Archive for December, 2009
Nexus One gets rooted even before it is officially launched
Dec 31st
Hey, what do you know? The Nexus One is already rooted by hackers even before it is officially announced and available.
The guys at Modaco already posted a Superboot utility that will root the Nexus One phone easily. There are instructions for Windows, MacOSX and Linux users.
Can someone add the multitouch capability to Nexus One before it is launched to make it more perfect?
[via modaco]
HTC HD2 will get Windows Mobile 7 upgrade
Dec 31st
According to HTC Russia Twitter account, the HD2 will be getting Windows Mobile 7 when it is available.
Here’s what they said:
for Diamond 2 firmware is not planned. Of the existing communicators on the market, only the HD2 firmware to get WM7.
Considering the hardware specs of HD2 is meeting the requirement of WM7 and this could well be true.
Well, i guess this will make a lot of HD2 owners happy if it is true.
This tweet is here.
[via pocketnow]
Palm Ares development tool shown on video
Dec 31st
Interested in the latest web based development tool for WebOS from Palm? Here is a video of it. If you are interested in writing applications for WebOS platform, this might be interesting to you. It is demoed by an experienced Ares developer and it shows quite a number of interesting aspects of Ares, like drag-and-drop, integration with Flickr, etc.
Enjoy!!
T-Mobile internal document shows Nexus One is coming
Dec 30th
From the source of Tmonews, T-Mobile is having the internal document showing that Nexus One is coming to T-Mobile early January. However, no price is shown.
The phone is going to be sold by Google and supported by Google and HTC. T-Mobile will be just providing the phone plans.
[via tmonews]
Leaked web pages show Google is selling Nexus One at USD530
Dec 30th
Tipster of Gizmodo has discovered web pages from Google that uncover the price of Nexus One.
From the web pages found, Google is going to sell the unlocked phone by itself. And it will cost you around USD530. It will be a big disappointment if this is true as Google is not going to subsidize the unlocked phone as previously rumoured. And it might not become a mobile phone game changer after all.
There are other information leaked from the web pages as well. You can get a subsidized phone at around USD180 if you sign up a 2 year contract with T-Mobile.
We will wait till 5th of January when Google finally announces Nexus One with full details. For the moment, relax and wait.
[via gizmodo]
Google Android annoucement on 5th Janaury 2010, possibly Nexus One
Dec 30th
The date of 5th January had been floating around. It is said to be the date that Google will launch its Nexus One phone. And here is another evidence. Invitations from Google have been received by a number of people regarding a Android press gathering on 5th of January. And it is to be held at Mountain View.
Hey, this will be the day of all Nexus One mysteries are to be uncovered. Stay tuned for more news.
[via engadget]
HTC Espresso ROM (android 2.1) shown off on Hero
Dec 28th
While we are waiting for the Android 2.1 for Hero to be officially release by HTC, people at XDA-developers have been working hard to port the recently leaked HTC Espresso ROM to the Hero. Below is a video showing HTC Hero running a ported version of Espresso ROM.
Enjoy and keep waiting got the official ROM from HTC.
