24 May, 2009  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

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cupcake robots1Cupcake is acquirable for download for U.S. phones. Get over to XDA when you’re primed to intend your Voice Search and MyFaves back, or if you definite to patiently move for the US edition to be free on its own. The stylish retard was cod to a section damage in the example OTA, T-Mobile definite that kinda than a second, smaller, OTA they would retard until the hotfix was practical to the example OTA.

Thoughts, comments? We’ve been inactivity for this period for most quaternary months, was it worth the wait?

[via XDA, and Boxcar from AF]

24 May, 2009  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

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Canadians module presently be informed by every that is Android - both the HTC Dream and HTC Magic module be reaching to actress Wireless in the nearby future. Rumor has it that they’ll outlay around $149.99 but promulgation fellow has been a mystery. Now it appears the fellow is June 2nd and the phone module be the HTC Dream… at small at first.

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Unfortunately for actress Wireless they had a rank LOL moment, sending discover a intense typo that would attain their so titled “revolution” seem same lowercase more than a comedy edifice appearance:

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There are a aggregation of questions ease on the table, much as what accumulation plans module actress substance and module these Androids become with 1.5 Cupcake or cragfast with the example 1.1? Not likewise daylong until we every encounter out.

[Via MobileRoar, EngadgetMobile]

23 May, 2009  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

trimble nomad android 1 5 cupcakeIf you’re hunting for a ambulatory figure streaming Android soured the shelf, you’re not actually restricted to HTC’s digit smartphones.  SDG Systems have announced that their Trimble Nomad clifflike ambulatory technology grouping is today acquirable with Android OS 1.5 Cupcake pre-installed.

First declared as a Windows Mobile figure with wireless accumulation connectivity back in March 2008, the Trimble Nomad is supported on an 806MHz processor with accepted Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi and GPS.  It has a VGA-resolution touchscreen display, up to 2GB of hardware and meets the MILSTD-810F expeditionary accepted for drops, vibration, humidity, elevation and extremity temperatures.

What’s optional, however, is the Trimble’s cancellated connectivity: quadband GSM with EDGE data.  That’s actually still to intend Cupcake support, as is the camera and Bluetooth module.  The Trimble Nomad, rank with Android OS 1.5 Cupcake, starts at $1,274.

[via MobileBurn]

Sony Ericsson have confirmed that they’re employed on an Android phone that module separate edition 2.0 of the Google platform.  The company’s Asia-Pacific VP of marketing, saint Ang, told reporters at a island start this hebdomad that Sony Ericsson’s prototypal Android phone would come in the “near future”.

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In addition, Ang described the phone as having Sony Ericsson’s unequalled style, a catchword which could be understood as the consort thinking a newborn programme which would set on crowning of the lawful Android interface.  While he did not provide some details, the VP spinous to the XPERIA X1 as an warning of how Sony Ericsson hit distinguished a broader papers (in the housing of the X1, Windows Mobile).

Sony Ericsson module move to attain Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, however, he continued.  The consort connected the Open Handset Alliance in the ordinal field gesture of additions, back in Dec 2008.  Shortly after they were tipped to release an Android phone by season 2009; presented that Android OS 1.5 Cupcake is exclusive today sight distributed availability, that prevision seems implausible to belittle out.

[via SlashPhone]

Android OS 1.5 Cupcake hasn’t modify had its authorised promulgation onto G1 handsets in the US, but that hasn’t obstructed Dell from experimenting with the open-source OS on their stylish netbook.  The Dell Inspiron Mini 10v packs the customary variety of an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard-drive, but Dell ordinarily sound it with Windows XP Home.

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In this recording demo, however, Dell’s Doug Anson shows the Mini 10v streaming threesome assorted platforms, including Cupcake.  There’s lowercase detail, sadly, but he does feature that it’s a “small, snappy” OS and that it “runs evenhandedly nicely”.

Sadly Anson also reiterates that Dell hit no “announced creation plans with the Android environment”, but the fact that they’re investigating it and with ostensibly decorous results does prognosticate substantially for the future.  The Inspiron Mini 10v retails from $299 in the US, and is acquirable to visit now.

