Lets Find out Which is the best? There are many phones around the world which run on Android. But there are only some which are
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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.
Tweet Once again, we find that the selection of Android phones available to those in Canada is increasing both in size and quality. The next two additions to that ever-growing range of devices available in the Great White North are to be the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY and arc. According to a press release from Best Buy Canada, as of April 28th, these two great new handsets will be available on Rogers.
Either one of these Gingerbread-running beauties will cost you $99 on a new 3 year contract. That’s no typo, 3 year contracts are the norm up in Canada (it’s something we’re working on.) But, hey, at least you get a sweet new phone for $99 and Best Buy will even throw in a $50 in-store gift card. So, if you are one of the few Canadians who isn’t working through a 3 year term already, or it’s time for you to upgrade, roll on down to Best Buy tomorrow and check out the two hottest new phones in Canada.
Today, the great city of San Fran held the popular AppNation conference where developers discussed a number of topics such as the development of mobile apps for cross platforms, monetization, advertising and various aspects of marketing strategies. Opera Software was present and introduced their new Appcelerate program for developers looking to distribute their app(s) to millions of mobile users. It looks like Opera wants a piece of the mobile apps store business much like Amazon’s App Store in addition to broadening the developers avenues for content distribution. Hey, like I always say, choice is good and we’re all for it.
“We are very excited about the APPCELERATE program, the first of it’s kind to help promote content and applications to a global audience” said Mahi de Silva, EVP, Consumer Mobile, Opera Software, “Just one month after the launch of the Opera Mobile Store, we are giving developers unique capabilities to promote their content in channels focused on devices, platforms and geographies”.
It appears as though Opera is really keeping the interest of the developer in mind here, and that’s great. Developers work very hard to develop and deliver great content and it’s nice to see someone assisting in getting their product out there for a specific desired platform and in a cost effective manner. Once developers create apps, they will also have the ability to upload them to the Opera browser where millions and millions of users can view and download them.
The Opera Appcelerate program is designed to help developers gain traction on the platform they want, within regions they’re targeting by offering unique ways to specify your audience, define a campaign, and even boost your promotion effectiveness with dollar for dollar co-marketing (get it while it’s hot):
Matching co-marketing funds for qualified developers to promote their application – effectively doubling your power! (a limited time offer)
Featured promotion of select apps within the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers – stand out, get noticed.
Want to be big in Brazil? You can be! Efficient pay-per-download campaign pricing to target only desired content channels, geographies, handsets and operating systems – Focus on specific regions and only use funds when users download your app. No more hoping you get noticed through expensive broad campaigns.
Developers, you need to be here. Are you ready to step it up?
Ready to get started? Head on over to Opera’s Appcelerate page and sign up so you can distribute your apps to millions instantly. Hit the break for the full press release and don’t forget to let us know what you think in the comments below, especially if you’re a developer.
Press Release:
Launch your app to over 100 million mobile users!
Calling all app developers, in all markets, interested in distributing their app to any mobile device… We’ve got a fantastic offer. The Opera Mobile Store is being featured at AppNation today in San Francisco and we are introducing Opera Appcelerate, a special program to help promote your app in a big way.
Opera Appcelerate
The Opera Mobile Store is among the top 10 largest in the world, spanning 200+ countries, 100+ million users, and every platform. Accessible from a phone’s browser, or preferably Opera Mini , the Opera Mobile Store is the most accessible to end users, handles free and paid apps, and now the most powerful for developers.
“We are very excited about the APPCELERATE program, the first of it’s kind to help promote content and applications to a global audience” said Mahi de Silva, EVP, Consumer Mobile, Opera Software, “Just one month after the launch of the Opera Mobile Store, we are giving developers unique capabilities to promote their content in channels focused on devices, platforms and geographies”.
Accelerate Discovery, Minimize Costs
The Opera Appcelerate program is designed to help developers gain traction on the platform they want, within regions they’re targeting by offering unique ways to specify your audience, define a campaign, and even boost your promotion effectiveness with dollar for dollar co-marketing (get it while it’s hot):
Matching co-marketing funds for qualified developers to promote their application – effectively doubling your power! (a limited time offer) Featured promotion of select apps within the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers – stand out, get noticed. Want to be big in Brazil? You can be! Efficient pay-per-download campaign pricing to target only desired content channels, geographies, handsets and operating systems – Focus on specific regions and only use funds when users download your app. No more hoping you get noticed through expensive broad campaigns.
Developers, you need you need to be here. Are you ready to step it up?
Get co-marketing funds from Opera to drive downloads
Monetize your app through premium sales and advertising
Get Started!
