Posts tagged Nexus one
Multitouch on Nexus One may be broken
Mar 4th
There have been quite a number of complaints about multitouch on Nexus One isn’t working properly. Robert Greeen of Battery Powered Games has created an application called Multitouch Visible Test (available in Android Market Now) for testing multitouch on phone. And he quoted: “This app shows how your phone’s hardware handles multitouch. The event data is not processed in any way. The two dots are drawn exactly where the phone reports you are touching. For many current Android phones, there will be lots of bad data including axis flipping and near-axis influence.”
However Dianna Hackborn, a Google engineer, has responded: “Sorry I meant exactly what I said: this is how the touch screen hardware on the Nexus One works (which is essentially the same screen as on the G1 and myTouch). The Droid has a sensor from a different manufacturer, with different behavior. Other phones will likewise have different sensors.”
It could mean a hardware issue on Nexus One. Shall we dump Nexus One and get a Motorola DROID?
Nexus One gets colours for the track ball
Mar 1st
The trackball of Google’s Nexus One is capable of displaying different colours for notifications. During the launch the Nexus One, this was shown. However, for some reasons, the handsets delivered to the market are not equipped (removed?) with this features.
And the Nexus One community has talent modders that were working hard to bring missing features and enhancements to Nexus One. The latest addition is to bring the missing colours back to Nexus One. The Nexus One owners can now have different colours for various notification for messages, emails, and even twitter updates.
The mod has been added to the latest Cyanogen mod as well. You can view the information of the mod here.
Download and install yours today!
Google Earth has come to Android
Feb 23rd
After several delays, the Google has finally come to Android devices. It is now available in the market. However, it is for Nexus One only but will be available for most of the Android 2.1 devices later.
It is a huge application. The download takes about 5Mb and it will be blown up to about 22Mb after install. There are a number of layers available for Google Earth, including Places, Businesses, Panoramio, Wikipedia, Roads, Borders and Labels, and Terrain.
If you want this beautiful app that has been available on you desktop to be on your phone, download it from market or scan the QR code here.
Video of HTC Sense (from Desire) running on Google Nexus One
Feb 22nd
Interested to run the Alpha ROM of HTC Desire on your Nexus One? Paul from Modaco has ported the ROM to Nexus One and it is quite stable (although it is still an alpha ROM). Most of the thing work and it is fast. View the video below before you decide whether you want to load that into you device or wait.
Sony Ericsson refused to make Nexus One for Google
Feb 19th
During a press conference of Sony Ericsson during MWC, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg made a remark that they actually turned down Google when Google approached them to make the Google phone (a.k.a. Nexus One).
I am not sure who Bert Nordberg is trying to impress during a press conference like this. However, this does send multiple messages to the market. Did Google think that SE can make a better Nexus One than anybody else in the market in the first place? Was SE too pride to be a manufacturing subcontractor of another company? Was SE too busy making the Xperia X10 and they had no time for other things? Why did Bert Nordberg make such a comment in public when this is usually back end things?
I can’t be sure that SE actually missed an opportunity to make money because the move has to be inline with their overall strategy.
[via engadget]
HTC Desire ROM brings Sense to Google Nexus One
Feb 18th
I expected this but not so soon. The hackers don’t sleep, do they? Just shortly after HTC demoed the HTC Desire with Android 2.1 and Sense, it is quickly ported to Google Nexus One and shown off to the world.
The fast port could due to the fact that the hardwares of Nexus One and Desire are very similar. The moder from Modaco is able to load the ROM extracted from HTC Desire to Nexus One with just a few modifications. Most of the things work now with some needed more work.
With these moders around, we should be expecting a ROM with HTC Sense to be available soon from the community.
How excited!
[via modaco]
HTC Desire (previously known as Bravo) announced
Feb 17th
Waiting for HTC Bravo’s announcement? Wait no more, HTC has just announced the Desire, the Bravo we knew previously. It will be available in Europe in April and Asia will follow. So most likely we will get the Desire (Bravo) in Singapore in May.
It is like a Google Nexus One packed with Sense from HTC. It has almost everything from Google Nexus One.
The Desire looks and feels very similar to Google’s Nexus with some differences:
- The HTC Desire has an optical trackpad instead of a physical trackball
- On either side of the trackpad are hardware buttons, which on the Nexus One are simply touch sensitive buttons alongside the screen.
- It is lack of the Nexus One’s dual-microphone noise cancelling solution – the Desire has only 1 mic.
- It has FM radio.
The HTC Desire has a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen (WVGA, 800×480), Android 2.1, Flash 10.1 in the browser, an updated version of HTC Sense (with Friend Stream, Helicopter view, etc).
The official web page for Desire is already up, you can find more information here.