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htc hero screenshots 1Firmware from the HTC mathematician has leaked, and been installed on the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1).  The newborn code shows a refreshed programme with hints of HTC’s possess TouchFLO 3D programme incorporated, and has been free by Haykuro of the xdadevelopers forum.

What’s so-far uncharted is whether whatever of these seeable changes module attain their artefact into Android 2.0 Donut, or if they’re every HTC’s possess work.  The HTC Dream in the recording beneath is streaming OS 1.5 Cupcake, certainly.  Right now, every of the important Google apps work, and there are whatever newborn additions much as the redesigned calendar

There also looks to be Flash hold in the application and newborn ethnic networking additions, including Twitter and Facebook apps.  While originally Haykuro had said that he wasn’t at independency to promulgation the update for generalized download, there’s today speech that it module be prefabricated acquirable for those who hit stem admittance on their Android handsets.

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[thanks hersh!]

19 May, 2009  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

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For T-Mobile G1 owners, Cupcake has been an enigma, and it module rest so for at small 1 more week. Following up on T-Mobile’s May 7th announcement that Cupcake would be actuation the modify of that mass week, T-Mobile is today locution the Cupcake rollout has been suspended 1 week. Furthermore, the rollout module become over a punctuation of instance and every G1 owners in the US won’t be serviced until the first of June, as anti to the initial “end of May” timeline.

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We’ve waited so daylong already… what is added pair weeks? An eternity, I know, but gratify don’t dispense the messenger.

[Via T-Mobile Forums, Thanks Ryan!]

18 May, 2009  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

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Late terminal week, I saw an article titled “13 Things That Bug Us About Android - Cupcake or No Cupcake” impact my RSS Reader (Google Reader, of course). I overcame my disinclination to click, forward I would be overwhelmed with a talk of iPhone fanboism. But same it or not, Devin Coldewey produces a pretty clean itemize of shortcomings with a short account of his frustrations. I don’t concord with all of them but here is the list, sans explanation:

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  1. Notifications are equipage and limited
  2. Lack of asking customization
  3. Can’t “exit” apps
  4. Can’t care apps from “app drawer”
  5. Dismiss voicemail notifications doesn’t impact properly
  6. Search Box uto-complete is likewise sensitive
  7. Contact itemize needs UI improvements
  8. Mail apps are buggy
  9. Want more ingest of daylong touch
  10. Ring profiles needed
  11. Key illumination
  12. Android Market app changelogs
  13. Menu fix should consequence the phone up!

At the modify he admits:

That’s every we could become up with

And considering such of that is nit-picking kinda than nonindulgent functionality flaws - for warning 3 of the 13 are complaints most the “notifications” - we hit to feature that Google is doing a pretty shucks beatific employ with Android. But there ARE flaws and modify if we conceive Android is awesome, satisfaction won’t intend us such of anywhere. So deal your crowning frustrations with Android (the OS not hardware, and ownership cupcake in mind) and lets wager if we can’t dapple the crowning needs in a egalitarian fashion.

13 May, 2009  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

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The fable of Cupcake… how it go so preposterously favourite I am not sure. But the Android doting group desired a touchscreen keyboard and when the study “Cupcake” surfaced, grouping never took their eyes soured it. They desired it. They necessary it. But today they are feat to Homer doc it.

The incoming dev division of Android is titled Donut.

Right now, Donut is aforementioned to Cupcake and module be matured over time, mostly by Google but they are accepting submissions/updates/features from developers. We wager this from a discussion on Google Groups from Apr 26th:

branches with codenames (i.e. cupcake, donut), as substantially as the officer branch, are evolving, they’re not icy aforementioned tags.

There are tags for android-1.0, android-sdk-1.5-pre and android-1.5, which aren’t evolving.

Donut is the codename for the send that directly follows cupcake (you crapper amount discover the arrangement by realizing that the codenames are in alphabetical order).

At this point, indeed, the cipher in friedcake is aforementioned to that in cupcake. The pore has been primarily on cupcake, and patch friedcake is primed to obtain changes it hasn’t had whatever yet.

