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With the launch of the much awaited Android 4.0 Ice cream sandwich operating environment for smartphones, the top mobile companies are cashing in on its hype by releasing their phones in the beaming market.
Looking to root that Android 3.0 from Acer called the Iconia Tab A500? The folks at XDA were working to bring this to you ASAP – as they always seem to do – and have publicized the root method used to achieve deeper access to Android. In time, custom ROMs and other hacks and mods are expected to surface just as they did for the Motorola XOOM. Make your way to XDA if you need to get your root up and running.
Google I/O 2011 is almost here – can you feel it in the air? Personally, I’m counting down days to May 10th when I’ll be waking up extra early to gallop over to the Moscone Center in San Francisco and try to attend at least some of the 22 planned Android sessions, including fireside chats and office hours with the Android team.
The [almost - there's 1 TBA] final schedule for these sessions is now up at the I/O site, so if you’re one of the lucky attendees, have a look below or hop on over to this document to see the whole timetable in its full glory.
Day 1 (May 10th, 2011)
Day 2 (May 11th, 2011)
To grab more details about each talk, visit the sessions page and filter by Android. I’m particularly excited about the Fireside Chat with the Android Team on May 10th at 2:30PM – feel free to submit some questions for them in the comments, and I’ll see if I can get them answered. Building Android Apps for Google TV is another session on my radar, because, well, the Google TV API is not out yet and is probably going to be revealed at I/O. Source: Google Code blog
Tweet I hate waiting for things. I especially hate waiting on software updates. I would install an update manually in a second if it meant that I would get it right now rather than having to wait until a device maker felt like pushing it out OTA. I bet that a lot of you are the same way, and if you have a Nexus S smartphone and you are waiting for the Android 2.3.4 update to get pushed to you, why wait?
You can grab that update manually and patch your smartphone right now if you are tired of the wait. The big new feature that the update will add to your smartphone is the ability to video chat through Google Talk. That is a compelling reason to update for many people. The official file is up for download and the steps you need to follow to be able to install the update file manually are below. Have fun! First you need to download the official file from this link. Then place the file in the root of your storage. Next turn the phone off and reboot into the bootloader by holding the volume up while you turn the phone on. After that, you can use the volume buttons to choose “recovery” from the menu and then hit the power button to select the option. After that, you should see the triangle on the screen, and you can hold down the power button while pressing volume up and get the list of options. After that choose the file you downloaded to update to Android. Use those instructions at your own risk.
I think most of us can agree that Google will at some point end up with its own social network and that the network will be heavily tied into anything running the Android OS. With the popularity of Android, a highly integrated social network could be very successful even though almost everyone on the web uses Facebook today and other social networks are quickly becoming also runs. Google already has many different offerings that are based on social interaction, but they are all accessed separately making the services fragmented, for the most part.
A new patent app surfaced today that shows what a central hub for different Google social networking offerings and other Google services might look like. It’s a very simple layout that reminds me more than a little of the Facebook news feed. It also looks a lot like a Twitter news feed. Neither of those are a bad thing considering how well known they are for most of us today. The second image in the gallery below is much more interesting than the first. It appears to show the ability to check out feeds and updates from just about all Google social networks and services in one place. An integrated hub on Android devices that will show you the updates across Google’s varied offerings all in one vie would be something very cool. The patent app also describes the possibility of an availability indicator that would show the user or the person that posted the updates is available for interaction.
Earlier today Quentyn reported some fun little leaks of upcoming HTC devices thanks to 911sniper and briefly mentioned the HTC Double Shot (now known as the Mytouch 4G Slide). The guys over at PocketNow were able to crack open the ROM and what came pouring out were rainbows, kitten whiskers and an impressive list of specs. According the build.prop found inside the ROM, T-Mobile may have something really great in store for the sequel to the Mytouch 3G Slide. The QWERTY slider will be coming equipped with one of Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon processors and a not too shabby 768MB of RAM. The screen will come in at 3.7-inches and feature an 800×480 resolution (which I’d say is perfect for a QWERTY slider). Another interesting tidbit is the fact that phone supports the codec for 3D video playback indicating the possibility of a 3D screen? And just like the screen, the 8MP camera will also support 3D video recording. The handset will also have a .3MP front facing camera, perfect for video calling seeing how the phone supports HSDPA category 10, capable of 14.4Mbps down on T-Mobile’s network. Honestly, I am quite impressed with the list of specs on this phone. If you guys remember not too long ago it was rumored that T-Mobile was going to receive a dual-core, 3D qwerty phone nicknamed the Sidekick Twist (Project Emerald anyone?) but it never came to fruition. Although a little late, maybe those rumors weren’t too far off after all. One thing is for certain, if this phone has the same keyboard as the HTC Arrive, you can slap my face and call me jealous. What do you guys think of this possible HTC QWERTY superphone? Are you second guessing upgrading to the Sensation after seeing this spec list? [Via PocketNow]
Tweet Verizon’s pair of LTE handsets are sure to confuse some shoppers – though one is from Samsung (the DROID Charge) and the other from HTC (the ThunderBolt), the two sport relatively similar feature sets and designs that somewhat resemble one another. So what’s the difference? Well, aside from the Charge being $50 more expensive than the already-pricy ThunderBolt, there really aren’t many differentiators – let’s take a side-by-side look at their spec sheets:
As you can see, neither device is anything to scoff at, though – at least in my eyes – the fact that the ThunderBolt runs Sense UI turns the tide in its favor (despite the Charge’s superior screen and slightly thinner profile). Additionally, the Charge’s $300 asking price isn’t exactly the most budget-friendly deal in town, making it hard to recommend over the T-Bolt. Scroll down for images and videos of each device before commencing holding your breath in anticipation of our DROID Charge review.
