Anyone interested in signing up to test a new Android UI? A company called SPB Software has created what looks to be more than just a home replacement and may fall in line with the experience we once hoped for from TAT Home. It’s a “3D” experience and from the video below, actually looks fairly impressive, especially when you see how quickly it responses to any on-screen gesture. Let’s just hope they actually allow more than 10 NDA’d people to test it. (more…)
Year: 2010
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DROID X Does Lunar Eclipse Photos
How beautiful and impressive is that? Would you be even more impressed if we told you it was taken with a Droid X? Well, according to one of our readers who snapped the shot, it was done using just that plus a telescope. Amazing.
Cheers @freshgeardude!
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Contest: Win 1 of 5 NDrive Navigation Licenses! (Updated)
Our friends over at NDrive reached out to us and asked if we’d be willing to help them give away 5 licenses for their navigation product on Android and of course we said yes. Giving prizes away to readers is probably our favorite thing to do! So the contest is simple as usual, and winners will be picked at the beginning of next week on December 27th.
Update: NDrive has decided to up the ante and is giving away 4 USA map licenses ($26 value) and 1 full North America map license ($52 value) as a grand prize. Yay!
Update 2: winners were originally to be picked everyday, but they will instead be chosen at the end of the beginning of next week (December 27th). The change was due to the addition of the new grand prize.
Here is what you have to do:
1. Follow both @NDrive and @Droid_Life on Twitter.
2. Tweet the following message:“Win a FREE license from @NDrive for their Android application! Details here – http://goo.gl/M10Rg #ndrivewin”
And that’s it! A simple Twitter follow and a retweet and you are entered. The guys at NDrive will contact you via Twitter should you win.
More information on NDrive’s navigation product can be found here. Good luck!
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Bugless Beast V0.6 Released with Bits of Gingerbread
It has arrived. In an interview we had with Pete not too long ago, he announced that Bugless Beast Version 0.6 would be a ‘from source’ ROM. Mmm, from source. It has been released and just in time for it to snag some nice goodies from Gingerbread.
Even from first boot I can tell people will like this. With only an 800MHz kernel running, this thing flies. So after the jump get the download link and have yourself a scoop of Bugless! (more…)
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Swype Beta Re-opens to the Public for the Holidays
Good news for those of you who missed out on the last opening of the Swype beta! Starting today, anyone with an Android phone can head over to beta.swype.com and register for the beta program. They are calling this a “limited time” offer, so be sure to get over there now. Oh, and there is a new version for those of you already dominating some Swype.
New Changelog | Announcement
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DROID X Theme: TRON for RubiX Focused 1.9.0
Since TRON opened to mass audiences this weekend, we thought we’d celebrate it with a theme for anyone running RubiX 1.9.0 on their Droid X. I’m a little surprised that it only pulled in $43M in its opening weekend, but we’re still down to have some fun with it. So, themer extraodinaire RoLa put this theme together and as always, left little untouched. (more…)
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Android Developers Team Wants You to Root Your Phone, Hopes Manufacturers Catch On
A post just went up over at the Android Developers Blog titled ‘It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness’ and might be the single greatest thing we’ve seen posted in the Android community in a long time. Nick Kralevich, one of the security engineers for Android, talks about leaving devices like the Nexus S and One open, so that users can “install custom operating systems” in a legitimate way, rather than by finding a security exploit to gain root access.
He then goes on to talk about manufacturers and a hope for them to recognize that there are ways to allow unlocking of a phone without compromising the integrity of a mobile network or the rights of content providers…
Unfortunately, until carriers and manufacturers provide an easy method to legitimately unlock devices, there will be a natural tension between the rooting and security communities. We can only hope that carriers and manufacturers will recognize this, and not force users to choose between device openness and security. It’s possible to design unlocking techniques that protect the integrity of the mobile network, the rights of content providers, and the rights of application developers, while at the same time giving users choice. Users should demand no less.
Now if only they could post up information like this on a daily basis, so that we can maker sure companies are realizing the advantages of rooting to the consumer.
We’re lookin’ at you Motorola!
Via: Android Developers
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Monday Poll: More Excited About Honeycomb Tablets or 4G LTE Phones?
In two weeks, when CES gets underway and we start to see a handful of 4G LTE Android devices plus some Honeycomb tablets, you are going to have to make some decisions. Do you want to be on the cutting edge of technology with a tablet and the newest version of Android or do you just want the fastest phone possible? Maybe you will buy both and rule the world? For the sake of having a good poll though, we’re making you choose one or the other.
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