Android 3.0 Honeycomb Ported to Dell Streak

You knew it was coming. The first steps have been taken toward bringing 3.0 to a handset. Yesterday Stephen Hyde posted pictures and video of the early stages of honeycomb ported to his Dell Streak. While the latest version of Android is far from stable on Stephen’s phone… It’s there and it’s functioning. Will it ever evolve into a fully functional ROM? I believe it will. Will it ever qualify as a practical UI for a cellphone with all the tiny icons intended for a large tablet screen? Probably not, but that’s not the point. The point is that even when Droid doesn’t need to, Droid STILL does! What I’m most excited to see is how many features from Honeycomb will make it into other custom ROMs.READ MORE.... FOLLOW US ON TWITTER  ...

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Specs leaked for Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Wildfire2, Desire2, Desire HD2

Just a couple more days until MWC 2011, where we’re sure to hear about the following devices launching, with full specs, maybe even prices too! Who wants to wait for that? Not us, so we grabbed these here spec sheets that got leaked by online mobile retailer Expansys, courtesy of Pocket-Lint screencaps. Pretty good list of devices here, even though the names may change at the official announcements.HTC Wildfire2HTC Desire 2HTC Desire HD 2Samsung Galaxy S2READ MORE.... FOLLOW US ON TWITTER   JOIN US ON FACEBO...

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Viewsonic to release dual-SIM Android smartphone, dual-boot Android/Windows 7 tablet

Although Mobile World Congress hasn’t officially started, the internet is buzzing about the new products Viewsonic intends to debut.The first device that you see on the left is the Viewsonic V350 smartphone running Android 2.2. Other features include a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touchpanel, 5 megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS. Perhaps the most interesting feature of this device is the dual-SIM capability. Basically, you can insert 2 SIM cards, which gives you more options for data/calling features when traveling overseas.Next up is the ViewPad 10Pro, which allows dual-booting of Android and Windows 7. This is a particularly great feature for those who want the Android experience but also need to take...

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Nokia Announces “Strategic Partnership” with Microsoft

Yesterday, our own Michael Murphy wrote about speculation as to what Nokia’s next OS would be, seeing their choices as either Android or Windows OS. Well, today per a press release from the cell phone giant, Nokia made it official…they’re partnering with Microsoft to create a “a new global mobile ecosystem”.According to the press release, this will mean many things for Nokia. This includes driving Windows Phone as their “principal smartphone strategy”. Bing will now power Nokia’s search, and Nokia Maps will be brought into Microsoft’s mapping services. This also includes joint marketing initiatives, use of Microsoft development tools to create Nokia Windows phones, integrating Nokia’s content and application store into Microsoft Marketplace,...

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Samsung Renames Mobile Processor Line to “Exynos”

The folks at Boy Genius Report are reporting that Samsung, in a press release, has renamed their line of mobile processors for phones and tablets to the “Exynos” line. This makes sense, given the high-profile names of other processors like Snapdragon, Hummingbird and so on. In their release they state as follows:“Application processors for the mobile market are one of the flagship products in our semiconductor business,” said Seh-Woong Jeong, executive vice president of marketing, System LSI Division, Samsung Electronics. “We are excited to introduce the brand name of Exynos for Samsung’s application processor family. As consumers demand more from their mobile products, Samsung’s Exynos chips will be the power inside enabling the coolest...

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Verizon iPhone Retail Release Given Cold Shoulder

Usually when a new iPhone hits retail stores it is accompanied by large lines of eager customers waiting to snap up the device; however apparently this isn’t the case when it come to the CDMA iPhone releasing to retail.According to an article over on Engadget by Sean Hollister, Reuters is reporting that the retail launch of the Verizon iPhone drew “sparse crowds” yesterday with flagship Apple stores in New York and San Francisco only managing to pull in as little as 20 people.As of the afternoon on Thursday stores still had stock of the Verizon iPhone on shelves despite the Big Red expecting huge demand and erecting metal barricades and making sure plenty of employees were on hand.We have a short video of a Verizon iPhone line taken at the Mall of America in Bloomington for you...

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Immersion unveils MOTIV Haptics dev platform for Android

Haptic feedback technology allows touchscreen devices give users more feedback so it is easier to tell when a button or control is activated. There are some phones on the market that use haptics feedback today but most devices don’t. Immersion has announced a new haptics feedback development platform for Android called MOTIV.The dev platform should make it easier for designers to integrate haptics feedback into new Android devices that will hit the market in the future. The platform has two elements including the MOTIV Integrator for OEMs and the MOTIV SDK for app developers. The Integrator has three parts including the UI module for integrating haptics into the OS user interface, the theme manager module to allow OEMs to choose haptic...

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Microsoft Tags now used in USA Today paper

The world of print publications are still not doing as well as it once was with the very stiff competition from the internet and the fact that a lot of the advertising dollars that used to be used in print have gone to online publications. Print newspapers are trying all sorts of interactive technology to lure readers back to the print world.One of the coolest things I have seen a paper do recently is integrating Microsoft Tags into the print publications. USA Today has announced that the Tags are now integrated into each section of its newspaper.Tags can be scanned and read with a free app that is available for just about every major phone platform including Android. Once the app is loaded up, the user can scan the Tags and the Tags...

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Nokia passes on Android because there “are too many players”

Nokia’s new CEO and former Microsoft man Stephen Elop has been blunt with workers when he says that the company is standing on a burning platform with regards to MeeGo. All the blunt talk about how poorly Nokia is performing had me hoping that the company would turn to an interesting OS like Android for its smartphones.Apparently, Nokia even considered Android for a while and ultimately chose to pass on Android. Elop said, “There are too many players” in the Android market and worried that Nokia wouldn’t be able to differentiate its products.Since Nokia didn’t think it could stand out in the Android market it opted to go with Window Phone 7 as the OS for some of its offerings. That is really no surprise considering Elop’s pedigree....

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