luckily, the Nexus One, T-Mobile G2, MyTouch 4G, and EVO 4G now…
This won’t be much of a surprise if you’ve been following this space lately, but during a keynote at MWC, Eric Schmidt confirmed that the next version of Android will merge Gingerbread and Honeycomb together. After we heard that Honeycomb was indeed just for tablet devices, many people (including myself) thought that Google was consciously…
Marvell announced Kinoma, a software platform that’s touted to “dramatically transform the way consumers interact with the devices that fuel their digital lives.” Through its recent acquisition of mobile media software company Kinoma, Marvell now offers an experience and solution that is fully integrated from silicon to applications, creating new opportunities for OEMs and manufacturers…
When Google gave the world an in-depth look at Android Honeycomb, it announced some exciting new tools for developers. One of these tools is a new graphics engine called Renderscript and the search giant just detailed what this will mean for developers in a blog post. The demo video demonstrated is a series of balls…
Tapjoy announced what it says is the mobile industry’s first Pay-Per-Action app distribution service to “significantly improve advertising effectiveness” for brand advertisers and mobile game/app developers. The new service allows iOS and Android app developers to reward users for completing some type of action within it, such as watching the tutorial, getting past a certain…
One great thing about Android is the ability to change your default home UI – whether it’s through custom ROMs, or home replacement applications, the dev community has you covered with a wide selection of Android homescreen flavors. The latest such homescreen skin is called Sentio UI, but it won’t be available for some time.…
While Android 2.3 Gingerbread had NFC as one of its main features, it only had the read functionality but Google has just pushed out a “small feature release” that boosts the NFC capabilities. According to the search giant’s developer blog, Android 2.3.3 now includes: – A comprehensive NFC reader/writer API that lets apps read and…
Well folks, it’s about that time – time to find out what HP and Palm have been up to with WebOS. We’re not exactly sure what we’ll see at tomorrow’s HP press conference, but we have a few good guesses.. One thing we can be almost positive about is that HP will announce their WebOS…