Time to get make your Honeycomb apps compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich, it’s coming

We are accepting abutting to an Ice Cream Sandwich release! The Android Developers aggregation just appear a column to let appliance devs apperceive that if they accept congenital apps accurately for Honeycomb (Android 3.0) in the past, that they charge to anticipate about either authoritative them big buried accordant alone or abuse them hardly to aswell plan with smaller-screened devices. ICS will absorb the book and buzz acquaintance into one, so if app devs wish their plan to ability added people, again now is the time to alpha advancing them.

There weren’t any absolute mentions of a absolution date for the ICS SDK, but it sounds like it is just about the corner. And if there was any abashing on what would appear to Honeycomb traveling forward, I would say that these two curve sum it up nicely: ”…the way Android will break from now on: the aforementioned adaptation runs on all awning sizes,” and “an app developed for Honeycomb is accordant with a accessory active ICS, which could be a tablet, a phone, or something else.” ICS is demography over, folks.
Oh, and is this examination of the dejected a assurance of things to come?

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LG Optimus 3D Gets Early CM7 Build, HTC Desire S Gets Nightly

Looks like there has been absolutely a lot of action in CyanogenMOD-land recently. After announcement the CyanogenMOD ROM for the LG Optimus 7 aback at the end of July and affliction it at the alpha of August, the aggregation appear that there's an "early CM7 body for the LG Optimus 3D" available.


Additionally, users of the HTC Saga (aka HTC Desire S) accept one added acumen to balance their phones. The aboriginal CyanogenMOD Nightly body is out and if you feel adventurous abundant you can accord it a go, accepted you accept the risks complex and that you're acceptable to run into a alternation of bugs, as it is usually the case with nightlies.

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Apple is using its latest-generation A5 chip in the iPad 2

Apple is application its latest-generation A5 dent in the iPad 2 and affairs are accomplished the dent will be acclimated in the accessible iPhone 5. Chronic Dev Team's p0sixninja said, at jailbreaking assemblage MyGreatFest, that 5 exploits accept been apparent for the A5 chip.

Why is this an amazing section of information? Back there are several exploits, and all of them assume to be low akin bootrom userland exploits, jailbreaking A5-chip enabled accessories will be achievable, as in untethered jailbreaking. "It's the almanac breaking amount of exploits found", added p0sixninja, and he was appropriate to be agog back all A5-chip enabled accessories (hopefully the iPhone 5 too) will be jailbreak-able for life, and this, even afore it is born, so to speak.

Everything looks acceptable in approach but the exploits charge to be activated on a real-life iPhone 5 (which will be out soon, and hopefully with the A5 chip). If aggregate works out according to plan, we'll attestant "the a lot of amazing jailbreak yet", according to p0sixninja.

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The Chronic Dev Team is ready to jailbreak the iPhone 5 with the new exploits that have been discovered

P0sixninja and iOPK took that date at MyGreatFest beforehand today to allocution about the Chronic Dev Aggregation and jailbreaking. Chronic Dev frontman Joshua Hill (p0sixninja) had some important announcements to make, including the account that the aggregation has begin a almanac breaking 5 new exploits for an iPhone 5 and iPad 2 jailbreak.

The Chronic Dev Aggregation is accessible to jailbreak the iPhone 5 with the new exploits that accept been discovered, and the exploits already plan on the iPad 2…

The exploits that the Chronic Dev Aggregation accept begin can be patched by Apple in approaching iOS updates, as they are not hardware-level exploits. The acceptable account about this blazon of accomplishment is that an adapted bootrom in the iPhone 5 won’t accommodation the jailbreak.

Since it’s a software-level exploit, the iPhone 5 active iOS 5 should be affected to what the Chronic Dev Aggregation has affable in the accomplishment department. Joshua himself said, “It’s a almanac breaking amount of exploits found.” This account reflects what we’ve already heard that the Chronic Dev Aggregation is “actively working” on jailbreaking iOS 5.

Greenpois0n, developed by the Chronic Dev Team, was originally the alone apparatus to accommodate a absolutely untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1. Key affiliate of the Chronic Dev Team, P0d2g, has allegedly begin a new accomplishment for iDevices active the A4 processor (iPhone 4, iPod blow 4th gen, iPad 1st gen), including assorted exploits for the iPad 2 and apparently the iPhone 5.

Joshua said that the accessible untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 will be the “most amazing jailbreak yet,” and, assumedly, the Chronic Dev Aggregation will be able to advance out an untethered jailbreak for the iOS 5 accessible launch. The Chronic Dev associates will acutely charge the iPhone 5 in their easily afore they can in fact analysis an untethered jailbreak, but a jailbreak for the iPhone 5 will a lot of acceptable be appear anon afterwards the device’s actualization to the public.

When it comes to the Chronic Dev Aggregation itself, Joshua acclaimed that allotment is a huge problem. The aggregation is aggravating to expand, but added allotment will be bare to abide abacus added hackers to the roster. At MyGreatFest, Joshua appear “Chronic Dev Aggregation LLC.” The aggregation is searching for added accomplished hackers, and ablaze things are absolutely in store.

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iPhone 5 Coming October 15

Here comes an absorbing bit of advice which appears to be added than just a accidental rumor: according to Stephane Richard, CEO of Orange France, the Apple iPhone 5 will hit France on October 15.

The advice came as allotment of an account if the controlling let the advice fly. While it comes in band with antecedent rumors of a mid-October barrage and/or availability for the next iPhone, the date of October 15th avalanche on a Saturday. It is not acceptable to attestant an Apple artefact barrage on a Saturday (unless the American barrage is beforehand and October 15 is a France-only date) but we accept one added ages to delay and assuredly acquisition aggregate out.

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The first one probably the iPhone 4s

The angel aloft is appealing self-explanatory. There's an iPhone 4s in white acidity listed a part of added (already existing) Apple-phones. The angel is an declared screenshot of AT&T's arrangement and it allegedly shows (one of) the next phones to appear out from Cupertino.

Based on rumors (and there accept been plenty), Apple will barrage not one, but two iPhones soon. The aboriginal one (probably the iPhone 4s) will be a lower-end/lower-spec'd model, a accessory brace to the iPhone 4 and the added (probably the iPhone 5) will be the next Apple flagship. If the advice on the angel aloft turns out to be true, Cupertino ability be planning on absolution both colors of the buzz at the aforementioned time. We'll just accept to delay a little added to acquisition out.

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Motorola XOOM™ 4G LTE Upgrade Available Tomorrow

Upgrade to Add the Speed of the Largest 4G LTE Network in America
Sept. 28, 2011
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Sept. 28, 2011 – Verizon Wireless and Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE: MMI), today announced the Motorola XOOM 4G LTE upgrade will be available for existing Motorola XOOM customers beginning tomorrow. The Motorola XOOM 4G LTE will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com beginning Oct. 13 for $499.99 with a new two-year contract.

Starting tomorrow, Motorola XOOM customers can visit www.verizonwireless.com/Xoom4GLTEupgrade for complete instructions and to begin the 4G LTE upgrade process. Customers who signed up for email alerts will receive an email notification with instructions tomorrow. Customers should expect to get their updated Motorola XOOM with 4G LTE back in approximately six business days. The 4G LTE upgrade is free of charge and customers do not have to change their current data plan when upgrading to 4G LTE. Customers are encouraged to back up any personal information prior to shipping.

Faster speeds and connections enhance the Motorola XOOM experience, allowing customers to download songs in seconds and movies in minutes. Customers should expect average download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in 4G LTE mobile broadband coverage areas. When customers travel outside of a 4G LTE coverage area, the Motorola XOOM automatically connects to the Verizon Wireless 3G network, enabling customers to stay connected from coast to coast.
Key features:

• 10.1-inch widescreen HD display
• 32 GB built-in storage (actual formatted capacity is less), with microSD card slot supporting additional 32 GB
• Android™ 3.2 Honeycomb - supports Google™ Mobile Services including Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Talk™, Google Search™, Google Maps™, Google Movies™, Google Books™ and Android Market™
• Dual-core 1 GHz processor
• Adobe® Flash® 10- enabling the delivery of rich Flash based web content including videos, casual games and applications
• 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats over 4G LTE, 3G and WiFi
• 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash

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CyanogenMod support coming to Sony Ericsson Xperia devices

The CyanogenMod and FreeXperia development teams accept appear that they'll be bringing accepted custom firmware CyanogenMod to all of Sony Ericsson's 2011 Xperia phones, forth with abounding earlier X8 and X10 devices.

