Sunday, August 31, 2008

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HTC Dream 1st spy shot pics

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 02:07 AM CDT

HTC Dream

We have some gr8 HTC Dream pics, check out more of the spy shot pics over @ engadget.com

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

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>> Winners of Android Developer Challenge announced

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 07:16 PM CDT

dev contest

Google has decided the winners of the Android Developer Challenge and the announcement was made yesterday @ android-developers.blogspot.com

Get the list of winners here : http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/

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Friday, August 29, 2008

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Android Market - App Store for android

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 09:18 PM CDT

Android Market

Android Market is an open content distribution system that will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered devices. Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. Content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it. We can expect the first handsets to be enabled with a beta version of Android Market. Some decisions are still being made, but at a minimum you can expect support for free (unpaid) applications. Soon after launch an update will be provided that supports download of paid content and more features such as versioning, multiple device profile support, analytics, etc.

Source : android-developers.blogspot.com

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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Compare the size of HTC Dream with other major players

Posted: 25 Aug 2008 07:15 PM CDT


HTC Dream, widely believed to be the world’s first Android handset is longer and wider than the iphone. Though the thickness is not compared here it should be more thatn the iphone coz of the hardware keyboard.

Here’s how the smartphones compare:
* HTC Dream: 115 x 55-mm
* iPhone 3G: 115.2-mm x 62.1-mm
* Xperia X1: 110.5 x 52.6-mm
* HTC Touch Pro: 102 x 51-mm

Source : engadgetmobile.com

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Friday, August 22, 2008

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BucketUpload - upload content directly from Android Phone

Posted: 21 Aug 2008 10:40 AM CDT

BucketUpload

BucketUpload is an application for Android Google phone (experimental). It allows uploading files to an Amazon S3 bucket. Files could be images, audios, videos or any documents available on your Android device. BucketUpload provides a file browser able to list folders from local file system, sd card and shared content providers.

Features:
BucketUpload is a Java application for Android compliant smart devices. It allows selecting and uploading files to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. It provides the following features:

* File browser:
End-user could select one or many files to upload with a file browser. It allows to browse folders and subfolders. Files and folders could be selected from device file system, external SD card and shared folders such as images, audio and video.
* Progress bar:
BucketUpload front-end includes a progress bar with current file uploaded, files remaining and transfer rate.
* Cancel upload:
End-user can cancel upload at any time with the “Cancel” button.
* S3 settings:
End-user can setup S3 parameters (bucket name, key identifier and secret key). Permission for file to upload could also be setup thanks to ACL. End-user can select among “private”, “authenticated-read”, “public-read” and “public-read-write”. Default is “private”. All parameters are saved into a private store on the Android device.
* Others:
Even if BucketUpload is designed to run with Amazon S3, it could work with any web server because HTTP upload requests sent are standard. It means that you can use BucketUpload with your own web server too.

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Opera Mini - the best mobile browser is also on android

Posted: 21 Aug 2008 10:26 AM CDT

Opera Mini

Opera Mini is a well-known mobile Web browser. This is the first version of Opera browser that runs on Google’s Android open mobile development platform.

The Opera Mini browser renders web pages that have been transcoded to the binary OBML format, meaning much smaller downloads and a faster browsing experience on mobiles, than would be provided by other browsers. The Android WebKit-based browser component has a switch in the public API allowing the use of a transcoding proxy that transcodes web pages to a simpler form of HTML. Whether this is as small and fast as Opera Mini’s OBML remains to be seen.

Known issues:
* Small painting issues
* The Back command isn’t yet mapped to the device back button

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GeoMata Client 0.5 alpha - geo-tagged utility for android

Posted: 21 Aug 2008 10:08 AM CDT

GeoMata

GeoMata Client is a part of the GeoMata project, which maps geographic locations to web content (audio, video, html).

The GeoMata project provides an open REST service that maps geographic locations to web content (audio, video, html), and a mobile client for accessing this data. The mapped spots are called “blips”. The GeoMata Android client displays these “blips” either on a map or in list form, sorted by proximity to your current location.

The application might be useful for travelers. Once you are standing next to a monument of some historic person, you can launch GeoMata on your mobile device. GeoMata, using the devices GPS, will provide you with a list of available web content. This might be a Wikipedia page pertaining to the person or monument your looking at.

The hardest part about a service like this is gathering all the data to make this a really useful application. The authors bootstrapped GeoMata with over 140,000 points that link to Wikipedia, which is a good start, but we the system is open and users can add content as well. Users can create a new “blip” right from the device itself, associate it with some web content (can be an audio file, mp4 video or a web page), and share it with the rest of the world.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Android SDK v0.9 anyone ?

