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New Year, new android toys

2011 arrived over a month ago and the mobile phone manufacturers have not stopped pushing out new android based phones. HTC Evo shift a smaller brother to the EVO was released with a builtin sliding QWERTY to the Sprint network. This month will see the HTC Thunderbolt, hopefully. Q2 will see the Motorola Bionic. I’m [...]

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2011 02 08 Draconos Mobile Operating System Comments (0)

Tablets galore

Since the iPad has been such a huge hit for consumers, other companies have started pushing their tablet products. I believe tablets have a place in the world in between a laptop and a desktop but thats my opinion, being in IT I have a use for a tablet when I don’t want to turn [...]

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2010 09 28 Draconos Comments (0)

Android Fragmentation

I’ve owned a Droid since it was first released back in November 2009. Usually I’m not a first time adopter and like for others to work out the kinks before I invest in a product, but the Motorola Droid appeared to be an awesome phone and at the time was running the newest version of [...]

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2010 07 06 Draconos Mobile Operating System Comments (0)

Trying out the Froyo

I’ve been itching to use Froyo since it was announced at Google I/O back in May. Lucky for me and all the other early adopters there was leak of the Froyo build that was converted over to run on the Droid. I’ve been using it for about a week now and I can say it [...]

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2010 06 14 Draconos Mobile Operating System Comments (0)

Spring is here

Spring is here in the Midwest and as typical for our area its still cold as a witch’s tit out here. I swear there is only 2 seasons you can depend on in the Midwest, Winter and Construction season. Google should soon be announcing what enhancements are going to Android 2.2 OS. Flash 10 is [...]

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2010 05 12 Draconos Comments (1)

Happy Pulaski Day

Its March 1st finally only 20 more days until spring hopefully it won’t be a long cold road on the way to reaching the first day of Spring. In Google Android news there is a rumor going around over the weekend that was posted on gizmodo that Google may be trying to release Android 2.1 [...]

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2010 03 01 Draconos Mobile Operating System Comments (0)

Wptogo

Trying out a new free app from the android market place called wptogo allows you to post to your wordpress blog from your android based phone. Pretty cool little app, still no word on the ota for verizon wireless subscribers with moto droids for android 2.1. The sdk is out and I believe motorola is [...]

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2010 01 29 Draconos Comments (0)

20,000 Apps and counting

The android market just seems to keep going and going. Current count is around 20,000 apps with about 75% of the market being free. Not bad and it will just keep growing with the addition of droid phones next year will be interesting. Don’t know what Apple has coming down the line but its going [...]

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2009 12 19 Draconos Comments (0)

Droid has been rooted

In other Droid news today, it has been announced last night by wired.com that a lab was successful in rooting the droid. The original article can be found here. Excerpt below as well as link to the forum post with instructions on how to root the droid: Verizon’s Motorola Droid is a brand-new phone today. [...]

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2009 12 09 Draconos Comments (0)

Verizon OTA update for Motorola Droid releasing

This week just a month after its release Verizon has begun pushing out the OTA update for the famed Motorola Droid. The update will upgrade the droid firmware to 2.0.1 and is being pushed out by verizon, so there is no direct way to download it, well there is but I’m not gonna tell let’s [...]

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2009 12 09 Draconos Comments (0)