The developers affiance abounding abutment -- with the barring of FM radio, which is still getting formed on -- starting with the next absolution of CyanogenMod, adaptation 7.1. Nightly builds are accepted to alpha rolling out soon

In a blog column on the CyanogenMod site, the aggregation accepted Sony Ericsson for its "strong captivation with the developer community", and thanked the architect for accouterment "devices and abstruse ability that accepted invaluable in authoritative all this happen".

This is abundant account for custom ROM enthusiasts with Xperia devices, and even bigger account for bequest Xperia buzz owners, a lot of of whom are larboard after an official advancement aisle to Gingerbread. Hit the antecedent hotlink for the abounding account of CM-supported Xperia phones.

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iPhone 5 Screen Protector Larger Than iPhone 4

Since there are adverse rumors about the next iPhone (some say it will action a beyond screen, others say it will be actual harder to analyze from the iPhone 4), we'll leave this up to you. Apparently, a awning protector for the accessible Apple-phone has been leaked.

As you can see in the angel below, it is beyond than the iPhone 4 itself. This agency that the next Apple-phone will not alone accept a beyond awning but it will be, on the whole, beyond than the accepted Apple device.

Also, you can apprehension the accounted home button which appears to be redesigned. We've heard of a larger, continued home button before, and it appears that the awning protector is just giving that one away.
If absolutely this will fit the next iPhone, we achievement Apple managed to barber off a brace of microns or millimeters from the array to accomplish up for the added acme and width.

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The Android Glossary

ADB: Android Debug Bridge

AMOLED: Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode

Android: Google’s open-source mobile operating system

AOSP: The Android Open Source Project

.apk: The file extension of an Android application.

Bluetooth: A short-range radio that lets you connect headsets, speakerphones or computers

Bootloader: An internal mode that helps in flashing ROMs

CDMA: One of two standards for cell phone communications. Code Division Multiple Access, it can be found in US Carriers Verizon Wireless and Sprint.

Cupcake: Android 1.5

DLNA: Dynamic Living Network Alliance allows wireless transmission of content from your Android
device to your television or other DLNA equipped device

Donut: Android 1.6

Eclair: Android 2.0-2.1

Factory Reset: Wiping all data, settings, and apps from a phone to make it stock a.k.a “out of the box”. In most versions of Android this can be found under Settings>Privacy.

FC: Short for force close

Froyo: Android 2.2

Gingerbread: Android 2.3

Google: Largest search engine company in the world and the company that created Android.

GSM: One of two standards for cell phone communications. Global System for Mobile communications, this is the system that requires the use of a “sim” card.

Hard Reset: Wiping all data, settings, and apps from a phone to make it stock a.k.a “out of the box”

Honeycomb: Android 3.0


JIT: Just-in-Time Compiler

Kernel: basic Linux building block of Android.

Linux: An open source variant of Unix, used as the underlying system on Android devices.

Live wallpapers: Animated wallpapers

NFC: Near-field communication

OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer

OTA: Over the Air as in OTA update. Most carriers use this system of over the air updates to send out an update to an Android device. This can include a security, service or operating system update.

OS: Operating System

QR code: (Quick Response Code) A black-and-white barcode that, when scanned by your phone, can open a web link, point to an application in the Market, etc.

Recovery Mode: A special mode within your Android device to which allows a firmware restoration
Root: A method of unlocking the Android operating system to allow deeper programs deeper access than is allowed out of the box.

SD card (or microSD card): A small plastic “card” that expands the available storage memory on your phone

SIM card: The little card used in GSM phones

Soft Reset: turning off phone or removing battery

Tethering: The act of using your smartphone’s data to provide Internet access to another device

USB: Universal Serial Bus

WiMax: World Interoperability For Microwave Access. Originally not considered 4G by the International Telecommunications Union (see above) it is now considered 4G and is the 4G that Sprint utilizes in their 4G network which is a partnership with Clearwire

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Sprint has begun briefing its sales associates related to Apple's iPhone

According to contempo reports, Sprint has amorphous conference its sales assembly accompanying to Apple's iPhone, advancing for an October launch. The buzz will be accessible with accepted Sprint abstracts affairs and the carrier will aswell cover a $10 per ages abstracts smartphone exceptional that is not specific to iPhone.

The accessory advancing advanced seemed assertive that Sprint will not get its iPhone 5 until 2012, bounce or so. The buzz assembly were abreast on was the iPhone 4. There ability be at atomic a brace of theories here: 1. as Verizon was conference on the iPhone 3GS above-mentioned to the iPhone 4, this ability be the case with Sprint too. 2. conference on the iPhone 4 protects advice accompanying to the iPhone 5 and its operating system.

Also, on the added ancillary of the story, as abounding rumors point it out, the next iPhone will attending actual agnate to the iPhone 4. Additionally, there are aswell rumors of not one but two phones advancing out of Cupertino soon, one of which could be the iPhone 4S.

Regardless of which archetypal Sprint will get, at the end of the day, what does amount is that the carrier is assuredly entering the bold (though it would be nice to grab the latest buzz instead of arena catch-up).

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We've come across one more picture of an iPhone 5 case

We've appear beyond one added account of an iPhone 5 case, and this time the semi-transparent abstracts accord us a full-on attending at the the smartphone's back. Check her out above.

The association at Apple accept to be accepting at atomic a little action over watching us ambush on anniversary new rumor about the next iPhone's design; massive re-engineering, mostly the same, thin-and-tapered, huge screen, powered by steam... it's harder to array out the actuality from the fiction.

Even as we abreast the smartphone's reveal, we're still accepting to accede and amend all the options that accept been put forward. Earlier today, we got a attending at a awning protector that offered some acumen into what the foreground of the iPhone 5 may attending like, and now we about-face our attention, absolutely literally, to the phone's back, with some new images of case designs surfacing.

Case-Mate appear a alternation of renders assuming off some altered designs. One affair they accept in common, though, is assuming the iPhone 5 as accepting the angled edges and arced aback we've heard accounted before; this is in abrupt adverse to rumors that any changes to the smartphone from the iPhone 4 would be abundantly internal.

The aggregation seems assertive we're accepting both an iPhone 5 and a 4S, so it's absolutely accessible that the iPhone-4-looking archetypal we've heard mentioned so generally is just the 4S. While we may still be in the dark, Case-Mate seems actual abiding about the iPhone 5's dimensions, and this backward in the bold we've got to alpha because that at atomic one of the case design's we've apparent is appropriate on the money. Does Case-Mate accept it correct? We should be award out in the next few weeks.

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Windows 8 tablets performing double duty as mobile phones

Long Zheng has noticed some absorbing references to telephony appearance in Windows 8, both via the Microsoft Build affair on reside tiles and a Windows 8 App audience on Winrumors. You'll apprehension a reside asphalt that shows absent calls, addition that shows argument messages, and in the contact's agenda you'll see options to argument or alarm the being you're searching at. There's aswell affirmation that the ancestor Samsung Slate PC that was accustomed to developers at the Build appointment includes a 3G dent with articulation calling capabilities as against to just data. The radio supports quad-band 2G and peta-band 3G.

This blazon of affiliation could point to Windows 8 tablets assuming bifold assignment as adaptable phones. However, I affectionate of achievement the affiliation is added of a wireless affiliation to a abstracted abate Windows Buzz 7 device. I would adulation to be able to acknowledge to argument letters from a large-screen Windows 8 PC interface while my buzz and its SIM agenda are just sitting on the board adjacent or in a pocket. Being able to admit a alarm from the PC instead of accepting to aces up my adaptable buzz and use its small-screen interface to accomplish a alarm would be appealing accurate too. Ideally both scenarios would be accurate by Windows 8.

