How To’s

Android Application Development 101: Getting Setup

Looking to make Android apps but don’t know where to start? Well, in this series of posts, we’ll go over the basics of making Android apps and hopefully get you on your way to making your own awesome apps! So first thing is first, how to setup the tools you’ll […]

MeeGo Ported to the HTC HD2

The HTC HD2 has been an amazing chameleon when it comes to operating systems. The phone launched with Windows Mobile 6.5 in late 2009 and since then hard working third party developers have ported Windows 7, Android 2.2, Android 2.3, Linux, and now there is one more OS to add

Windows Phone 7 FreeMarketplace Proof of Concept Shown

Wondering what would come of jailbreaking your Windows Phone 7 phone? Well, one developer decided to show you (and Microsoft) the dangers jailbreaking could lead to for Windows Phone 7. He created an app that allows jailbroken handsets (those jailbroken by Microsoft for developers and those unlocked via the ChevronWP7

Skype releases version 3.0 for iPhone, adds video calling

Skype has announced the latest version of its iPhone client today and with it comes a much-awaited feature, video calling.  Unlike FaceTime which limits video calling to other iOS devices, Skype now supports two-way Skype-to-Skype video calling and along with other iOS devices, users can now go face to face

Rage Exploit Used for Root Gets Fixed by HTC

According to Paul over at Modaco via a tweet… “Desire Z / HD users, accepting the .72 OTA will prevent you rooting with VISIONary or other ‘rage’ exploits.” So guess what ladies and gents? No more universal rooting using the Rage or Visionary method (which used the rage method) after

Tegra2-powered LG Optimus 2X for Europe in January

Now we know that the LG Star will be christened the Optimus 2X not only in Korea but also in Europe.  Coming to its release date, Slashphone did some digging and unearthed info that the lucky month is January 2011, and we can’t be more specific than that until LG

HTC vying to be first with a 4G smartphone, again

If you head over to HTC’s teaser website, you will find a mysterious device under a black cloak with a caption that says “The first to 4G, again.”  The device is most probably the Incredible HD for Verizon, considering the timed PR image leaks and this new website.  True to

Motorola Milestone 2.2 Froyo update delayed yet again

We are in the age of the Gingerbread but for Milestone users, it is yet another period of wallowing in the ancient pits of Android 2.1 Eclair, thanks to Motorola’s hesitancy to push out the update already.  The company has recently made a Facebook post saying that they will “continue

iPad Mini surfaces in Taiwan in the hands of a race car driver

If not for what he is holding up in his hands, you may never know that the guy in the picture is Jimmy Lin, a Taiwanese race car driver.  While Steve Jobs is busy building the iPad 2, Jimmy decided to reveal what Apple might be fabricating behind closed doors,

Android 2.3 Gingerbread ported on to N900

While many of you Android users may be wondering if your phone will ever see the Gingerbread on it, some folks have already got it up and running on a Nokia N900.  Not surprising, considering the smartphone has already dabbled with MeeGo and the previous Android version, Froyo 2.2, albeit

Pantech Vega Xpress boasts of DDR2 memory, limited to South Korea

We thought 2011 was gonna be a good year for the mobile tech, but this good, we never imagined.  Pantech’s Vegas Xpress has all the usual bells and whistles worthy of an Android 2.2 smartphone, like a 4-inch multitouch display of 800 x 480 resolution, 5-megapixel camera, 802.11n WiFi, and

Palm Pre 2 hits Rogers at $99

The Verizon Pre 2 is yet to make an appearance after its official announcement but it seems like thing are moving much faster in Canada.  The Pre 2 is now available on Rogers and it goes for a cheap $99.  The two-year agreement remains of course but with its 1GHz

LinkedIn Finally Makes an Android App (Beta)

So after a very long stint of refusing to make an Android app, LinkedIn finally gets at least a beta one together. LinkedIn is a “professional social network” in where users can meet other professionals, look for jobs, make business connections, etc. and one of the big reasons I rarely

HSPA+, LTE, and WiMax Now Officially Called 4G

So after much debate and people constantly having to put 4G in quotation marks whenever it was used (otherwise a bombardment of comments would arise complaining that “4G doesn’t exist” or “[company] doesn’t have 4G, only my company does”), the ITU, or International Telecommunications Union, has declared that HSPA+, LTE,