Published on Monday, June 21, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Somebody's about to win the science fair. Using a Nexus One, some Legos, rubber bands and an Adobe AIR application, an Android phone is converted into a high-tech gas pedal for slot-car racing. How's it work? Grant Skinner explains: To summarize: The generic mobile client connects over the LAN to the desktop app. The desktop app sends it a "surface" SWF wh...

Published on Saturday, June 19, 2010 by Jared DiPane Can't stop, won't stop...that's how the Android news has been recently, and it doesn't look like it is going to be changing anytime soon. Just as soon as it looks like the calm has begun, another storm rolls in and stirs things right back up again. Let's take a look at some of the news you may have missed for this week.NewsAT&T announces the HTC Aria /  We un...

Published on Saturday, June 19, 2010 by Phil Nickinson There have been rumors of an update to the early Froyo build (aka FRF50) that we've been running on our Nexus Ones, and now the download location has leaked out. You can get it straight from Google here (mirrors here in case it gets pulled), but note that you must be running the FRF 50 build, and you must also have the stock Nexus One ROM installed. From there, downlo...

Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Remember how yesterday Korean carrier KT said it was going to launch the Nexus One with Froyo on June 21? Scratch that, apparently. KT's official Twitter account (which is @show_tweet) now points to a mid-July launch. So what does that mean for those of us in the states waiting on Froyo? No, we still don't know when it's coming for the Nexus One. Or the Droid. Or the...

Published on Thursday, June 17, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Look close. There are Nexus Ones in that picture. Now look a little closer (you do see the phones, don't you?) and you'll see the Froyo launcher on those phones.  That's because Korea's number two carrier, KT, is set to launch the Nexus One running Froyo (Android 2.2) on June 21st.  It's the same Nexus One we all know and love hardware wise, and will be limi...

Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand We showed off the new Android Market with the "update all" and "allow automatic updating" earlier, and we've been waiting for an app to come along to talk about this part.  I finally was close to a computer when it happened and was able to document the process instead of just talking about it.  It's another of those nice touches that come...

Published on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by Phil Nickinson For everybody who's asking us when the Nexus One will get its official update to Froyo, well, we still don't know. But Google employee passion-ate does give us an Android 2.2 update update (see what we just did there?). Anyhoo, here goes: Apologies for keeping everybody waiting. We are not intentionally holding back on Froyo, just improving the overall experien...

Published on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand While it may seem that everybody and their brother are busy poking around the innards of the HTC Evo 4G, developers are still hard at work on other Android phones as well.  Late last night I was flipping through my Twitter timeline and came across this nice piece of work: its official get it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6744172#post6744...

Published on Monday, June 7, 2010 by Phil Nickinson You love specs. We love specs. And so we've been keeping up with the latest and greatest from Android in comparison to the newest from other platforms. And here's how the Sprint Evo 4G, Google Nexus One and Verizon Droid Incredible -- all phones manufactured by HTC -- match up against the new iPhone 4. For our money, it's the iPhone's new screen that really stan...

Published on Monday, June 7, 2010 by Phil Nickinson If you want to buy a T-Mobile-ready Nexus One, you're going to have to look somewhere other than Google's phone site this morning, as it's currently not available there. This could just be another one of those temporary shortages that will clear itself up -- we've already seen that happen with the AT&T version, and it lasted just a few hours -- or it could me the...