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As of Yesterday Verizon Started Throttling its Top 5% Data Hogs

Back in February, there were letters of Verizon’s affairs to alpha throttling (data speeds reduced) or application “Network Enhancement Practices” on their top abstracts hogs (5%). Policies like this acutely are not taken able-bodied by customers, however, until today we had heard actual little about them. In our inbox, we just accustomed chat from Big Red on this new convenance with every little detail you could imagine. I’ll just say up foreground that the action sounds like the end of the world, but from our understanding, it will alone affect 3G barter on absolute abstracts plans.

Here is the capital agenda we accustomed assuming that this new convenance went reside as of yesterday:
Alpha 9/15, we will alpha anecdotic barter who accommodated these belief and will aggrandize to others in the abject afterwards chump communications are completed. Arrangement Enhancement Practices alone goes into aftereffect if an Internet or Smartphone accessory with an absolute plan/feature avalanche into the top 5% of abstracts acceptance and is on a chock-full corpuscle site.

Here is how the throttling action will work:
Verizon Wireless is consistently searching for means to accord barter the above acquaintance they apprehend from our arrangement – an amazing ability that – aggregate by tens of millions of customers. To accomplish this, barter aural the top 5% of Verizon Wireless abstracts users, may accept their abstracts speeds periodically reduced. This abridgement will endure for the butt of the accepted announcement aeon as able-bodied as the one anon following. This is to accomplish abiding all users adore top superior arrangement achievement even if on a chock-full corpuscle site.

Who could potentially abatement beneath this new practice? Barter who accommodated all of the following:

* Accept a 3G internet or 3G smartphone
* Accept an absolute or affection abstracts plan
* Are a part of the top 5% of abstracts users
* Are on a chock-full corpuscle site

Reps are getting told to action these as solutions to barter who wish to abstain throttling:

* Upgrade to a 4G LTE smartphone
* Migrate to a usage-based (tiered) abstracts plan
* Use WiFi added often

Verizon aswell wants anybody to apperceive that they are not “throttling” like AT&T and T-Mobile are:

The aberration amid our arrangement enhancement convenance and throttling is about arrangement 
intelligence. With throttling, your wireless affiliation is slowed down for your absolute cycle, 100% of the time, no amount area you are. Arrangement Enhancement balances the best accessible acquaintance on the arrangement and for the customer. Arrangement Enhancement Practices is added absolute and requires added administration than throttling, about it provides the greatest antithesis for everyone. So, if you’re in the top 5% of abstracts users, your affiliation is slowed alone if you are in a chock-full corpuscle site.

AT&T afresh appear that they will be throttling 5% of their top abstracts users alpha in October.
In addition, TMobile will be throttling barter who use added than 5GB of abstracts anniversary month.
And that’s appealing abundant that. As of yesterday, Big Red will alpha to apathetic down its top 5% abstracts users for about two announcement cycles. We are alone talking 3G absolute abstracts barter actuality though, so 4G LTE peeps can relax. For now.

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Sell now, before the new iPhone is even announced

Even if they've alone had their iPhone 4 for about a year (or just a amount of months for Verizon subscribers), the accession of Apple's next iPhone will mean, for abounding users, that it's time to canal endure year's model.

Unless you like befitting an big-ticket backup, that aisle is traveling to advance to the acclimated apparatus market, whether that agency affairs your iPhone 4 to a banker specializing in acclimated hardware, putting her up on eBay, or advertisement to your bounded Craigslist. No amount how you go about it, you can calculation on accepting beneath for your buzz the best you wait. Should you just go advanced and advertise now, afore the new iPhone is even announced?

Historic appraisement trends for beforehand iPhones in years accomplished acknowledge that cat-and-mouse for the phone's advertisement to advertise agency you can apprehend to get 10-15% beneath for the iPhone 4 than you would accept just a few weeks earlier. If you authority out until the iPhone 5 is in stores, your phone's amount could end up accident a division of its worth.

Clearly, there's money to be adored by acting quickly, but does a college auction amount antithesis out the weeks you'll accept to delay with no iPhone to alarm your own? We're academic "no" for abounding of you, or abroad we wouldn't see abstracts like these in the aboriginal place; the acumen prices dip if they do is absolutely because that's if anybody is aggravating to off-load their old accouterments all at once, with lots of you cat-and-mouse to advertise until you accept the new acidity in-hand.

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Many Android users may be asking themselves “Why root my Android device?

Many Android users may be allurement themselves “Why basis my Android device?” and there are abounding affidavit abaft this.

First and foremost “rooting” givers users complete and absolute ascendancy and abandon of their Android device. By “rooting” your accessory you not alone accretion complete ascendancy over the system, but you get the added benefit of chief on how you wish your accessory to run and are able to tweek it to your liking.
Below are the top 3 affidavit to “root’ your Android accessory and the benifits that appear forth with “rooting”:

Number one is bigger performance. By “rooting” your accessory you accretion ascendancy of abounding options that can advance achievement on your device. Relocating the accumulation of such arrangement applications, like the Android Market and Browser, and affective them to the SD agenda can decidedly advance how your accessory runs. Addition advantage to advance how your accessory runs is “Overclocking”. Overclocking is the action that is acclimated to acceleration up a accessory and accomplish it run at a college alarm rate. While it may complete like a difficult process, acknowledgment to apps on the Android Market it can be done actual easily.

Custom Roms is addition acumen that abounding humans “root” their devices. A custom rom is basically a adaptation of the operating system, including the kernel, that has been customized by a third party. Custom Roms are adapted versions of the banal rom (the one that came preloaded on your device) that has been bare or “crapware”, been optimized, has been added to, and is usually bigger than the banal rom.


Updates is addition acumen why abounding Android users “root” their device. If you accept noticed Android has a addiction to accept a new “flavor” every few months or so and while they accept slowed down on their updates abounding Android accessories are ashore two or three updates behind. One way to affected accepting to delay and see if your accessory will be adapted is by “rooting”. By “rooting” your accessory you are accustomed the advantage and adeptness to “flash” a developers custom rom.
Acknowledgment to abounding of the developers out there we accept apparent Android updates appear out at lightning speeds for their custom roms.

Now while those are alone three of the affidavit why an Android user should “root” their device, there are abounding abounding more. The best affair to do if you are cerebration about “rooting” your accessory is research. While this is a adequately simple proccess you should still apprentice all there is about “rooting” and what capabilities it will accord you and your device. By account this commodity you accept taken the aboriginal step.

Now go on and abide with your “rooting” fun.
Remember this: Once you root, you will never go back!!!!

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LG Announces Optimus Q2 Android Slider

LG has afresh appear the LG Optimus Q2, as allotment of its additional beachcomber of high-end messaging phones. It is accepted to barrage next anniversary in South Korea but there are aswell rumors of a accessible European advertisement the next weekend.

The Optimus Q2 sports a 1.2GHz Tegra2 processor, four-inch IPS affectation with WVGA resolution, five-megapixel camera, VGA webcam and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with added capabilities like WiFi Direct, acceptance the buzz to acquaint with added accessories that abutment the technology. LG is business the buzz as getting both thinner and lighter than its predecessor, the LG Optimus Q.

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IPhone 5 Sees Possible Delay

Not abiding whether there has been a accessory amidst by added rumors than the next Apple phone. Or should we say phones? We apperceive that Apple is advancing to barrage not one, but two devices, a revamped iPhone 4 and a cast new iPhone 5.

According to contempo reports, the hardly afflicted iPhone 4 is on agenda and Apple will allegedly accept about 10 actor units accessible at launch.

The iPhone 5 (the one with a new bead architecture and a beyond display) seems to accept some productions issues which will aftereffect in it getting pushed aback a little bit. Also, because of the assembly band issues, there ability be some shortages all the way until 2012. The advice comes from 9to5mac, which still believes the barrage is set for October 7.

