Verizon’s Nexus One to be sold only through Google, have Sense UI (or not)
This doesn't come as much of a surprise, but Android Central seems to have obtained a screen shot from a deep, dark, top-secret Verizon system that indicated that the upcoming CDMA version of the Nexus One will be "available only through www.Google.com/Phones." That, of course, matches T-Mobile's strategy of quietly letting Google do its thing -- and Verizon's strategy of keeping its network "open" -- so you'll just have to remember to not line up at your local store at 8PM the night before the launch, otherwise you're going to come away very, very disappointed.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc, nexus one Tags: differentiation, htc, Lot, nexus one, quietly-letting, reference, result, sense, sense-ui, verizon, verizonwireless, vzw
HTC Incredible out in the wild once more, Verizon color scheme alive and well
Android Forums is alight today with fresh HTC Incredible chatter -- a phone every Android fan on Verizon is desperately waiting for -- and we've managed to glean a few more pictures and possible specs out of the mess. It looks like we can expect a half gig of RAM with about 320MB available (roughly the same as what you find on the Nexus One ) and an 8 megapixel cam, but interestingly, the phone's Snapdragon core is apparently underclocked to 768MHz, almost certainly a battery-saving measure on HTC's part; fortunately, the Sense -powered Android 2.1 firmware is still said to be "blazing fast." It measures 117.5 x 58.5 x 11.9mm -- just a hair narrower, shorter, and thicker than its Nexus One doppelganger, small enough of a difference so that we think it'll be virtually indistinguishable in person. As shots go, we're seeing now that HTC has moved from the brightly-colored glossy shell to a soft-touch black one while keeping the strange contours; we think there's at least a chance that this is final ID, too, since the Verizon logo is silkscreened at the bottom
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc, nexus one Tags: after-the-break, check-out-more, contours, htc, measure-on-htc, phone, snapdragon, verizon, verizon-wireless
Customer greeted with malware on Vodafone-issued HTC Magic (good thing it’s discontinued)
Crapware's bad enough, but having your life torn asunder simply by plugging in that shiny new (insert USB-connected device here) is an exciting new trend -- viruses find their way into the darnedest places, don't they?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc, nexus one Tags: htc, least-on-days, machine, magic, nexus, nexus one, password, sapphire, silver, tattoo, virii, vodafoneuk
AT&T announces slew of network investments for 2010
AT&T's preaching about the mucho dinero it's dropping into renovating its network to pretty much anyone who'll listen these days, and a veritable cornucopia of press releases this week start to go into detail on some of the upgrades we'll be seeing over the course of 2010. We're counting at least a dozen here, covering everything from New York City to Florida to Oklahoma, but the message is basically the same in every one: more cell sites, more 3G coverage, more backhaul.
Categories: Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: airwaves, announces-slew, backhaul, expansion, Fingers, finish-the-year, florida, its-nine-figure, liberally-pimps, network, nexus one, nexus-ones, over-the-course, press-releases, renovating-its
Bad news: HTC says the Nexus One doesn’t ‘go in pockets’
One of the biggest mysteries in the blogosphere right now is probably Crave's Nexus One , which somehow developed a cracked screen while simply charging on the desk (sounds familiar, right ?). Not even HTC could unearth the cause from its forensic inspection, but it didn't rule out the possibility of a small crack growing over time due to, for example, "getting knocked around by keys" and repetitive squeezes in tight pockets.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc, nexus one Tags: awesomeness, cracked screens, crackeddisplay, entry, getting-knocked, pain, pockets, the-possibility
Entelligence: Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform?
My friend and colleague Harry McCracken recently bought a brand new Droid from Motorola. He says it's a " loaf of day old bread. " He's right.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc, nexus one Tags: entry, harry, implementations, linux, mccracken, nexus, nexus one, platform, recently-bought, remorse
HyperDevbox ExZeus Arcade allays fears that Android games are destined to suck
For whatever reason, Android's high-performance Native Development Kit introduced back in the Cupcake days never got a ton of attention despite the subtle hints that it'd give devs the low-level access they needed to create killer, graphically rich, immersive environments ready to compete with pretty much any other gaming device you could shove in your pocket.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, nexus one Tags: arcade, catalysts, device, engadget, ExZeus, exzeusarcade, gaming, hyperdevbox, nexus, seen-on-android, whatever-reason
Android 2.1 looking fast, furious on Motorola Droid
Alright, Droid owners, decent multitouch performance isn't the only thing you've got to brag about. As you likely know by now, 2.1's in the works for you -- and from the latest video we're seeing of an official test build running in the wild, we're cautiously optimistic that it's going to be a fantastic little update.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: launch, launcher, motorola, motorola-droid, nexus one, result, rumor, screen, verizon-wireless, weather-widgets
Nexus One’s multitouch confused more easily than Droid’s?
Thought all multitouch-capable displays were created equal? Think again -- Android and Me has posted a rather fascinating (if not somewhat depressing) video showing a demo multitouch app created by a game developer who'd grown suspicious after running into all sorts of trouble getting the feature to work the way he wanted on the Nexus One .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc, nexus one Tags: aplomb, demo, droid, issues, quality, sensor, sorts, words
LG’s LU2300 set to challenge Samsung’s M100S for Korean Android dominance?
Eternal archrivals-to-the-death Samsung and LG have a tendency to match one another tit for tat in virtually every consumer electronic category, but for whatever reason, LG's been far less interested in going for broke with Android over the past year -- though a preoccupation with Windows Phone 7 Series is a solid guess at this point. Things may be changing, though, now that we've got news out of Telecoms Korea that they're prepping a more brutal assault than the weakling GW620 could ever provide in the form of a so-called LU2300 for the domestic market (we're assuming the actual thing will be a little more...
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, nexus one Tags: domestic-market, korea, korean-android, nexus, nexus one, over-the-past, snapdragon, south-korea, southkorea, telecoms, tendency, windows-phone