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Google Giving $100 Back to Customers Ineligible for Full Discount on Nexus One
Score one for good public relations. Google, after hearing the complaints from those of you who shelled out $379 for a Nexus One, has decided to shave a hundred dollars off the cost. And to make sure you early adopters aren’t feeling bitter, they’re refunding …
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T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition Due Next Week
After teasing us with the news of a modified myTouch 3G some months back, T-Mobile has officially announced the Fender Limited Edition model is due on January 20th. You might be asking why one might want to buy this version over the traditional model. Well, …
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New Ping Feature in waze Due Shortly
The good folks over at waze don’t like to stand still very long. Today we received word that a new version of waze, the free, social mapping software, should be going live later today or tomorrow. So what’s new in the app?
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Motorola: Multi-Touch on “Majority of Devices Going Forward”
One of the first things to be pointed out about the Nexus One was its lack of multi-touch. In fact, the same could be said of the Motorola Droid. While we settle for double tapping and zoom buttons, our friends around the world are enjoying …
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SK Telecom to Rely Heavily on Android for Smartphones, Too
SK Telecom Co., the largest carrier in South Korea’s (by revenue) has announced that they are planning to sell over 2 million smartphones this year with the bulk of them running Android. The carrier, speaking today at a press conference, said they expect 15 smartphones …
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SDG Systems’ Adds Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000 to Short List of “Rugged” Android Handsets
SDG Systems has announced that and Android version of their Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000 handheld is available. Based on Android 1.5, the BIP-6000 is designed Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Value-Added Reseller (VAR) as well as end users who want to develop commercial applications for Android …
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Europe’s HTC Hero to Get Android 2.1 Mid-February?
We just received an email from our friends at http://android.com.pl who are advising that all HTC Hero units in Europe will see an upgrade to Android 2.1 starting February 15th. They’re claiming their source for this comes from the top at HTC Poland. We’ve been …
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Early Look: Probability-Based Keyboard “qwerted”
Check out this new take on the traditional Android soft keyboard. Rather than just changing the color or general shape of the buttons, qwerted changes the actual size of them based on the probability that they’ll be hit next. For instance, if you type a …
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Mplayit: “‘How Many Apps?’ is Wrong Question
I show my G1 off to a lot of people. I love to wow them with cool apps like Google Sky Map, Plink Art, and Shop Savy. Invariably the question comes up, “How many apps are there for that phone?” Thanks to Apple’s marketing efforts, …
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LG Calling on Android to Grow Sales in 2010
LG is expecting Android to help boost sales and grow their smart phone numbers for the coming year. Although not quite as heavily as Motorola, LG is betting on Android to get them into a double-digit share of the smart phones sold worldwide this year.Â
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Flurry Pegs Nexus One Sales at 20K in First Week
The estimates are coming in for the first week of Nexus One sales and they’re not terribly surprising. Mobile analytics firm Flurry has just announced a report which ballparks the handset at 20,000 units sold in the first week. While this number is considerably smaller …
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Rumor: Sprint Working with Walmart on WiMax Build Out
Here’s a rumor that we’d like to see play out if only for curiosity’s sake. According a tipster of ours, Sprint has been working with an unusual partner on a project to help build out their WiMax network. As we all know the carrier plans …
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Flurry Keeps on Rolling, Raises $7M in Series B Financing
Flurry, Inc., one of the bigger names in mobile application analytics is announcing this morning that they’ve just closed on a Series B financing round of $7 million. Among the investors are venture capital firm InterWest Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Union Square Ventures, First Round …
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DELYCA’s Digital Reader to Debut Next Month
It looks like Android-based mobile internet devices (MIDs) and ebook readers are going to proliferate the market this year. We received an email this morning from a company called Delyca who informed us of an ebook reader that they were going to be releasing next …
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Android App ‘Lookout’ Foils Thieves Plans
Here’s one of those stories that serves as a great endorsement for Android and its applications. Â An Oregon man recently had his house broken into and some of his possessions stolen. Â Among them was his Motorola Droid. Â Unbeknown to the thief, this handset was equipped …
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