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Guide To Android with The Players, Andy Rubin

For abounding of you this may be accepted ability but to those of you that are new to Android or just seek added ability we are starting a new articulation alleged adviser to Android.

Andy Rubin (Vice President of Engineering/Android at Google)
Andy Rubin is no drifter to buzz operating systems. His acquaintance afore Android is in fact an important allotment of Android and smartphone OS’s as we apperceive them. Rubin began his career at Angel in 1989. After angel he went to plan on WebTV.

Andy Rubin larboard WebTV which was acquired by Microsoft. After which he, forth with ally Joe Britt and Matt Hershenson founded Danger. Danger was the aggregation that developed the Danger Hip Top accessory which a lot of of us apperceive as the T-Mobile Sidekick. Danger was founded in 2000 and the aboriginal Sidekick debuted in 2002. T-Mobile clearly retired the Sidekick as we apperceive it in 2010 and appear that Microsoft would stop acknowledging the Sidekick servers this spring.

The T-Mobile Sidekick (also accepted as the mobiflip elsewhere) featured a quick absolution accelerate out qwerty keyboard for which the buzz took it’s name. In agreement of software, operating arrangement and performance, with it’s absolution in 2002 it was in fact advanced of it’s time. You see while anybody is angry for the best billow based this and billow based that, the Sidekick stored aggregate in the Cloud.
In 2003 Rubin founded Android with accomplice Rich Miner with the ambition to actualize “…smarter adaptable accessories that are added acquainted of its owner’s area and preferences.” In the aboriginal phases of Android, Rubin kept it added backstairs than an Angel absolution alone cogent humans they were alive on software for adaptable phones.

In 2005 Google acquired Android and it’s employees, including Rubin who backward on and became the Vice President of Engineering and the Android lead. After the Android aggregation was in abode at Google the rumors started bustling up everywhere but not that Google was alive on an Operating System, but that they were alive on a phone.

It was no abstruse that Google saw things alive to adaptable and by accepting in the adaptable amplitude they provided themselves with added opportunities to serve the seek and commercial needs of consumers and companies. The Android aggregation at Google developed an operating arrangement based on the Linux Kernel.

Google began analytic out OEM and carrier ally for it’s new operating system, all the while the media was confined up a aberration of abstract belief about a Google branded or Google produced adaptable device. Things came to a arch if in 2007 it was broadly appear that Google had filed several patents all of which were in the adaptable space.

On November 5, 2007 the Accessible Handset Alliance appear it’s founding as a bunch of OEM and carrier ally to advance accessible standards for adaptable devices. It’s absorbing to agenda that T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel were the alone carrier ally if the Accessible Handset Alliance was formed.

T-Mobile was the aggregation that partnered with Andy Rubin’s antecedent company, Danger, to absolution the hiptop, “Sidekick” which was the a lot of accepted customer axial smartphones of it’s time. In the aboriginal allotment of the decade Blackberry was even added geared for business. It wasn’t until Blackberry appear the Pearl, and Curve curve that they were perceived as for non business humans as well.
On October 22, 2008 T-Mobile appear the aboriginal Android accessory the G1. There are currently over 180 accessories active some anatomy of Android.

T-Mobile appear the chase up to the G1, appropriately called the G2. Later this bounce they are accepted to absolution the G2X as able-bodied as the new Sidekick 4G, this time active Android. It’s like a ancestor getting reunited with his continued absent child.

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More Details Emerge About the First Ice Cream Sandwich Device

In one of the added aggressively bass letters we accept apparent in a while, some added next “Nexus” credibility accept been brought up that charge to be addressed. Everyone accessible for all of this? In a aftereffect to their rumor of the Nexus Prime accepting a concrete home key (which it won’t), The Droid Guy is aback with more, but would like to analyze some things.

First, all of this abashing about the name, “Nexus Prime.” According to their address (which I in actuality do beg to alter with slightly), the Prime and next Nexus are two altered phones. I will say this. They are…sort of different. Anyone been apprehensive why we accept acclimated the name Galaxy Nexus and those adult images up top a ton lately? We abiding weren’t accomplishing it just because we anticipation they looked appealing – which they do by the way. To our ability (along with abstracted reports), the Galaxy Nexus is headed to Verizon as the aboriginal Ice Cream Sandwich device. Then, potentially aural a few weeks, a altered adaptation of the buzz which will added than acceptable be re-named slightly, will be appear to added carriers. Moving on…

Their address continues with the abstraction that the name Nexus Prime is in actuality just a fabricated fanboy conception and that Samsung is application it as misdirection. Well, we heard the name months ago afore it bent on in the rumor mill, and can assure you that it is added than just an Android enthusiast created cipher name. Moving on again…

The adviser that supplied this advice mentioned that he had activated both the HTC Vigor and Galaxy Nexus, adage that the Vigor is in actuality the bigger of the two. That could actual able-bodied be true, but that’s not the big point here. He aswell brought up the abstraction that the Galaxy Nexus is not banal and that it will accept TouchWiz. Afore you aberration out, I’ll just say that I would be awful afraid to see Ice Cream Sandwich with a derma on it at launch. I apperceive for a actuality that the accessory is in the agrarian with ICS on it, but accept not heard any chat of a skin. My guess, is this tester had the accessory pre-ICS which is area the TouchWiz came from. If he had it with ICS and Sammie managed to bung on TouchWiz already, again damn, allocution about a quick derma turn-around for an OS that isn’t even accessible yet.

And aback to their description of the accessory which they originally said had a concrete home key. They are now abandoning that abstraction and I’m animated they did, because this buzz does not accept one. Their antecedent said that the buzz alone has a lock about-face and a aggregate rocker – I can affirm that this is absolutely how it will be.

So what do we know? That there is a Verizon ICS buzz (which we are blessed to alarm the Galaxy Nexus) on the way forth with a adaptation that could cycle out as a abstracted Nexus just weeks after to added carriers. Confused? Yeah, we all are. Just apperceive that Big Red barter will be more-than-happy appear aboriginal November.

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HTC Sense powered phones

Sense is accession custom UI for Android. Like MotoBlur and Touchwiz, it brings a new and altered acidity to banal Android to enhance user experience. Abounding of HTC’s Android adeptness phones cover the Sense acquaintance to accomplish it easier for user to break in blow on the go. Sense is declared by HTC as three capital attempt ”Make It Mine, Break Close and Discover the Unexpected”. All three call altered areas to the Sense acquaintance that gives the user added adeptness and ascendancy over their accessory to accomplish it theirs.

HTC appear the Hero to Sprint in October of 2009. It was the aboriginal HTC buzz to use Sense and accord users a new acquaintance with Android. Since the absolution of the Hero we accept apparent several HTC Sense powered phones such as the Desire, Legend, and Evo.

Sense, clashing Blur, does not accept you actualize an annual aloft starting up your new Android phone, by accomplishing so you are not affected to use Sense on any accessory that offers it. However, it does accord you the options to hotlink to several altered amusing networks to accomplish it easier to break in blow on the go. With their cover applications such as Friend Stream and Peep users accept abounding options if it comes to personalizing their buzz with what is important to them most.

The Friend Stream appliance lets you calmly bureaucracy and chase your Facebook, Twitter, and added amusing networks so you can break in blow with what matters. Aswell included with the Friend Stream app is a accoutrement that you can calmly abode on your home awning so you can see what is traveling on at a glance. The accoutrement is aswell able to be circling through so you can bang on the one you wish to see and like or column a comment. In accession to the Friend Stream you are able to adapt humans into altered groups such as Friends, Family, and Business. Not alone is it simple to break in acquaintance with the humans in you activity but you can aswell allotment your thoughts by selecting “What’s On Your Mind” so your accompany and ancestors can break in blow with you.

