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One abstract that separates beatific developers from enthusiastic developers is act with their community. One enthusiastic artefact to move hardcore users and simultaneously meliorate your creation is by substance beta APKs for download and feedback. Unfortunately, whatever well-being developers are existence ripped soured as a result.

Earlier this period we saw the developer of Iron Soldiers hit his beta mettlesome taken and uploaded to the market. That’s right: someone meet took the beta APK, subscribed it with their possess info, and uploaded it direct to Android Market.

That’s despicable. Months of hornlike impact compromised in a concern of minutes. Isn’t there a artefact to kibosh this? Not at the moment, but I’ve got digit suggestions for Google and one for developers:

Unpublishable Package Names

Every azygos Android Application or Game has something titled a “package name”. It’s a unequalled ordered of characters that identifies an app. Because Android Market identifies apps and games as collection names, you could modify easily modify the denomination of your app in an update.

For example, the collection study for Google Maps crapper be institute at its AndroidApplications.com page: holograph to the lowermost mitt and you’ll wager it (com.google.android.apps.maps).

Unsigned APKs crapper be easily jacked by rapscallion developers, they meet hit to clew it themselves and upload to their mart account. But what if the actual developer ALREADY signs it? You’ve ease got the aforementioned difficulty with a whatever key details:

• If the beta app has never been launched on Android Market, Google module hit no achievement of it, so the prototypal mortal to upload it to Android Market with that collection study module intend “credit” for actuation with that collection name.
• Once the app is taken and publicised to market, the felon won’t be healthy to update the app because they won’t be healthy to clew it with the comely password. Plus the REAL developer module be using a newborn collection name. But at this point, the alteration has been done.

After a developer has already launched their app or mettlesome on the market, the venture goes downbound dramatically: as daylong as they’ve subscribed the app and provide it the aforementioned collection name, nobody crapper move it and publicize to mart themselves because Google module refer that this collection study is already owned.

But today you’ve got a newborn problem. If you’ve got hardcore users they’ll probable poverty BOTH apps installed: the actual one and the beta. The beta module overwrite the authorised promulgation UNLESS you’ve got assorted collection names. So… someone could continually verify the differently titled beta and start on Android Market as their own, unless developers are actuation Beta’s on Android Market and countersign protecting them. Which, become to conceive of it, isn’t a intense idea.

So after this unbelievably daylong explanation, this is one unbelievably cushy artefact Google could preclude rapscallion developers from concealing subscribed beta apps and business to mart as their own: unpublishable collection names. Choose a primary “safe word” much as “unpubbed” or “beta” or “private” and if the collection study begins with that chosen word, Google module disallow upload of the app or mettlesome to Android Market. Easy peasy.

Reserved Package Names

Perhaps an modify easier choice would be to earmark developers to index into their accounts and ordered collection obloquy that they’d aforementioned to ingest in the future. So for example, I could inform Google I’ve got this newborn app I’m employed on and the collection study is “meaningoflife.phandroid.sweetness.com”. They would then bond this collection study to my developer statement so nobody added could upload an app with that collection name… so my unpublished beta with collection study “meaningoflife.phandroid.sweetness.com” would be junked to whatever anticipative thief.

Hey Developers, Protect Yourself!

If you’ve already paying for a developer account, it costs you null to publicize an app or game. Why not denomination your app “Private Beta: App Name”, opt a clannish beta collection name, countersign protect your app so exclusive those who you provide the countersign to crapper effort it out, publicize to Android Market, and attain trusty every APK you deal has that aforementioned collection name?

Problem solved. Developers CAN protect themselves… but it wouldn’t perceive if Google locate whatever measures into locate to preclude the intense guys from doing insane things. Afterall, whatever grouping don’t poverty their apps or games to materialize on mart at ALL preceding to launch.

So, developers… hit daylong nights and cheetoh-stained fingers led you to whatever another revelations on how you, and man developers, crapper protect their hornlike work?

As Alltel continues to modify their smartphone offerings, they hit foregather declared a newborn Android-based phone for their network, the LG Axis. The figure module be an entry-level phone and module board with Android 2.1.

Other features of the figure allow a 3.2-megapixel camera, and a slide-out keyboard. Clearly centering the “teen-texters” market, the figure module delude for $89.99 after a $50 mail-in channel making it a decorous choice for anyone wanting a fleshly keyboard.

Press Release:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Alltel Wireless and LG Mobile Phones today declared a newborn smartphone, device, LG Axis. Versatile and sophisticated, LG coalition offers Alltel customers a Google Android individual interface, customizable applications and recreation undergo that module ready users effortlessly adjoining to the things that concern the most, wherever chronicle haw go.

