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  • video: motorola milestone – differences from droid?

    it looks like the crew at mobile syrup has also received a pre-released version of the motorola milestone and launched a preview video of it.  now i have to admit that i haven’t really checked into milestone differences and similarities as compared to the droid, but after looking at this video briefly, there are some pretty obvious ones.

    fast forward to the 1:35 mark…


    you should notice right away that the milestone’s version of android 2.0 has some different icons and features from our droid.

    • the google search bar is missing the voice search icon 
    • it is replaced with a “voice dialer” shortcut.
    • alarm clock, gallery and music icons are different.
    • there is an “audio effects” app.
    • a camcorder shortcut.
    • moto phone portal comes pre-installed

    now, the reviewer does say that this isn’t the final version of the os, but i’m still surprised to see so many differences on a device that is running android 2.0.

    any other major differences you know of? how about you milestone users?

  • get ready canada! motorola milestone headed to telus "soon"

    mobile syrup, the canadian mobile site, found an ad this weekend from best buy which gives a ton of hope to our friends up north who have been waiting for their motorola milestone/droid to arrive.  it should be just around the corner now.  march possibly?  (i say march because the best buy ad is likely their february preview)

    telus has also updated their website to show a “coming soon” section which includes the milestone.  early reports say that phone pricing through telus could start out at $199 for the phone with a 3 year contract and $549 outright.  (3 years?!?! wow.)

    from telus…

    from best buy…

  • motorola devour appears to be real. yuck.

    uh oh, the ugliest android device on the planet looks to be coming to a verizon dealer near you.  we have no info on an actual release date, but a box showed up in the inbox of the android central folks this morning proving to everyone that the blurry, nasty, silvery, yuckiness of a picture from a month back was the real deal.  yikes.

    oh yeah, this one…

    (via android central and boy genius report)

  • firefox releases mobile version to nokia maemo – android next?

    for those of us anxiously awaiting the arrival of firefox (or fennec if you’re gangster) to our motorola droid, the timetable for its release may have just been shortened.  mozilla released its first mobile version on nokia’s n900 and n810 this past friday which will leave the rest of us to believe that android is up next.  both systems are linux-based so maybe those february rumors are on the verge of actually coming true?

    an interesting tidbit we caught in this cnet article shows something to be concerned with…

    Mozilla’s accomplishment with a mobile version of Firefox is a mixed one, and not only because Maemo is a platform relatively few people have heard of. Nokia’s open-source, Linux-based Maemo operating system supports mobile Firefox on just two devices–the N900 and the N810, an Internet tablet. To make matters more limited, just two days ago Mozilla unveiled a third release candidate with a last-minute decision to pull wholesale support for Adobe’s Flash plug-in from the build, citing unhappiness with the overall standard of quality. As an aside, this is apparently a sore spot for Adobe, who became miffed with Apple for excluding Flash in its new iPad device about the same time that Mozilla made its comment about degraded performance when visiting Flash sites.

    no flash support?  either mozilla has officially lost it or they have just given us reason to believe that adobe is actually at fault for the delays of flash 10.1’s release.

    what does everyone think?  excited about firefox?  could care less since we have dolphin?

  • android app review: dolphin browser 2.0

    this review may seem about 2 months late as the dolphin browser has been out for quite some time, but we hated the original version of it so much that we refused to really promote.  however, the crew over at dolphin has recently released the 2.0 version of their multi-touch browser and they have made it worth your time again to check out.

    they’ve fixed the inaccuracies of the old multi-touch, made gestures more responsive and even added preview-styled page flipping.  sooooooo much nicer.  check it…

  • android app review: buzz deck

    who doesn’t love a good saturday application review?  today we’re looking at a reader-style application called buzz deck which does more than just bring your current news.

    only in its beta stage, buzz deck has a ton of potential and is the application i use constantly to get current news all in one place.  check it…

  • all nexus one 2.1 apps ported to droid in action

    on a slow friday in the motorola droid world we were handed this awesome video.  it comes from reader @johnpariah who took the time to install all of the android 2.1 apps we’ve been raving about and then provided evidence of their awesomeness.  he also took a look at beautiful widgets which is a paid app worth your $2…

    on a side note, during the video he comments on us porting all of these apps over ourselves which i need to correct him on. while i’d love to take all the credit in the world, my conscience can’t allow that.

    just look at this blog as an outlet for all things motorola droid so that you don’t need to spend countless hours sifting through the trenches trying to find the latest and greatest updates. we’re essentially your average user, but one that loves us some droid hacks and news!

  • contest winners! 2 google voice invites sent!

    our first contest is officially finished!   it was a simple one, but definitely a successful one in our minds.  for such a new and unheard of blog, we had just the right amount of entries and want to thank everyone who entered into the mayhem.  yay!

    with that said, time for the winners of our 2 google voice invites!  (drum roll…….)

    @john_j_velez and @derekmas10!

    congrats you two.  i hope you enjoy the awesomeness that is google voice.  to the rest of you, make sure to get on the google voice list so you can experience its greatness sooner rather than later.

    and stay tuned as always for future contests which will hopefully include tangible products!  (hah)