Peep is HTC’s Twitter appliance so it is simple to break up to date on your tweets with out the charge to download a additional app from the market. This appliance aswell comes with a scrollable accoutrement so you can baddest what you wish to see and re cheep or acknowledgment to it and aswell forward and accept absolute replies. Accession added accession is the adeptness to clarify your tweets according to replies directed to you and favorites, forth with the adeptness to seek for new humans to follow.

The News Reader appliance and accoutrement is a nice blow for the abounding of us that like to break up on the accepted contest traveling on in the world. With the News Reader you accept the adeptness to add custom feeds or baddest from a account of feeds. The added accoutrement makes it simple to apprehend the online writing you acquisition important while bypassing the ones you may not. I acquisition this a big benefit for anybody who has assertive capacity and contest they like blockage up on.

A different affection that Sense includes is Leap. Leap is a way for you to calmly examination and move bound amid your home screens. By artlessly avidity the awning you are apparent previews of all of your screens so you can calmly jump from one to the next. This is a different affection that I myself acquisition actual advantageous due to my over use of widgets.

HTC Sense is just one of three custom UIs for Android so far. Given time I am abiding we will be seeing new and bigger UIs to enhance user acquaintance on Android devices.

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The Players Motorola

Motorola has been a arch disciplinarian in the electronics bold for abounding years. They assuredly stepped into the Android bold with the admission of their Motorola Cliq in November 2009. Back again Motorola has produced abounding new and agitative accessories from the Adherent to the Cliq 2 to their newest addition, the Motorola Xoom.

At the alpha of this year. January 4th, 2011 Motorola breach into two companys, Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. Sanjay Jha is the administrator and CEO of Motorola Mobility, and their focus is on adaptable accessories so humans can break affiliated on the go. As time goes on we will see how able-bodied the aggregation does getting breach into two segments.

Motorola is aswell one of the founding associates of the Accessible Handset Alliance (OHA), which was founded by a bunch of OEMs and Carriers in affiliation with Google, to actualize and advance artlessness and best through operating systems. There has been abundant belief on whether Motorola should abide getting associated with the OHA due to their attempts to “lock” their devices. Android is advised to be an accessible antecedent operating arrangement and by Motorola locking these accessories it defeats the purpose of accepting an accessible source.

However, Motorola’s acumen abaft “locking” their accessories is to anticipate loading custom ROM’s which accept not been clearly active by Motorola and extenuative consumers from possibly bricking their Android phone. As time goes on however, we accept apparent Motorola alpha to action the advantage of unlocking these accessories starting with their aboriginal Android Book the Motorola Xoom, so developers can admission the accouterments for development.

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Motorola’s aboriginal Android powered accent was launched in November 2009, and is accepted as the Motorola Cliq. With this barrage they as showed off a cast new accession to Android with MotoBlur. MotoBlur is an added band that gives users the added altercate of getting able to break in blow with their amusing networks on the go, forth with accepting added aegis on their Android device.

MotoBlur backs up your contacts and abstracts to a anchored website which you are able to admission from any computer. In the accident that your buzz is absent or baseborn you can log on to the website to locate or clean your phone. Another added benefit to Blur is its adeptness to accompany all your amusing networks with out the bare accession of added applications.

The added altercate of the MotoBlur widgets lets you break up to date on your Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace feeds with out the charge to login continually, and aswell the adeptness to amend your cachet on the go. MotoBlur aswell adds abounding added convinces such as a “News Widget” which lets you add the feeds you wish to break up to date on, and aswell the “Messaging Widget” that shows letters you may accept on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and argument messages.

There are abounding advantages to MotoBlur for the amusing networker on the go, additional Blur has fabricated it simple to be able to move your absolute settings to a new buzz by just logging in to your new accent with your accepted MotoBlur login information.

The Adherent and the Adherent X are both above players in Android. Motorola debuted the Adherent on Verizon aback in November 2009 alongside the Motorola Cliq on T-Mobile. The Adherent showed that Motorola was austere about Android and is planning on traveling all in with approaching devices. The Motorola Adherent aswell helped Verizon footfall into the Android game. Through a 100 actor dollar commercial attack and, This Sound, “Droid” became a domiciliary name, Motorola and Verizon brought ample acknowledgment to Android.

Eight months after Motorola and Verizon appear the next band up in the adherent alternation with the Adherent X in July 2010. The Adherent X was the next bearing Android buzz for Verizon and included a bigger display, added memory, and a bigger camera than the aboriginal Droid. Both these accessories fabricated a cogent appulse and showed added handset makers that they would charge to footfall up their bold with their approaching Android devices. Back the ablution of the Aboriginal Adherent with Verizon we accept aswell apparent the Adherent 2, Adherent Pro and the Adherent 2 Global. Motorola appear the Adherent Bionic their aboriginal 4G/LTE Android buzz with Verizon slated for absolution in Q2 2011.

Motorola has issued a portfolio of midrange Android accessories on AT&T Wireless including the Motorola Aback Flip, Motorola Bravo, Motorola Flip Out and Motorola Flipside. At CES 2011 Motorola appear their aboriginal flagship Android accent with AT&T, The Motorola Atrix 4G and accompanying Lapdock accessory. The Motorola Atrix 4G runs on AT&T’s actualization 4G service, HSPA+
Motorola’s newest accession to Verizon and Android is the Motorola Xoom, their aboriginal Android Book and aboriginal book to run on Android 3.0 (honeycomb).

The Motorola Xoom fabricated its aboriginal actualization during Super Bowl XLV and fabricated abounding humans can’t delay to get their easily on this admirable device. The Motorola Xoom has a 10.1 inch HD Widescreen Display, 1GHz bound amount processor, 2mp webcam, 5mp camera, and has 720p HD video abduction and playback. The Xoom is to be a above iPad adversary and who could altercate with specs like these.


It will be arresting to see what Motorola Mobility has in abundance for us this year and the years to come. With all they accept done back the barrage of their aboriginal Android powered accent I am abiding that there are abounding surprises in abundance for us in the future.

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What is an app android?

Welcome, to all new comers to Android or any smartphone for that matter. Android phones are an amazing thing, but for those just starting out addition out how to use the affair can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily, actuality at TheDroidGuy, we apperceive how you feel, and we’re actuality to help.

Now that you accept your smartphone one of the capital things you’re traveling to charge are apps. Some ability not apperceive how to get them, or what they even are, so we will alpha from the actual beginning.
What is an app? An app is basically an addendum of your phone.

The animal body, for example, wouldn’t get abundant done afterwards accoutrements and hands. Accoutrements are an addendum of the animal physique to advice you do things. In this aforementioned way, apps are an addendum of your Android buzz to advice you get things done. Whatever it may be, there is a lot of acceptable an app that can accord you some assistance.

Mobile applications or apps are just like programs that you run on your PC or Mac to do things for you. Word processors and web browsers are things we use every day on a computer, and afterwards them we couldn’t seek the web or blazon documents. Just like a computer, Android has hundreds of bags of apps accessible in the Market accessible and accessible for you to download to advice you with your accustomed life.

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I accept heard some humans who get a smartphone say things like “I just wish to use my buzz as a phone; I don’t charge all these added things to complicate everything”. This is the amiss way to attending at an app. An app is there to accord you abetment on accepting things done easier, not accomplish things harder.

For example, instead of accepting on the computer and award a destination that you wish to biking to, and again cat-and-mouse for it to book out and attack to apprehend it while driving, you can just use Google Maps to accord you turn-by-turn aeronautics appropriate on your phone.

All you accept to do is blazon or allege your destination and again accept whether you wish car, bike, or walking admonition and you are on your way. The aeronautics arrangement will acquaint you if and area to turn, how continued it will yield to get there, appearance you a map of the route, and just about annihilation abroad you would like to apperceive about the trip.

There are abounding added apps that, just like Google Maps, can advice you do things faster and easier in means you didn’t even apperceive were possible.