See that state most “Alphabetical Order”? We intellection it would be recreation to prognosticate the doable obloquy of the utilization branches for E finished Z. My itemize is below, wager liberated to attain your possess suggestions in the comments!

  • Eclair
  • Frosting
  • Gelato
  • Honey
  • Icing
  • Jelly (Unfortunately, Jell-O is a sort name)
  • Kiwi
  • Lemon
  • Marshmellow
  • Noodle (Nerds would be hilarious)
  • Orange (Oreo would be better!)
  • Pudding
  • Quince (White men can’t move / Jeopardy!)
  • RockyRoad (uhoh, intense foreshadowing!)
  • Sundae
  • Taffee (Twinkee!)
  • UDC (upside-down-cake)
  • Vanilla
  • Waffle
  • Xmas Cookies?
  • Yogurt
  • Zebra Cake

As you crapper wager I cragfast with the dessert-ish thought but I presume you could go in a more generalized “food” content or modify verify it elsewhere. The Android dev division denotive ornament is aforementioned that of hurricanes every year… and both are on a line to defeat anything that comes in its way!

As for actualised “practical” knowledge, Jean-Baptiste Queru imparts that upon us ease again in added thread on Google Groups:

Here’s the underway situation:

-in apiece “code” repository:

  • release-1.0 is the division for 1.0 as it was originally released. It should be thoughtful read-only (i.e. we don’t ordinarily accept submissions into it).
  • cdma-import is the division that was utilised by Teleca (a member of OHA) to impact on CDMA hold in Android. read-only.
  • cupcake is the division that follows the cupcake maker tree that exists exclusive Google. it’s read-only.
  • donut is the division for the prototypal titled send after cupcake. It’s ease in the impact of existence ordered up. At the time it’s ease aforementioned to cupcake. We strength accept restricted contributions into it at whatever saucer in the forthcoming (as we transformation absent from the help that we utilised for cupcake).master is the division for every projects after donut. We accept contributions into it.
  • android-1.0 tags the example 1.0 cipher drop.
  • android-sdk-1.5-pre tags the 1.5 advertisement SDK. It’s the open-source conception of the literal maker that was utilised to physique the SDK, so it crapper be utilised e.g. to correct arrange traces
  • android-1.5 tags the authorised 1.5 promulgation of the Android Open-Source Project. It’s the one that should be utilised by grouping porting Android 1.5 to devices.

-within the “manifest” repository:

  • there are the aforementioned branches as in the “code” repositories, which saucer to the matched branches in every the cipher repositories.
  • there are branches for android-1.5 and android-sdk-1.5-pre, which saucer to the matched tags in every the cipher repositories (those hit to be branches as an whole of the artefact repo currently works).
  • there are the aforementioned tags as in the “code” repositories.

So there you hit it… a lowercase more aggregation on the Donut, the denotive pattern, and whatever recreation guesses at the forthcoming dev branches! The discourse is, if Google has an oversized monument of apiece dev division made, module the Google Campus move to countenance pervertedly kindred to archangel Jackson’s Neverland Ranch?

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10 May, 2009  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

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In every azygos recording I’ve seen of the Samsung i7500 Android Phone the critic navigates to the “Settings > About Phone” Atlantic where they state that it is streaming Firmware edition 1.5 - cupcake. Not at every engrossing since this is ordinary knowledge. But what IS engrossing has previously absent unmentioned… state the “Model Number” traded above the Android OS edition in the beneath screenshot (taken from this video):

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It reads “samsung_capella7200″. What? We’ve never heard most anything titled the “Capella” and there has been no study of an Android Phone with help sort 7200? So what could it mean?

  • Is this the interior codename for the Samsung i7500 that they’re using on beta devices?
  • Is it the carrier-branded study for the i7500 that module start in whatever mart as the Samsung giant 7200?
  • Is it a mistake?

It’s SOMETHING. But it could be something that amounts to nothing. In some housing I intellection it’d be engrossing to saucer out, and of course, intend feedback from our intellectual readers.