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Aug

Motorola Updates Timelines For Android Updates, Good News And Bad News For MOTOBLUR Phones

Posted by Nate Kimmey in Android OS, Backflip, CLIQ / DEXT (Morrison), CLIQ XT (Zeppelin), Devour, Droid (Sholes), Droid 2, Droid X (Shadow), Eclair 2.1, Froyo 2.2, Motorola

No phone manufacturer is as fast with software updates as customers would like them to be, but Motorola has been particularly bad, especially with some of their MOTOBLUR phones which are still stuck on Android 1.5. But they do seem to be taking a step forward with a new timeline that lists when each of their phones around the world will be receiving updates to a later version of Android.

USA

BACKFLIP (USA)
Upgrade to Android 2.1 planned for Q3

CLIQ (USA)
Upgrade to Android 2.1 - testing in process, planned for late Q3/early Q4

CLIQ XT (USA)
Upgrade to Android 2.1 - testing in process, planned for late Q3/early Q4

DEVOUR (USA)
Will not have a software upgrade to Android 2.1

DROID by Motorola (USA)
Upgrade to Android 2.2 currently rolling out in phases

DROID X by Motorola (USA)
Upgrade to Android 2.2 planned for late summer.

Aug

Motorola Responds To Leaked DROID X 2.2 Update: Stop That, Or We'll Sue You

Posted by David Ruddock in Droid X (Shadow), Motorola, News

Despite a lot of fun Motorola hardware leaks lately (even some love for AT&T), Moto would like to remind us that they aren't much friendlier than Apple when it comes to unintended dissemination of their intellectual property.

The recently leaked update to Android 2.2 for the DROID X has been quite a popular download for daredevil users, and apparently Motorola has taken notice. While the ROM is now undoubtedly in the hands of every modding and development community member who has any interest in it, that isn't stopping Motorola from issuing cease and desist letters (e-mails) to those hosting the file.

Aug

Engadget Scores More G2 Pics

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in G2 (Vision), HTC, News, T-Mobile

Friday's round of blurrycam shots of T-Mobile's upcoming G2 not enough for you? Then you'll appreciate this story.

As you can see from the image above, the G2's slider mechanism will lift the top part of the device upwards before moving it out so as to provide full access to the physical QWERTY keyboard beneath it.

Speaking of the keyboard, it looks amazing (even if the above picture only displays part of it).

The back of the Android-powered gadget is a beauty.

And, last but not least, where would we be without a shot of the G2 next to the iPhone?

Aug

Motorola MB520 Kobe Specs And Benchmarks Leak Out

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in AT&T, Motorola

Been thinking that AT&T's Android offerings are rather...how shall we put it....measly as of late? Sure, the Dell Streak and the Samsung Captivate are nothing to scoff at, but the latter is a member of the Galaxy S family, a line of phones coming soon to all four major carriers (as well as a few regionals), while the former is a 5-inch phone/tablet hybrid currently running Android 1.6 that, in all probability, won't be getting FroYo for at least a few months.

Enter the Motorola MB520 Kobe, a device that, according to Engadget's latest tipster, sports specs like:

a 3.5-inch 854x480 LCD display

an 800MHz TI OMAP processor (although it is unclear whether it is a 3440 or an underclocked 3630)

a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU

512MB of RAM

2 GB internal storage alongside a 2GB microSD card out of the box

a 3MP camera without flash

Android 2.1 with MotoBlur (see screenshot at the top of this article)

The specs aren't all Engadget's tipster managed to grab; he/she also procured several screenshots of benchmarking apps, including Linpack and Quadrant, the former of which clocked it at 6.319 MFLOPS - not bad for a phone running Android 2.1 - and the latter of which gave it a score of 1036, a score which only the Nexus One (running stock FroYo) and the Droid X surpassed.

Aug

Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet Now Available For Preorder For $299.99

Posted by John Thompson in Cruz Tablet, News, Velocity Micro

Velocity Micro’s Android tablet called Cruz is now available for pre-order from Borders.com and CruzReader.com at a bargain price of $299.99.

The CruzReader.com order page is currently citing a late September release date, while Borders.com is expected to ship October 15th, so you may have to wait for a number of weeks before you can get your hands on one yourself.

After seeing the specs and the price, we think this tablet could very well be a genuine competitor in the market.

