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HTC Supersonic spotted on video

Kelly Hodgkins — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:06:46 +0000

The HTC Supersonic is rumored to be Android’s first WiMAX handset and is expected to debut in the first half of 2010 with Sprint. While we wait for the Supersonic to get the official nod from HTC and Sprint, we can watch this short teaser video which shows off the bright 4.3 inch display and [...]

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Video: SPIDERSS application for Android

James Tromans — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:26:34 +0000

jig.jp co.,ltd. are a Japanese company established in May 28, 2003 and founded by Taisuke Fukuno. The Tokyo based firm claim to be the first to create a Java-based browser making it possible to view standard PC web-sites on mobile phones. Indeed, the jig browser has had over 4 million downloads. Impressive in its own [...]

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Android NDK updates offers OpenGL ES 2.0

James Tromans — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:09:35 +0000

Over at the Android developers blog there is a new announcement detailing an upgrade to the Native Development Kit for Android. This is big news for Android developers and the third release of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is now available for download from the Android developer site. According to the official developers blog, [...]

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FirstView PC607V MID with Android for $95

James Tromans — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:37:37 +0000

FirstView have officially launched one of the cheapest MID Android devices around. Revealed at CeBIT this year, the PC607V will come with either Android 1.4 or Windows CE. Android 1.4 makes the Codfish by Gigabyte seem cutting edge. Of course, as far as I know there is no Android 1.4 so this must be a [...]

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Codfish by Gigabyte to run Android 1.6?

James Tromans — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:41:35 +0000

For those that were not aware that Gigabyte make anything other than motherboards, think again. Within Asia they are familiar with the mobile phone manufacturing industry and are now looking to get their hands dirty with Android. Expected for release in north America, the ‘Codfish’ is set to land with Android 1.6. Despite the clear [...]

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AT&T makes available the Motorola BACKFLIP

Kelly Hodgkins — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:41:31 +0000

AT&T customers finally get to share in the joys of owning an Android handset! Available now online and in stores is the Motorola BACKFLIP. As a recap, the BACKFLIP includes a 3.1 inch HVGA display, quad-band GSM and tri-band 7.2Mbps HSPA connectivity, a five megapixel camera with flash and 4X zoom, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0, [...]

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Swype now available as a limited public beta

Kelly Hodgkins — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:14:56 +0000

Originally designed for distribution by OEMs, Swype has reversed course and is opening up its software to the public as a limited beta. The public version of Swype supports HVGA and WVGA devices, English and Spanish languages, and is feature-limited, though Swype does not identify which features have been removed from the OEM version. Initially, [...]

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Nexus One Multitouch inferior to Droid’s

James Tromans — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:52:10 +0000

In a very interesting piece over at AndroidandMe website, it is clearly demonstrated the the multitouch technology that works in your Nexus One is different to that of the Motorola Droid. To be more specific, the Droid is far superior in the way in which it handles multitouch on Android. The video displayed after the jump [...]

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New HTC Incredible pictures show up on Twitter

James Tromans — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:35:16 +0000

New pictures of the HTC Incredible have found their way onto Twitter thanks to Devdroidian. For those that have yet to hear about this device, the HTC Incredible is rumored to offer a 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive AMOLED display, along with the fabled 1 GHz Snapdragon platform. To keep things ticking along just nicely, the device [...]

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HTC Desire to receive DivX support update?

James Tromans — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:24:36 +0000

Mobiletechworld had a chance to top-up on their MWC information with a presentation from HTC on their Legend/Desire/HD Mini. The most interesting piece of knowledge that they gained from the presentation was that this device is likely to receive an upgrade, after launch, to allow the device to support DivX. It is ironic talking about [...]

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