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[Swisha]

this is sweet. gonna install on my N1 now!



Itching Thumb Brings webOS-Like, Gesture-Based Task Management to Android



Android: Itching Thumb is an Android task manager that displays running tasks (in a fashion similar to the alt-tab function in Windows) with live preview and enables gesture-based application launching.

The default Android task switcher simply displays recently run application icons—you can switch to the app you were using a moment ago by clicking the icon to return the focus to the app or starting it again. Itching Thumb actually shows you thumbnails of the active applications. In the space beneath the application previews you can swipe gestures to launch applications like G for Gmail or a C for your contacts list.

Check out the video above to see the application in action. Itching Thumb is a free application and works wherever Android does. Download a copy by scanning the QR code at right or searching for "Itching Thumb" in the Android marketplace


http://goo.gl/XJvq

[heshere2001]

So i did some mods to my phone to see how long i can get the battery to last without a toll on performance.

So far a day has passed and the battery is still over 90% this is with texting, work calls and browsing xda-developers.

I'll report how long it lasts and post a screenshot of the battery usage if i don't decide to flash it soon, as two new Froyo firmwares came out today(very close to final release).

Wow.

Post your set up. I'm using CM6 FRF91 and can average a day, day and a 1/2 tops. Data is always on but it is set to use 2G only.

Let me know.

Probably a new kernel + Juice defender?

[M_2NR]

ulyuh see the gingerbread man?

[Swisha]

yeah, he on pg. 16...

[DFC]

hey guys there is an app called Vignette. Its a photo app and its the est i have seen so far.
Really lots of great effects and its freee!

i am having tons of fun with this app, whole morning i been playing up with it.

[DFC]

hey guys there is an app called Vignette. Its a photo app and its the est i have seen so far.
Really lots of great effects and its freee!

i am having tons of fun with this app, whole morning i been playing up with it.

[heshere2001]

Get the paid version.

I've replaced my stock camera with it

But I'm between Vignette and Camera 360 Pro - Also paid app.

[DFC]

but how to get it?

because my android market doesnt have the paid version.

and do i pay for it?

[Wolfie]

*cough*

http://search.4shared.com/q/1/applanet

*cough*

[Swisha]

^

it's been having issues recently though...

[Swisha]

Samsung to unveil new Android device November 8th



Two weeks. That's how long you'll have to wait before Samsung Mobile officially shows off its latest Android device. We say officially, because as these things go, there's a chance the gadget will make it into the limelight via unofficial channels. No indication what it might be, but if we had our say, the Continuum and its secondary OLED screen would make for a nice treat... hey, why are you even asking? Of course we'll be there covering it live!


http://goo.gl/oMKb

[M_2NR]

galaxy s 2? saw something about that on rpie.

[Jonathan_337]

Hey people, I'm about to purchase an Android phone soon enough and was considering the HTC Desire HD very very much...I honestly love the phone from the reviews I've read and seen..the only thing I'm worried about is the screen..People said it's really good but isnt as high res. as it should be...otherwise the hardware is impressive (I don't mind the size). So, I was wondering if anyone has any alternatives which would be just as good, or even better than the HTC thats probably around the same price...any help wud be appreciated....

[zcarz]

Hey people, I'm about to purchase an Android phone soon enough and was considering the HTC Desire HD very very much...I honestly love the phone from the reviews I've read and seen..the only thing I'm worried about is the screen..People said it's really good but isnt as high res. as it should be...otherwise the hardware is impressive (I don't mind the size). So, I was wondering if anyone has any alternatives which would be just as good, or even better than the HTC thats probably around the same price...any help wud be appreciated....

the screen will be almost as good as an amoled, some may even prefer it to an amoled. i should be getting one next month. as the posts above state samsung will be announcing wat is probably gonna be the galaxy s 2. that might rival the hd.

[Jonathan_337]

Hey people, I'm about to purchase an Android phone soon enough and was considering the HTC Desire HD very very much...I honestly love the phone from the reviews I've read and seen..the only thing I'm worried about is the screen..People said it's really good but isnt as high res. as it should be...otherwise the hardware is impressive (I don't mind the size). So, I was wondering if anyone has any alternatives which would be just as good, or even better than the HTC thats probably around the same price...any help wud be appreciated....

the screen will be almost as good as an amoled, some may even prefer it to an amoled. i should be getting one next month. as the posts above state samsung will be announcing wat is probably gonna be the galaxy s 2. that might rival the hd.

If you don't mind my asking, what price are you paying for the HTC Desire HD ? And would it be worth it to wait for the Galaxy S 2 ? The rumoured specs are saying a 2ghz processor which is impressive, but although I have no need for a phone right now I want one lol.

[zcarz]

545 pounds with shipping, and i haven't an idea about the galaxy s 2 so i wouldn't know if to wait.

[Jonathan_337]

Damnn..I only have $5000tt right now...Guess I'll have to wait a bit

[zcarz]

Damnn..I only have $5000tt right now...Guess I'll have to wait a bit

wait till around january then

[Jonathan_337]

Yeah I'll have to do that..Thanks for the info man.

[Swisha]

The PlayStation Phone



It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real -- but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for. As we reported back in August, the device you see is headed into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread), along with a custom Sony Marketplace which will allow you to purchase and download games designed for the new platform. The device snapped up top (and in our gallery below) is sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 (a chip similar to the one found in the G2, but 200MHz faster), 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and the screen is in the range of 3.7 to 4.1 inches. Looking almost identical to the mockup we hit you with this summer, the handset does indeed have a long touchpad in the center which is apparently multitouch, and you can see in the photos that it's still bearing those familiar PlayStation shoulder buttons. For Sony buffs, you'll be interested to know that there's no Memory Stick slot here, but there is support for microSD cards.

