HTC HD2 Android Port Project Makes Major Breakthrough, Release Nears

2010-06-26T14:00:00Z

The HTC HD2 was an object of lust for Android fans for quite sometime earlier this year(before the EVO was announced that is!). Regarded as one of the best Windows Mobile 6.5 powered handsets with a 4.3-inch capacitive display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 576MB of RAM, and a 5 megapixel camera, the handset lacks no where in terms of [...]

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Nokia N900 Gets Android 2.2

2010-06-26T14:00:00Z

Pretty soon, we’re going to have to start reporting that all smartphones have gotten a port of Android 2.2! This time, hackers have disregarded the fantastic operating system that Maemo is and planted the latest version of Android on one of Nokia’s current flagship devices, the Nokia N900. Everything isn’t perfect – the device can’t quite [...]

EasyMock4Android

2010-06-26T14:00:00Z

EasyMock has been ported for use in Android development, the project page is here. The project author started a discussion group and the link is on the right hand side of the project page. Filed under: Android Tagged: AndroidMock, EasyMock

Rebtel to Provide Free Android to Android International VoIP Calls

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

Rebtel, the world's largest independent mobile VoIP company has promised to provide free Android to Android International calls this week. This is way of bringing about a new change in the competitive mobile VoIP market with Skype currently being the leader. The application Rebtel 1.1 is now available in the Market. When an international call [...]

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Sprint Expects to Launch Android 2.2 “In the Near Future”

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

In a recent announcement on Twitter, Sprint has said that it expects to launch Android 2.2 Sprint expects to launch Android 2.2 "in the near future." On the Sprint's message boards, a Sprint employee said "As work on finalizing the software is under way, Sprint expects to launch Android 2.2 in the near future. It also will be available as an upgrade on the recently launched HTC EVO 4G."

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Beta Test This! RockPlayerBase

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

For sometime now, Android users have been missing a good video player playing wide range of formats. A new video player named RockPlayerBase has been thrown into the internet for Android users to test. The uploader claims it can play AVI, DivX, MKV and even RMVB on Android 2.1 and above. It can be a [...]

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Still waiting for Flash on Android 2.2? Try Skyfire

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

We’ve all been waiting patiently for Android 2.2 ever since Google announced it at I/O in late May. It looks like a wholesale improvement. One of the major features of the update is the inclusion of a Flash 10.1 plugin for the default browser. I’ve much enjoyed the default Android browser, and the addition of [...]

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HD2 Closer to Stealing Android, EVO Steals HD2’s Car Mount

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

We still haven’t seen Sprint or Best Buy launch the more desirable accessories we’re expecting (such as the HDMI dock and the official car mount) for the HTC EVO 4G. If you need a car mount and can’t wait until the middle part of the summer, then you could probably bend that HD2 car mount [...]

Just to Clarify: Samsung Moment and HTC Hero Will Not Receive Android 2.2

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

We touched on this briefly in our previous post covering Sprint’s tentative plans to bring Android 2.2 to their network on at least the HTC EVO 4G (and other Android 2.1 phones launching this year), but for those that missed it, official word through Sprint’s Twitter says the Samsung Moment and HTC Hero are not [...]

Rebtel Steps into the VoIP Ring Promising Free Android-to-Android International Calls

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

VoIP on smartphones is growing, with carriers like Verizon even suggesting that in the not-so-distant future calls placed via data connections will replace voice minutes as the standard. But before all that happens, quite a few companies have been getting in on the game, often touting reduced rates for calls routed through their services. Rebtel [...]

Alcatel To Bring ‘Aspirational’ Prepay Android This Year

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

Alcatel, manufacturer of low-priced handsets for the pay-as-you-go crowd, is looking to take advantage of an arena where Android has treaded lightly to date: the prepay cell phone market. Big wig William Peterson recently confirmed the company’s plans to launch products using Android. Not only that, but he promised in a conversation with Mobile Today [...]

HTC Android 2.1 “Second Package” OTA Now Headed for Southeast Asia

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

The HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 is slowly spreading. It started earlier this month in Taiwan and is now available for countries in Southeast Asia. The over-the-air update is being pushed to phones in the two part package that has been seen in other areas. The first preparatory update (firmware version 2.73.728.91, or 2.73.707.91 [...]

Survey: Developers Rooting for Android’s Long Term Success

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

A recent survey held by Appcelerator revealed that more developers were banking on the growth and momentum Android will continue to gain over the next couple of years over the iPhone. While iPhone and iPad development is surely the platform to target now, we could find that tide will turn with time (let’s not forget [...]

Get A Free Nexus One For Pre-Ordering Unity Pro

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

I’m not sure this will fit the bill of a lot of our readers, but any serious developer out there looking to step their “game” up with Android game development can pre-order the Unity Pro SDK and get a free Nexus One. There are a couple of catches, though, as there always are. Firstly, you must [...]

Dual Core, 4.3-inch HTC Vision Headed For T-Mo This Year?

2010-06-25T14:00:00Z

Well, if this doesn’t silence all of the complaints T-Mobile customers have regarding the lack of a true superphone, then I don’t know what could. During AndroidGuys’ podcast, Scotty Brown talked about a discussion he held with an HTC rep regarding a phone they’re working on that should impress the pants off of everyone by [...]

Project Emerald Prediction Update

2010-06-24T14:00:00Z

About a month or so ago, I first mentioned here on AndroidGuys that we thought Project Emerald from T-Mobile was going to be the Samsung Galaxy S. We learned quickly that the two were not related however, almost all of the Galaxy S information we mentioned has come to fruition. We'll take that a partial [...]

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Report: App Developers See More Long-Term Viability in Android, Not iOS

2010-06-24T14:00:00Z

It seems that Android is making waves over at Bloomberg.com, and once again, it's over Apple and their coveted iPhone; however, this time, it is not in specs and phones, but the market and applications that Google is excelling. The article states that, "More than half the 2,733 developers surveyed by Appcelerator, a mobile-software tools [...]

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AndroidGuys Thursday Nights Podcast!

2010-06-24T14:00:00Z

Tune in at 7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern for the AndroidGuys Thursday Nights podcast hosted by Scotty Brown! Tonight we'll be sponsored by AndroidSwag... and that means that we'll be giving away AndroidGuys t-shirts live on the air. But, the only way to win them is to listen live! Some of the items we're covering tonight! [...]