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Apr

In-Depth Review: Google’s Nexus One Car Dock (With Video!)

Posted by Chris Dehghanpoor in Devices By Manufacturer, Nexus One (Passion), Other Reviews, Reviews

Last Updated: July 24th, 2011

Google has finally released the last of the accessories for its first foray into the mobile handset market, the Nexus One. Shortly after the Nexus One was announced, we were graced with the desktop dock - a simple, yet functional device that takes advantage of the metal contacts on the bottom of the phone to allow charging and audio playback without the need to mess with pesky wires.

We’ve been teased with the prospect of a car dock in promotional videos, such as this one, but were never given a target date. Well, as of a couple of weeks ago, if you had $60 USD to spare, you could find yourself to be a proud owner of a genuine Nexus One Car Dock.

Apr

CyanogenMod ROM 5.0.6 For Nexus One And Motorola Droid Released

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, Droid (Sholes), HTC, Motorola, News, Nexus One (Passion)

A few moments ago, Cyanogen announced version 5.0.6 of his ROM for HTC Nexus One and Motorola Droid. This release contains a whole plethora of bug fixes and enhancements for the Nexus One and a few for the Droid.

The release follows the drama with Cyanogen and the Ultimate Droid ROM creator The BlackDroid, which you can read about here and here, which explains the note at the bottom of Cyanogen's announcement that reads

"PS: Expect Ultimate Droid v11 soon! :) :) :)"

Check out the full changelog here:

CHANGELOG

---- 5.0.6-Droid

* Fixed MMS Videos (PDR447, slayher, DroidMod all had a hand in this)

* Fixups to 4/5 column launcher

* Fixed ##program menu

* Fix fstab bug (DroidMod)

---- 5.0.6-N1

* Merged AOSP from Google as of 3/31/2010

* Ability to move installed applications between internal storage and SD (from Chris Soyars)

* Added libncurses, lsof, irssi, htop, bash, nano and powertop.

Apr

Finally - The Official Nexus One Car Dock Available At A Whopping $55

Posted by Chris Dehghanpoor in Devices By Manufacturer, HTC, News, Nexus One (Passion)

The Nexus One became available for sale on January 5th. The Nexus One Desktop Dock accessory was on sale a little over 3 weeks later, on January 27th. Finally on April 6th, almost exactly 4 months after the release of the phone, Google has announced that the car dock is available for purchase.

We were teased with glimpses of the car dock in Google’s Nexus One video series ‘The Story’, specifically in the 5th video titled ‘Day One’ (embedded below).

I’ve yet to find any reviews of the dock, but I suspect we should see quite a few by the end of the weekend.

Apr

Google IO 2010 Attendees Get An Early Gift From Google - A Free Android Phone

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Droid (Sholes), HTC, Motorola, News, Nexus One (Passion)

As one of Google IO 2010 conference attendees, I've been wondering what Google had up its sleeve for this year's big gift. The price of the conference last year was sweetened with a free Android phone given to everyone attending, and I was hoping this year wouldn't be an exception, secretly hoping for a Nexus One or even better - a pre-release version of a brand new phone.

My wishes came true a few minutes ago when I received an email from Google informing me that all registered conference attendees would be getting a free phone sent to them before the conference even begins.

Mar

The 4.3" 1GHz HTC Supersonic Sprint Announcement Imminent Today 03/23/2010 (Or Tomorrow 03/24/2010?)

Posted by Android Police Team in EVO 4G (Supersonic), HTC, News, Nexus One (Passion)

The mobile sphere is abuzz with the rumors of a possible HTC Supersonic announcement tomorrow, all caused by a tiny note Sprint posted in the member area on Sprint.com. Here is a screenshot (courtesy of Sprint Forums):

According to other users who have talked to various Sprint customer service reps, Supersonic is indeed "coming very very soon", which seems to only confirm the rumor. Of course, nothing is 100% until we tune into the announcement… the time of which is currently unknown.

It is also not clear what exactly "tomorrow" means here, mostly because Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint, is scheduled as the keynote speaker for the 2nd day of the 2010 CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, which happens to be Wednesday, not Tuesday as some are mistakenly reporting.