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Moto DROID 2.1 update delayed…again…
by
Mike
Posted March 18th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Those crazy ninjas of the VZW underground.... Somehow BGR always gets the low down dirt. Today's edition of ultra secret news could potentially hit Moto DROID users pretty hard. A new rumor now confirmed development has the Moto DROID 2.1 update that was scheduled to start rolling out day, delayed. According to the source, a last minute bug that wasn't discovered until late last night/wee hours of the morning is the culprit. I'd be interested to know exactly what the cause for the hold up w...
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Blockbusters last stand: Movies for Android?
by
Mike
Posted March 17th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Besides the epic failure of music labels' inability to find a working business model in the digital age, there is one other contestant in particular vying for "worst performance in the digital arena ever" award: Blockbuster. When I was a kid (not too long ago), I remember going to Blockbuster sometimes as often as a couple of times every week. It was great. The competition with other locals Hollywood Video (now deceased) and Family Video (greatly downsized) ensured the movie rental market was...
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Actual shocker: Moto DROID outsells iPhone in first 74 days on sale.
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Alright, why 74 days as a benchmark? It's a bid odd for sure. The iPhone took 74 days to hit 1 million units sold, so it's an easy benchmark to go by for other phones. In the case of the DROID, it's met and surpassed the iPhone's once thought unbeatable number by roughly half a million -- no small feat I'd say. Margin of error is claimed to be pretty low since Flurry's (the company doing the analytics grunt work) analytics tools are on over 80% of all the devices highlighted above.
I knew...
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“China resolution coming soon…” says Google’s Eric Schmidt.
by
Mike
Posted March 10th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Google took the tech world by storm back in early January by stating (out of the blue I might add) that they were going to cease censoring search results in China and that if China pushed back, the California based company was going to pull out of China all together. Yet here we sit almost two months later and not much else has developed besides a few comments hurdled back and forth between the Chinese government and Google. To most, we've already written off Google's future in China as pretty...
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Sony Ericsson X10 to be graced by modern version of Android at some point…
by
Mike
Posted March 10th, 2010 at 6:51 am
For the sake of not rehashing on already beaten story topic, we'll just simply state that no one is cool with Android 1.5/1.6 still being the feature OS on new phones. With that off our chest, we can look past our curtains of hostility and cynicism to a brighter future if one SE spokesperson is correct. In conversation with Cnet ASIA, the SE spokesperson mentioned that the often talked about (though still MIA with no date of US arrival) Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will in fact get some form of 2....
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NYC transformed into an 8-bit “1980’s Google Maps” masterpiece.
by
Mike
Posted March 9th, 2010 at 6:44 am
Getting bored with modern mapping and navigation technology or do you just want something cool to look at? Traversing the planet via direction from a normal map is what it is. But what if you had to stare at something a bit more old school. What if Google Maps was around in 1982? What would it look like? A quick stop by 8bitnyc.com will help you with that one. The pixelated image above showcases 8bitnyc in all it's classic gloy, compliments of the synapses of Brett Camper.
“I crea...
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Bitten by the Chrome 5 dev build bug today?
by
Mike
Posted March 7th, 2010 at 12:34 am
I usually am not one to nit pick too bad, but when it comes to gadgets, electronics, software, etc., I want the best. Heck, fastest isn't fast enough. Sometimes I want to go to 11 when someone says 10 is as high as it goes. For the sake of this article, I'm talking about Google Chrome -- my favorite browser. I, like many of you out there spend a considerable amount of time updating Chrome as I make religious use of the dev channel and dev builds. What can I say, I love the bleeding edge stu...
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Moto DROID *officially* getting Live Wallpapers with 2.1 update!
by
Mike
Posted March 6th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Moto DROID owners who aren't necessarily into the "underground" world of modding, hacking, and custom ROM's were no doubt a bit disgruntled when finding out the 2.1 update would not be as nifty super cool as the Nexus One's special flavor of Flan (2.1). Adding to the anger, Motorola missed the February-ish time frame that 2.1 for the DROID was supposed to drop. On the subject of Live Wallpapers, the general consensus was that the DROID simply lacked the needed muscle to get the job done smooth...
