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It appears that HTC’s new developer site, HTCdev, is already providing us with some cool info. Under the Tablet Pen API examples are two screenshots from a Honeycomb device that has a hint of Sense UI mixed in for good measure — as you can see above and after the break. The screenshots don’t show...
As you may or may not be aware of, Google is shutting down Google Labs — which houses Google’s BETA products — to focus more on what they know they’re good at; search, email, advertising, Android and being awesome. As a part of this shut down, Google App Inventor for Android will be closed also....
Remember when HTC promised they would allow unlocking of their bootloaders? And that the Sensation would be unlockable in August? Well now that dream is slowly coming true. HTC have launched HTCdev.com which is their online hub that has all their device kernel source code, their OpenSense SDK and, soon, their unlocking bootloader solution. HTCdev...
The official YouTube application for Android has received an update from Google which bumps the version up to v2.2.14 and brings new options for uploading videos on your mobile device. You can now edit the title, description and privacy settings of your video; there’s a new UI for the uploading portion of the application; you...
You may have noticed recently a few changes around here at Ausdroid – and they way you’ll have noticed is (a) we’ve been a bit quiet on posts for the last few days, and (b) the forum has been up and down like a yoyo, and our main site has had periods of downtime. Unfortunately...
You might remember a few months ago when rumours of a successor to the Motorola XOOM — dubbed the XOOM 2, of course — first hit the web. Since then, a tablet with the name Motorola KORE has been floating around the rumoursphere. To add to these KORE rumours, Motorola have recently registered MotorolaKore.com, KoreMotorola.com,...
Welcome to the Ausdroid Podcast Episode 11, recorded on Wednesday 3rd August. Buzz, Lucas, Irwin Geoff and Scott are finally back after a 3 week hiatus and run down the latest news. We hit up quite a bit this week, including the Galaxy S II on Telstra, Tablets get a real talking about, including the...
Testing. Skype have today added 17 new devices to their Video Calling service on Android. Although a few of these devices — listed below — were able to have Skype Video Calling over a month ago thanks to a leaked / hacked APK, it’s good to see Skype further pushing Video Calling on the Android...
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Android is getting battered by big companies claiming its infringing on patents left, right and center. We’ve seen this clearly here in Australia with the latest attack by Apple at Samsung, and Google wants it to stop. They don’t want the patent system to cease existence, rather they want it to once again have meaning....
It looks as though Vodafone are taking a bit of a hint from Telstra here by letting users know when their devices may or may not be updated in the near future. Luckily for most users they’ve already been updated to the latest version(s) of Android over the past few weeks, however, there are still...
Do you remember the Galaxy Tab 10.1v? You know, the device that went to Vodafone after being killed off by Samsung as they recreated it as the thinner, more Apple hating, Galaxy Tab 10.1. Anyway.. Vodafone has just put a list of Android devices up on their blog along with dates of software updates if...
Well there you go ladies and gents, Samsung Australia have indeed pushed back the launch event they had planned for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 on August 11th, according to Gizmodo AU. Here’s what Samsung had to say. Postponement of Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 Media Launch Event 11th August 2011 In light of the current legal...
Do you remember NVIDIA’s Project Kal-El? How could you not? It’s NVIDIA’s Quad-Core CPU / Dodeca-Core GPU processing chip, and it’s going to rock your world later this spring. NVIDIA have told Android Central that “Project Kal-El-powered tablets are coming this Fall [Spring here], and phones around the CES 2012 timeframe”. This is extremely exciting...