Aaron Gingrich
Aaron is a geek who has always had a passion for technology. When not working or writing, he can be found spending time with his family, playing a game, or watching a movie.

16
Jun
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Google Wants The Next Version of Android’s UI to Blow Your (And Manufacturers') Minds

Posted by in Android OS, Gingerbread 2.3, News
Last Updated: December 3rd, 2010

Word on the street (and by “the street,” I clearly mean TechCrunch) is that the next version of Android, (Gingerbread, which is rumored to be coming in 4Q2010), will focus on refining the UI. It may seem like a waste of time, as most Android phones today run a custom UI (HTC, Motorola, etc) – but that’s just the point. By stepping up the default UI, handset makers (hopefully) won’t feel the need to layer on their UIs.

As things stand now, proprietary UIs mean handset makers have to modify the stock Android build, test the build, fix bugs, and retest before finally pushing the build out as an update in order to keep the UI.

16
Jun
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EVO Nearly Matches Nexus One Sales Numbers, Ad Capitalization, in First Few Days of Release

Posted by in Devices By Manufacturer, Eris, EVO 4G (Supersonic), Hero, Hero (Sprint, HeroC), HTC, News, Nexus One (Passion)

Ad firm Chitika has run the numbers, and found that the HTC EVO accounts for 1.93% of android handsets, just days after the phone’s release. That may not seem too impressive at first sight, but keep in mind that:

1) The phone sold out nearly everywhere, right away. Personally, I went to 3 stores and called 2 more to try to find one on launch day, without luck. I managed to order one from Sprint, but within 2 days of launch they were reporting being sold out online as well. In other words, the sales numbers were limited by supply, not demand.

15
Jun
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HTC Aria Coming June 20th To AT&T, Initial Hands-On Impressions Surface

Posted by in Aria (Liberty), AT&T, Carriers, Devices By Manufacturer, HTC, News
Last Updated: June 17th, 2010

Good news, AT&T customers – starting June 20, AT&T will begin selling its first HTC Android device, the Aria. A few days ago, they (accidently?) released a video showing the HTC “Liberty” being tested. At the time, we speculated that it might actually be the HTC Aria we’d heard about before. Turns out we were probably correct, as various news outlets have been receiving the Aria to play around with, and they look to be one and the same.

The phone isn’t quite as high-end as other recent HTC outings on other networks (such as the EVO or Incredible): it offers a 3.2” display running at 480 x 320, as well as a 5 megapixel camera (sans flash).

15
Jun
T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide Rooted

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide Gets Rooted

Posted by in Development, myTouch Slide (Espresso), News, T-Mobile
Last Updated: November 13th, 2010

myTouch 3G Slide owners, we have some good news for you! If you've been itching to root your devices, now you can, thanks to Android hacker eugene373, who released his root instructions today.

The process involves booting into recovery mode, pushing the “update” to the phone manually, and installing the root. Users of the HTC Droid Incredible may recognize that “… it's the same root method as the HTC Incredible... I just added SU & fixed the script, plus figured out how to get it to write to system…”

Android hackers initially expected to have a root out for the phone’s June 3rd release, but it proved more difficult than they had anticipated to provide a bug-free solution.

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