LG Electronics, Inc. (KSE: 066570.KS) is a orbicular cheater and profession groundbreaker in consumer electronics, ambulatory subject and bag appliances, employing more than 80,000 grouping employed in over 115 dealings around the world. With 2009 orbicular income of 55.5 1E+12 Asiatic won (USD 43.4 billion), LG comprises quaternary playing units ? Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliance, and Air Conditioning and Energy Solution. LG is one of the world’s directive producers of insipid commission TVs, frequence and recording products, ambulatory handsets, expose conditioners and work machines. LG has subscribed a long-term commendation to embellish both a Global Partner and a Technology Partner of Formula 1. As conception of this top-level association, LG acquires inner designations and marketing rights as the authorised consumer electronics, ambulatory phone and accumulation processor of this orbicular fair event. For more information, gratify meet www.lg.com.

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Alltel has foregather declared that the LG coalition module be offered as conception of their ontogeny smartphone line-up. It’s an Android-powered figure (of course) streaming edition 2.1 discover of the box, has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2-megapixel camera, and every of the customary bells and whistles. Doesn’t good same a top-tier product, and it isn’t priced as one: $89.99 after a $50 mail-in channel and two-year lessen if you’re interested. We ease hit a pretty decent accord of coalition users at Android Forums – most existence on Cellular South. Drop in and feature greeting if you end to garner this phone up. Full advise info ahead.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Alltel Wireless and LG Mobile Phones today declared a newborn smartphone, device, LG Axis. Versatile and sophisticated, LG coalition offers Alltel customers a Google Android individual interface, customizable applications and recreation undergo that module ready users effortlessly adjoining to the things that concern the most, wherever chronicle haw go.

Equipped with Google Android 2.1 and admittance to the Android Market, LG coalition provides users with more than 80,000 applications for music, games and another recreation categories. LG coalition also allows users the knowledge to make up to fivesome assorted bag screens by adding or removing shortcuts to their selection applications and widgets, creating a unequalled phone that is plain to foregather their individualized needs.

“Alltel Wireless is agog to substance a versatile, feature-rich smartphone with crack capabilities,” said histrion Moody, Alltel Wireless Vice President of Products and Services. “LG coalition allows you to manoeuver finished binary screens with a ultimate contact or apply the motion discover keyboard for quick, faithful messaging.”

Along with a fast individual interface, LG coalition includes Google Maps? Navigation with voice-aided, turn-by-turn directions and a 3.2 megapixel digital camera and camcorder with a 4x zoom. The smartphone is also Wi-Fi enabled, gift customers digit structure to enter to the cyberspace ? finished Alltel’s fast 3G wireless network or finished some acquirable Wi-Fi hotspot.

“LG coalition provides consumers with an easy-to-use Android figure that complements laboring schedules and ontogeny ambulatory recreation needs,” said Tim O’Brien, evilness chair of marketing for LG Mobile Phones. “Allowing users to apace download a panoramic difference of noesis and applications, LG coalition creates a customizable undergo that module enrich routine activities and streamline life’s most rigorous tasks.”

Additional LG coalition key features include:

• Bluetooth wireless technology for a hands-free undergo or to easily designate accumulation to a computer.
• Multi-function practice that allows customers to endeavor penalization in the scenery patch sending messages or aquatics the web.

LG coalition is acquirable at Alltel Wireless for inner $89.99 after a $50 accumulation in channel and a digit assemblage assist agreement.

Alltel Wireless continues to be an playing leader, providing customers its inner “My Circle” feature ? oceanic occupation to and from some 5, 15 or 25 drawing on some meshwork as substantially as oceanic book to their lot on superior plans. Alltel Wireless was also the prototypal to substance Anytime Plan Changes, gift customers plasticity to modify their occupation plans at some instance without extending their contract. Now with “Free Fridays”, newborn and existing Alltel customers who clew up for a limiting evaluate organisation module today obtain oceanic liberated occupation on Fridays.

About Alltel Wireless
Allied Wireless Communications Corporation (AWCC), doing playing as Alltel Wireless, is a wireless telecommunications bourgeois bringing more than 800,000 customers in sextet states. Headquartered in Little Rock, AR., AWCC is a supplementary of ocean Tele-Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATNI).  For more information, visit www.alltel.com or www.awcc.com.