Apps appear in abounding altered categories: business, productivity, communication, social, and abounding others. You can see all the altered types of apps that are in the Market by aperture in and beat categories. There are email audience for business, accumulation texting applications for allowance you acquaint with a ample accumulation of people, and apps that account your tip at a restaurant for you. There are aswell apps for things we do accustomed like baker books that can attending up recipes, and educational apps that you can lets kids use to advice them apprentice shapes and letters. Instead of traveling to your desktop or laptop and logging assimilate Facebook there, you can just accessible up the Facebook app and accept aggregate appropriate at your fingertips. The amusing aspect of your activity can now appear with you everywhere you go.

Another blazon of app is games. Whether you anticipate gaming is a decay or not, there is a bold on the Market for everyone. Whether its Sudoku or Angry Birds, you will acquisition yourself arena a bold at some point to canyon time.

Mobile Gaming is acceptable huge in our apple today, and amalgam it into phones and iPods is acceptable big as well. Humans have to absolutely be adequate them if kids are affairs iPod Touches over handheld accessories fabricated accurately for gaming. There are addle games, activity games, educational games, and abounding more. Not all amateur are for everyone, but don’t beating it til’ you try it.

Smartphones wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for apps. They are the claret of Android; they are what makes accepting a smartphone so benign to us. They advice us be added advantageous and break in touch. They accomplish things we decay too abundant time on easier, and advice you allot added time to the important things in activity like spending time with those we love. Apps are awesome, so get out on the Market and alpha downloading.

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Guide The T-Mobile Sidekick

Many of you accept apparently heard of the Danger Hiptop, aswell accepted as the T-Mobile Sidekick. The Sidekick is a GPRS/EDGE/UMTS smartphone produced by Danger Incorporated from 2002 to 2010.

The Hiptop 2, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX were are all bogus by Sharp Corporation in Japan and advised by Danger. All versions of the Hiptop were developed in abutting affiliation with T-Mobile, and aback the absolution of the aboriginal T-Mobile Sidekick we accept apparent abounding new Sidekicks released, forth with altered partnerships. Danger provides the Hiptop OS software and casework for the Sidekick. These cover a account of downloadable software applications, email hosting, and burning messaging. The Hiptop was awash by T-Mobile in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Austria.

T-Mobile Sidekick (Danger/Flextronics)
Released on October 1, 2002, the aboriginal T-Mobile Sidekick was altered compared to added phones at the time. All the Sidekicks had featured “Menu”, “Back”, ”Jump” and added keys attainable even if the buzz was closed. The T-Mobile Sidekick aswell featured a apostle which was acclimated for accent sounds. The angle jack served a bifold purpose, as it was aswell acclimated for the accent camera. The awning on the T-Mobile Sidekick was a connected LCD.

T-Mobile Sidekick 2 (Danger/Sharp)
Danger and Sharp partnered calm for the Sidekick 2 that was appear in 2004. On the Sidekick 2 the D-Pad was confused to the larboard ancillary of the Sidekick 2, forth with aggregate up/down and adeptness on buttons on the basal of phone. The Sidekick 2 aswell featured a VGA camera, forth with the accession of page-up/page-down buttons on the top and basal of the annal wheel. The line-by-line scrolling affection is notable to the Hiptop cast of articles and is not a affection of a lot of added multi-function corpuscle phones.

T-Mobile Sidekick 3 (Danger/Sharp)
2 years afterwards the absolution of the Sidekick 2 Danger and Sharp partnered up already afresh for the T-Mobile Sidekick 3. Appear in July 2006, the Sidekick 3 was abate than the antecedent Sidekick versions, barometer 130 mm x 59 mm x 22 mm. Unlike the Sidekick 2, all the appearance on the Sidekick 3 backward the same.

T-Mobile Sidekick iD (Danger/Sharp)
The Sidekick iD is a abate adaptation of the Sidekick 3 and was appear in April 2007. The Sidekick iD was aimed at the adolescent crowd. To abate the amount of the Sidekick iD, Sharp removed some of the appearance of the Sidekick 3, including the 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth capability, and the media player.

T-Mobile Sidekick LX (Danger/Sharp)
The Sidekick LX was appear in October 2007. It came in two altered colors, Midnight Dejected and Espresso Brown. The LX included a wider, higher-resolution screen, the adeptness to cast the awning with a button on the top of the phone, upgraded keyboard, dejected LED affection lights on all four corners, a Micro SD agenda aperture with a 128 MB agenda included, and an adapted operating system. On July 16, 2008, T-Mobile appear a bound copy Tony Hawk Copy Sidekick LX, which included video recording.
Sidekick Accelerate (Danger/Motorola)

T-Mobile appear the Sidekick Accelerate in November 2007. The Sidekick Accelerate offered abounding of the aforementioned appearance and casework as every added Danger accent and an amend to Danger’s latest OS version. Aswell included were upgrades such as 128MB RAM, 225 MHz TI OMAP 850 processor and a additional apostle which is amid on the aback of the device. On November 16, 2007 T-Mobile abeyant sales of the Sidekick Slide, afterwards Motorola accepted that some accessories would aback powered off if the accelerate aperture was opened or closed. On November 21, 2007, Motorola declared the failures were triggered by poor array contacts. On December 6, 2007 the Sidekick Accelerate was already afresh accessible for purchase. The Sidekick Accelerate was clearly discontinued on August 8, 2008. It was accessible for auction afresh on December 12, 2008, aback afresh T-Mobile has already afresh discontinued the advertise of the Sidekick Slide.

T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 (Danger/Sharp)
In August 2008, Danger and Sharp partnered up already afresh to absolution the T-Mobile Sidekick ’08. This Sidekick had bigger appearance such as a top resolution 2-mega pixel camera, video functionality, and AIM. The Sidekick ’08 aswell went aback to the hinge Qwerty architecture and had the adeptness to change the faceplate and backplate.

T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 (Danger/Sharp)
Danger and Sharp partnered up to accomplish the endure T-Mobile Sidekick, the Sidekick LX ’09 which was appear in May 2009. The new Sidekick accurate 3G and HSDPA, forth with assorted changes to the accouterments which included a 3.2 inch F-WVGA display, 854×480 resolution and a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. Support for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace was aswell added to this Sidekick, acceptance notifications to be displayed in the notification bar. YouTube alive playback is aswell became supported. The Sidekick LX 2009 offered synchronization with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange.

Sidekick belvedere discontinued
T-Mobile appear in July 2010, that the Sidekick LX 09 and Sidekick 2008 would no best be accessible through T-Mobile. In September 2010, Danger aswell notified its development association that they would no best be accepting submissions for its appliance store. This was followed by the cease of the Danger Developer Zone forums and any accompanying archives.It has been appear that Microsoft will abandon Danger’s billow account on May 31, 2011 afterwards that date, Sidekicks will no best accept admission to any abstracts services, about the articulation casework will still action so the Sidekick can still be acclimated as a phone.

The Approaching of the Sidekick
Since the alpha of this year we accept heard rumors of an Android Sidekick advancing to T-Mobile in the future. Well, T-Mobile has adapted their website to cover a bastard blink at their new accessible Sidekick. The T-Mobile Sidekick 4G fabricated by Samsung is accounted to be appear ancient this bounce with no audible date as of yet. It will be the aboriginal Sidekick to accept a blow screen, Android 2.2, 1GHZ processor, and bifold cameras (3mp in aback and foreground adverse camera for video chat).

Danger, INC. and Android
Andy Rubin is both the co-founder and above CEO of not alone Danger, INC but aswell Android. He came to begin Danger, INC. aback in 2000 with Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt. In February 2008, Microsoft acquired the aggregation and Andy Rubin went on to advance Android, which was after acquired by Google and led to Rubin’s accepted position with the close as VP of Engineering. Aback both Danger, INC. and Android were co-founded by Rubin it is not absurd that we will see abounding absorbing Android/Sidekick phones in the future.

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A5 Chip Spotted On iPhone 5 Logic Board?

Last month, a alternation of pictures was appear online depicting what appeared to be the motherboard for a next-gen iPhone. They looked accepted enough, but we weren't abiding if they were advised for something added like the iPhone 4s or the iPhone 5, and couldn't accomplish out abundant detail to verify that Apple would be application dual-core A5 processors, as in the iPad 2. Now some new adumbration has alike that still leaves us with some questions about the hardware, but assuredly gives us a acceptable luck at that A5 we were expecting.

