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A few weeks ago, Loopt was updated on iPhone with a new UI and geo-based texts, and on Tuesday they applied the same update to their Android client. A lot of the same features were there, like Ping to send texts to nearby friends and see where they are, notifications for when your friends are…
One of the most interesting custom ROMs for Android is undoubtedly MIUI. We’ve covered this before, but now it’s available on one more device: the T-Mobile G2 (a.k.a the HTC Desire Z). While it’s not officially supported, the G2 port performs quite well. MIUI is best described as an iOS and Android mash-up, bringing the…
While this is exciting for only so many users out there in the world, but the source code for Android 2.3 Gingerbread has been officially pushed into the AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Soon we will begin to see some solid modifications and custom ROMs for the release, and the Nexus S won’t be the…
The Samsung Intercept for Sprint has been around for a few months now, but users have been left with Android 2.1 until now. A new update for the Intercept will give users Android 2.2 Froyo and all its goodness along with a number of other fixes. In addition to upgrading the software to the not-so-latest…
The Kindle e-book app for Android just got a beefy update, including the ability to save books locally to your microSD memory card, access to newspapers and magazines, as well as sharing through social networks like Facebook and Twitter, zooming for images, and the handy ability to use the volume rocker for skipping pages. There’s…
An official client for the LinkedIn professional social network has been a long time coming, but it looks like the third-party stopgaps will soon be relieved of duty. LinkedIn for Android is now available in an open beta if you sign up for the group. All of the core functions are there, like viewing updates…
The last time we talked about Chumby, Stefan was ripping the company and wondering why the product even exists. I recently met with the company’s CEO and he explained how it is pivoting its strategy with things like the just-released Android app and while it’s not a slam dunk that it will be a success,…
Benchmarking is an interesting sport, and yes I use the term sport, because people spend far too much time crunching numbers that absolutely don’t matter in order to prove something that’s relevant to less than 1% of the population. Take this from a guy who used to scour junk yards for radiators to optimize a…
Even if you’re not impressed with the Nexus S, you should be impressed by the enthusiast developers who have already given the handset a proper rooting, complete with a custom recovery image. At the same time, is anyone surprised that the Nexus S is already rooted and ready for custom ROMs? Unlocking the bootloader of…
Today we saw the launch of the Google Nexus S, and before it even had a moment to breathe, the folks over at iFixit have torn one down to bits. While most of what can be found inside isn’t much of a surprise, there are a few interesting tidbits unearthed in the teardown – like…