Rumours
Android 2.1 coming to Motorola CLIQ/DEXT in March?
Feb 10th
According to BGR, the Motorola CLIQ/DEXT will be getting Android 2.1 upgrade in March.
Motorola is surely working ahrd to get those handsets out in the market to be upgrades to the latest Android version. The DROID/MILESTONE owners will be getting the Android 2.1 treatment soon and now the CLIQ/DEXT is following.
This should get a lot of CLIQ/DEXT owners excited if it turns out to be true.
[via BGR]
More details of HTC Legend leaked
Feb 10th
We are seeing more details of the upcoming HTC Legend now.
According to a tipster of AndroidCommunity, the specs of Legend will be:
- 3.2-inch capacitive HVGA AMOLED display
- 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
- WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, microSD card slot and GPS/AGPS
- 1300mAh battery
- Quad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS/HSDPA
- Digital compass, G-Sensor, 3.5mm Audio jacket, microUSB port
- It uses a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor
If you like HTC Hero, this is something you will like too. It carries the same form factor of HTC Hero and more. No price and available date for now.
[via androidcommunity]
Windows Mobile 7 details surfaced: no multitasking and customizable UI
Feb 8th
Before the Microsoft announcement of Windows Mobile 7 at MWC, there are already some in depth details of the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 leaked into the net.
According to PPCGeeks, Windows Mobile 7 will feature a Zune like interface and there will be no multitasking support for third party apps on the phone! Microsoft will control the Windows Mobile 7 about the same way Apple controls the iPhoneOS, except that Microsoft will not make the phone. The manufacturers will build the phone but Microsoft will control the user experience tightly.
Here is the list that PPCGeeks lists:
- The User Interface is based upon codename “METRO”. It will be very similar to the Zune HD User Interface with a complete revamp of the “Start” screen. The UI is “Very Clean”, “Soulful” and “Alive”
- Unfortunately there will be no Flash support at the get go as there was not enough time to implement these features.
- Windows Phone 7 will only support application installation through service based delivery. (i.e Marketplace). Application installation via storage card will not be possible.
- No Multi-Task support. Applications will “Pause” when in the background, however will support notifications via push notifications.
- Marketplace will now support “try before you buy” as well as an API
- No NETCF backwards compatibility. This means the original rumor of no backward compatibility for applications holds to be true. That being said, there are high hopes of porting the NetCF to the newer platform easily.
- Microsoft is confident that devices will be ready by September 2010
- Full Zune Integration
- Windows Mobile Device Center will no longer be used. Zune software to take over syncing via PC.
- OEM Interfaces will not be allowed to run on the device. Say goodbye to Sense UI / SPB Mobile Shell / Point UI / Infinity, etc, etc
- Full XBOX Gaming Integration (Gamer tag, achievements, friends, avatars, merchandising, etc)
- Full support for social networking
Microsoft is clearly learning the experience from its previous Windows Mobile release and obviously also from Apple’s iPhone. Will this make sense to Microsoft as well as the existing hardware partners like HTC and Samsung? May be that’s why HTC goes to Android camp and Samsung created a new Bada OS.
Will this be too late for Microsoft? We will see when Windows Mobile is finally released to market.
[via PPCGeeks]
Picture of Samsung Galaxy2 leaked
Jan 29th
Mobile World Congress is just around the corner and we will be expecting lots of new phones to be announced.
Samsung will definitely be one of the companies that will announce new phones and the rumoured Galaxy2 could be one of them. According to the leak, the phone may have the following:
- 1 GHz Snapdragon (this is questionable as Samsung has its own chip)
- 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen
- 5 MP camera
- 32 GB internal memory (Wow, that looks good)
- Android 2.1
- 3.5 mm jack
The phone, according to the leak, should be launching at 2Q of 2010. If the information is true, it could be a good competitor to the high end Android phones already in the market.
[via androphones]
Motorola working on Nexus Two?
Jan 29th
According to TheStreet, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha confirms they will release 20 Android based handset to the market this year, and one of them will be sold directly through Google.
So the rumour for this Shadow / Nexus Two could be true. It will work similarly to what HTC has done for Nexus One. The Google only phone from Motorola could be the next version of Nexus One from Google.
Year 2010 is an Android year.
HTC Hero getting update to Android 2.1 in March?
Jan 27th
This will e a piece of good news if it is true. For those HTC Hero owners who are waiting for the Android 2.1 update from HTC, the update might be coming in March. It is actually much earlier than anticipated.
A representative of Irish mobile operator Meteor has revealed that HTC is now telling operators to expect Android 2.1 to arrive for the much-loved HTC Hero in March. They actually posted the following information to their official forum:
“Just got another update on this and HTC have said they are releasing 2.1 on the Hero and we are hoping to have this available by the end of March.
This will be available via the HTC website and we are also looking at other ways to make this update easier to access for our customers. As soon as I hear any more on this I’ll let you all now because I know the release of 2.1 is something that everyone is looking forward to.”
Since it is coming from the operator, I believe the information should be quite accurate. Wow, mark your calendar and celebrate.
[via eurodroid]
Apple rumoured to dump Google and use Bing as default search
Jan 21st
This make sense as Google is becoming the common enemy of Apple and Microsoft.
With Google’s strong push of Android in the market and works from Google to integrate their services tightly to the platform, it will slowly capture the mobile search market and soon the mobile market.
And with the recent purchase of Admob (a mobile ads company) and release of its first Android phone, Nexus One, to the market, the big G has shown its interest to conquer the mobile market as well.
So it is obvious that Google is stepping into Apple’s iPhone territory. And Microsoft’s Bing has to find its way to more mobile devices besides its own Windows Mobile. The alliance between the two companies will slow down Google’s attack.
Well, we will see whether it will happen soon.
[via businessweek]
