We never get tired of software updates that promise to speed up or add functionality to our smartphones. One of the hottest smartphones of the year has just gotten its first firmware update. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has apparently been spotted on EMMA, which is Sony Ericsson’s service software intended for service centers to…
Android Cupcake Update Available via Emulator
If those screenshots of Android’s upcoming patch from Cupcake whet your palette for new features on the G1, here’s a video walkthrough and instructions on how to get an emulated version of Cupcake on your computer. 1. Download and install the Android SDK found here. 2. Download this zip containing new latest Android images: *…
Mozilla looking to bring Firefox Mobile (Fennec) to HTC Touch Pro next week
This one comes straight from the horse’s mouth, folks. A new blog update on their Firefox Mobile (codename: Fennec) development wiki has announced that Mozilla is aiming to go live with a Milestone release of Firefox Mobile in the first week of February. Better yet, the Fennec team is working to run the new mobile…
Meet ‘Forknife’ The Android-powered robot!
Mobile phones have been used to control all kinds of robots in the past. But, we just couldn’t help but let out a chuckle when we heard that one enterprising robotics enthusiasts managed to marry Android to a robot. With a little coding and robotics know-how, Jeffrey Nelson put his T-Mobile G1 to use as…
Multitouch on the T-Mobile G1: Proof of Concept Video
It’s a well-known fact that multitouch is not supported on the T-Mobile G1. HTC and Google no doubt have the smarts and ability to punch this out, yet it remains unavailable. Thanks to the Open Source community however, (and developer Luke Hutchison in particular) a proof of concept (at the very least) video has come…
Flurry Analytics Out of Beta: Developers… C’mon In!
If you’ve never heard of Flurry Analytics before, it helps developers make better applications by providing consumer behavior and application performance analytics. Developers can use the data to learn how to improve their product, and grow their business. All developers for the iPhone, Android OS, BlackBerry and Java ME environments can now take advantage of…
Few More BlackBerry Application Storefront Details Emerge
The latest BlackBerry Developer Newsletter has let slip a few more details about RIM’s upcoming Application Storefront, due to go live in March. A lot of it is simply going over the submission process that was kicked off a few days ago, but there are a few things that end-users have to look forward to.…
Screenshots of Android’s Cupcake Update in Action, Still Not Ready for Public
So after shoveling through T-Mobile’s thread on what the deal is with the Android Cupcake update, I finally got a straight answer. [Cupcake] was a parallel branch that was used for further development while [the Android team] took on the task of converting a main code branch into an open source format. They merged it…
Android port for OMAP3 processor opens door to Android-powered Palm Pre!
Well that certainly didn’t take too long, now did it? Just weeks after Palm’s highly-anticipated Palm Pre and Web OS launch, we’re hearing that work is already being done to port the Google Android platform to the Palm Pre. The Android port, when completed, will essentially turn the Palm Pre into a dual-booting Web OS/Android…
Please don’t let this be Windows Mobile 6.5!
Please, for the love of everything that Windows Mobile 6.5 stands for, don’t let these alleged Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots be real. Following on confirmation that the long-ago leaked WinMo6.5 screenshots were indeed concept designs for Windows Mobile 6.5, an xda-developers member (sun_dream) has released screenshots and video of what he claims is a leaked…