The new Sapphire 2.0.0 ROM is now available for the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Droid Incredible, and soon the HTC EVO. Since the previous release 3 months ago there have been a variety of improvements in term of stability and battery life as well as a few new features. Sapphire is completely built from [...]
The Etrade Mobile Pro investment and banking app is finally available for Android long after its appearance on the Blackberry and iPhone. The app is available now for free on the android market.
The Google Nexus S which was announced last week is available at Best Buy starting today in the US. The Nexus S is the first phone to run Android version 2.3 aka Gingerbread. Gingerbread builds on some of the most popular Android features like multi-tasking and Wi-Fi hotspot and adds a refreshed user interface, an [...]
Google App Inventor is finally out of closed Beta and is now available for anyone with a Google account. For those of you that don’t know App Inventor lets you develop applications for Android phones using a web browser and either a connected phone or emulator. The App Inventor requires no real programming knowledge and [...]
Quadrant is a benchmarking app that allows you to compare the performance almost any Android device across a variety of tests. The Standard Edition is free and available on Android Market. This app comes in very handy if you run a variety of custom ROMs and would like to compare their relative performance over different [...]
CyanogenMod 6.1 has been released for the Motorold Droid and other devices. This ROM is an AOSP-based build with extra contributions from many people which you can use without any type of Google applications. You can view the changlog and download the ROM from his website: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/forum/10-motorola-droid-stable-mod/ Check out the other ROMs available here in [...]
If you store music on your Android device that contains album covers you have probably noticed that the gallery application will display these images alongside your other photos. If you have a large collection of music, your photos can quickly get lost among the cover images. Luckily there is a good solution to this problem. [...]
The latest update came down to enable flash support and now Droid owners with custom ROMs are once again dealing with the annoying system update message. The way to end this annoyance and prevent the FRG22D OTA update is fairly straightforward. Start up Root Explorer or Astro and navigate to /system/build.prop Open this file in [...]
The Android platform has limited support for video formats besides H.264 in a .mp4 container. Since most video is not originally in this format it must be re-encoded to view on your Android device. Then along comes RockPlayer which handles a wide variety of audio and video containers including: avi mkv rmvb mp4 mov wmv [...]
Update: These instruction are for the FRG01B build, if you are looking to prevent September’s FRG22D update go here. If you are running a custom ROM and don’t want to update to the latest OTA Froyo then you are probably being bothered a regular basis with the notification to update. Unfortunately there is no “No [...]
