CDMA Google-Experience Phone On The Way!

Posted on August 12th, 2009 in Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Putting together some pieces off the mailing lists, it looks like someone is working on a CDMA “Google-experience” phone. I’ve got your likely specs below. No word on carrier, no blurrycam pics, no FCC filings. Just the hints.

Quickie: NIN App Coming to Android

Posted on May 13th, 2009 in Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , ,

The NIN iphone app is coming soon to blackberry, which is ok if you have one. But what about the 5th most popular smartphone platform? No love? Well… love. (Course, it’ll prolly cost $5. But at least it will be out. If I had looked a little closer I’d know that the iPhone version is free. So presumably the Android and BB versions will be also. Doh!)

Android and Open Source

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Android Hacking, Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

A lot of noise has been made recently about Android and it’s degree of “openness” (from both sides of the argument.) If you follow me here, or on the lists, or on twitter, etc, you probably already know I have strong feelings on the matter. Although I don’t usually write articles for this site (mostly it is just announcements) I had this one that I didn’t post to the lists. (It got away from me, and was mostly off-topic to the discussion.) I liked it enough to finish it, and so here you go. My take on Android, open source, and how we get this thing from a toy up to world domination.

Want Your Cupcake AND Your Gmail?

Posted on March 30th, 2009 in Android Hacking by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Well.. guess what.. I’ve got some awesome news. Market, gmail, gtalk.. ON CUPCAKE.

Quickie: RC9 for UK and Germany Released

Posted on March 2nd, 2009 in Android Hacking, Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , ,

And we’ve got the link! Signed by Google, so you’ll need a stock phone for this one guys.  (JF is already hard at work on his modded version, have no fear.)

RC9 For UK vOfficial (1782 downloads)
* Signed by Google * For Stock Phones Only * Install as update.zip
RC9 For Germany vOfficial (626 downloads)
* Signed by Google * For Stock Phones Only * Install as update.zip

Enjoy!

Yes, the Market “DRM” Really Is That Bad

Posted on February 20th, 2009 in Android Hacking, Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

As reported elsewhere, the so-called DRM on the Android Market is worthless. We found this out a few hours ago, but I was holding off on posting pending further investigation and talking to Google. Now that its already out.. yes, everything he says is true. The so-called DRM barely qualifies as “permissions”, and sucks down a ton of space that the G1 really can’t spare.

Paid Apps Actually HERE

Posted on February 13th, 2009 in Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , ,

Google has announced support for paid apps! Read more below the fold…

Hi Ars!

Posted on January 28th, 2009 in Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , ,

Just wanted to say a quick Hello! to Ars readers who followed the link from the MemoryUp story. (For my 2 cents on the whole MemoryUp mess, read on..)

Quickies

Posted on December 31st, 2008 in Android Misc by Disconnect  Tagged , , ,

Not much is happening due to the holidays, but here are some quick updates on Android Market, Lenovo and cupcake/master/rc31ish.