Posted: 19 Aug 2008 07:31 AM CDT

Android SDK

According to engadgetmobile.com there’s a new release of the Android SDK available v0.9 so whats next 1.0 ? Usually 1.0 means We are out of beta version. Some of the changes are adding a new widgetified (big old clock: present!) and flickable homescreen, a handy (and speedy) tab to pull up your apps, plus a media player, camera, and handful of other noticeable design tweaks. Android have never looked so promising

Have a look for yourself @ the video.

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No Microsoft’s Exchange and Ads on your Phone

Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:59 AM CDT

HTC’s Android-based Dream phone may not support push-based work mail or ship as soon as expected, according to electronista.com. The device only supports push e-mail through Google’s own Gmail service and that support for Microsoft’s Exchange service isn’t known at the moment.

The phone may take advantage of Google’s dominance of web advertising to lower the cost of the device; those who volunteer to allow ads on their phone may see discounts either on the initial cost of the device or for their monthly subscription fees. These customers will see ads that are based not only on interests revealed through apps but also through the phone’s location. They also suggest the handset may not be available until near the Thanksgiving in November.

Source : electronista.com

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HTC Dream gets FCC approval

Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:34 AM CDT

The long rumored HTC Dream aka “The Googlephone” or “The Gphone” received FCC approval. The handset is listed as type, “Dream’ with a model of “DREA100″ it also appears with a WiFi Interoperability Certificate touting 802.11b/g WiFi. If indeed this is the long awaited Android phone, then T-Mobile, HTC, and Google are free to announce in September with an October launch as originally planned.
Source : engadgetmobile.com

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Monday, August 18, 2008

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T-Mobile to get Android before Christmas

Posted: 17 Aug 2008 07:58 AM CDT


T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android. The phone's release date depends on how soon the FCC certifies that the Google software and the HTC phone meet network standards. Executives at all three companies are hoping to announce the phone in September. The deal is expected to be exclusive making it the only Android phone available in the US this year.

Source : nytimes.com

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

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XLive - RSS, email and Messenger for android

Posted: 16 Aug 2008 06:08 AM CDT

XLive

XLive is a 3-in-1 Internet tool. It has an integrated RSS reader, multi-protocol messenger as well as email client with SSL support. XLive has a launcher where you can select one of three featured modules.

XLive features:
* Chating withs friend using different protocols (ICQ, GTalk).
* Reading news via RSS feeds.
* Sending and reading e-mails via IMAP, POP3, SMTP and SSL protocols.

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Scrambled Net 1.1 - knetwalk on Android

Posted: 16 Aug 2008 05:46 AM CDT

Scrambled Net

Scrambled Net is a port of the KDE game “knetwalk”. Scrambled Net detects the screen size of the device it’s running in, and configures the board appropriately. Portrait and landscape phones are handled automatically. Tile rotation is smoothly animated; highlighted tiles show the user’s progress.

The game is designed to be usable with 12-key keypad or QWERTY keypad, or by tapping the screen.

The game has 5 difficulty levels; the first 3 use different board sizes; then wrap-around is introduced for “Master” level; then “Insane” level adds invisible cells. In case you’re wondering, yes, I can solve “Insane” puzzles, usually in 10-12 minutes on a large (HVGA) phone.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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SeaThreePO - translation on your Android

Posted: 13 Aug 2008 03:34 AM CDT

SeaThreePO

SeaThreePO utilizes Google’s GTalk translation bots to provide a simple translation service. As the author says “Its translations aren’t great, but would probably do in a pinch. They’ll likely improve as Google improves its translation bots”.
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Android Blackjack - Play Blackjack on Android

Posted: 13 Aug 2008 03:00 AM CDT

Android Blackjack

Android Blackjack by Kenneth Riggio is a variation of the most popular casino card games in the world to the Android mobile platform. The author ported this program in attempt to learn about the new mobile platform. Thus there are some exceptions popping here and there, but it’s rather playable.

Blackjack (also known as Twenty-one, Vingt-et-un (French for Twenty-one), or Pontoon) is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Much of blackjack’s popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting (keeping track of which cards have been played since the last shuffle). More about the game and the rules you can learn from Wikipedia.

