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Category: Android

  • First Google “Ice Cream Sandwich” Phone? Samsung Nexus Prime

    Nexus Prime sounds like something from the upcoming Transformers movie. But, BGR says it will be the first Android phone to be based on the Android “Ice Cream Sandwich” release.

    Google’s first Ice Cream Sandwich phone to be manufactured by Samsung, possibly dubbed ‘Nexus Prime’

    Ice Cream Sandwich is supposed to unify the current fragmentation between phone (OS 2.3 Gingerbread) and tablet (OS 3.x Honeycomb) releases.

    AndroidCommunity.com had info that indicated that HTC was producing the next Nexus flagship release. HTC produced the Nexus One while Samsung produced the current Nexus S flagship product.

    Google Working with HTC on Ice Cream Sandwich Nexus Phone?

  • Android OS 2.3.4 Update for Nexus One

    The Android OS 2.3.4 update hit my Nexus One on May 3, 2011. Since the N1 does not have a front-facing camera, it didn’t get the Google Talk video chat option.
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  • 8 Apps Booted off my Droid

    Android 1.0 design decisions continue to plague my Android experience. I booted 8 apps off of my Droid today to get back some much needed system storage space. Of the 8 apps booted off only Firefox allowed itself to be moved to SD flash storage. However, it is so slow on the Droid, I decided to uninstall it. Two of the apps that would not install to an SD were actually small and did not impact the storage situation much. The 7 apps that do not relocate to an SD card and got booted off are:

    CNBC 0.344
    Google Goggles 3.38
    Google Reader 2.29
    INRIX Traffic 2.93
    PdaNet 0.276
    State Farm Pocket Agent 3.73
    The Weather Channel 2.52

    A total of 15.47MB of app storage space was recovered by uninstalling these apps.

  • Eee Pad Transformer for $399

    Asus Eee Pad Transformer “Honeycomb” Android tablet will be available in the U.S. starting tomorrow. I just noticed an advertisement for it on my blog (that’s just a screenshot to the left. It is not clickable). But, since it is a Google Adsense ad, I’m not supposed to click on my own ad 🙂

  • Podcast 43: Dictionary.com Mobile User App Behavior Research

    In Podcast 43 I speak with Dictionary.com President Shravan Goli. The main topic of this 32 minute 49 second is Dictionary.com’s recent research in how users of different mobile platforms use their mobile apps. Dictionary.com provides mobile apps for the iPhone/iPad, Android, and BlackBerry. The combined download for their apps is over 11 million. About 6.8 million of those downloads have been the iPhone version. The iPad version of their app has been downloaded by 300,000 users (there are about 2 million total iPad users).

    Dictionary.com plans to release an API for mobile app developers in 6 to 8 weeks. This will let them develop word games and other word related apps based on Dictionary.com’s word list.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
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  • Testing WordPress for Android 1.1 with Photo

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    Testing the latest update and its photo upload feature