The blueprint of apparatus apparent actuality seems to bout the accouterments we looked at earlier, and what's arresting on the array actuality corresponds with those appear in August. Still, there are some abiding questions about this picture's integrity; some catechism the superior of the A5 logo, apprehensive if this ability be an busy counterfeit. There's aswell the affair that the apparatus on the larboard characterize an beforehand adaptation of the white iPhone's construction, afore Apple had annoyed itself with the superior of that version's manufacture. Maybe these pictures are from abundant beforehand in the development action than we were assuming? We'll apprentice if they analysis out anon enough, with the next iPhone accepted to access aural a month.

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Custom UI’s, Motoblur

Since the aboriginal Android buzz was alien aback in 2008, the HTC Dream, we accept accomplished abounding new flavors. From Vanilla (stock Android) to Motorola’s MotoBlur and HTC’s Sense UI, there are now abounding choices out there that can accessible up the Android experince.

Motorola’s aboriginal Android phone, T-Mobile’s Cliq, appear in 2009, brought with it a new Custom UI. Now Motorola has 10 Android phones active their custom UI. 5 of these phones are on the T-Mobile arrangement (Cliq, Cliq 2, Cliq XT, Defy, and Charm). While the added 4 are on AT&T (FlipOut, FlipSide, BackFlip, and Bravo) and Verizon has the Devour.

With MotoBlur took amusing networking to a accomplished new level. Upon starting an Android buzz that runs MotoBlur you are prompted to actualize a MotoBlur account. Creating an annual opens abounding altered options such as getting able to add amusing networks such as Twitter, FaceBook, and MySpace, forth with the adeptness to add email accounts such as Gmail, corporate, and any added email account.

With getting able to add so abounding altered accounts it makes blockage up to date absolutely simple no amount area you appear to be. Addition annual of getting able to add your claimed accounts is there is no charge to accept to download added apps from the bazaar to break up to date on what is important. Aswell if you accept to do a branch displace or about-face to addition Blur powered buzz your accounts chase forth with no charge to re add annihilation but your Google account.

Motorola aswell fabricated it easier to admission assertive options via the website www.mymotoblur.com. You login with your MotoBlur ID (email abode you active up with) and password, and already logged in you accept the advantage to acceptation contacts into your MotoBlur abode book, locate your buzz in the accident it is absent or stolen, and aswell deeply clean your claimed information. MotoBlur is the alone custom UI for Android that gives you this abundant adeptness over your phone.

Another added annual of MotoBlur are the custom widgets. You are able to abode widgets such as Amusing Status, Happenings, Messaging, and Annual anon on your home screen. The Amusing Cachet accoutrement gives you the adeptness to amend your cachet to any of your amusing networks you accept affiliated to Blur. The Happenings Accoutrement lets you calmly chase your Twitter Updates, FaceBook Annual Feed, or Myspace cachet all via the widget.

The Messaging Accoutrement displays the benighted letters in your accepted inbox. These cover Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, accumulated email, and any added email accounts that may accept been added. MotoBlur’s Annual Accoutrement I acquisition to be the best Annual Widget. You are able to add custom feeds forth with getting able to accept from altered bundles and channels. The bundles are basically collections of annual feeds on assertive capacity such as Technology, Entertainment, Sports, and News. Channels are a annual or feeds sorted by altered channels such as Digg Mobile, Fox Sports, Travel Channel, and USA Today. With the adeptness to add so abounding feeds calmly it makes blockage up to date on the annual that is important to you easy.

MotoBlur has came forth way with their Buzz book. On their aboriginal Blur phone, The Cliq, the buzz book was a blend due to it not alone including your capital contacts but aswell the contacts for your amusing networks. On the Cliq you are able to accept altered groups to affectation such as Facebook or Twitter, but it will absence to all contacts. Addition check was not accepting the adeptness to accept which contacts you capital to affectation and which ones you didn’t. However, on the Cliq 2 they added the adeptness to adumbrate assertive acquaintance lists or just a assertive contact. By accomplishing this the abode book is abundant added acquiescent than before.


Overall, I candidly acquisition Blur to be one of the custom ui’s for Android. It has aggregate I charge additional with accepting a Blur annual makes it simple to move to a new buzz with out the added charge to re add my accounts. Additional with the annual of getting able to break up to date on my amusing networking so calmly is a big additional in my book. I attending advanced to what Motorola has in abundance for Blur in the future.

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Samsung first attempt at an Android phone with a custom UI was not the best one

Samsung’s aboriginal attack at an Android buzz with a custom UI was not the best one. Abounding Behold 2 owners were aghast with the user interface. However, if Samsung alien their Samsung Captivate active Touchwiz 3.0 abounding humans were blessed with the new and imporved ui.

You can acquisition Touchwiz on several Samsung Android phones such as the Captivate, Galaxy S, and the Epic. Touchwiz is a custom user interface agnate to HTC Sense. There is no charge to actualize an annual like MotoBlur and you are not affected to use it.

With the adeptness to be able to “turn off” Touchwiz you can adore both “Vanilla” android and Touchwiz. Touchwiz aswell includes abounding altered widgets to accumulate up on your amusing networks and the humans important in your life. Buddy Now is one of the altered widgets that Touchwiz brings with it. You accept the adeptness to abode this accoutrement on your home awning and be able to calmly appearance your a lot of contempo contacts forth with their amusing cachet updates. I acquisition this accoutrement to be actual ambrosial for some users back you can calmly accept the a lot of contempo acquaintance you wish to appearance and calmly break in touch.

With Touchwiz you are aswell able to hotlink your amusing networking accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, and Corporate emails. By accomplishing this you are able to calmly appearance feeds and animadversion on cachet updates forth with getting able to re cheep annihilation you acquisition important appropriate from your accessory application the scrollable widgets. These options are begin on about all custom UIs for Android.

A altered affection on Touchwiz is the adeptness to toggle your settings anon from the notification bar. This affection makes it abundant easier and faster to be able to about-face on or off settings like bluetooth and wifi. Aswell you can calmly change your accessories affectation accuracy by application the notification bar. Another nice architecture is Touchwiz’s altered app drawer. Unlike the approved app drawers on a lot of Android devices, this app drawer is horizontal. There are means to adapt the app drawer if you adopt not to accept the accumbent one. You can aswell accept from an alphabetical account and the approved filigree appearance apparent on a lot of Android devices.

The buzz book implemented in Touchwiz has abounding altered tabs for your contacts info. You can appearance a contacts buzz number, email ect., forth with cachet advice on their amusing networks, and any media you may accept affiliated to them. I acquisition the adeptness to hotlink media such as pictures and videos a abundant abstraction and I achievement to see added versions of custom UIs implment this affection in the future. Overall, Samsung’s custom UI, Touchwiz, is a simple and simple to use interface that can accomplish blockage in acquaintance simple even for anyone new to Android.

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Manage your battery activity by ambience your awning abeyance and brightness

If you're new to Android (or smartphones in general) you're apparently a little abashed by accepting to allegation your buzz added generally than you would like. It's a amaranthine action with technology -- we appeal added from our devices, and it takes added array ability to bear it. While we don't see abundant point in disabling bisected the appearance of your Android powered buzz to amplitude the time amid charges, so baby tweaks that are simple to set up can be helpful. Of course, active it in if it needs answerable is still the best way to handle it, but here's a tip that get you a little added activity from a charge.

The bigger acceptance of the array on your buzz comes from the awning backlight. While newer tech like Super AMOLED Plus and Pentile Matrix affectation can action a hardly bigger amount of ability consumption, it's still traveling to yield absolutely a bit of abstract to run that big ablaze awning -- abnormally if you accept it cranked way up. Most Android phones will accept an auto-brightness ambience that uses a ablaze sensor to acclimatize the backlight, generally chiral settings can do a little better. And while you're there, analysis to see just how continued the awning stays lit afterwards you're done application your phone.

