One of my main reasons for using a BlackBerry has always been that I do a lot of writing and text manipulation on my phone while travelling, and for those purposes a well-designed built-in keyboard is essential. But I’ve had to face facts: in recent months, I’ve been using its touch-screen interface a lot more than I realised. More »
The latest Android release, Gingerbread, is coming soon to phones, but we can peek at it in the software developer’s kit. Here’s what’s new and notable in Android 2.3: better typing, darker looks, detailed battery and memory reports, and more. More »
Android 2.3, the “Gingerbread” update to Google’s smartphone platform, is shipping first on the new Nexus S from Samsung, which Google partnered in designing. Get a glimpse of some Gingerbread features, and the new (T-Mobile) Nexus, in the clip above. More »
Android: We mentioned the CyanogenMod 6.1 Release Candidate when it first came out, but the stable version dropped today with performance improvements and feature additions for tons of Android phones. More »
As expected, Telstra has started selling the Motorola Defy from today. It’s still only running 2.1, but it’s relatively weatherproof. Pricing doesn’t seem to have been posted on the Telstra site yet, but it will be available on a 24-month contract on the company’s $49, $79, $99 and $129 cap plans, or outright for $600.
You had IT set up Microsoft Exchange Server on your personal phone so you could get corporate email and stay in touch. You also, likely unbeknownst to you, gave them the power to remotely control and wipe your phone. More »
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Android (with Windows): To unofficially tether and use your Android’s mobile web on your laptop, you previously had three options: rooting, wonky proxies and purchasing PDAnet. Now there’s formerly BlackBerry-only Tether, at about the same price as PDAnet. What’s the difference? More »
Got Android envy? Just wish Apple handled sync, the web and openness a bit better? Well, you can’t have it all but if you want to bring more Google paradigms to your iPhone here’s how to do it. More »
The iOS 4 branch of Apple’s mobile operating system is generally considered to perform pretty terribly on the iPhone 3G model — it’s why downgrading to iOS 3.1.3 became such an attractive hack. But a video from the TiPb blog shows the latest developer release of iOS 4.2 as running much better on an older iPhone — nearly at par with iOS 3 on the same device, according to the Boy Genius Report. More »
