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After being yoinked from the BlackBerry App World, Kik Messenger now has their development effectively frozen, as Research In Motion has revoked their access to the software development kit, and stopped push services for the app, effectively killing its usefulness for existing users. The developer doesn’t mention any reasons, and RIM’s statement on the issue…
Could Samsung have just leaked the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS via the Galaxy 2’s firmware? Well, an unconfirmed firmware has just leaked, bearing the model name GT-I9200, and there has been some speculation that points to the firmware belonging to the Samsung Galaxy 2. Possibly with Gingerbread. There’s only one problem, though. There are only…
If you ask us, TweetDeck for Android is still a ways behind the iPhone application, but the Android version of the popular Twitter client just received a rather nice update. It might not bring the app all the way up to par with the iPhone version, but we’ll take anything at this point. To be…
Damn you Nexus One, getting all of these fancy new Android updates so frequently. Yet another OTA update is beginning to hit the device, and though it’s not Android 2.3 Gingerbread, it does contain, “important bug fixes and security patches.” As we await impatiently for the release of Gingerbread, the Nexus One is obviously the…
While Android developers are receiving new guidelines for the Market to give it some overall polish, we can’t help but wonder what new features Google has in store for the end-user. We’ve heard whispers of many different things that may debut with the soon to be released Gingerbread update, but which ones will make the…
Given the short time the T-Mobile G2 has been rooted, it really didn’t take all that long to actually see CyanogenMod hit the handset. Last night, the most popular Android ROM was released by its venerable developer, and is now available for your installing pleasure on your T-Mobile G2 or HTC Desire Z. CyanogenMod is…
Let’s face it, the Garminfone didn’t do much to really attract customers in buying one of the navigation-focused smartphones. Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped the Android OS updates from trickling out, and the four people who actually bought the Garminfone will be happy to know that the handset has been updated to Android 2.1 Eclair. T-Mobile…
We’ve seen the T-Mobile G2 overclocked before, but nowhere near the speeds that this new overclocked Android kernel provides. A new kernel has hit the XDA forums that will allow your G2 to push Android OS to the limits with CPU speeds at 1.9GHz! We were wondering if the G2 would get some sort of…
Remember when we told you about this one Windows Phone 7 developer, Chris Walshie, who apparently managed to successfully gain root access to the WP7 file-system? Right, well, turns out, he wasn’t just full of hot air on claims that he is able to use root access to be able to “create, delete, browse files…
One of the newest kids on the block, the HTC Desire HD, is an Android-powered force to be reckoned with. It’s the phone that the EVO wishes it could be. Today while fiddling around with the thing, I received a notification that a system update was available for it. The update is rather small, and…