Here is the full spec for the new Orange San Francisco Android phone Full specification list: Talk Time: 4 hours Standby Time: 9 days Weight: 130g Dimensions: 116 x 56.5 x 11.8 3.5 inch touchscreen, 480×800 600MHz CPU Camera Features: 3 megapixel Connectivity: WiFi / Bluetooth / USB / SatNav Music: MP3 / FM Radio [...]
Motorola has announced that they recently upgraded their Android 2.1 and 2.2 update time line. With this, it was revealed the already end-of-life Motorola Devour would not be upraded to Android 2.1. Not a real surprise there though. The upgraded time line also detailed the status of the Android 2.1 updates for the Motorola Cliq, Cliq XT, and Motorola Backflip. These updates, are now scheduled to roll out in Q3 and Q4 respecively (see the chart above). That is some good news for Cliq and Backflip owners. They will be tasting Eclair real soon. Also, the Motorola Milestone will be getting Android 2.2 in Q4. Nice. Hope everyone is having a nice sunday! Source: Motorola Image Source: Motorola NOTE: Motorola Updates Android Upgrade Time Line originally appeared on AndroidGuys .
Thought the page-turning Macallan was nifty? You ain’t seen nothing yet — The Astonishing Tribe ( the brains behind the look of Android) aims to give you billowing, rippling cloth-like curtains of clever interactive content with their concept Velvet UI. Pull out a widget or Google Maps query, and a sheet of your desired result waves with the virtual wind, before stretching out flat for you to more comfortably interact with. Running on MeeGo (and apparently possible on Android) it’s built with the company’s proprietary UI framework, so don’t expect it to hit tablets anytime soon unless someone throws them some bucks. Also see: TAT’s other impressive concepts . Video after the break. Continue reading Pay no attention to that playful UI behind the Google Maps curtain (video) Pay no attention to that playful UI behind the Google Maps curtain (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
It’s a sad day for fans of Android , brushed aluminum exteriors, and retina-searing AMOLED displays. Bell’s HTC Legend seems to have come to the end of its days, the provider moving the phone to “end of life” status due to “ongoing supply constraints from the manufacturer.” Phandroid speculates this is due to AMOLED shortages slowing down HTC manufacturing, and that certainly seems like a reasonable conclusion. We also checked out some other suppliers of the phone and they too are not listing it in stock, so this could be a rather abrupt end of the road for one of the best looking, though not necessarily best performing , Android handsets. [Thanks, Tati] Bell HTC Legend prematurely put out to pasture due to AMOLED supply constraints? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Hoping to spoon-feed your Droid X some Froyo before the official OTA rollout? You’d better do it now — Motorola’s sending out cease and desist emails in an attempt to shut the leaked ROM down. We can’t say whether it’s just red tape or to protect customers from a EVO 4G-like non-final build , but for whatever reason Motorola’s director of information security is asking sites like MyDroidWorld to remove the files ASAP. Given the company’s recent history with the mod community, however, we imagine there’s some sort of walled-garden reason behind it. [Thanks, Dustin D.] Motorola clamps down on Droid X’s leaked Android 2.2 upgrade with cease and desist scare originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
If you’re a peachy-keen Android/Motorola user, then you’re no doubt jonesing for some upgrade action. Well, I have some good news and some not-so-good news on the matter. Good news: Over the weekend, Motorola released their upgrade schedule , outlining which models will get which version of Android, and when. Not-so-good news: I really wish I could tell you that you’re all getting Froyo, but sometimes you just don’t get the dessert you wanted. So, who gets what when? Follow on through for the details. North America Droid X by Motorola (USA): Upgrade to Android 2.2 planned for late summer Devour (USA): Will not have a software upgrade to Android 2.1 Backflip, Cliq and Cliq XT (USA): Upgrade to Android 2.1 (testing in process) planned for late Q3/early Q4 All Android 2.1 and 2.2 upgrades for Canada are under evaluation only. This includes the Backflip, Dext, Milestone, Quench Europe Milestone: Initial rollout of upgrade to Android 2.2 planned for Q4 Backflip and Dext: Will not have software upgrades to Android 2.1 Asia-Pacific Milestone, Motoroi and Titanium (all Korea): Initial rollout of upgrades to Android 2.2 planned for Q4 Milestone (Asia-Pacific): Upgrade to Android 2.2 under evaluation Backflip, Dext and Quench (all Asia-Pacific): Upgrades to Android 2.1 under evaluation Latin America and Mexico Milestone: Upgrade to Android 2.2 under evaluation Backflip and Dext: Will not have software upgrades to Android 2.1 So, like I said, it’s not all good news, especially if you’re in Canada. Of course, the wonderful thing about Android is that someone, somewhere is probably porting a version of Froyo over to your phone, anyway. Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and snuggly inside? [via The Unwired ]
