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Binatone iHome Phone – Android based Home Phone

By David Junior
on 3 Mar, 2010

This may revitalize the use of landlines. Today, most of us use our mobile devices exclusively for our telecommunications needs. Personally I haven't used my landline in years, it’s just there as a backup. This home unit is a beauty and nobody will ever know it’s a landline (unless you take it too far and it drops your call). Tons of specs are after the break.

Dell confirm Mini 5 AT&T connection, Android Market access & more

By David Junior
on 26 Feb, 2010

The hopes of some users for this to land on T-Mobile has been squashed (for now). Dell are in talks with AT&T to offer the Mini 5 on their network possibly subsidized. The Mini 5 will indeed be compatible with the Android Market and there is a strong possibility for future Dell tablets to choose resistive screens over capacitive.

Synchronize Google Voice with Your GPS Location

By David Junior
on 24 Feb, 2010

How would you like to sync your Android device's Google Voice to your current location? Well with there's a way for you to do this now. Google Voice locations use cell tower triangulation to switch your ringing Google Voice phones on the fly.

JIT – now making your Donut build twice as fast.

By David Junior
on 24 Feb, 2010

is a method of converting bytecode into native machine code, rather than Android’s Dalvik VM simply interpreting the bytecode. This speeds up apps and overall performance drastically. Cyanogen’s Nexus One build Beta 3 included JIT and has set the top speed on BenchmarkPi; OpenEclair 1.0.1 included JIT and absolutely flew.

Verizon FIOS Android remote

By David Junior
on 18 Feb, 2010

Would you like to control your television with your Android device? Soon you will be able to do just that if you are a Verizon customer with a Motorola droid. This is only available with the FiOS home network.

HTC Bravo, Renamed Desire?

By David Junior
on 15 Feb, 2010

I thought the HTC Droid Eris already had this name pegged. Its seems as though HTC has other plans for it, giving it to the phone we all know as the Bravo. The HTC Desire will be the newest entry into HTC leading Android family of phones.

Tether Without Root with Easy Tether [It's Awesome]

By David Junior
on 12 Feb, 2010

Looks like PDAnet has some competition now. For the longest they have been the most popular way to tether your Android device without the need for root. Now enters EasyTether. This app works for MOST Android phones, but has been discovered to not be ramped up for 4G phones thus far. We're crossing our fingers really, really hard for this app to work with faster speeds in the future. For now though, 3G.

HP’s New Snapdragon Laptop

By David Junior
on 12 Feb, 2010

The Compaq Airlife 100 is HP’s latest Android offering. This laptop will be released to select countries starting this spring. This laptop will be packed full of options.

Google Maps Navigation In Europe

By David Junior
on 9 Feb, 2010

This has been one of the most wanted additions in Android since the release of the Droid. It has since then been added to most Android phones here in the US but our friends across the pond cant join in the glory that is free voice turn-by-turn navigation.