Published on Monday, June 14, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Motorola Cliq owners, you haven't been forgotten.  A group of developers has cooked up some Eclair love for you.  In what sounds like a herculean effort travisjames, along with fellow developer barakinflorida have taken otabbb's work with building AOSP (Android Open Source Project) for the Cliq and turned it into a functional ROM.  It's not 100 percent ...

Published on Monday, June 7, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Is it a phone, or is it a netbook?  With a 5.5-inch screen, a cellular radio, and a hinged slide-out qwerty keyboard, it's a little of both.  We don't know much else about the device, except what was leaked to engadget -- it is supposedly launching with stock Android 2.1 sometime this fall.If it follows SE's track record with smartphones, expect to see it so...

Published on Friday, June 4, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand There's nothing quite as serene as an aquarium.  The ripple of the water, beautiful fish swimming peacefully around, it's truly a little slice of nature.  Now you can have it on your Android phone, too.  Aquarium Live Wallpaper is a live wallpaper that has tropical fish swimming across your homescreen.  No crazy blocks of light, sonic waves keeping...

Published on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Dallin Hampton The Motorola support forums are letting people sign up to receive an e-mail notification of when the highly anticipated Froyo 2.2 update is available for the Droid. Although it’s unlikely that this update will come out tomorrow or the day after -- or even this week for that matter -- it’s still a good sign that we can expect the update to be released ... e...

Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Dallin Hampton With Computex under way, Aava Mobile demonstrated a handful of prototype smartphones, some of which we can expect to see within a year or two. One phone platform that stole the stage was the Intel Moorestown (no doubt a reference to Moores Law) with an Atom chipset and Android 2.1. It didn’t seem too much faster (at first glance, anyway) than the exisiting Qualc...

Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Rogers Wireless now has another great option for Canadian Android lovers, or for those who just need a nice current smartphone.  The Liquid E is a powerhouse stuffed into a smaller package, perfect for folks on the go and people who just don't need 4.3" of screen.  Full specs are listed on the Rogers website but here's the short list -- 1 Ghz Snapdragon...

Published on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Another couple of weeks, and more new numbers regarding Android platform percentages. For the two weeks ending June 1, we now see 45.1 percent of Android phones running Eclair -- Android 2.1. That's up from 32.4 percent for the two weeks ending May 17. The Cupcake (Android 1.5) and Donut (Android 1.6) versions continue to wane, thanks to the HTC Droid E...

Published on Monday, May 31, 2010 by Dallin Hampton The Samsung i897 -- better known to you as the Samsung Galaxy S -- looks like it's well on its way to AT&T, thanks to a recent leak. Some of the hardware specs confirmed by the source is that the phone will sport a 5-megapixel camera, a 4-inch AMOLED screen and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The speed of the processor isn’t yet confirmed, but, with the sim...

Published on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Phil Nickinson [YouTube link]We were there when Google showed off the power of Android 2.2 and Froyo's new Just-in-Time compiler -- think zoom zoom! -- but you know the old saying ... trust, by verify. And so we shall. Above we have the Nexus One with Froyo, the Evo 4G with Android 2.1 and Sense, and the Motorola Droid with Android 2.1. Ran them all through Linpack, and the numbers ...

Published on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Adam Sawyer You can get a PDF file viewer anywhere, but we all know that Adobe does it the best, and it just released an official Adobe Reader app [Market link] for Android. First impression is its pure simplicity, and I mean that in a good way. Now, before you get excited – make sure you’re running Éclair, and have at least 550MHz CPU with 256MB of RAM, or e...