Android phones, apps and tablets

"Nexus 2" - what horseshit is that?
It's the same hardware with the ball swapped for an optical trackpad and it's not a Google Experience phone, it's a second tier phone running Android 2.1 skinned with SenseUI. That article is total fail.

The Nexus Two is supposed to come from Moto and have hardware keyboard:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/motorola-shadow-is-nexus-two-with-sliding-qwerty-keyboard/

Nexus 2 is an earlier version of this surely ...

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant[/ame]

And to cover more bases, Sony Ericsson are to launch a qwerty-keyboard version of the X10. Much smaller screen though.

fuck, this is getting complicated now.

And to cover more bases, Sony Ericsson are to launch a qwerty-keyboard version of the X10. Much smaller screen though.

Now that looks like a great win, I've got the G1 at the moment and am due an upgrade when this comes out. Looks just like a tastier G1 to be honest :)

any more updates of arrival of N1 in uk. finally sorted my credit report.

I have one. What do you want to know?

When we can have one without paying USD price + shipping + VAT + duty.

i.e. When are vodafone releasing it?

That I don't know. Sorry.

I am loving my droid, it totally rocks.

Tonight I will be installing SNES and Sega emulators and will be happy when I can play Sonic and Super Mario Kart.

Anyone done this yet?

When we can have one without paying USD price + shipping + VAT + duty. i.e. When are vodafone releasing it?

Spring 2010

sheesh!

;)

QUAKE II + QUAKE III available....with some support for Wi-Fi play.

HTC Desire landing at T-Mobile Uk - March 26th.

Google Earth.

Motorola Devour reviewed....really nice aluminium casing.

Fennec on Droid and N1..
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/02/27/mozilla-fennec-spotted-on-nexus-one-and-droid.html

"If that's true, I must start finding friends in the UK :), especially since I learned today that the "o so wonderful Sense UI" can be turned off and on whenever you please. This means that you can actually use the extra RAM HTC installed for its purpose on something useful like multitasking!"

If this is true about the Desire then I'm much more interested. I think the only drawback of going with the HTC and not the Nexus One then is slower updates from Google.

Fennec on Droid and N1..
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/02/27/mozilla-fennec-spotted-on-nexus-one-and-droid.html

The Fennec browser will have to go some to impress me. While I wait for my Sony-Ericsson Xperia X10, I'm currently Android-less (I sold my G1 to someone really desperate for a Qwerty keyboard Android phone - I think he was rich or something). I'm making do with my Sony-Ericsson Satio (powered by Symbian). It has OPERA MOBILE which I downloaded (not the silly Opera Mini) on it, and it is brilliant.

Apparently Opera Mobile will only be available as OEMs to phone manufacturers, and not to us, the general public. Shame really, but I've given up using bloated Firefox on my PC, and now mainly use OPERA, so no loss to me.

Now that looks like a great win, I've got the G1 at the moment and am due an upgrade when this comes out. Looks just like a tastier G1 to be honest :)

You may wish to check out the specs first. The screen is very small.

I use Chrome when I'm not working. Firefox for work since it has lots of useful dev plugins. Not sure if Fennec will offer the same sort of thing. But any browser choice is a good thing (so long as it's not <IE8).

Okay. Im saving up to get an handset. Which one can I buy the end of this month, I don't want to use ebay or buy one from the US?

Steve Jobs is bringing the pain to HTC...... suing for 20 patent infringements.
Android got them shook?

Otherwise Im just going get the Hero until August :P

http://lifehacker.com/5481607/top-10-android-apps

some good app recommendations.

Steve Jobs is bringing the pain to HTC...... suing for 20 patent infringements.
Android got them shook?

Did they copyright sliding fingers over a touchscreen?

http://gizmodo.com/5059881/apple-sues-school-for-using-the-same-fruit-in-a-logo

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/3/3/htc-strongly-rejects-accusations-apple-iphone-patent-infringements/

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,40064628,00.htm

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10015247o-2000331761b,00.htm

Patents named in the Delaware filing:

7362331: "Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States"
7479949: "Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics"
7657849 : "Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image"
7469381: "List Scrolling And Document Translation, Scaling, And Rotation On A Touch-Screen Display"
5920726: "System And Method For Managing Power Conditions Within A Digital Camera Device"
7633076: "Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable Devices"
5848105: "GMSK Signal Processors For Improved Communications Capacity And Quality"
7383453: "Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An Instruction-Processing Portion Of A Processor"
5455599: "Object-Oriented Graphic System"
6424354: "Object-Oriented Event Notification System With Listener Registration Of Both Interests And Methods"

Patents named in the ITC filing:

5481721: "Method for providing automatic and dynamic translation of object oriented programming language-based message passing into operation system message passing using proxy objects"
5519867: "An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manner a procedural operating system having a native procedural interface"
5566337 "Method and apparatus for distributing events in an operating system"
5929852: "Encapsulated network entity reference of a network component system"
5946647: "System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data"
5969705: "Message protocol for controlling a user interface from an inactive application program"
6275983: "An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manner a procedural operating system having a native procedural interface"
6343263: "Real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data"
5915131: "Method and apparatus for handling I/O requests utilizing separate programming interfaces to access separate I/O services"
RE39486: "An extensible and replaceable network-oriented component system provides a platform for developing networking navigation components that operate on a variety of hardware and software computer systems"

IP infringements, the lifeblood of the software industry!

Poor HTC are about to find out that if you swim with sharks you run the risk of getting bitten.

Hope they have some decent lawyers or Google steps in a destroys the iCocks.

What's this shit though.. how fucking vague is that?
5455599: "Object-Oriented Graphic System"

I predict HTC have to pay Apple an extremely large sum of money in say 7 years as a result of this case.