According to Google Exucutive, the next major release of Android is called Froyo (it stands for Frozen Yogurt), not Flan as speculated previously. Well, it is not exactly a kind of cake that Google has been using to name the Android release, but it is still sweet. It doesn’t matter what name Google is calling its Android baby.  The more important thing is what are the new features that will come with the release. Stay [...]

Wait no more (for some countries), the Google Nexus One is officially announced and available for order on Google web site. Peter Chou (HTC CEO), Andy Rubin (Android main man) and Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra hosted a press conference at Mountain View, California. The Nexus One was revealed and yes, Google will be selling it themselves. The Nexus One has already received major coverage and you should have seen it on all major [...]

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.

Here is another video for Google’s mystery phone, Nexus One.  And this one is pretty good.  It covers quite a number of programs and UI features.  And it proves that there is no multitouch on Nexus One.  For those who are waiting for more of Nexus One, you will enjoy the video.

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  And it will make it outdated if they are just Android 2.0.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 [...]

We knew it is going to come, sooner or later.  Since the system image of the “Nexus One” has been leaked, it will only take a while for hacker to port it to some other device.  This time, Motorola DROID wins.  We have a video showing the Flan (Android 2.1) with the Nexus One bootup animation. However, there are still a list of issues from the maker of this port: 1) Keyboard backlight is no [...]