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Phonedog:Garminfone Unboxed app

jos — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:02:53 +0000

No matter what the product is I think it’s safe to say we love to see a nice unboxing. And the pot is even sweeter when the device is turned on for a short demo. Noah from phonedog received the upcoming Garmin-Asus android phone from-Mobile. And he was nice enough to share the unboxing with all of us.

This is a great unboxing, you get the see the device and all the accessories one at a time. Then there is a quick look at the custom UI that this phone introduces to Android. The Garminifone is expected to be a navigating powerhouse. For now its stuck on Android 1.6, it has a 3.5 inch screen which is quickly becoming too small for today’s standards.

Click here to view the embedded video.

There are some nice accessories included with this device that may make up for some of its short comings. It has a few things that can get you by when traveling. There is an international-ready power adapter and a cigarette lighter charger. A dock is also included, these things don’t usually come with phones so they will save you a few dollars.

Samsung Moment Official 2.1 released From Sprint

jos — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:00:48 +0000

Seems like this is the week for Android 2.1, doesn’t it? Sure enough, after Verizon Wireless started letting out the Android 2.1 update for the Droid ERIS, here we are with another wireless carrier offering it up for another device. This time around it’s Sprint, and the Samsung Moment is the handset getting all the attention.

Unlike Verizon, though, Sprint is offering up the download courtesy of their Moment support page. This means that it’s going to completely wipe your device once you get it downloaded, so be sure to back-up everything that you want to keep. There’s instructions you can find right here, courtesy of a PDF file. It’s not an OTA update, meaning you won’t be told there’s a download waiting for you, so if you want 2.1 and you’ve got a Moment, just head on over to the site and start your download. And, as soon as you do, let us know what you think of it, okay?

Samsung Galaxy S hanging spot at the FCC

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:29:04 +0000

This is good news and bad news. The Galaxy S is one of the most powerful Android handsets to be released in the near future. It will most likely be the phone to have for gaming, as it stands it has the best GPU out of all the current Androids and every other handset. Time for the bad news, it passed through the FCC with AT&T 3G bands.

This device features an AMOLED display with 800 x 480 resolution, 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel rear-facing camera with support for 720p HD video recording at 30fps, front-facing VGA camera, Swype keyboard, HSDPA connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Wi-Fi, microSD expansion (16GB included, up to 32GB supported), and Android 2.1. The main highlight is the Hummingbird GPU that is capable of producing graphics that can rival those found on an XBOX 360 PS3.

We all would love to see this thing come stateside but for any carrier other than AT&T. They have a track record of locking down their Android devices and replacing some of Google’s apps with their own bloatware. Hopefully they will leave this device as is, most likely they are going to mess this device up also.

[via BGR]

How To Root Your Droid with android 2.1

raymond_germanos — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:13:18 +0000

Now that the long awaited 2.1 update for the Droid has hit, are you bored with it already? Root it and flash a custom ROM. And most custom ROM’s include the 3D draw and 5 home screens. There are many root apps that also add extra functionality to your phone.

How to Root DROID 2.1 Update

1. Downgrade using the 2.0.1 SBF file here.
2. Download the 2.1 update.zip from here.
3. Download the attached .zip file from here, and name it droid-ESE81-update-2.zip
4. Open command prompt and run the following command to combine them:
5. copy /b signed-voles-ESE81-from-ESD56.fa406da6.zip+droid-ESE81-update-2.zip update.zip
6. Then copy the update.zip to your SDCard, reboot to STOCK recovery
7. In recovery, press Volume + and Camera then use the D-pad to select Apply update.zip
8. Voila, DROID 2.1 has been rooted successfully.

Note: Proceed with caution, you will be responsible if anything goes wrong. We take no liability in anything that may go wrong. And, this does NOT update the recovery image to 2.1’s recovery.

1GHz processor HTC flagship Bravo

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:17:01 +0000

HTC Bravo will be equipped with the latest Android2.1 operating system, and have the strength function synthesizer. Not only supports WCDMA / HSDPA / HSUPA networks and WLAN wireless LAN access capabilities, but also has a 3.5 mm headphone jack, compatible DivX format video playback and the provision of GPS / A-GPS navigation, electronic compass, Bluetooth technology to support Facebook / Flickr / Twitter and other functions. And apart from full support for Android application downloads and Google application services, in order to obtain better standby time, the aircraft will be especially equipped with 1,400 mAh battery, combined with AMOLED touch-screen power-saving features, the phone’s battery life ability to trust even more than in the past. However, the machine’s RAM capacity of only 256MB, with Google mobile phone owned by Nexus One of 512MB of memory compared to running a lot of obviously inferior. But there are also listed in the final disclosure of the news may be increased to 512MB capacity.

As the HTC Bravo will start in Sweden in March sales, it is expected that the aircraft will be in February this year during the World Mobile Congress officially released

Nexus One has been to obtain Root

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:00:43 +0000

Google Phone-Nexus One will be on sale January 5, but this machine is still not available, it has been for the Root. Famous foreign Hacker Amon_RA has Nexus One produced good Recovery, known as RA-nexus-v1.5.3. This version of Recovery also Hero) G3), Magic (G2), and Dream G1, are the HTC machine. Moto milestone that everyone is curious why it did not fetch Root. Perhaps … … Amon_RA only familiar with the HTC.

Android platform show the leading trend

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:56:03 +0000

According to market research shows that in the past period of time, the growing use of mobile phones for web browsing hot. Android phone has begun to show a clear advantage, leading to other types of mobile phone platforms. Let’s look at a group of official data

“Mobile phone system / share (in November – 12 months)
Android +54.8%
Blackberry +22.2%
iPhone +20.1%
Symbian +19.0%
Java ME +15.6% ”
Here you can see, Android phone is not only the first, but gained huge profits. The data is definitely not luck came, he fulfilled the Droid’s official release can even be said that this is a perfect advertising campaign. Android platform for mobile phones now account for major U.S. carriers in the 3 / 4, but also constantly rising. And later what will happen? Let us continue to focus on