Gingerbread ROMs start cooking for HTC EVO 4G et al; keyboard ported for rooted Androids
You can have your doubts about when your phone maker will finally get around to delivering an Android 2.3 update (March if you're with HTC, June if Samsung, 2017 if you're unfortunate enough to own a Sony Ericsson), but the smartphone dev community doesn't work that slowly.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: devs, download, evo4g, gingerbread, htc, keyboard, nascent-stages, rom, rooted, smartphone-dev, wildfire
Official Android 2.2 (Froyo) update emerges for Sprint’s Epic 4G
Samsung may have missed its promised September (and November ) ship dates for Froyo on the Galaxy S range, but at this point, we're just pleased to see any progress at all. Sprint's Epic 4G has just become the first US Galaxy S phone to nab an official Android 2.2 (v2.2.1, in fact) build, with the requisite files populating Google's servers this evening. If you'll recall, a near-final build actually leaked out around three weeks ago, but the DK28 version making the rounds at xda-developers looks to be the real deal.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: actually-leaked, download, evening, froyo, galaxy s, result, samsung, servers, update-emerges
Sprint and Clearwire deliver WiMAX to Los Angeles, Ohio, Miami and Washington DC, promise SF on December 28th
Seems like Sprint wants to get every last lick of 4G coverage in before Verizon flips the switch on LTE -- today, its joint venture with Clearwire is launching WiMAX in the City of Angels a day ahead of schedule . Lest you think Los Angeles is getting special treatment, five other cellular markets can now also get a taste of 5Mbps to 7Mbps download speeds, including Miami, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and our nation's capitol, Washington D.C. That brings the total number of regions where you'll get some mileage out of that $10 surcharge up to 68, in case you're keeping track.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, cellular, columbus ohio, download, florida, francisco, losangeles, mileage, ohio, press, san-francisco, sanfrancisco, sf bay area
Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) goes alpha for Android and Nokia N900
Well, it looks like you can finally get rid of that less-than-stable pre-alpha release of Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) for Android -- Mozillla has just released the full alpha release for not only Android (2.0 and later), but the Nokia N900 as well. The big news with this release is an increase in "performance and responsiveness to user actions" (always a good thing), as well as two new features dubbed "Electrolysis" and "Layers," the former of which lets the browser interface run in a separate process from the one rendering web content, while the latter promises to "greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video." You'll also get full support for add-ons, and Firefox Sync built into the browser to let you have a continuous experience as you move between devices
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: browser, content, download, fennec, firefox, firefox-mobile, greatly-improve, latter-promises, nokia, nokia-n900, result, webbrowser
Official Flash 10.1 download now unofficially available for your Android 2.2 device
Have an phone with Android 2.2 but still not able to officially download Flash 10.1 from the Android Market? Then it looks like you finally have another option besides patiently waiting -- you can now unofficially download the "official" version of the Flash 10.1 courtesy of a Droid Life commenter who's provided the .apk file, which doesn't require a rooted device and will supposedly work on any Android 2.2 phone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: download, droid-life, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, flash, mobile, option-besides, result, source, then-it-looks
Swiftkey beta brings new keyboard, world class predictive text to Android
The software and language engineers at Swiftkey have been toiling on this app for the past two years, and at long last, it's being made available for precisely nothing to anxious Android users.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app, download, engadget, engineers, heels, keyboard, list, new-keyboard, predictive, predictive text, predictivetext, price, Typing
Apple Store app arrives in Apple App Store
This is one of those things that makes you wonder why it hadn't been done already. Apple's just unleashed an Apple Store application for its iDevices designed to pretty much give you the online Apple Store experience -- but perhaps without the crazy on-again, off-again antics of this morning .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app store, apple, apple-app-store, apple-store, applestore, apps, appstore, download, engadget, entry, familiar, latest, Love
Motorola Droid gets early Android 2.2 ROM, ready to download… now!
What shall we call this, Frodroid or Droyo? Either way, an Android 2.2 update has been made available for Motorola's all-conquering slider, and it awaits eager firmware upgraders at the download link below. Produced by the good folks at My Droid World , this includes almost everything you'll need to get your Froyo on in style, though it excludes WiFi support at this stage.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: consolation, download, droid, droid-world, length, mobile-os, mobileos, moto, motorola-droid, motoroladroid, official-update, privileges, update, upgrade, world
DoubleTwist adds some polish to Android with new media player app
Peruse the Android Market this morrow and you might come across a hot new addition from the folks at DoubleTwist. That's right, the iTunes-aping desktop sync manager has gone native on the Android platform and early feedback on its media player implementation has been positive. The free music and video player app does that whole seamless thing quite well, apparently, interfacing directly with your Windows or Mac computerino and porting over relevant playlists, ratings and media
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, doubletwist app, doubletwist player, doubletwistplayer, download, engadget, itunes, limited, manager, media, media player app, mediaplayer, music, Sync, windows
Shipping HTC EVO 4G ROM released into the wild
Can't wait to get your hands on an EVO 4G ? Then it looks like you can now at least settle for the next best thing that's not actually anything like the real thing: the final, shipping version of the EVO 4G ROM. That's just been released into the wild courtesy of Conflipper, and is ready to be downloaded for use however you like -- and at your own risk, of course
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: download, final, htc, magic, risk, shipping, source, then-it-looks