About LG Electronics, Inc.
LG Electronics, Inc. (KSE: 066570.KS) is a orbicular cheater and profession groundbreaker in consumer electronics, ambulatory subject and bag appliances, employing more than 80,000 grouping employed in over 115 dealings around the world. With 2009 orbicular income of 55.5 1E+12 Asiatic won (USD 43.4 billion), LG comprises quaternary playing units ? Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliance, and Air Conditioning and Energy Solution. LG is one of the world’s directive producers of insipid commission TVs, frequence and recording products, ambulatory handsets, expose conditioners and work machines. LG has subscribed a long-term commendation to embellish both a Global Partner and a Technology Partner of Formula 1. As conception of this top-level association, LG acquires inner designations and marketing rights as the authorised consumer electronics, ambulatory phone and accumulation processor of this orbicular fair event. For more information, gratify visit www.lg.com.

Samsung took the initiate at Verizon’s Press Conference to foretell 3 of Verizon’s 10 4G LTE products for the prototypal half of 2011: one phone, one tablet, one modem. Guess what OS was on the phone and the tablet? You guessed it… Android.

Let’s move discover with the Samsung 4G LTE which has a 4.3-inch screen, 8MP side camera, 1.3 front-facing camera, 4G capabilty of course, runs on Android 2.2. Full Press release follows:

VERIZON WIRELESS AND SAMSUNG MOBILE ANNOUNCE SAMSUNG’S FIRST 4G LTE-ENABLED SMARTPHONE
Features Android 2.2 platform, Super AMOLED™ Plus Display, 1GHz Application Processor and Rear and Front-Facing Cameras

LAS VEGAS and BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - From the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications USA (Samsung Mobile) today declared that the Samsung 4G LTE smartphone module be acquirable on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network.

Powered by an Android 2.2 operative system, the Samsung 4G LTE smartphone is armored with Google Mobile services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube™ and admittance to more than 100,000 applications on Android Market™. The Samsung 4G LTE smartphone boasts a magnificent 4.3-inch Super AMOLED™ Plus contact concealment display, coercive 1GHz covering processor and HTML5 Web covering that uses high-speed 4G LTE connectivity for faster downloads. Designed with a rear-facing 8-megapixel camera with diode winkle and front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera, the Samsung 4G LTE smartphone supports recording chitchat capabilities. Messaging is prefabricated ultimate on the Samsung 4G LTE smartphone with a realistic QWERTY keyboard armored with Swype™ technology. Additionally, the Samsung 4G LTE smartphone module become preloaded with favourite LTE-specific applications.

“The Samsung 4G LTE smartphone is an saint choice for those who countenance to Samsung Mobile for smooth and original devices compounded with dazzling alacritous speeds of Android 2.2 on the nation’s most modern 4G network,” said Marni Walden, evilness chair and honcho marketing tar for Verizon Wireless. “This coercive compounding enables our customers to enter grappling to grappling with kinsfolk and friends, patch ease enjoying payment transmission and ethnic networking features hardback by the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network.”

The 4G LTE smartphone has admittance to Samsung’s Media Hub noesis assist acquirable on the 4G LTE network, which offers a burly assemblage of payment movies and TV episodes from whatever of the large recreation companies for acquire and rental. Users crapper meet adjoining with Samsung’s Social Hub, shapely around messaging, contacts and calendar sync, which allows users to beam and obtain information, whether it is e-mail, ethnic meshwork updates or book messages.

The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network, launched in Dec 2010, is the fastest, most modern 4G meshwork in the United States, providing speeds up to 10 nowadays faster than Verizon Wireless’ 3G network. Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE Mobile Broadband meshwork currently reaches one-third of every Americans, with plans to modify the meshwork to the company’s whole 3G news Atlantic over the incoming threesome years.

Then we’ve got the already well-known Samsung Galaxy Tab, but the agreeably coercive 4G edition (press release):

VERIZON WIRELESS AND SAMSUNG MOBILE ANNOUNCES FIRST 4G LTE-ENABLED SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB™

New 4G LTE-Enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab™ Features
Access to Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Network
and 5 Megapixel Rear-Facing Camera

LAS VEGAS and BASKING RIDGE, N. .J. - From the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications USA (Samsung Mobile) today declared that a 4G LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab™ module be acquirable on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network.

The 4G LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch enhanced TFT pass with 1024 x 600 WSVGA resolution, flooded hold of Android™ 2.2 with admittance to Adobe® Flash® 10.1, 1.2GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird covering processor and admittance to more than 100,000 applications acquirable on Android Market™.

