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If you thought the Motorola Droid X and its eFuse system protection technology was going to stop Android developers from finding a way to root and eventually flash custom Android ROMs to the Verizon superphone, consider your preconceptions put on notice. Thanks to the work of developer/hacker Birdman, the Droid X has just gotten its…
The LG Ally for Verizon is a good Android phone, but it could use some work on the software side. Thankfully, that may all soon change, as the Ally now has its own custom recovery image of its own. With the custom recovery image in tow, it’s only a matter of time before we see…
We’ve been looking for the folks at either Apple or Nokia to bring true haptic feedback technologies to devices like the iPhone and iPad – technologies that would allow for tactile feedback on a touchscreen that is capable of emulating the real feel of buttons and variable surfaces. Well, a tech demo from Senseg shows…
The Google Nexus One, my personal favorite Android phone and my first non-Nokia purchase in what feels like half a decade, was put out to pasture prematurely for reasons that many in the mobile technology community have yet to understand. The goal of the Nexus One was to offer consumers unlocked mobile phones, or for…
Now this may not be real news, but it’s news enough – the Nexus One has been given the ability to record in 720p HD video recording in to the newest CyanogenMod 6 Froyo ROM. The HD video recording capability isn’t new to the Nexus One, but this is the first time it’s been integrated…
AT&T is all official with the BlackBerry Torch 9800, and now RIM is stepping in from the software side. The main features (like universal search, updated browser, feeds, and new user interface) are demoed on their new BlackBerry 6 minisite with the help of some short video clips. An especially juicy morsel in the press…
All you iPhone 4 users out there patiently waiting for the iPhone Dev Team to release their jailbreak solution can start celebrating. Thanks to the inimitable iPhone Dev Team, Apple fans around the world can now freely jailbreak their iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G or iPad devices (as long as they’re running iOS 3.2 or higher)…
Samsung is really taking the world by storm with their Galaxy S line. An international version, plus four US variants, an upcoming Android media player, and their much wanted Android tablet, dubbed the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Recently Samsung has gone to developers and asked them to fix up their apps to run perfectly on their…
It looks like Motorola has a heart after all – the manufacturer has released the source code for their best device to date, the Verizon Motorola Droid X. This is pretty exciting if you’re a developer or hacker, but there are a few hang ups. It looks like some of the code that is needed…
This is one of those components Samsung needs to engage developers to embrace the new platform (Bada) – books for developers. And that’s exactly what the Bada team is working on as we speak. The book will be called “An Introduction to bada: A Developer’s Guide” and the first chapter is already available as a…