Amazed by the screenshots of Nexus One and Android 2.1 (Flan).  Want to see it more in action?  Here is a video of the recently leaked Android 2.1 running on Motorola DROID.  The creator of the video is able to show many things running smoothly on the DROID.  The UI simply looks fantastic.  And the creator keep mentioning how fast it is with this new ROM.  And I think we can expect a pretty good [...]

Here is another update from HTC for their new HD2.  And this time it will enhance the SD card support. According to the HTC support site: “This update for HTC HD2 further extends support of the SD Storage Capability. Taking pictures with your 5 Megapixel lens and dual LED flash can only truly be appreciated at the maximum quality, and now with this update, you will be able to appreciate how much more you can [...]

Wondering what Bada (the upcoming Samsung mobile platform) will look like?  Here are some of the leaked screenshots. They look like a mixture of WebOS, Android, and iPhone.  And it make us wondering why Samsung is interested to develop a whole new platform for their mobile devices.  I guess the South Korean giant might want to have full control of their mobile platform and might have some great ideas that are not found in the [...]

According to Microsoft, there are now around 800 apps in the Windows Mobile Marketplace. This is actually far less than the apps available for Windows Mobile platform.  As Windows Mobile platform is more open towards app installing, the users can freely install apps into the Windows Mobile platform by just copy the installation cab files to the device.  And there are still many developers not submitting their apps to the Marketplace yet. Compare to 100,000 [...]

Looking for more reviews before you decide to buy the latest gadget, N900 (powered by Linux Maemo 5) from Nokia? Here is another review from pocknow.   The ariticle actually give you a quick tour of hardware and software aspects of the device. You can have a look here.

After a short while of private testing with developers, Palm‘s latest killer development platform, Ares, is now opened for public beta. This development platform is built entirely on web, developers do not need to download anything.  Just goto http://ares.palm.com to start coding, visually.  The platform is also made easy for developer collaboration and app submission to Palm’s App Catalog. Ares includes Complete integrated development environment Drag-and-drop interface builder Code editor Visual debugger Log viewer Source [...]

Sprint makes an clarification of what they have announced before, the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will get updates of Android 2.1, instead of 2.0. That actually make sense as at the time the update is released, the Android 2.1 should be available already.  And it will make it outdated if they are just Android 2.0. However, 1st half of year 2010 is a long six months.  Hopefully HTC can make the updated ROM available [...]

HTC has started to upload some widgets to Android Market.  They are downable for free.  However, they are only for HTC Hero and Eris only.  That means they are only for Sense equipped devices. The four widgets are: Dice: Tap the dice first, and then simply shake your phone to “throw” the dice. Today in History: In this widget, learn about significant events and famous people who were born or who died on this day [...]

Anxiously waiting for more information of the rumoured Nexus One?  I have more screenshots of it collected from the web.  They look great and I hope things will get clearer soon. Enjoy!

Google‘s official spokesman has clarified the numbers of free and paid apps in Android Market is around 16,000, not 20,000 as reported by AndroLib few days ago. “There are currently more than 16,000 free and paid apps in Android Market.” However, Google did not state the breakdown of the free and paid apps.  May be it is just the ways both parties used to calculate the numbers. Anyway, it doesn’t really bother me with that [...]