There is also a Spanish version of the game available. It was translated by Spanish enthusiast as the author provided the sources.
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CurrencyViewer - Currency Viewer application for Android

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 05:04 AM CDT

CurrencyViewer

CurrencyViewer is an Android application, which is intended to reflect the most current state of currency exchange market. It is not only a converter of currencies, but is also the full source of information which is presented in a convenient way to the mobile user. It is able to obtain current currency rates from the selected web-source and then display the rates of selected currencies to the user. It is handy once you have selected the currencies you need rates for against the chosen base currency – you do this setup only once and then just continue using that profile to view new rates. The application is able to store settings for several profiles, so that it would be convenient for you to switch between different sources, base currencies and sets of selected currencies to view rates for.

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TwitterDroid 0.1.2 - Twitter client for Android

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 04:31 AM CDT

TwitterDroid

TwitterDroid 0.1.2 lets you read and publish to your Twitter, it's a kind of port of Twitterific, the excellent application for MacOS X. TwitterDroid 0.1.2 is an early alpha stage software but it's already functional — you can read the latest 20 tweets from your friends and publish a post to your own timeline. The app still lacks configuration, robustness and notifications. Anyway. it’s worth trying.

Features
* Log into any Twitter account and save preferences
* Display expanded tweets of your friends timeline
* Post a tweet to your timeline
* Display a waiting spinner when sending and fetching tweets
* Refresh the tweet list
* Catch connection errors and display an alert
* Use the black theme of Android

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Monday, August 11, 2008

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Is this the Gphone - HTC Dream Video

Posted: 10 Aug 2008 05:39 PM CDT

HTC’s Dream has surfaced on YouTube, showing a white smartphone running Android and sliding horizontally to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The phone in the video bears an uncanny resemblance to a “reference design” made by “a partner” of Google’s that was demonstrated by none other than Google’s own Andy Rubin back in February of this year.

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TooDo 1.6 - to-do manager for Android

Posted: 10 Aug 2008 06:32 AM CDT

TooDo

TooDo 1.6 is a free Android application which enables the handheld user to manage and be reminded smartly of all the things he needs to be done.

TooDo is a smart to-do manager. It enables to define and share tasks with others via SMS. TooDo offers geographically-based notification reminders. TooDo proposes to capture textual, audio or video notes related to a to-do.

  • You can two-way synchronize with your “Remember The Milk” lists and tasks.
  • You can two-way synchronize with your “Toodledo” folders and tasks!
  • You can define locations for alerts to be triggered when you enter or leave a zone

You can watch some demonstration videos here (including the “Remember The Milk” and Toodledo synchronizations).

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Memo Game 2.0

Posted: 10 Aug 2008 05:59 AM CDT

Memo Game

Memo Game 2.0 is a Memory game for the Android platform. An exciting board game, to be played for fun at all times. Even trains your brains.

The application, through a user friendly interface, offers the users the chance to play the well-known Memory game now on the Android platform. In Memo Game 2.0, compared to the Memo Game version 1.0, images are hidden under the tilesThe user is able to select a theme from the following: car brands, Disney-figures, fruits and flowers.

Instructions:
After the application is started, the game is on. The user needs to click on the tiles appeared on the screen and try to find a pair of matching tiles. If identical images are discovered under two different tiles - a matching pair was discovered. The game continues until all the tiles with identical images are found or the user leaves the game.

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Android File Browser 2.0

Posted: 10 Aug 2008 04:10 AM CDT

Android File Browser

Android File Browser 2.0 is a simple file system explorer and launcher of applications. It is a slightly improved version of the previous browser and a tutorial for Android developers at the same time.

Comparing to the older version, Android File Browser 2.0 features graphic icons for each type of files. The source code and tutorial for developers are available from the developers website.

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

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File System Explorer - file explorer for Android

Posted: 06 Aug 2008 07:48 AM CDT

File System Explorer
File System Explorer is a minimalistic system file browser written as a showcase for a simple Android application. The program lists system files and directories. Users can navigate through the directory structure by clicking on directories. Actually no files can be launched from the browser - the user get warned when a file is clicked.

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AndroidCan Sudoku Challenge

Posted: 06 Aug 2008 07:07 AM CDT

AndroidCan Sudoku Challenge

AndroidCan Sudoku Challenge brings Sudoku to the Android platform. The game makes use of the unique Android user interface. It works as well in Touch Screen mode as with a standard numeric telephone key-board.

The game does not need a big instruction manual. Just select “?/Tutorial” from the menu to get an overview of how the intuitive user interface works. The game features 30 pre-installed Sudokus. Once those are solved, you can create an unlimited number of Sudokus in Free Play mode. You cannot access this feature right away though. The pre-installed Sudokus need to be unlocked and solved first.

This is alpha version 0.9. Without sound effects. Released on April 5th 2008. Developed and tested with SDK m5-rc15

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