Opera wants to appcelerate your new app launch. Get your app in front of the world’s largest audience of mobile users, 100 Million and growing! Opera’s Mobile Store distributes free and paid applications to virtually any device, with localized distribution in over 200 countries. To help appcelerate your launch, Opera is offering:
Weekly featured app slot in the Opera browser used by over 100 M users
Matching pay-per-download marketing funds for all qualified* applications
Featured product listings in the Opera Mobile Store
App of the Day Promotion
App of the day featured links are seen by all Opera users entering the browser. App of the day is customized regionally, offering hundreds of opportunities daily for publishers to drive targeted downloads in their country.
Featured Product Listing
Within the Mobile Store, Opera provides Featured Product listings per category. For a limited time, Opera will also be offer matching marketing funds for pay-per-download Sponsored listings. This means Opera will match your ad spend to help drive more downloads! You only pay for successful downloads.
World’s Largest Open Mobile Storefront
Opera’s Mobile Store distributes locally in over 200 countries, offering an open distribution platform for Android, Java, Symbian and Blackberry operating systems. Where ever you are in the world, Opera wants your apps!
Fed up with your stock Android calendar? Perhaps your HTC Android calendar? You may want to give Business Calendar a shot, particularly today. Normally $4.99, today Business Calendar is the free app of the day through the Amazon App Store. Business Calendar gives you a great overview of your schedule, either by day, week, or month. By default this is set to month, but simply by pressing a day, it shows a little drop down with detailed information, allowing you to see everything you want without having to go back and forth between different views. If you’re looking to make your calendar a bit more productive, I highly recommend checking out this app.
Tweet We’ve just received official word from LG that both the T-Mobile G2x and the G-Slate BOTH have IPS displays. There’s been a bit of debate about this as of late, whether the display on these devices were simply TFT or if they amped it up a few notches to the more expensive and more fantastic in both color and viewing angles In-Plane Switching (IPS.) What does this mean, you might ask? Why should I give one hoot? Because now you know you can watch Tron: Legacy with the BRIGHT lights!
If you’ve been trolling these internets for word on how everyone’s display’s been working, like I have, you’ll notice that there’s two major items being spoken about. First, there’s one thread on XDA that speaks on what I’d like to talk about: “The contrast ratio is terrible on this phone”, and second, a post right here on Android Community made by one of our resident hacksmeisters Cory Gunther: LG G2x Having LCD Screen Bleeding Issues? Quality Control? This first post, the post starter, was more than likely experiencing some irritable bleed:
Forget the bleeding lcd edges , its the horrible contrast on this phone that will probably cause me to return it. After coming from the inky black Amoled screen on the Nexus s , this is the most disappointing aspect of otherwise top of the line phone. You can’t get a true black on this phone , the best it does is dark glowing gray. In fact anything with a black background looks gray , not total absence of light Black. I realize that this phone has an LCD screen not an amoled screen , but I never thought the difference would be this pronounced. Example : when I power up my Nexus S the screen is pitch black and when the white Google logo appears, it will appear to floating in space in a dark room. The G2x display will put off it own light, making it very visible in a dark room.
This is a fellow separate from our editor Cory who also has his original G2x unit exchanged and is very satisfied with the result. Inky black, sweet color explosions, and no bleed! The thread on color went on to say, via many satisfied customers:
The blacks on AMOLED will always be darker than the blacks on LCD that uses backlighting. The blacks on amoled doesn’t have light behind it so its gonna be darker, because there isn’t a light source lighting up behind it. This comparison doesn’t make sense. If you compare the GX2 any other LCD display on a phone it will out shine it hands down.
I am coming from a Vibrant and find the G2x display easier on the eyes. Yes the blacks looked better on the S-AMOLED but the colors are more natural on the G2x. However what I find to be most important is text look a lot better on the G2x display than the Vibrants Pentile display. I don’t have to zoom in anymore to read text on webpages like I did with my Vibrant.
What the G2x AND the G-Slate have is LG’s newest IPS technology, heavy duty excellence in an LCD pack. For all the sharpness, brightness, and contrast you’ll love to see: “P-IPS, debut 2010, Professional IPS, Offer 1.07 billion colours (30-bit colour depth). More possible orientations per sub-pixel (1024 as opposed to 256) and produces a better true colour depth.” — wiki Exciting! For some additional physical comparisons to a few other new Android devices, check out the post entitled G2x vs ThunderBolt vs Atrix 4G vs Sidekick!
