Published on Monday, June 28, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Well, it's been a couple of days, and that means it's time for another Android 2.2 update to be pushed out to some Nexus Ones. Today's special is FRF85B, and it's a measly little506k download. You can snag it from Google's servers here, if you haven't gotten the update notice yet. We're in the process of installing now, but sing out in the comments if you've gott...

Published on Monday, June 28, 2010 by Dallin Hampton If you caught Sunday's season premiere of HBO's hit-show "Entourage," you might have noticed uber-agent Ari Gold sporting the Nexus One. Balancing form and function, the phone meets every expectation and serves every purpose necessary for someone of Ari's profession. The Nexus One preforms a wide variety of tasks from managing Ari's immense social network t...

Published on Saturday, June 26, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Good news for all of you waiting for your HTC Incredible to ship.  We heard the rumors about HTC stopping production of certain models with AMOLED screens, so Phil got on the horn and rung up HTC for some answers.  HTC tells us that they will be augmenting production with "Super LCD" displays from Sony, but models with AMOLED displays will sti...

Published on Friday, June 25, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Time to put the Motorola Droid X power plant against the other big boys currently available in the United States. And here we run some benchmarks between it, the Sprint Evo 4G (Android 2.1) and the Google Nexus One (running the latest FRF83 build of Android 2.2). The tests speak for themselves, and we can't wait to see how much faster the Droid X becomes when it gets...

Published on Friday, June 25, 2010 by Annie Latham BlueAnt, the maker of innovative Bluetooth peripheral devices, has just announced the availability of new Android apps that work with the S4 True Handsfree Car Speakerphone and the T1 Rugged Bluetooth Headset -- enabling users to hear incoming text messages read aloud automatically.BlueAnt already considers T1 and S4 to be groundbreaking devices. The T1 provides the e...

Published on Thursday, June 24, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Things like this is why I love Android.  Hacker extraordinaire persiansown has ripped the new live wallpapers out of the Samsung Galaxy S and ported them to other devices.  They all make a very nice subtle background, and with 4 to choose from there's probably something there to tickle your fancy.  As for me, I really like the Blue Sea one.  Hit th...

Published on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Nexus One users should know the drill by now.  Another incremental Froyo build has started rolling out over the air, this time it's build number is FRF83.  Is this the fabled "final" version of Froyo for the N1?  I have no idea yet, and I don't think anyone else does, either.  (FWIW: It's doubtful, as the Froyo code was just released...

Published on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by Phil Nickinson How does Android's latest size up against the iPhone 4 and HTC’s Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, and Nexus One?Now that we've got the Motorola Droid X in our fat little fingers, let's size it up against some of the other big boys out there. Above, the Droid X specs side by side with the iPhone 4, Sprint Evo 4G, Verizon Droid Incredible and Google Nexus One. (And...

Published on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Yes, you read it right., the Nexus One has been rooted.  Again. What's new about this is that the phone was rooted the old fashioned way, and the bootloader remains locked.  Let me take a minute and explain.  The Nexus One is sold as a developer phone, so you can manually unlock the phone's bootloader.  This lets you flash any software you want to ...

Published on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Everybody's favorite Googler, Ry Guy, is back in the Nexus One forums to reiterate something -- the FRF72 build of Android 2.2 for the Nexus One that popped up over the weekend is not the "official" or "final" build. But you already knew this, right? Let's think it through: FRF72 wasn't actually pushed out to the public. Just like wi...