Getting bored with the use of older Android OS 1.6 and 2.0 on your phones. Mention not, and don’t worry. Your phone will be redecorated with all the new sounds and whistles in the newer version for Android 2.1. Although a confirmed date for the release of the new OS hasn’t been announced but it is expected to come around or before mid of 2010. A lot of questions have been put forth by the current users on the release of this new OS. Many fear their phone might get obsolete (as always ) and this new OS will require new hardware as well. This remains to be seen what new features will it bring in and what would its impact be on current phone users with Android as OS.
The UK T-Mobile site now has price plans for the HTC Desire online so why not go ahead and take a look.
Plans start at just £10 a month for 24 months with the handset costing £164.99. Obviously you would want to go for a plan that includes unlimited Internet so be sure to get the plan that suits your needs.
Delivery is “within 7 days” so whether that means you’d get the phone this Friday 26th is anyone’s guess. This is however the date that T-Mobile have set for the ‘release’ of the Desire on their network.
Been thinking about settling down with an XP netbook but can’t get the idea of an Android tablet out of your mind? We understand your pain — and so does Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry, which is showing off the Mtube II netbook / tablet at Computex. The slick remix of an HP Mini 1000 runs XP when in netbook configuration, but then switches over to Android on an unspecified ARM processor when the screen is pulled off and used as a tablet. Yes, it’s basically the product most of us have daydreamed about for ages — much like the Touch Book — but there are some tradeoffs here: first, the Atom in the netbook base has been swapped for a VIA C7-M, so it’s not exactly a rocket, and second, the screen is connected by VNC, so video performance isn’t going to be all that great. We’re hoping the additional year of development III says it needs will solve some of those problems, but until then you know we’ll be doodling this thing all through math class. Videos after the break.
Every time I say I can live without Adobe Flash (s adbe) on my mobile phone, a video surfaces that causes me to reconsider my stance. This time it’s NewTeeVee with a glimpse of the NCAA March Madness tourney on a Google Nexus One over 3G. Using the Flash 10.1 beta, Adobe offered the demonstration along with confirmation that Flash 10.1 will officially hit Android devices within the next three months. Until then, I’m using these mobile methods to catch college basketball, which mostly pale in comparison. The live-stream doesn’t look flawless, but it’s not a slide-show either — not bad for a beta product over a mobile broadband connection right now.
The second half of 2010 is shaping up for quite a video showdown on mobile devices. By the end of this year, Microsoft’s Silverlight (s msft) functionality arrives with Windows Phone 7 devices, although it’s won’t initially be supported in the browser — Silverlight apps like one for Netflix will leverage Microsoft’s video platform. Android (s goog) and webOS devices will have Adobe’s Flash while Windows Mobile legacy devices aren’t getting it after all. And Apple (s aapl) will still hold the line and not allow Flash on the iPhone and iPad. Will it be Silverlight vs Flash vs HTML5 or will there be room for all three on mobile devices?
Welcome, welcome, please be seated (which I guess you all should be unless you are reading this in a subway or somewhere with no gravity). I would like to welcome everyone to droiddoesgames.com! Let’s get this out of the way upfront why don’t we? I will pour my heart and soul (wait I think I already sold that to someone else??) into what will hopefully become the most comprehensive resource for everything related to the latest in android gaming. First things first though, I figure that a little background information might be worth your while, and maybe, just maybe, if you bear with me through this monologue of sorts, you will all see my vision and where I hope to take this site.
I am a 27 year old guy with a passion for all things electronics, gadgets, and gaming. I work in the online media industry near NYC for a relatively large publishing company and i have been on board with the android platform since the Motorola Droid landed on our country back in November of ‘09 (did they really drop ship these puppies from stealth bombers or was that just an ad campaign?). I’ll tell you straight off the bat that I am an Apple fan- I stood in line for the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G, and subsequently the iPhone 3GS, but after three years of loyalty to Apple and AT&T, I decided it was time for something new. I bit the bullet (and the $200 ETF) and switched over to what some liked to call “the dark side” and picked up a shiny new Motorola Droid powered by our friends over @ Google. It took a little while to get used to: after all, out of the box, the Droid lacked the polish and finish of the 3 yr veteran iPhone, but I can now proudly say that 5 months later, I am absolutely in love with my Droid. The sky seems the limit in terms of what one can do with rooting, flashing, tweaking, and so on. As it were however, the sky is not the limit in terms of the current state of Android gaming. As we all know, the current crop of Android games pale in comparison to what is being done on the iPhone side, despite some of the rare pearls that we have been blessed with.