Tweet The U.S. Army has launched an official app store tailed specifically for Military and other Army personnel. It is going to be filled with Android and iOS apps that will benefit members of the Military. We are also hearing soldiers will be able to request apps that they need but aren’t there yet. This is not officially been released on Android or iOS yet, but they plan to shortly.
We aren’t sure exactly the name yet, looks like Army Marketplace for now. If they can overcome all the different issues, and possible security problems this app store will be coming to the military sooner than later. It is currently web based but they plan to release an actual market app. There are 17 Android apps and 16 iOS apps available now. The website is currently only accessible to Department of Defense personnel who have a login and password. We have heard the Army expects the site to be fully operational come August. Currently no mobile device has achieved certification to access the military networks as of yet, so once all the security holes and certifications get approved we should be seeing more and more of this tool for our soldiers. Android phone and tablets are currently in the process of getting certified, so hopefully the wait should not be too long.
Uh Oh, I smell a little trouble for all you Droid Charge fans that were planning on buying or getting the Droid Charge tomorrow.
According to some news from an official Verizon spokeperson, it looks like unless this issue is resolved they wont be selling the Droid Charge, and people that are getting it delivered wont be able to activate their devices. This is what she had to say, courtesy of thedroidguy: · 4G LTE Smartphones will still be able to make calls. · Customers are temporarily unable to activate any 4G LTE devices. · Please note: Customers may experience a 1XRTT data connection during this time. · We expect to see the network restored on a market-by-market basis. Timing and additional details will be provided as they become available. If we read that right customers are going to be unable to activate ANY 4G LTE Devices. So if you were planning on getting the Droid Charge, or the Thunderbolt you may be out of luck until further notice, or until they get this network up and running again. For now this is just an outage and Verizon has already said they have found and are working on a fix. So things may be back to normal tomorrow, but we wont know until we start to see the network back in full. [via TheDroidGuy]
Looks like there is now some news that the Motorola Xoom is getting an OTA update tomorrow. This news has just dropped from our friends at DroidLife. This looks to address some issues, as well as add new features. Things like Bluetooth support to GTalk, as well as bluetooth mouse support for the Xoom. There is also mention of addition proxy support, SSL data transfer with websites, and more. Check it out.
From the looks of things it will be a 28MB update. Those worried about root or being unlocked should probably wait and see what everyone says once the update starts hitting our devices. We will probably be able to flash the update sometime shortly after it is released anyways, for those like me that wont be getting it OTA. They have even added a shortcut key for the bluetooth keyboard support they are also adding with this update. This news going along great with this story also posted today about a Keyboard Folio case for the Xoom on its way soon. We can now assume that will most likely be bluetooth. We will update once the devices start getting the update tomorrow.
I am happy to report that we have now got word that Motorola Atrix users that are rooted can now get HSUPA speeds on their device, but not from AT&T, not yet. This comes from XDA forum members drew.man and NFHimself. They have fixed this issue that we have all been reported and waiting on, and were nice enough to share it with the rest of you Atrix owners.
I will mention that this is a slightly involved process, and as always make sure you are careful, and do anything like this at your own risk. I like to have anything and everything backed up before tackling anything like this. In order to do this, you will need a rooted Motorola Atrix, the modified SBF files, and RSD Lite, the program used to flash the SBF files to your Motorola Atrix. You can do the fix provided by these awesome developers from XDA, or just wait it out for whenever AT&T decided to roll out the “fix” we have heard them mention more than a few times. This is a simple radio flash, but as always use caution. You can read more over at the thread on XDA, or check out the source for full instructions.
The Motorola Xoom has been a popular little device. Some new information looks to show that Motorola might be planning a Keyboard Folio case similar to the portfolio case they offer now, but with a bluetooth or USB Keyboard included. This would probably be a good idea considering the Asus Transformer has one and it has been a pretty big hit so far.
Update: Most likely a Bluetooth keyboard will be with this case, to go nicely with the Bluetooth support coming in tomorrow’s Xoom OTA Update. If the picture above is any indication, they have already designed this case and it is coming soon. Although we have seen leaked pictures of flyers from Verizon before and waited months for the device in the past, but i doubt that is the case here. The Motorola Xoom Portfolio case offered currently is around $35 dollars, you can see those accessories here. So far we have no others news or images to go off other than what is above, no price has been leaked or announced yet either, but I would imagine this to be an expensive accessory for the Xoom considering the others pricing. We will let you know as soon as we here more, and hopefully get a review unit to try ourselves.
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case similar to the portfolio case they offer now, but with a bluetooth or USB Keyboard included. This would probably be a good idea considering the Asus Transformer has one and it has been a pretty big hit so far.
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