Google announces licensing service for Android apps
Both Google and developers are probably unhappy with the current copy-protection mechanism that protects apps available in Android Market, so Google is releasing a new licensing service for applications. Created for all paid apps in Android Market (Android 1.5 or newer), the licensing service allows developers to “query the Android Market licensing server to determine [...]
Motorola Milestone gets unofficial Froyo
Motorola themselves may still be wondering whether or not to make a Froyo update available for the Milestone, but the hacking/modding community as always decided not to wait. So if you thought that a possible denial of Froyo from Motorola may mean the end of life for your precious Milestone, think again. The community at [...]
Dell Streak: no T-Mobile USA support, ships with Android 1.6, will get Froyo this year
The Dell Streak had its first launch in the UK last month, and is now coming to the USA. Anxious US customers have turned it into the most successful pre-order on Dell’s site in history. Today a few more details about the US-bound Streak have surfaced. It will not have support for T-Mobile’s 3G bands [...]
Unannounced Nokia 5250 leaked via Ovi Store
Launched in November last year, the Nokia 5230 is about to get a successor: the Nokia 5250. The 5250 hasn’t been officially announced yet, but Nokia’s Ovi Store lists it among the Nokia phones that have touchscreens, and it even provides a small photo of the device – check it out below, it kind of [...]
HTC Incredible, Motorola Droid and Droid X to get Android 2.2 Froyo starting August 6?
Verizon’s current high-end Android smartphones (Motorola Droid, Motorola Droid X and HTC Droid Incredible) might be updated to Android 2.2 Froyo at the same time. According to Android Spin, a “Verizon tipster” has it that the three handsets will get Froyo starting August 6, with updates expected to reach all users by August 15. Verizon [...]
HTC branded smartphones debut in China: Desire, Wildfire, Tianxi and Tianyi
HTC has announced that it’s bringing its own branded smartphones to China – a country where its products have been officially sold under the Dopod brand until now. The first HTC devices to be available in China are: HTC Desire, HTC Wildfire, HTC Tianxi and HTC Tianyi (all using HTC Sense). We all know the [...]
Nokia shows off 4 inch smartphone concepts (Design by Community sketches)
It’s been a while since we’ve last heard about Nokia’s Design by Community project. Nokia’s designers should have presented some concept phones (based on community votes) back in May, but they only did it now. All three concepts share the same specs (4 inch 16:9 capacitive display, aluminum casing, Dolby stereo speakers, HMDI-out, 12MP Carl [...]
Samsung Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro announced in Russia, priced
Samsung’s second and third Bada-based smartphones, the Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro, have been officially announced in Russia, where they’ll be available for purchase starting September – one month later than initially expected. The new Waves are 3G-less, cheaper alternatives to the Wave S8500, and thus they don’t have as many features as it. [...]
Nokia E5 coming to Orange UK, it’s free on select plans
Not long after the Nokia C6, another QWERTY Nokia smartphone will be available in the UK: the Nokia E5. Orange is the carrier that will soon offer the E5 on pay monthly, for free on select plans. Unlike the C6, the Nokia E5 doesn’t have a touchscreen display – it’s an E71 / E72-like smartphone [...]
Apple cancels waiting lists for iPad and iPhone 4
This past weekend, Apple stores have sold more iPads and iPhones than usual to people that were on the waiting lists for those devices. Anything between 1,000 and 2,000 sales per store were made this way, with Apple emailing the people who had registered to buy and letting them know to come and pick their [...]
10 inch Motorola Android Gingerbread tablet slated for November
Seeing how Motorola’s so deeply in love with Android, it comes almost naturally for the company to make not just smartphones, but also tablets based on Google’s platform. The Street has it that analyst Ashok Kumar talked to “people familiar with the project” who claim that Motorola’s planning to launch a 10 inch Android tablet [...]
Citi iPhone app stored user data in hidden files, now fixed
The Citi iPhone app allows customers to see their account and credit card balances, pay bills and transfer money, and helps them locate nearby ATMs. It has been discovered that the application used to store sensitive account information in hidden files on the iPhone and computers that had been synced with an iPhone that had [...]
Is Android 3.0 Gingerbread already out in the wild?
Google is set to release the next major version of Android by the end of this year. Sticking with their sweets-inspired codenames, this one will be dubbed Gingerbread. Clearly, if they want to release it this year, Google engineers are already hard at work on Android 3.0. However, no one outside of Google should have [...]
Sprint Samsung Epic 4G to be launched on August 20?
Sprint announced the Samsung Epic 4G almost one month ago, but it didn’t provide an exact release date for the smartphone – which will be North America’s first 4G handset with a QWERTY keyboard. Luckily, a recent tweet from SamsungMoibleUSA reads: “the Sprint Epic 4G is arriving in a few weeks.” Moreover, Android Police discovered [...]
Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legal in the US
Jailbreaking iPhones and unlocking phones in general have traditionally been activities that were, legally, in at least a grey area. In fact, the opponents of such practices have long claimed that doing these procedures was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and thus illegal. The DMCA did not allow for “Circumvention of [...]
German consumer watchdog confirms iPhone 4 death grip
First, there were scattered reports across the internet that the iPhone 4 loses signal when held in a certain way. Then Apple said that the culprit was just a bad formula for calculating the number of bars of signal the phone shows. Then Consumer Reports stepped in and confirmed that there is a hardware issue. [...]
Nokia Ovi Browser in the making?
It seems that Nokia is getting ready to introduce a new Ovi-branded product – and this time it’s not about Maps or Mail or Music, but about a browser. What kind of browser? Well, we don’t know at the moment, because Nokia has yet to announce anything about this. And yet, CJ has found that [...]
MeeGo makes inroads into the automotive market. GM, BMW, PeugeotCitroen, Hyundai and Renault on board
MeeGo has been touted from the start as a lot more than a smartphone operating system. In fact, one of the biggest plays for MeeGo is outside of the smartphone space, in the embedded market. And a key component of that market is the automotive industry. All the world’s biggest car manufacturers want their future [...]
Gresso solves iPhone 4 death grip. For $10,000
Sure, Apple may have announced they’re giving free bumpers to everyone, but perhaps you’re in search of a more extreme solution for your death grip-related woes. Extreme in its pricing, that is. Well, if you feel that anything other than 200-year-old African wood is simply not trying hard enough, Gresso has you covered. For a [...]
HTC Vision to be sold by T-Mobile as the G1 Blaze?
A new spy shot of the rumored HTC Vision QWERTY-keyboard touting Android superphone has been leaked. And sure enough, the phone looks a lot like it did the last time we saw it, with one important distinction. This time around, it carries T-Mobile branding, and apparently may end up being sold as the T-Mobile G1 [...]