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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 makes [...]

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 included [...]

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 way to curing pangs of [...]

Motorola Devour Announced

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 sd card preinstalled, still no [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. Like [...]

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 [...]

Expanded Motorola Droid info

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 which some are saying has [...]