Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Motorola “Bee” Concept Phone Runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Sports 4.3″ Super AMOLED and 5MP Front-Facing Camera

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We’ve all heard about Honeycomb (Android 3.0), and how it will be limited to tablets only. Now, with the rumors flying about that Android 2.4 will actually be “Honeycomb for Phones”, it’s probably only a matter of time until genius minds – like those at xda-developers – come up with a full port of Android 3.0 for phones. Until that glorious day comes, however, we’ve got a mockup of a concept phone, dubbed the Motorola “Bee”.
This cool concept would run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, specially ported for the phone. It would also have:
  • 3G+ support
  • 8MP camera w/ full HD capture capability
  • 5MP front-facing camera
  • 4.3″ Super AMOLED multitouch display
  • 1280×720 screen resolution
  • 32 / 64 GB internal storage options
Be sure to hit the break to check out the full gallery of concept mockups, and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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Adam up for sale again as Notion Ink kicks off more orders

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Notion Ink is throwing open the order books for the second round of Adam tablet orders, though you’ll still have to be pre-registered if you want to get in first. According to CEO Rohan Shravan, a “huge” number of order invite emails are already making their way to would-be customers.
Shravan also confirms that Adam will skip straight over Gingerbread and instead “will be directly migrating to Honeycomb in future,” though no timescale for that update is given. As for the missing Android Market, “Adam does not have market access because it is not a phone” he suggests, and “Android Market is an app store for phone apps.”
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OliveSmart V-S300 promises Gingerbread for India

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Indian mobile device company Olive Telecom has announced its own Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset, the OliveSmart V-S300, an HSPA+ smartphone with a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen. OEM is unclear, but the V-S300 has a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with 720p HD video support, 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 processor, 512MB of ROM and WiFi b/g.
There’s also a front-facing webcam, WVGA display, GPS and Bluetooth 2.1, along with HDMI and a digital compass. The whole thing is expected to measure 122 x 66 x 9.9 mm.
Release date isn’t clear, and the fact that Olive has used a screenshot of an earlier Android version than Gingerbread doesn’t exactly fill us with confidence, but we’ll hold judgement until the smartphone emerges into the wild. Olive had previous promised an Android 2.2 device in the first week of March.
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AT&T support page showing Samsung Captivate running Froyo, is update on the way?

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Although Samsung has become quite notorious with owners of Samsung Android devices for not sending out updates to their Android devices nearly as often as they should, a small ounce of hope was discovered. What you’re seeing in the picture above is a screenshot of the Samsung Captivate running Android 2.2, otherwise known as Froyo. This was found on the AT&T support page for the Samsung Captivate, in the section that describes how to find the Captivate’s firmware version and operating system.
With many other Android phones already running Froyo and Gingerbread already going public, it seems as though the Captivate would never get the Froyo update. But, this lucky find does shed a small ray of hope on the situation for Captivate users wanting Android 2.2. Hopefully this means that the Froyo update is on the way.
You can check out the support page by clicking the source link below. Be sure to leave your thoughts and opinions in the comments.
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HTC Wants to Push Games on Smartphones, Makes a $40M Investment in OnLive

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OnLive, for those who may not be aware, is a gaming service that does all the computing and processing server-side, and then sends the results via the internet to the client. It’s a fairly new service that enables low-grade PCs to play some of the newer games but moving all the hard work to the cloud.
Well, HTC wants in on the same. In order to improve the gaming experience on smartphones, HTC is investing a nice sum of $40M to the OnLive service, intending it to be applied to bringing its service to smartphones. It’s expected that when launches, the service will hit Android phones first, likely made by HTC, but rest assured that they won’t stop there. With all the hard processing done on the server side, games ought to be accessible from many different clients, provided that the internet connection is stable enough to transmit the data. Hope you have wifi, or an unlimited data plan.

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Last.fm Will No Longer Allow Free Streaming to Mobile Devices

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I’m a big fan of Pandora internet radio service on my Android phone, but I’ve experimented with a little Slacker and Last.fm. Last.fm has been available for free, ad-supported, on a myriad of platforms – Xbox, desktop, and various mobile devices. Sadly, it has been determined by the Last.fm management that it is not cost-effective to continue to offer free versions on all platforms. The only services that will remain available in free versions will be Xbox Live and Windows Phone 7, as well as the desktop version.
So, my Android-using friends…if you use the free version of Last.fm on your Android phone, it will be coming to an end on February 15th. While Last.fm has to maintain their bottom line, it’s always a shame to see free services come to an end. So enjoy this service while you can, because you’ve got about a week left!
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Rumors Saying Froyo Coming to Sprint’s Epic 4G Feb 21

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Rumors are exactly that — just rumors.  We don’t know anything for sure, but there’s been a lot of talk lately about the Froyo update coming to the Epic4G, specifically…but we think all Galaxy S phones will be following close behind.  Tipsters who claim to have an inside track are saying that the Sprint Epic 4G will be getting some Froyo love in less than two weeks, to be delivered on February 21.  Supposedly Samsung and Sprint are embracing version EA17 and are about ready to call it official, and hopefully we’ll be seeing it named legit in here in about 13 days.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011

HTC Saga Spotted in Taiwan [Unibody Pic, Clear]

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It seems that over in Taiwan an intrepid young leaker has let loose a new image of what he or she calls codename “Saga,” and it appears that it might be one o’ those flagship phones from none other than HTC herself. Also according to the leakster this phone is running Android 2.2.1 and belongs to a “client” of his. He’s decided that it’s approximately as thick as the HTC Legend or 7 Mozart.


This phone will certainly be popping up during Mobile World Congress 2011, which we’ll be at live to tell you how it feels in our claws. Besides the fact that the back looks less than appealing, we don’t know that much about this phone. Have you got any more info? Let us know asap!
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Angry Birds [SPOILER ALERT] Preview of Secret Superbowl Level!

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Tomorrow during the Superbowl, something completely amazing is going to happen. This game, Superbowl XLV, one of the biggest and most watched sports games of the year, this year hosting one of the oldest rivalries in the sport, the Pittsburgh Steelers verses the Green Bay Packers, will have a secret code in it. This code will pop up on your television screen during a preview for the 3D animation animal movie “RIO,” coming to a theater near you soon. What will this code reveal? A super secret Angry Birds level. What have we got for you here and now? An early glimpse of that level. Look below for a big fat spoiler.


The level you’re about to see in the gallery below is either an extremely elaborate hoax done by a relatively talented Photoshop artist, or it’s the super secret Angry Birds level you’re going to be able to access indeed. Either way would make sense, though a Photoshop job would more than likely carry a watermark of some kind, and heck, it looks like it’d fit right in with the rest of the levels that were released today, yes?
spoiler angry-birds-rio Now the fun lies in figuring out what kind of ammo we’ll be given to launch at this puzzle. What do you think? Maybe a bomb or two, more than likely a few blue birds to start us off busting up that big glass “R.” No matter what we’re going to guess at least five birds, no more than 6. Any guesses?
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