Android phone T-Mobile G2 Review

Admittedly, when I first saw pre-release images and info about the T-Mobile G2 and HTC Desire Z (the overseas version of the G2), I wasn't all that excited. It looked like a solid high-end Android smartphone but the design didn't scream sexy and no one feature stood out. The Samsung Vibrant has that super-slim design and vivid AMOLED display, the HTC EVO 4G has a monster 4.3" display and 4G WiMAX and HTC Sense software, but the G2 is a vanilla Android 2.2 Froyo phone with a slider keyboard. Nice, but not glitzy. Then I got the G2 in hand, and somehow I fell in love. The solid build, the really large hardware QWERTY keyboard, a current OS version (many Android phones ship with older OS versions) and obscene speed won me over.

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Samsung Epic 4G

Sprint's second 4G WiMAX phone, the Android 2.1-powered Samsung Epic 4G, looks like it lives up to its name.The Epic 4G sports an outdoor-viewable Super AMOLED screen, a 1-GHz Hummingbird processor and a full QWERTY keyboard. I spent a bit of time with a prototype phone last week, and came away impressed, but concerned.

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HTC Aria first view,video, specification

HTC Aria the new phone with Android 2.1, 5.0 megapixel camera, 3.2-inch HVGA capacitive touchpanel, inbuilt WiFi and support for 7.2Mbps HSPA. There's a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor, proximity sensor, integrated GPS, a digital compass, light sensor, 512MB ROM / 384MB RAM, a microSD card slot (2GB included) and a 1,200mAh battery good for up to six hours of yapping.




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Install Android 2.2 Froyo on iPhone 3G

Android 2.2 OS has been ported to iPhone 3G successfully. The development team which is working on this project has already achieved excellent results and is able to run android 2.2 froyo with the ability to call and send SMS. Android 2.2 seems to work fine except for Wi-Fi and audio.

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Hands-On Impressions of Dell’s Streak and Aero

We got our hands-on a pre-production prototype of the Streak and the new Dell Aero smartphone, check out our first impressions of the Android devices.

Let’s get one thing straight. The Dell Streak, due to be available from O2 in the U.K. and likely from AT&T in the U.S. sometime soon, is not an Android tablet PC, despite the company’s self-declaration of same, and is not a competitor to the iPad or an iPad killer.

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10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS

When Android first debuted on the HTC Dream (also known as the G1) back in October of 2008, it was deemed an "iPhone Killer." While it didn't quite slay Apple's handset, it was the first step in a revolution against the tyrannous iPhone. The initial Android platform bested the iPhone OS on several levels, but lacked some key functionalities that the iPhone could provide. Since then, Android has grown - not only meeting all of the functionalities of the iPhone, but besting it in nearly all aspects from an extensive list of devices to a growing Android Marketplace. Here is our list of the top 10 things Android does better than the iPhone.

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Acer Stream picture and video review

Acer's dabbling with Androidhave culminated in the Acer Stream. It's got all the needed ingredients to fight it out with the best available Androids - in fact it's resemblance to the Nexus One is uncanny, but the Acer Stream comes out on top in some parts of the spec sheet.

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Motorola XT502 Greco review specs

Motorola XT502 Greco was recently spotted over at the Bluetooth SIG – its model number, similar to the previous Motorola XT701 and XT800, were made available to the Asian markets. So far it looks like it features a quad-band GSM connectivity, tri-band UMTS, Wi-Fi, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0, camera with flash, and a 3.5mm headset jack. From a quick glance on the photo provided by the Bluetooth SIG suggests that it is running Android 2.1 as opposed to the recently mentioned Android 2.2 Froyo.

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How to Install Android on Your iPhone

Here's how to install Google's Android OS on your iPhone. Be forewarned, though: This hack isn't for the faint of heart. Maybe you want to liberate your iPhone from Apple's clutches. Maybe you just want to tinker with something new. Either way, you've seen Android running on the iPhone, and you want to try it for yourself.

Still a Work in Progress

Although this port does everything that you expect your smartphone to be able to do, it isn't usable for day-to-day activities just yet--I haven't implemented any power-management functions, so a fully charged iPhone running Android will last only an hour or so.
A few bugs and performance issues remain, too, so while the phone will be usable, it won't be fast. If you do something unexpected (such as forcing the iPhone off), there is a small chance that you may end up restoring your device. However, it is impossible for any bugs to brick or disable your iPhone permanently.
Finally, media syncing is not working, so loading your media onto your phone is kind of a pain. I'm working as hard as I can, though, and I expect to fix these issues soon.