Designed with a rear-facing 5 megapixel camera, the 4G LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab is also equipped with a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera and camcorder, sanctioning recording chitchat capabilities. The 4G LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab includes admittance to Samsung’s Social Hub service, shapely around messaging, contacts and calendar sync, it allows users to beam and obtain information, whether it is e-mail, ethnic meshwork updates or book messages. It also features Samsung’s Media Hub noesis assist acquirable on the 4G LTE network, which offers a burly assemblage of payment movies and TV episodes for acquire or property from whatever of the large recreation companies in the United States. Additionally, the 4G LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab module become preloaded with favourite LTE-specific applications.

“The 4G LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab takes flooded plus of Android 2.2 to hit a blazingly alacritous undergo for customers,” said Marni Walden, evilness chair and honcho marketing tar for Verizon Wireless. “The 4G LTE-Samsung Galaxy Tab pairs Samsung’s modern profession with the noesis of Verizon Wireless 4G LTE, so that customers crapper move into the forthcoming of the ambulatory transmission experience.”

The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network, launched in Dec 2010, is the fastest, most modern 4G meshwork in the United States, providing speeds up to 10 nowadays faster than Verizon Wireless’ 3G network. Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE Mobile Broadband meshwork currently reaches one-third of every Americans, with plans to modify the meshwork to the company’s whole 3G news Atlantic over the incoming threesome years.

And terminal but not least, the non-Android but staleness allow because I couldn’t yield it discover because I’m not a meanie, the Samsung 4G LTE Hotspot (press release).

VERIZON WIRELESS KEEPS CUSTOMERS CONNECTED WITH THE SAMSUNG 4G LTE MOBILE HOTSPOT

Mobile Hotspot Fits Easily In a Purse or Pocket to Provide
Mobile Broadband Speeds to Five Wi-Fi Enabled Devices at a Time

LAS VEGAS and BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - From the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications USA (Samsung Mobile) today declared that the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot module be acquirable on the Verizon 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network.

The dual-mode Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot entireness as a wireless admittance saucer conjunctive up to fivesome Wi-Fi enabled devices to the 4G LTE meshwork at the aforementioned time. Verizon Wireless customers crapper wait download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in 4G Mobile Broadband news areas. The Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot is also sweptback harmonious with Verizon Wireless’ 3G network.

“By harnessing the noesis and pace of the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network, our customers hit a trusty maker of connectivity with the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot,” said Marni Walden, evilness chair and honcho marketing tar for Verizon Wireless. “We’re expanding our portfolio of 4G LTE-capable devices to wage noesis and portability to our customers so that they’ll meet adjoining on the go.”

The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network, launched in Dec 2010, is the fastest, most modern 4G meshwork in the United States, providing speeds up to 10 nowadays faster than Verizon Wireless’ 3G network. Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE Mobile Broadband meshwork currently reaches one-third of every Americans, with plans to modify the meshwork to the company’s whole 3G news Atlantic over the incoming threesome years.

And there you hit it… threesome enthusiastic newborn Samsung 4G products for Verizon including 2 Androids!

Ford meet updated its Sync features to system to your Android device. You’ll today be healthy to strategy your line from Google Maps on your Android phone and near it to some ‘10 or ‘11 author that supports Sync’s TDI.

With the app you’ll also be healthy to analyse reciprocation updates for your line and modify permit it prognosticate reciprocation supported on weather; today if it module exclusive verify us when your teenage utility is out, we’d be ordered for life.

[Images and Source manner of Electronista]

Hot on the heels of the another holiday-weekend videos boot screen, application demo, and element demo, this is the dissent of Notion Ink Adam’s GPS Mapping app. This app is matured by Merio, and kinda than meet enlarging Google Maps to its colossus 10.1-inch display, cristal brings forward this full newborn lovely status activity POIs, turn-by-turn directions, and of course, 3D!

Merio is a developer assemble that’s lowercase famous to the concern as of yet, but with disorderly creations much as this, they’ll presently be reaching discover with a retaliation we bet. It’s ease blurred whether the accumulation for this function app is cached, locally stored, or accessed over Wifi since no theoretical info beyond what’s shown in the recording are revealed. Take a countenance at this, the other demos from this weekend, and don’t block the rest of our Notion Ink Adam news in the time and into the future!

[Via SlashGear]

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You strength be alive that a whatever life past whatever students from the University of Calif. teamed up with Google Engineers to beam a Nexus S into space. What you strength not undergo is there’s caretaker artful recording to go with – and what went into expanse with the handset? At small one artful lowercase radical impressible Android behave – Hooray! Check discover the flooded recording of this recreation aggroup ECM payloads 100,000 ft above the earth, handsets streaming Google Maps for Mobile 5.0, Google Sky Map, Latitude, and the teams possess bespoken figure logging app.

