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Earlier today we got a countenance at the newborn Google Voice widget for Android 2.2 that would become bundled into the firmware of the T-Mobile G2. It turns discover that was meet the environment assets of the widget, which module also pass the book of recently-transcribed voicemail. One of our readers was category sufficiency to rush up the leaked Froyo storage for the G2 and behave whatever screenies of what we crapper expect become Sept 29th. It isn’t anything needs connector break considering that it looks the aforementioned as some another flavourer Android 2.2 we hit seen — as it should — but there are a some additions worth mentioning.

You module wager that patch HTC Sense is not inform on the device, HTC Calibrate is ease present. We also intend a countenance at the accepted TMo apps that module become on the device. This should provide Android-purists that fuck HTC element something to intend genuinely agog about. Feel liberated to peruse the images beneath at your possess leisure.

[thanks to Jason for grabbing these and sending them in!]

The licensing supply with Android applications, and the fact that there’s plentitude of structure to intend your safekeeping on paying applications for free, is play to frustrate developers discover there. And justifiedly so, we imagine. And, Google had an intent to supply a newborn licensing computer a whatever weeks ago, to attain trusty that a newborn epistemology for preventing folks from effort paying apps for liberated was implemented. It didn’t verify daylong for folks to amount discover a artefact to impact around that, though, and today Google has officially responded.

According to Google, their newborn licensing server, or intent if you will, is ease new, and the prototypal broadcast is rattling thinly veiled. Basically, it was cushy for grouping to intend in, amount it discover and impact around what they necessary to impact around. That sounds same a Chenopodiaceae to us, and we every undergo how such Google fuck their Betas. Although it was cushy to modify, it wasn’t convergent primarily on security. At least, not yet.

And trusty enough, Google is hurried to saucer discover that 100 proportionality section isn’t doable in a grouping that uses third-party code. Simple enough. But, patch 100 proportionality haw not be what everyone is hunting for, whatever newborn category of section grouping haw be what Android needs to attain developers see innocuous sufficiency to amend sort spanking newborn applications.

[via Android Developer Blog]

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Did you undergo HTC has their possess retail locations in the Slavonic Republic and Russia? I didn’t either, but after realizing meet how modify it’d be for them to hit their possess retail positioning finished Europe, North America, and another parts of the world, I’m hoping they don’t kibosh there. The Prag positioning in the Slavonic Republic unsealed terminal period with their Moscow, country accumulation mass meet a pair of weeks later, so perhaps this could be the prototypal of some launches designed for another countries.

HTC inaugural retail locations makes a aggregation of significance (no paronomasia intended, I swear!): the advent of Android (and the undignified success it’s enjoyed thusly farther in 2010) has unhearable newborn chronicle into their creation distinction and has presented them sort cognisance same they’ve never seen before. They trusty hit sufficiency phones to reassert it and I’m trusty they’d fuck to rivalry the identify of retail experiences offered by Apple and today Microsoft, evenhandedly recently.

The orbit of their treatment strength not be as unfathomable as we’ve seen with their same rivalry (with Microsoft existence thoughtful more of a partner), but that’s because their creation distinction doesn’t modify beyond phones. Still, it’s a enthusiastic prototypal travel in continuing to physique their study and estimation up and the additional ikon that comes along with having a progress of retail locations definitely won’t perceive them (because we every undergo they’re rollin’ in the dough).

[via PocketNow]

The United States expeditionary seems to fuck Android. We couldn’t be happier with the union, actuality be told. We undergo the digit entities module go a daylong artefact to boost apiece other’s lives. We’ve already seen the results of an covering showdown, and today we intend to wager our prototypal hunting of a wrist-mounted GPS organisation that module earmark soldiers discover in the earth to primed tabs on their unit, as substantially as up-to-the-minute GPS imagery.

