http://www.draconos.com/blog Google pwns u and the interwebs!!!! Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:51:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2010/03/01/happy-pulaski-day Engadget has an article on the 2.1 OTA announcement for the droid snippet: We've just gotten the inside line on the next Droid update that's making the rounds through Verizon's testing department from one of our trusted sources, and overall, it looks like this should take users 95 percent of the ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2010/02/08/android-2-1-officially-announced-for-droid Yesterday Verizon announced the Motorola Devour the next in line of android based phones by Motorola. Devour by Motorola displays a 3.1 inch capacitive touchscreen with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. The smartphone supports Bluetooth profiles such as A2DP, HID, HSP, HFP, AVRCP and GAP. Devour comes with a 8gb ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2010/02/04/motorola-devour-announced 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 ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2010/01/29/wptogo Yea I'm 25 days late but seriously who cares :). Its 2010 and to start off the new year Google released their new phone on Tmobile running Android 2.1. It will be coming to Verizon Wireless this spring, still happy that I stuck with the droid. The nexus one doesn't ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2010/01/25/happy-new-year 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 ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2009/12/19/20000-apps-and-counting 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 ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2009/12/09/droid-has-been-rooted 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 ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2009/12/09/verizon-ota-update-for-motorola-droid-releasing As I said earlier today the motorola droid comes with wifi built in basically allowing you to connect to any wifi network in the area that you have access to. I was having a strange issue where my droid would connect to my home network and I couldnt surf or ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2009/11/19/wifi-on-the-droid Couple things I left out of the Droid review. The droid does have a built in GPS and WiFi. I would advise you to connect to wifi and use that to download data instead of the 3g network simply because using wifi doesnt count against the "unlimited" plan of Verizon ... http://www.draconos.com/blog/2009/11/19/expanded-motorola-droid-info