HTC has pulled no punches about the fact that it intends to bring Heros up to Android 2.0 ( or is that 2.1? ) spec at some point, though neither Sprint nor Verizon had quickly followed on to assure customers that there'd be upgrades ready and waiting for their versions (sure, technically, the...
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HTC promised the world an Android 2.0 -based firmware for its Hero line once it figured out the nitty gritty details of porting Sense to Google's latest code, leapfrogging Donut altogether -- but now, it looks like they're gonna do one better. Screenshots found today show a Hero running Android 2.1, which would...
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File this under "it's not a bug, it's a feature" if true. According to Guyver at the maemo.org forums, some glitch in the OS caused his Nokia N900 to switch into portrait mode for everything, not just dialer and photo apps as previously allowed. We'd love to eliminate the need for two hands...
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Say what you will, but Canon 's customer service / engineering department definitely looks out for consumers willing to spend just under two large on a new body. Merely days after the outfit made public that a " residual image phenomenon " was negatively impacting EOS 7D images under certain conditions, it has...
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We won't cancel our trips to Vegas just yet, but Boxee is planning on giving users an early peek at its new beta release -- with all new UI, queue, navigation and search features -- December 7 at the Music hall of Williamsburg. Beta Unveiling visitors will be the first to get their...
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EnerDel, who we last saw soaking up some of that Joe Biden stimulus money , is teaming up the the U.S. Army to develop a battery solution for a hybrid Humvee . Of course, your High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle is by its nature very large and very heavy -- great for dropping...
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This is totally out of left field, but TmoNews (which tends to have a pretty solid track record when it comes to all things T-Mobile) is claiming that "select" G1s will be receiving Android 1.6 "Donut" starting... well, right about now. So much for any lingering worries that the first retail Android device...
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The spec gap between the Magic and the Hero is mighty small -- other than the entirely revamped Sense UI, the Hero's 5 megapixel camera is about the only thing the newer model has over the original, physical design notwithstanding. That gap is on the fast track to getting even smaller, too, now...
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Since my first Moblin 2.0 article a month ago, the development team has not been resting. There have been a half dozen serious updates (over 200MB each time), and the OS has moved away from being riddled with periodic “Fatal Error” messages to just a few now and then. But beyond that, the...
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Back at E3 2009 it was announced that Nintendo would roll out the capability to upload photo to Facebook from the DSi . Well, we're hearing from Engadget Japanese that that firmware updating is now occurring. It's a pretty minor update which includes the aforementioned ability to upload photos to Facebook, and brings...
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