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Good grief, not again?! For the second time, Motorola Droid users have been ‘officially’ promised the 2.1 update and for the second time, that promise has not come to fruition.
The guys over at Engadget did some digging after 12 noon came and went without a single report from the Droid community of the ROM being …
The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need!
Episode 14,
for 03/18/2010!
The latest buzz on the street is that Sprint plans to unveil the HTC Supersoinc, the fist handset compatible with Sprint’s 4G data network, at the CTIA next week. The device will be running on Sprint’s new WiMax network, which is claimed to offer speeds up to 10 times faster than its current network. The …
Well what do we have here? It looks like every carrier is jumping on the Nexus One bandwagon lately, Sprint being the latest. In a Sprint news release today, Sprint has announced that the Google Nexus One device will be arriving on the Sprint network, although a release date has not been decided upon.
Sprint, in …
The first phone to be officially upgraded to the Android 2.1 operating system is the Samsung Galaxy Spica (also known as the Galaxy Portal). The upgrade is available in Germany and Samsung has detailed that it will be gradually rolled out to other European markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Asia, Africa and rest of the world (Antarctica and Americas.)
An image popped up on TMONews.com this evening which shows the HTC HD2 with a launch date of March 24th on Tmobile. The image outlines it will be available with a launch price of $199.99 when signing 2 year contract on a qualifying plan with data. This is substantially less than the Touch Pro2’s current …
Image Credit: Daniel Adel, New York Times
And so the saga continues………….. What once seemed as a beautiful friendship and had many in the Washington DC Administration worried with Google and Apple working so closley together in harmony to prevent Microsoft from dominating the Smartphone industry has turned into a bitter rivalry. According to the NYT, …
That’s right the heat is on! Google’s Nexus one hit the shelves today equipped for 3G action on AT&T and Rogers networks, free of any contract from carriers. The device is available for purchase from Google’s on-line phone store carrying a price tag of $529. For more information on the phone visit Google’s phone store.
While we can’t use it on our devices, it may offer some more insight into Windows Phone 7 Series and may reveal details that Microsoft hasn’t released yet. This build was extracted from the emulator that was released yesterday at MIX10. The build date is March 2, 2010 and it will only run on x86 machines. Maybe, just maybe, someone will be able to port this for our devices, but even if they can’t, it will give us something to watch until the official release.
We knew Microsoft was planning big things for MIX10, which started today. There are quite a few announcements from the blogosphere today, including developer tools, Marketplace news, etc. Read on for more details!
Update: Hardware requirements confirmed.
The developer team over at alldroid.org has managed to gain root access to the version of the Motorola Milestone which was recently released by Telus Mobility in Canada. At first glance this doesn’t seem like news; both the Droid and Milestone were rooted months ago. The difference is the Telus version was released with …
Cmonex and friends have been silently working on the HSPL for the HTC Imagio for quite some time now. Although the unlocker anticipation did not reach such fame as the HTC Touch Pro 2, this is definitely a nice treat for Imagio users who can finally start loading their devices with customized ROM upgrades. Although …
Engadget has been lucky enough when it comes to Windows Phone 7, but now they got to see a demo of a new 3D XNA game coming to WP7. One of them is called The Harvest, which is a dungeon-type game by Luma Arcade. The second game is called Battle Punks, which is a one-on-one sword fighting Facebook game by Gravity Bear. Development is based on DirectX and can be tested out on a desktop, but emulators will be coming soon. Microsoft has signed up game studios Oberon, Sega, Glu, EA, Popcap, Hudson Entertainment, Namco, Konami.
Widgets allow Android smart phone owners to customize their home screens with useful tools and information. Posters on our Android forums have detailed their favorite widgets and we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite free widgets. If you’ve not tried any of these, they are all definitely worth taking a look.
Windows Phone Thoughts has put up a video of a 17 minute walkthrough their Chris Pirillo got with Microsoft’s Greg Sullivan. Updated: WMPowerUser has posted 2 more demo videos from Tech Ed Middle East. Once shows cross-platform gaming and the other shows two forms of multi-tasking. Now you can see Windows Phone 7 in action. It looks very smooth and you can see working hubs also. Let us know what you think!