The particular model in these shots is still in prototyping mode. As such, the unit doesn't have a custom skin (not even SE's Timescape design seen on the Xperia devices), and is said to be rather buggy. We're digging into more facts as we speak, but it's likely that much of what we reported earlier is still accurate, and though the device could still be headed for a 2010 release, 2011 is looking much more realistic. Still, there's a lot of time between now and the holidays... so keep your fingers crossed!


http://goo.gl/5O80

[M_2NR]

wow! SE fans will be bitter... i hope they get android 2.x soon

[achillies]

CM6 RC 1 is available, for those who interested

[zcarz]

Yeah I'll have to do that..Thanks for the info man.

yea np

[M_2NR]

next nexus two gonna be samsung... hrmm or will it still be htc

[DFC]

i want froyo for my my touch slide!!

arrgh.

who could help me out?

[Swisha]

Hands on the Nexus Two by Samsung



The Nexus Two is real. It's made by Samsung, and a friend of ours got to play with it. It's not going rock your face like the Nexus One did. But it will record it with a front-facing camera.

"When I first saw it from 10 feet away, I thought it was the Galaxy S," says our source, who got to handle one. "I was a little surprised it was the Nexus Two," because it's so different from the Nexus One.

It's black and shiny, built with glossy plastic. Up close, though, it's "got this curve to it." While the screen, which our source thinks is the same 4-inch AMOLED affair from the Galaxy series, is flat, the front is "sort of concave" with hard edges. And the back is curved. The tapering makes it feel thinner than Galaxy S, though it might be about the same thickness. "It feels really similar to the Galaxy S in a lot ways." (Note: Our mockup is very approximate.)

Externally, the main difference from all of the current Galaxy S variants in the US is that it's got a front-facing camera, and it's running a stock build of Android that was still "really buggy." (Update: Forgot about the Epic 4G, which has a front camera.) Our source wasn't sure if the internals were any different. [bGoogle's supposedly trying to building video chat into Gingerbread, using the same protocol as Google Talk. So it makes sense that the flagship phone for the next year—the one that most Googlers will probably be developing on—comes with a front-facing camera, even if video chat doesn't quite make it into Gingerbread.[/b]

At first blush, it's a little disappointing that Google possibly isn't pushing things forward in the same way they did with the Nexus One, since it seems like the Nexus Two is a refreshed Galaxy phone. On the other hand, it says a lot that the Android ecosystem is so stocked with high-powered phones, from the Evo to the Droid X, that even Google won't radically jump ahead of its partners with a new flagship. Hopefully their plan for selling it is a little better.


http://goo.gl/Cn1e

[Swisha]

The Nook Color Might Be a Better Android Tablet Than We Thought



The Nook Color's built on top of Android, but seemed crippled in its potential to be a killer Android tablet by the way it'd run apps. Well, the reality is, it could be a solid little Android tablet after all.

At the Nook Color announcement, Barnes & Noble wasn't super clear about how apps and its own app store would work in relation to the larger Android ecosystem and Market. But now that we've talked to them about the development program a little more in depth, things look peachier.

Barnes & Noble is going to run their own app store for the Nook Color, distributing and selling applications. It's a "curated" experience, meaning they'll have to approve apps for the store, which developers can start submitting in "early 2011," with apps approved "within weeks" of submission. So the apps that we saw at the launch, like Pandora, is all that'll be available for a couple of months. (They won't disclose how they're splitting revenue with developers but said they're using a "familiar" scheme, so the standard 70/30 probably applies.)

The Nook Color won't run apps straight out of the Android Market, but that doesn't mean it can't run them—in fact, they've done a lot of tests on apps from standard Android smartphones and they "pretty much run on Nook Color," which has Android 2.1 under the hood. (The Nook's native interface and apps are just standard Android application layers.) Barnes & Noble's special Nook SDK runs on top of the standard Android one, and gives developers access to exclusive extensions and APIs for the Nook and its interface. So porting Android apps isn't difficult. B&N says it's more like "optimizing" them for Nook than porting them.

While Barnes & Noble really doesn't want the Nook Color "to be perceived as a multipurpose device," and their goal is to "extend the reading experience through applications," their definition of apps that do that is quite elastic. In fact, they don't have to be text-y at all. I posited a Netflix or other video service app, and B&N's Director of Developer Relations Claudia Romanini said they'd probably fly. "Is it attached to a book? Maybe not. But when I'm looking at content, I'm looking for multiple touch points. The fundamental question B&N is asking of apps is, "Woul
d that reading user be interested in consuming that content?"

Frankly, most of what I use my iPad for is reading—RSS, books, newspapers, email—and Netflix. If the Nook Color can deliver that in a slick way, well, that's all I really want out of an Android tablet, especially for $250. And given that it's plain ol' Android underneath, I won't be surprised when the more enterprising Android nerds make it capable of doing a lot of other things too.


http://goo.gl/9yQz

[Swisha]

Acer Liquid Metal gets official in the UK with Android 2.2 and Breeze UI





After seeing quite a few leaks, Acer just made its Liquid Metal handset official. The 3.6-inch slate runs Android 2.2 Froyo atop an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 processor. Inside all that molten metal you'll find 802.11n WiFi, support for 14.4Mbps HSDPA, DLNA/UPnP streaming support, Dolby Surround technology, and an image stabilized 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash capable of recording video at 720p (30fps). Acer's new handset also features a new Breeze UI and SocialJogger app that aggregates Twitter and Facebook feeds. Look for it to land in brown in the UK starting mid November for £299. A silver version should arrive in early December. Still no word on that AT&T compatible jobbie that passed through the FCC.


http://goo.gl/c6eh

[tr1ad]

i want to remove my work account on the phone but it telling me i will loose contacts

[honda hoe]

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