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HTC Wildfire review and video (hands-on)

LONDON - 18 May, 2010, 07.00 CEST - HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today introduced HTC Wildfire™, a new HTC Sense-based Android phone that integrates the most popular social networks to help bring your friends closer to you. HTC Wildfire closely follows the success of the acclaimed HTC Desire and makes the company's signature HTC Sense experience accessible to a younger audience.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 reviews and video

Sony Ericsson has gone through quite a few smartphone operating systems in the past few years. Now they're on Android, a hot and exciting new smartphone OS, and that's a good thing. Like most Sony Ericsson smartphones, this is a high end piece of hardware with a capacious 4" capacitive touch screen, 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and an 8.1 megapixel camera. 

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Motorola Devour reviews and video

Now the Moto Droid has a little brother on Verizon, the Devour. The Devour is actually no smaller than the Droid, in fact it's thicker. But the price is lower ($50 less when buying direct from Verizon) and a few specs are weaker: HVGA 320 x 480 display vs. 480 x 854 and a a 3 megapixel fixed focus camera vs. 5 megapixel autofocus. The Devour runs Android 1.6 Donut, while the Droid runs 2.0, but the Devour adds MOTOBLUR for you social mavens.

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HTC Droid Incredible: Software Tour

The video has introduced the software used in the HTC Droid Incredible, the utilitíe is used in this phone and app store, this product have all apps you need and you could even do tethering for free. Many of the user reviews that this is a product that makes them more interested than the iPhone.

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Lenovo LePhone unboxed

China's Lenovo Music Phone Android strongest trial 

Lenovo also recorded its debut at the CES conference a new generation of mobile Internet flagship mobile music phone, let us lift. Music Phone is a mobile Internet strategy, Lenovo is an important part, the phone using the most popular Android platform and equipped with a powerful 1GHz processor, is definitely a very typical 2010 cell phone, Lenovo Music Phone Today Entertainment network has arrived in search evaluation room, Let us take a look music phone's style bar.  

 

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Android running on iPhone 3G video

Well, the coder behind that project, David Wang, has now stepped his game up to the iPhone 3G, which has been outfitted with an almost complete implementation of Android. Now you can use the Android OS to browse the web and run any application that does not require audio support, as well as send and receive SMS text messages over the cell phone radio.

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12 Essential Android Games

3D games are becoming more common on Google's Android OS, and in this slideshow we've gathered some of the best to get you started. Even those titles without snazzy graphics are pretty addictive. Let's take a look.

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Top 10 Android Apps for Entertainment

Using your Android phone should be fun. Whether you own an early G1, use a Motorola Droid, or just picked up the new HTC Droid Incredible, you can grab plenty of fun apps that will keep you entertained. But with over 30,000 apps now available in the Android Market, finding the real gems can take a while. Here are our top ten entertainment essentials to get you started. Best of all, most of them are free.

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Droid Incredible specs confirmed on Verizon site

Droid Incredible specifications confirmed on Verizon site
Incredible handset. A 3.7-inch OLED touchscreen leads the way, with an 800 x 480 resolution, which will offer the full Google Experience on Android version 2.1. That sounds remarkably like a refashioned Nexus One to us, even down to the 1GHz Snapdragon chip inside, but where the Droid Incredible differs is in its inclusion of Sense UI (à la the Desire) and an 8 megapixel autofocusing camera. We're also seeing GPS and 8GB of integrated memory -- expandable to 24GB via MicroSD cards

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Droid Incredible review

At this point, the HTC Incredible should seem like pretty familiar territory to our readers. We first caught wind of the device in a ROM leak back in December of 2009, and shortly thereafter saw lots of little snippets on the phone that made it clear it was headed our way .

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Hack: iPhone Now Runs Android

 iPhone users and Android users can stop fighting--because now your iPhone can run Android (as if Steve Jobs didn't already have enough on his plate with the iPhone prototype leak). Yeah, you heard me right. iPhone Dev-team member Planetbeing (the same guy who ported the Linux 2.6 kernel to the iPhone in 2008) uploaded a video to YouTube Wednesday evening that shows him successfully running Android on an iPhone 2G. Video after the jump.

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