I’m an avid reader of engadget.com, gizmodo.com, as well as gaming specific sites like toucharcade.com. and there is no doubt that the iPhone has been compared to the PSP or DS a multitude of times.. and with good reason! But what about Android devices? Where’s the love? Publisher giants like EA Games and Gameloft are cranking out console-quality games for iPhone OS left and right.. but thus far have left Android in the dust.. This, my friends, is where droiddoesgames.com comes in. I have come to believe that through direct exposure in the interwebs and through a focused, thriving, and highly intelligent (let’s just pat ourselves on the shoulders why don’t we?) community that Android Gaming can really start to boom, and it is through the power of the people that we, the consumers, can voice our opinions, and shout out to the world that WE ALSO have a gaming community, that WE ALSO want high-end games, and that WE ALSO want the polish and effort and details that our iBrothers are benefiting from!
I am therefore committed to bringing to light the best that android gaming has to offer now, along with quality reviews, videos, and latest industry news in order to hopefully accompany the current state of affairs into a new era… and guess what, I am not alone!, it looks like our friends at Google are busy trying to help the process as well:
“Seven of the ten most popular paid applications on Android Market are games, so there’s a significant opportunity for game developers as the number of Android devices continues to grow at a rapid pace.
To better support this trend, we are increasing our support of Android game development.”
So you see, my friends, I think we are in good shape. I think that we have a bright future ahead of us, and I think that together we can make in impact. Just bear with me while I set everything up- we will have a community, we will have forums, and we will have us some excellent game reviews. I am currently working on establishing a few scales on which to grade games, as well as working on getting some partners on board. Please note that as the site grows (that’s the hope right?) I will be reaching out to active members of the community for potential help with reviewing, trade show attendance, and other fun stuff, so stick along for the ride, I think it will be a fun one… and remember, who says Andy can’t have any fun??
Tim Bray in his first Advocate post stated a daily sales figure of 60,000 versus iPhone’s daily 90,000 unit sales figure. Now, remember Apple has had 3 years to get to that 90,000 units per day figure. But, Android has reached 60,000 per day figure in less than 2 years. See why Apple is is scared yet?
A large part of that has been due the hard work of Verizon and Motorola. We as Nadrid Developers shoudl be prepared when it becomes 90,000 Android Devices sold per day later this year.
File syncing and storage startup Zumodrive is expanding its mobile offerings today with free applications for Android and Palm phones. While there are a plethora of syncing and storage services available to users, ZumoDrive, which spawned from Y Combinator startup Zecter, has a different take on file syncing. Similar to other services, Zumodrive creates a drive on your device that is synced to the cloud. But service includes a slightly different twist-ZumoDrive tricks the file system into thinking those cloud-stored files are local, and streams them from the cloud when you open or access them.
The startup launched an iPhone app last year, which let users sync their content to their phone without having to deal with local storage capacity issues. The Android and Palm apps include much of the same functionality. The apps allows users to sync their entire iTunes library on their phones even though the songs are not locally saved. Plus, ZumoDrive allows you to import your files. photos albums and videos onto your Android and Palm phones.
Additional features include video streaming from ZumoDrive directly to devices in MP4, H.264 format, music organized by artist, albums, and even playlists created on other devices, the ability to stream music in the background and listen to music over both 3G or EDGE networks.
Additionally you can access and view Microsoft Office documents and PDF files.
ZumoDrive has been gaining traction over the past year. Fresh off of a $1.5 million funding round, the startup scored a deal with HP in January to to power the backend of the technology giant’s CloudDrive on all HP Mini netbooks.
Last year, ZumoDrive released a new version of its system that wirelessly syncs playlists between devices, auto-detects content, and lets users link file folders on their devices to ZumoDrive only once so that changes in that folder will always be linked to ZumoDrive. The service was also upgraded to integrate well with media applications, like iTunes, so users can play entire music libraries saved in ZumoDrive on multiple devices without manually syncing content. We initially reviewed Zumodrive here.
Zecter previously launched a product called Versionate, an office-wiki product, that we first covered in July 2007. We wrote about them again a year ago. ZumoDrive faces competition from Dropbox, SugarSync, and Box.net.
via ZumoDrive Brings Cloud Storage And Syncing Application To Android And Palm Devices.
) and this new OS will require new hardware as well. This remains to be seen what new features will it bring in and what would its impact be on current phone users with Android as OS.
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is expanding its mobile offerings today with free applications for Android
ZumoDrive has been gaining traction over the past year. Fresh off of a $1.5 million funding round, the startup scored a deal with HP in January to to power the backend of the technology giant’s CloudDrive on all HP Mini netbooks.