It’s April 28th, the official release date for the 2nd generation Droid Incredible from HTC, and if you haven’t studied this phone in detail yet, you’re probably wondering just what exactly has changed since the original "Dinc" entered the market last April. Let’s have a look, shall we?
Key Differences
Network
First and foremost, just like the Droid 2 Global Edition, the new Incredible 2 is a world phone with both CDMA and GSM frequencies. Verizon Wireless provides the following interesting numbers:
voice service in over 220 countries
data in over 200 countries
3G speeds in more than 125
Quite a step-up from the original already, isn’t it? A notable omission I should mention while we’re on the subject is the absence of 4G/LTE. If you need a phone capable of faster LTE speeds, the Incredible 2 may not be for you, but if you don’t care about speeds that much and would rather own a world device, you can’t go wrong here.
Screen
The Dinc 2 sports a 4" SLCD screen compared to Dinc’s 3.7" AMOLED (although it was later switched to SLCD as well due to AMOLED shortages). The resolution remained the same at 480×800 pixels.
Cameras, Trackpad
Want video calling? The Dinc 2 has a front-facing 1.3MP camera, which the original Dinc didn’t have, but as a trade-off, it lost the optical trackpad (or "nipple" as some might call it) that so many users grew to love so much. It kind of bugs me that manufacturers insist on omitting it and then end up including a whole row of arrow keys on the keyboard, wasting valuable screen real estate, but I guess aesthetics and a simpler manufacturing process are more important to them.
Memory
To help keep more applications in memory at the same time, the 2nd Dinc includes 768MB of RAM, compared to the 1st one’s 512MB. For comparison purposes, it’s lacking compared to the Atrix 4G’s 1GB (though, in its defense, the Atrix also needs to use a bunch of memory of the Webtop UI), right in line with the Thunderbolt’s 768MB, and noticeably more than the Droid Charge’s 512MB. The internal storage on the 2nd Dinc doubled to 16GB from 8GB, though it looks like this storage is no longer built-in and comes in the form of a removable SD card. Space available for apps and system data (what the manufacturers are calling "ROM," though it is clearly writable by the system) seems to be around 1GB, although it would be great if someone else with a real device could confirm it.
Processor
On the CPU side, don’t let the same 1GHz clock speed fool you – instead of the 1st generation Snapdragon QSD8650 processor that used the 65nm technology, we now have the 2nd generation MSM8655 built using the more efficient 45nm technology. This should translate into better performance and [marginally] better battery life.
UI, Sense
Moving on to the UI, the Droid Incredible 2 ships with the 2nd version of HTC’s Sense UI (2.1 to be exact), compared to the 1st generation Sense on the 1st Incredible. While this is no Sense 3.0, which the upcoming EVO 3D and Sensation devices are going to sport, Sense 2.1 is a nice upgrade over the original (see here and here for info on the 2nd generation of Sense).
Battery
Next up, we have a slightly beefier battery on the Dinc 2 – 1450 mAh vs the original Dinc’s 1300 mAh. This should translate into a little bit more usage, but it’s really nothing to write home about.
Wi-Fi
On the networking side, the Dinc2 supports 802.11b/g/n, while the original only officially supported b and g at launch (the chip on the device was capable of supporting 802.11n, but for some reason it wasn’t enabled until Froyo).
The weight and size differences are pretty negligible, with the Incredible 2 being slightly larger and heavier, which is not surprising considering the larger screen size.
Conclusion
The Droid Incredible 2 offers a host of both noticeable and subtle upgrades to the original Incredible. With a beautiful larger screen, a front-facing camera, improved capacity and speed, and an updated UI, the Droid Incredible 2 is one of the best (if not the best) world phones available on the market today.
Adobe’s taken its sweet time with the Honeycomb-flavored version of Flash 10.2 – heck, it wasn’t available at all when the XOOM debuted – but it looks the software is fully cooked and ready to go at last. The latest update to Flash for Android 3.0 (version number 10.2.157.51) introduces several enhancements, most notably hardware acceleration for 720p video. Browser integration has also been improved, and "important bug fixes and security enhancements" (including a fix to the "critical" vulnerability discovered a few weeks ago) have been made. The update is now in the Market. Source: Adobe
There’s a lot of excitement for the HTC EVO 3D, particularly among current HTC EVO owners. Now, granted, most of this unbridled yearning is because of its stellar hardware, but the Sense 3.0 has also turned a lot of heads, particularly the lockscreen. Well, those of you have a rooted EVO will be happy to know that, thanks to xda forum member GODZSON, you can claim this elegant looking lockscreen today, assuming you’re running a Gingerbread-based ROM. The ROM also has to be Sense-based, apparently with at least Sense 2.1 running. I say “apparently” because it’s still being tested which phones the lockscreen does and does not run on. Something else to mention is thatIf you’re willing to try it out, the installation instructions are actually really simple…after the break!
Download the .apk file from the xda thread below and place it on the SD card of your phone.
Go to Settings > Display and enable Stock Android Lockscreen
Use a file explorer to install the .apk file like any normal side-loaded app
Go to Settings > Display and disable Stock Android Lockscreen
And that’s it! You should now be turning some heads with a lovely looking lockscreen. Something to note is that the shortcut option isn’t working. It’s only the lockscreen itself. Hit up the link below and try it out! [via xda forums]
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