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Android 2.1 unofficially officially spotted on Droid Eris. Download available!
by
Mike
Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:12 am
The oft forgotten about Droid Eris may be the slightly less pretty (read: ugly as sin), fat ugly step sister, but that doesn't mean someone out there doesn't have some love for it. (Everyone needs some lovin', right?) While the bigger and more powerful DROID sucks up most of the attention with it's egotistic male machismo-like attitude, any and all good news about the "lesser" CDMA Android device for VZW goes to deaf ears. Well folks, if you happen to contain one of those red headed step chil...
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Google: “If EU mandates 6-month data retention policy, we’re packin’ up and high steppin’ it outta here”
by
Mike
Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 9:48 am
EU residents may want to write/call/email/text their local governments and let them know any bill or law that drops data retention limits from 12 months to 6 is a bad idea. Especially so because if it does pass, Google Street View will be no more. They're stating that if data retention limits are lowered for the original unblurred images from twelve to six months, the accuracy, integrity, and overall usefulness will be dimished. After those 6-months, if Google wants fresh unblurred images, th...
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Nexus One multi-touch issues coming to light
by
Mike
Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 8:17 am
Is it just me or is the Nexus One becoming more problem prone? The latest issue surrounding the uber Android device has to do with multi-touch, more specifically when two screen inputs are extremely close together the points are flipped. Such occurrences obviously happen quite frequently as the only way to type on the N1 is via the on-screen keyboard. So how do we fix it? Well, we may not be able to outside of a large scale recall.
According to Google engineer Diane Hackborn, it's not the...
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From the department of WTF: AT&T replacing Google search (and services?) with Yahoo equivalents.
by
Mike
Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 10:32 am
Now before we go any further, I'll make known that I understand Google isn't Android and Android isn't Google. Google just so happens to be one of the biggest OHA members who puts the bulk of marketing dollars behind the mobile OS. With that said however, so far Google has been Android. Any Android device you pick up that's been labeled a "Google Experience" device as been stuffed full of Gmail, Google Maps, Googlve Voice, etc. A tight knit blend of hardware and software. AT&T is set to sta...
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Cliq XT adds in touch-sensitive side panels, sadly shipping with outdated Android 1.6
by
Mike
Posted March 1st, 2010 at 1:19 pm
How many times are we going to have to sit here and watch a "new" Android device released with a grossly outdated OS such as Android 1.6. Summer of 2009 -- Android 1.6 = hotness. Spring 2010 -- not so much. But for those who don't know (or just don't care), the Motorola Cliq XT will soon be dropping on T-Mobile's network. Besides the disappointing reliance on Android 1.6, one particularly neat feature that is developing is that of touch-sensitive side panels on the phones case. These touch ...
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EU lays down the law: Google has to re-snap all of EU land every 6 months.
by
Mike
Posted February 26th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
In the current economy, acquiring or even maintaining a job is pretty hard stuff. If you are lucky enough to keep a job, work is often sporadic and pay is stagnant or reduced. "Job security" is highly sought after. If job security is really what you're after, Google is "the" place to be -- specifically the Street View team.
A new EU ruling documented in Article 29 states that the current 12-month time span is a "too disproportionate" amount of time for images to be stored. Ok, fair enough...
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Nokia to bring Ovi Maps to other platforms, support the competition?
by
Dirk
Posted February 25th, 2010 at 8:15 am
*Time to get the salt shakers out ladies and gents.
Have a certain "thing" for Ovi Maps but absolutely despise the overpriced (or rather average) nature of their higher end smartphone lineup? There may just be hope for you yet if Greig Williams, Nokia's General Manager for South East Europe has his way. In response to a question lobbed by german site "Die Presse" as to whether Ovi Maps would expand to other platforms or not, Mr. Williams simply replied: "That will be the next step". Score!...
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HTC Incredible launch all but imminent. Spied in VZW internal systems.
by
Mike
Posted February 24th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
By the time we start seeing unannounced devices showing up in carriers' retail inventory systems, an imminent launch of said product is usually a given. With the HTC Incredible in mind and it's awesome Android goods stuffed inside, we can only wait...impatiently. For the record, the Incredible will become the new "flagship" Android device on Verizon once it drops in the near future. The biggest talking points of course being the 1GHz processor and Sense UI, giving Android a prettier, yet dark...
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