Specs

What exactly are you getting for your $300? The Cruz sports:

Full color TFT display
7” diagonal 16:9 800x480 screen
Capacitive touch screen
a rumored 800MHz CPU
802.11n wifi
512MB RAM
4GB internal storage
8GB bundled SD card
Android 2.1
Supports ePub, PDF, TXT, PDB, HTML reader files
MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV audio support
MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, MOV, AVI video support
JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP image support
Built in speakers
Mic and headphone jacks
Mini USB
User replaceable Li-Ion battery - up to 10+ hours of life, 24+ standby
Built-in Dictionary, Notepad, Calendar, Alarm Clock, Contacts, Games, and other useful apps
Access to over 2 Million ebooks via included Borders E-book library portal application (Kobo)
Access to the Cruz Market

The battery in the Cruz is reportedly good for 10 hours of usage, which is great for anyone hoping to use a tablet on the go.

Aug

Coming Soon: Stock Android 2.1 For Samsung Galaxy S

Posted by David Ruddock in Development, Eclair 2.1, Galaxy S, News, Videos

It seems a few community developers (@barakinflorida) have been inching towards releasing a functional, bone stock version of Android 2.1 for the Samsung Galaxy S (That is, without Samsung's TouchWiz interface). Their efforts are paying off, as this video shows.

The only big issues remaining lie in getting the camera/camcorder to actually, well, work. A relatively minor inconvenience, and a problem many developers have struggled with when developing full-ROM releases for phones with UI overlays.

Android 2.1 is starting to seem a little dated to be utilizing for development of ROMs - maybe a stock FroYo update will follow? But now that members of the CyanogenMod team are working on a CM6 build for the Galaxy S, it's hard to say if there will be much demand for a stock Froyo.

Aug

Nexus One Supplies Take A Break - Developer Version Out Of Stock Now Too

Posted by Brian O'Toole in News, Nexus One (Passion)

Quoth The Counting Crows – “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?”

Yes indeedy. It appears that Android developers were so forcefully reminded of the Nexus One’s greatness by its removal from Google’s public web store that they have cleared the entire remaining stock in a few short weeks.

According to Google's Android developer advocate, Tim Bray, the phone is back-ordered with HTC and they are working their hardest to get the N1 back in stock. It's nice to see that the openness of the Nexus One with its unfettered vanilla Froyo experience is still a valuable commodity, but the tragedy is that the days of this bloatware-free stalwart are surely coming to an end soon.

Aug

Android On HTC HD2? That’s So Last Month - Try CyanogenMod 6 On HD2

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Development, HD2, News

Ok, so this is technically “so last month” too - it’s from July 30, and we just happened to miss it the first time around. Luckily for us, good ole’ ChiefzReloaded tweeted (or retweeted?) some pictures of CM6 running on the HD2. After doing a little poking around, I found that there’s a pretty solid build out there - it’s even CM6 RC1. As a result, nearly everything works on the device: GPS, camera (with flash), torch (for the camera LED), Adobe Flash, and so on. Nice.

At 15 steps, installation is far from simple - but it’s pretty comparable to manual rooting/ROMing on Android.

Aug

Engadget Scores Blurrycam Shots Of T-Mobile G2

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in G2 (Vision), News, T-Mobile

Just like the title says: some real, live shots of the T-Mobile G2 out in the real world have landed in Engadget’s lap. Based on the photos, it looks like the earlier leaked renders were pretty accurate, albeit the colors were off. It’s not a bad looking piece of kit, though it is does look a bit utilitarian. In fact, it looks like what I’d imagine the Nexus Two to look like.

It’ll be sporting a 3.7” screen and a full four-row slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Unlike the G1, the entire body of the G2 slides up rather than just the screen portion - an improvement, in my opinion.

Aug

[Updated With Mirror] Motorola Droid X Update Leaked - Requires Root & Stock Recovery

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Development, Droid X (Shadow), Froyo 2.2, News, Verizon Wireless

MyDroidWorld has scored a big one today: they’ve hosted the Droid X Froyo ROM, thanks to the hard work of P3Droid, Birdman, and rootzwiki. Installation seems relatively simple, and boy is it a popular download: their server was bombarded with 15,000 download requests shortly after posting it.

Installation seems rather simple, assuming you're rooted and are running stock recovery:

They’ve hosted the file with MediaFire since it seems to have crashed their servers.

Unfortunately, we don’t really have any details at this point since this just happened, but we’ll update as needed. If anyone takes the jump, be sure to let us know how it goes!