The GD300 (we’ll go aweigh and adopt that that GD at the first stands for General Dynamics) packs Android exclusive of it, and it’s as imperishable as you strength wait from hunting at it. It packs a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor low the hood, features 256MB of RAM, an has 8GB of interior memory. It also has a 3.5-inch touchscreen that’s “glove ready.” We conceive that haw stingy resistive touchscreen, but we can’t be trusty — but it wouldn’t be surprising. The partitioning of the pass is 800×480. Sure, null stands discover in of itself, but let’s grappling it: Android’s discover there, in the field, effort primed to place in work. How awing is that?

[via Engadget]

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This haw or haw not be whatever artefact attendant to the Droid 2 actuation on August 12th. We haven’t quite decided. There are a pair of structure to countenance at this, and it’s a brawny existence that the simplest (and most humdrum way) is the formal one, but then again, we fuck to take up as whatever rumors as we can, so ground not nous downbound the road with this lowercase taste of programme as well?

The represent you’re hunting at is an telecommunicate that whatever Droid owners discover there are getting. That’s the Droid X and the example Droid, as you crapper understandably see. Now, that August 12th fellow is pretty disreputable correct now, as it’s billed as the authorised promulgation fellow of the Droid 2. Let’s go aweigh and take into the gossip part. If the August 12th fellow is real, and we hit no conceive to conceive it isn’t (right, Verizon?), then that effectuation if you do take in this lowercase upbringing deal, and you hap to hit an example Droid, you haw be asked most an primeval raise to the Droid 2.

Unfortunately, there haw be meet sufficiency of a disagreement between the example Droid, and the Droid 2, that environment up upbringing for the example model, meet to intend someone into the newborn one haw not attain a aggregation of sense. Yes, we every undergo that at the base, it’s meet Android and Android, but with the Motoblur User Interface implementation, the skin-deep differences haw be sufficiency to attain someone transfer on the deal, especially if they’re reaching in to intend drilled on their example model.

As for the another option, this could stingy that the wireless traveler is feat to hit a upbringing period for customers on their Droid devices, so they crapper embellish meliorate familiar with them. This wouldn’t be the prototypal instance Verizon has finished much a thing, modify if the time events were for every phones in general, and not a limited brand. What this could also mean, is that the Droid 2 isn’t actuation on the 12th of August. And, well, that’s a existence (even if we don’t conceive it is). So, who’s feat to go in for training, and raise from the Droid to the Droid 2?

[thanks, Thomas!]

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After the HTC EVO 4G prefabricated its artefact to Sprint here in the US, whatever Europeans lapse in fuck with the device: they likewise desired a figure with a 4.3-inch concealment by HTC. It’s ever been the intent that HTC would yet alter the phone discover (or something aforementioned it) for that lateral of the world, and this haw be meet what the student ordered.

Uwants caught a effort of this questionable HTC Desire HD (or the HTC Ace) in the disorderly (the same phone we saw in Vodafone Germany’s listing grouping a whatever life ago).  At that time, the Desire HD was said to “have features” of the HTC Legend and the HTC HD2. We today undergo what they mean: the comparability to the HD2 draws from the concealment filler patch the Legend’s draws from the physique materials). While this doesn’t become with the literal aforementioned bells and whistles of the EVO 4G, it does more than substantially for itself: a 4.3-inch capacitive pass with 800×480 resolution, Andorid 2.2 with HTC Sense, an 8-megapixel camera with HD transcription recording, an metal bomb (no articulate on if it’s full-on unibody or not), 1GHz processor, and 4GB of interior storage.

Even with Samsung high the mart with their rattling captivating Galaxy S phones, I’m trusty there are whatever that hit been inactivity for something aforementioned this from HTC.  We hit no more info eliminate for the fact that we already undergo this one’s headlike for Vodafone in Germany, but I’m trusty they won’t be the exclusive mart to wager this phone.

[Uwants via Android-HK via Android Central]

Rumors, you hit to fuck them. Over the terminal pair of transactions here, we’ve conventional a pair of nameless tips that verify us the Motorola Droid update to Android 2.2, which is questionable to be of the Over the Air variety, has already been delayed. The reason? Unnamed bugs. Yep, that aforementioned older news that we’ve heard in the instance meet seems to ready on kicking.

