Welp, it’s finally happened. The long wait for Mozilla’s answer to the third-party mobile browsers from Skyfire and Opera has finally come to a head with the release of Firefox Mobile (codename: Fennec), in pre-release form, on the HTC Touch Pro! We had expected the Fennec team to go live with their milestone release of…
Paid Android apps hitting Android Market next week?
Could Google be gearing up to offer paid apps in the Android Market starting next week? It might just happen. We’ve been expecting Google to start accepting premium, for-pay Android applications into the Android Market sometime in this half of 2009. And, with T-Mobile currently rolling out the Android RC33 update to T-Mobile G1 owners…
Did Google omit multi-touch for Android OS on Apple’s request?
Like the iPhone’s lack of copy/paste functionality, the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 has been criticized for its lack of true multi-touch support. Multi-touch technology has been gaining traction as the most intuitive way to interact with a touchscreen smartphone, and has been a driver in the iPhone’s success. So, why are the G1 and Android OS…
Force your T-Mobile G1 to update to Android OS RC33
We have it. In fact, it came in this morning. But, there are likely a lot of G1 users out there still waiting for RC33 to come their way. Thankfully, xda-developers forum member hetaldp has made the Android OS RC33 update available for T-Mobile G1 users looking to force the software update themselves – it…
HTC Suffers Weaksauce Q1, Q2 Promising
HTC’s first quarter of 2009 is looking less than awesome, following up on a generally dismal 2008 year-end earnings report. Operating margin profits for Q1 ’09 are expected to fall to 15%, versus 18.4% percent in the the last quarter of 2008. Overall revenue should be around T$33 billion, only marginally higher than T$32.7 at…
HTC to join Qualcomm’s Snapdragon party in Q2 2009!
HTC is expected to launch its first Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered smartphone during the second quarter of this year, according to Taiwanese market sources. Although they will not be the first handset maker to introduce such a powerful device — we’ve already seen the shiny Toshiba TG01 announced — we’ve no doubts HTC knows what it’s doing.…
Android HTC Dream Gets Official on Optus, Singtel
As expected, Singapore carrier SingTel and Australian Optus have both gone official with the HTC’s Android Device, taking on the name Dream. Who knows what happened with the G1 namesake, but Dream has a better ring to it anyway. Specs are the same, but to refresh your memory… 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with HVGA…
Google Latitude coming to T-Mobile G1 via Android RC33 OTA update
We already knew that the Android OS’s upcoming RC33 update won’t come packing “Cupcake” goodies like an on-screen keyboard. What we didn’t know was that the RC33 update will actually include other cool features – Google Latitude being the highest-profile among them. While we won’t be seeing a virtual keyboard on our T-Mobile G1 anytime…
G1 Landing in Australia Tomorrow?
Optus and HTC could be releasing the G1 in Australia tomorrow via Optus, no doubt to the chagrin of Kogan, who had won over plenty of attention to their Android-packing Agora handsets, only to have them indefinitely delayed. Support manuals had slipped out in January supporting the claim, although it didn’t mention any time frames.…
HTC Cedar spotted at Bluetooth SIG, confirms leaked HTC lineup?
When the FCC isn’t busy giving us sneak peeks at up-and-coming mobile phones destined for the US, we look to the Bluetooth SIG to give us a heads up on unannounced hardware. The latest piece of mobile kit to get an honorable mention on the Bluetooth SIG’s website is the as-yet unannounced HTC Cedar –…