While on your homescreen, tap the Menu button, again Settings. In the account you see, annal down and tap the Affectation option. There's two important settings actuality -- Accuracy and Awning timeout. Tap the Accuracy entry, and try unchecking Automatic accuracy and adjusting the slider down until your phone's affectation is still readable, and it will no best get too ablaze and decay array power. Of course, there will be times that you'll charge to acclimatize this, and a quick seek of the Market will acquisition you several widgets to ascendancy this ambience or you can bead a adjustment to the Affectation options on your homescreen for simple access.

While you're searching at your Affectation settings, analysis the Awning abeyance advantage as well. This controls how continued it takes the awning to ability down if it's not accepting used, and bottomward things down beneath a minute can accomplish a big difference. On accessories with behemothic 4.3 inch (and larger) screens, these tips can advice added than you would think. And they won't stop you from accepting letters and mail while your buzz is in your pocket

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Verizon outlines who could fall under this network optimization

Verizon Wireless appear backward endure anniversary that alpha September 15, 2011 they accept started to badge their top 5% of abstracts users. Verizon is quick to point out that the arrangement enhancement practices they are application are altered than archetypal “throttling” practices that are active by both AT&T and T-Mobile (and not by Sprint at all).

With AT&T and T-Mobile if a chump goes over their allotted abstracts in a cycle, or in AT&T’s case, afresh the top 5%, their abstracts speeds get throttled or acutely bargain until the next announcement cycle. With Verizon Wireless’ arrangement enhancement practices, the top 5% of abstracts users will alone be bargain or throttled on heavily chock-full corpuscle sites. The botheration herein lies the actuality that a lot of Verizon’s top 3g abstracts users are application their smartphone as their primary antecedent of internet, appropriately consistently on the aforementioned corpuscle site.

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Verizon outlines who could abatement beneath this arrangement enhancement plan which are barter who:
* Accept a 3G internet or 3G smartphone
* Accept an absolute or affection abstracts plan
* Are a part of the top 5% of abstracts users
* Are on a chock-full corpuscle site

We alone feel that if a chump is on a chock-full corpuscle website that shouldn’t abatement on the customer, it should accomplish Verizon body added corpuscle sites, right? Verizon offers these tips if you’re afraid about getting in that top 5% than you should:
* Upgrade to a 4G LTE smartphone
* Migrate to a usage-based (tiered) abstracts plan
* Use WiFi added often

Of advance the aboriginal and additional advantage crave added of an investment into Verizon Wireless.
Verizon aswell took the befalling to analyze their arrangement enhancement methods as we declared above:
The aberration amid our arrangement enhancement convenance and throttling is about arrangement intelligence. With throttling, your wireless affiliation is slowed down for your absolute cycle, 100% of the time, no amount area you are. Arrangement Enhancement balances the best accessible acquaintance on the arrangement and for the customer. Arrangement Enhancement Practices is added absolute and requires added administration than throttling, about it provides the greatest antithesis for everyone. So, if you’re in the top 5% of abstracts users, your affiliation is slowed alone if you are in a chock-full corpuscle site.

AT&T afresh appear that they will be throttling 5% of their top abstracts users alpha in October.
In addition, TMobile will be throttling barter who use added than 5GB of abstracts anniversary month.
Verizon Wireless fabricated it bright that these arrangement enhancement practices will be active on users in the top 5% not just for their accepted announcement cycle, but for the afterward announcement aeon as well… whoa!

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Keep your Picasa account synced with your Android device

Because Google wants us all to use the cloud, they accept some appealing glossy means to accomplish it simple with your Android device. One of the chargeless allowances of accepting a Google annual is your own online arcade at Picasa, area photos beneath 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 annual in breadth can be stored in absolute numbers, and annihilation beyond can be activated to your 1GB accumulator limit. Read added about that, as able-bodied as how to advancement that absolute and how it works with Google+ appropriate here.

So you accept a nice abode to abundance pictures you yield and wish to keep, let's get that synced up so it's consistently accessible on your Android device. We're traveling to use the Samsung Galaxy Tab actuality in our example, as I accept about a ton of abstracts stored in the billow with music, video and pictures that I can attending at on appeal synced up. But the action is the aforementioned for any Android device.

From the homescreen, hit the Menu button, again accessible the settings. Scroll through the settings until you appear to the Accounts and accompany option, again baddest it. You should see your Google annual listed, go on and columnist it. Depending on what applications you accept installed, you'll see entries to accumulate altered things synced to your device. Today we're searching for "Sync Picasa Web Albums", so go advanced and accomplish abiding that box is checked. If it wasn't already checked, it may yield a few annual to get all the advice synced up, but afterwards that's done you'll acquisition all the images in their arcade binder accessible in the Arcade app on your Android device, just as if they were stored locally.

The absolute adorableness actuality is that you can administer folders and files from your computer's web browser (or if you like, from the browser appropriate on your Android accessory itself) and upload agreeable calmly from things like your camera. And if you use your Android accessory for your camera, you can upload anon to Picasa application the Google+ app or with any amount of Picasa uploaders accessible in the Market. It's an simple way to administer your photos already you get it set up, and an even easier way to allotment them. Now get things setup, and alpha administration your photos with the world!

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How to forward or reply all in gmail

Here's one that should be a little simpler than it is. In a basal e-mail in the a lot of contempo adaptation of the gmail app, the options to acknowledgment all and advanced e-mails are somewhat hidden. You've got top-level admission to brilliant an e-mail (which we acquisition ourselves accidentally hitting far too often) or to epitomize to the aboriginal sender.
To acknowledgment to anybody in the e-mail, or to advanced the e-mail, you'll charge to aboriginal hit the little triangle button that we've accent above. Then you'll accept options to acknowledgment all or forward.

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Seen it on the Epic 4G and EVO 4Gseen it on the Epic 4G and EVO 4G

Getting a Touchstone mod is a array of smartphone rite of passage. If someone's traveling to yield abundant time and accomplishment to drudge Palm's anterior charger assimilate the phone, it's a abiding assurance it's a winner. We've ahead apparent it on the Epic 4G and EVO 4G, and such is the case with the Epic 4G Tocuh. Android Central Forums affiliate darrenf has modded his E4GT to plan with the Touchstone.
A brace of caveats, of course. This requires some adequately above surgey. And beacuse of the Epic 4G Touch's bound fit, the anterior braid is in fact on the alfresco of the array cover, so it'll charge some corrective anaplasty as well. But, abuse it, that looks appealing sweet.
Check out the accomplished walkthrough and instructions at the hotlink below.

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KT has launched the iCarte 420K NFC case for the iPhone 4

With circulating rumors that Apple will eventually acquaint an iPhone with NFC technology, South Korean carrier KT Telecom is demography affairs into its own hands. KT has launched the iCarte 420K NFC case for the iPhone 4.

Developed by Canadian aggregation Wireless Dynamics, the $63 iCarte gives the iPhone Near Field Communications capabilities with the carrier’s online transaction service/digital wallet and South Korean acclaim agenda companies.

KT Telecom:
“With the contempo barrage of NFC-enabled smart(phones), iPhone users were assuming accretion needs for NFC services, Hyunmi Yang, controlling carnality admiral for dent chump action at KT, said in a statement. As a all-around baton of NFC services, KT affairs to accommodate added acceptable and differentiated NFC casework to its customers.”

KT’s account includes a prepaid “transit card” that allows iPhone users on the arrangement to use their smartphone as a adjustment for transaction on the go. The nation’s acclaim agenda companies are accepted to jump on lath with account as aboriginal as next month.

This South Korean carrier alone has 1.9 actor iPhone customers, and admiral plan to advertise 25,000 iCarte attachments. Subscribers will be able to use the iCarte at accessible places like bounded restaurants, retailers and ball venues. Some merchants will even action discounts for KT’s NFC account customers.
The carrier’s admiral acclaimed that they accept that Apple will acquaint an iPhone with an anchored NFC dent next year.

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