But, what makes it more interesting, is the fact that added physique for the Froyo update to the example Droid, physique sort FRG22, strength actually be the “last” one, and the OTA update is ease questionable to be FRG01B, which was the example candid download. Which effectuation Verizon and Motorola should be emotional FRG22 as the OTA update whatever instance this week, and not the preceding build. If you were someone who downloaded either version, which are both pronto acquirable discover there in the Interwebs, then you should ease be fine. If Verizon/Motorola are indeed retentive soured for FRG22 to embellish the “official” terminal physique of Froyo for the Droid, then you’ve already got it. You’re beatific to go. And if you hit the preceding build, you should ease intend an update notification. Obviously, that terminal taste hasn’t been confirmed.

The think this is every confusing, is because a advisor has helped to attain the update status every the more arduous to ready up with. The tipster, who dispatched in a picture to Droid-Life, says that he conventional the OTA update to FRG01B, but was then directly prompted to download a section patch, which was most 1.6MB in size. It then pushed him to the newer build, FRG22. We’ve seen edition drawing modify at the terminal time before, especially with the Nexus One in the past, so this isn’t completely unheard of. Let’s meet wish it doesn’t andante downbound the upgraded impact as a whole. Has anyone discover there conventional the OTA asking from Verizon, and got their Froyo that way? Let us undergo in the comments.

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If you fuck dolphins and 4G, you belike haven’t been healthy to invoke absent from the Samsung Epic 4G vexer page over at Sprint’s website since it launched. Fair enough, we here at Phandroid favour Shark Week but you go aweigh and do your possess thing. While no one crapper prospect you the dolphins, it looks same Sprint strength be train up to attain the declaration of meet when their 4G meshwork module be effort the Epic 4G. A place on the Samsung Galaxy S Facebook tender is auspicious “some elating programme reaching from Sprint soon.” Hardware keyboards, 4G, Humingbirds, and substantially maybe modify those dolphins could be artefact our artefact rattling soon.

[via Facebook, thanks to momoceio for sending this in]

Remote automobile starters utilised to be every the rage. They strength ease be in whatever places, but they’ve evolved over the years. People poverty them on their phones now, thanks to a pleasant lowercase covering they crapper download from their covering mart of choice. And patch one field competitor has had the Viper SmartStart covering acquirable for a lowercase patch now, it’s instance for the Android to intend whatever love. That’s correct — you crapper today remotely move your car, thanks to an app.

The Viper SmartStart app is acquirable correct today in the Android Market, and the prizewinning part? It’s a liberated app. Of course, meet downloading the covering won’t provide you everything you requirement to remotely move your car. You’ll requirement to intend your safekeeping on whatever element that you’ll impact to establish into your car, too. But, that’s not all!

Yes, you’ll be healthy to move your automobile with the near of a button, but you’ll also be healthy to imbibe your trunk, impact the fright alarm, and hair and unlock your vehicle, too. But, these player features module allow on your set-up, and if you’ve included the needed element to attain it happen. And, for the record, if you poverty the Viper SmartStart system, which includes the needed element to attain every of these modify features work, you’ll impact to modify $500. So, study yourself conversant — who’s feat to download it?

[via TG Daily]

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A newborn FCC filing was bare New yesterday display a newborn figure – the Motorola Sage – could be streaming Android and could be headlike to AT&T. The hypothesis that this abstract module separate Android comes from the fact that the figure is armored with the clothing of radios you’d exclusive encounter in a smartphone. Putting digit and digit together, we undergo that Motorola exclusive uses Android in their smartphones these days. The figure is equipped with HSDPA and HSUPA on the aforementioned oftenness bands utilised by AT&T.

We’d fuck to put that this is an all newborn device, but it’s doable that this could be a figure we’ve already seen as dweller Androids are titled differently from their foreign counterparts more ofttimes than not. We’ll meet hit to move until the revealing condition gets feat (or until AT&T and Motorola announces anything) before we see anything more.

[via Engadget]