Much ink has been spilled, and many a pixel lit, on objects to which people feel an unreasonable loyalty. Blood, too, depending on whether you’re willing to classify the likes of Crusaders and soccer hooligans as fanboys. And why not? These rivalries, from the biblical to the forum-bound, all have a certain distinctive unreason to them. Yet there is nothing more reasonable than sticking by your choices, your judgments, your perceptions — your brands. So how do things get so venomous? It seems like pitchforks are issued with every browser these days. Let’s see if we can make sense of why so many of us end up escalating to such absurd heights something so clearly trivial. Confession To begin with, let’s have a little therapy session. I want you to repeat after me: “I am a fanboy.” Or fangirl. Go ahead, say it. You don’t have to actually say it. But recognize that you are one — not necessarily for something obvious, or in an obvious way, but you are. Okay, I’ll start. I’m a not-using-Twitter fanboy. I’ve written about it before, and even though my friends and colleagues make excellent arguments for it, I refuse to. Why? Because it’s one of the things on which I can take a stand and (this is crucial) see the effect of that stand. That’s really all there is to it, isn’t it? We all want to take a stand, we all want a conflict, we all want to be fighting for the right side of something. And the fact is that for some of us, our brand choices are among the most important things in our lives. Yes, brand shapes us more than we’d like to admit (it’s arguable even that our religions and political parties are increasingly brandlike. That was actually part of the discussion that led to this article: buying a webOS tablet over iOS or Android would be like voting for Nader. Well, there was more to it than that, but you get the idea). There’s a sort of existential nausea that accompanies this banality, so we create entire mythologies peripheral to those choices in order to increase the scope of the conflict. How else could Mac versus PC, or iPhone versus Android, devolve into meta-discussions of rights to privacy, corporate mottos, the personality traits of executives? Like pedantic philosophers, …
What is Motorola Kobe? The device, also known by its model number MB520, seems to be popping up on a couple of certification websites. UPnP Forum certified it on June 16, 2010 (listed as “Kobe ATT”), and additionally on July 8th the smartphone quietly got a thumbs up from the WiFi Alliance for single band (2.4GHz) 802.11b/g/n. Of course, an IEEE standard does not a phone make, and so we’ve been in touch with a trusted source who’s provided us with specifications of the device, as well as screencaps of some benchmarks results and the all-important About Phone page. The Kobe is a slate-style smartphone currently featuring Android 2.1 with a Motoblur skin reminiscent of Droid 2 / Droid X ‘s UI. We’re told it has a 3.5-inch LCD with 480 x 854 resolution, a 800MHz TI OMAP processor (either 3440 or an underclocked 3630), PowerVR SGX 530 GPU, 512MB RAM, 2GB internal storage and a bundled 2GB microSD card, and a 3 megapixel camera (without flash). It currently comes loaded with Swype, Vlingo, and DNLA support. We gotta say, camera notwithstanding, this sounds like a pretty appealing addition to AT&T’s growing Android lineup. Hit up the gallery below for benchmark scores. Gallery: Motorola MB520 ‘Kobe’ benchmark scores Exclusive: Motorola MB520 ‘Kobe’ boasts a Droid X-esque UI, AT&T affinity originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
The Nexus One retail situation has been pretty dire since Google humanely put down its own online store , leaving only paid developers with an easy option to get an unlocked unit (and only an AWS 3G version at that). Now, even that’s been taken away — at least temporarily — thanks to unexpectedly strong demand that left Google to “blow through the (substantial) initial inventory in almost no time” and run up a backorder with HTC. Interestingly, Google specifically points out that HTC is doing a good job with manufacturing despite the AMOLED shortage, which leads us to wonder whether the SLCD version is shipping in quantity yet — and considering how the Nexus One and Desire are well into midlife, we wonder whether it makes sense to even bother at this point when we’ve got next-gen products just around the corner . Good news is that Google still seems committed to getting Nexus Ones back in stock for developers, we just don’t know when that’s going to happen. Google sells out of Nexus Ones for devs, ‘working hard’ to get more; SLCD not alleviating backorders yet originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
We really like it when developers and providers for Android listen to the feedback their users are giving them. Appbrain.com informed us through a press release that they have made some significant changes to their site to better serve their users. A quote from the release: Apart from a much cleaner UI, we have completely redone the way users can browse for Android apps. The updated site offers innovative sorting options to discover interesting Android apps. Our traditional daily hot, weekly hot, and popular listings will be more visible, but there will also be completely new sorting options such as sorting by use in a number of specific countries, and popularity among men or women and age groups. In addition to these new sorting orders you can fully subdivide each major sorting order into Android categories and filter on free, paid, updated, price reduced and new apps only. This means that you are going to be able to drill down to the genre of app you are looking for a lot quicker, which is always a good thing. We applaud appbrain.com for these changes and quietly point the people at Google in charge of the Market towards these changes and urge them to take notice! NOTE: AppBrain.com Updates Site with New Ways to Sort Apps originally appeared on AndroidGuys .
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