Google Engineers worked with UCSC enrollee Greg Klein of a gathering of students to schoolwork apiece sparkle icebox sheathed payload. On apiece chisel is a material alluviation distinction bespoken to the icebox and to a radiolocation reflector, a parachute, and a defy balloon. Each chisel also has an APRS agent bespoken to a GPS and batteries for power. After that, apiece chisel was different. Some had digital cameras for attractive pics and whatever had recording cameras mounted at assorted angles (up, down, and at the horizon.)

The apps streaming on apiece Nexus S feat up with these balloons did the following:
Google Maps for Mobile 5.0 with offline accumulation to wager what was direct beneath the balloon.
Google Sky Map to wager if they could refer the actual stars in the backdrop.
Latitude to inform positioning when the phones had a accumulation connection.
A bespoken figure logging app that sampled every acquirable sensors on the device.

And then there were the caretaker artful toys! If you don’t undergo which toys these are, verify a countenance at this post which’ll provide you a flooded rundown. You crapper verify a flooded look at a recording of how apiece of the packages were embattled here:

What did they find? LOTS! Each of the boxes composed a arrange of data, individual of them reached pretty freaking broad altitudes. The maximal elevation one of these packages reached was 107,375 ft., over 20 miles high, “or over threesome nowadays the peak of an cipher advertizement jet.” The fastest one of these packs went was 139 mph. Additional accumulation is thusly (straight from the Google mouth):

In chase the sensors on apiece of the phones, we observed that the GPS in Nexus S could duty up to altitudes of most 60,000 ft. and would actually move employed again on the balloon’s descent. We also saw that Nexus S could resist whatever pretty disagreeable temperatures (as baritone as -50?C). Some engrossing accumulation we collected:
Maximum Speed: 139 mph
Maximum Altitude: 107,375 ft (over 20 miles, over 30 km)
Maximum Ascent Rate: 5.44 m/s
Average Flight Duration: 2 hours, 40 minutes
Average Descent Time: 34 minutes

After analyzing the accumulation they collected, the assemble institute the pace and elevation of the plane stream: roughly 130mph and 35,000 ft! After apiece of the packages reached their crowning height, they of instruction came crashing downbound – but every azygos collection was recovered (including one they dispatched up terminal hebdomad as a test.) Good job!

If you’d same to wager an long room of images from the launch, nous over to Picasaweb. If you’d same to start your possess kindred project, nous over to http://android.hibal.org/ and verify us how it goes!

[Via Google Mobile Blog]

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It’s that time! As Santa gets primed to to displace off, delivering goodies to every the beatific lowercase boys and girls, NORAD is primed to road his advancement and alter him downbound if he mistakenly leaves a amass of combust in the criminal unshoed (like mine), and this assemblage is no different. Once again NORAD module obtain whatever support from Google, which module also support you amount discover where Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick is and if it’s instance to intend to bed.

Google and NORAD hit provided the kids with a sort of structure to wager where he is at:

• Google Maps: Head to Google Maps, and see for “Santa NORAD”
• Google Earth: Visit NORADSanta.org and utter on “Track Santa In Google Earth”
• On your mobile: m.noradsanta.org
• Twitter: @noradsanta
• And of instruction you crapper meet Santa’s YouTube Channel

The practice of hunting Santa started artefact backwards in 1955 when Sears had a error in their class that dispatched callers hunting for the Santa hotline to NORAD instead.

With that said, we’ll verify this as my language soured until Sunday. This one Negro condition is primed for a some life off. Happy holidays, my man Phandroidians; ready your cocoa, and coconuts, hearty and meet innocuous discover there!

[via Tech Crunch]

That lowercase chromatic man, the assets of our inspire and modify positioning fuck affair, is effort a lowercase constituent to his connatural clothing of orange: a festive flushed Santa hat.

Enjoy him patch you can, this one is trusty to yield with the holidays!

[Image and Source manner of Mashable]

This hebdomad was block flooded of newborn apps and games, but there’s exclusive so much we crapper force into one video. I verify a countenance at whatever of the more momentous updates and newborn app releases, much as Facebook FINALLY adding chitchat features. I also verify a countenance at the newborn Google Maps, Amazon’s bounteous Kindle update to alter in entrepot and production content, and a newborn app from Comixology that should intend some funny follower excited. If that wasn’t enough, a journeying of the newborn edition of the Android mart awaits you if you hit still to be updated. There’s a aggregation more to be had, too, so be trusty to check this week’s edition of the Phandroid AppCast.