If you had a countdown going on the availability of the HTC Desire HD, you may want to adjust your clock. Amazon UK reveals a minor set back on the release of the Desire HD to October 25th. The cause of the delay is unknown at this time. Let’s just hope they are ensuring there are enough phones in stock for the high demand of this desirable device and not a software are hardware issue.
[via Eurodroid]
Yahoo has been a little slow in getting into the Android game, but thanks to a slew of new offerings released in the past few days, they’re now on their way to catching up.
I’m a little curious as to why these weren’t all released as a single app, but nevertheless, Yahoo is now offering an Android app for News, Weather, Finance, and Movies. These apps join Yahoo Mail, IM, and Search for Android.
Scan the QR codes below, or simply search for each one in the Android Market. Enjoy!
Finance – Movies – News – Weather
Another mobile lawsuit under way. Motorola has announced the launch of a lawsuit against Apple, Inc. for patents it included in its iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and most Mac computers. Motorola patents include 3G, GPRS, 802.11 and the antenna design, smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, app management, location-based services and multi-device syncing.
Motorola wants the International Trade Commission (ITC) to prevent Apple from importing its devices listed above until a resolution is determined. Corporate Vice President of intellectual property at Motorola Kirk Daily went on to say this;
If you’re like me, and you’ve already 3-starred every level on Angry Birds for Android, you’re waiting anxiously for a full-fledged copy of the game. However, it looks like the release from Rovia for the full version has been pushed back to “next week” sometime. According to a tweet from @RovioMobile:
Good and bad news. Full version of Android pushed to next week. We are adding proper support for Android multitasking.
That means we’ll have to wait longer than originally thought for more bird launching, glass shattering, pig smashing goodness, but the wait should be worth it. Personally, I would rather see more bugs worked out before initial release. Just too bad Rovio is tweeting from an iPad.
If you haven’t been able to check out Angry Birds yet, you can check it out here; alternatively, if the app doesn’t show for you in the market, you can always download the apk directly from us here. How do you think I got it on my HTC Hero?
[via Twitter]
Wireless carrier U.S. Cellular has announced the release of the Samsung Mesmerize. The Mesmerize is part of Samsung’s line of Galaxy S™ smartphones and is the third of five smartphones U.S. Cellular is launching this year that run on the Android platform. The Samsung Mesmerize is slated to hit stores October 27th.
This device has specs similar to other Galaxy S™ smartphones:
The retail price of Samsung Mesmerize will be $199 after an $80 mail-in rebate.
Let us know in the comments if you’ll be picking up your own Samsung Mesmerize! Continue after the break for the full press release.
Verizon Wireless has given us more light on the 4G LTE network deployment and its expected coverage of 38 metro areas. Looking at the coverage map released by Verizon Wireless, it’s pretty red (red = coverage = 4G heaven). The coverage area also include 62 airports in the US. That combined with the metro areas listed in the Press Release below makes the coverage hitting one third of all Americans.
With the rise of Android OS in the mobile market, and the launch of new devices at CES in January 2011, we should see a large amount of 4G Android devices ready for activation from Verizon.
A full list of metro areas covered is detailed in the Press Release after the break.
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC), a group that wants to help educate children in developing countries, is receiving a $5.6 million grant from chipset maker Marvell to develop Android tablets using their chips. In their past mission, OLPC tried to develop affordable $100 laptops, but didn’t have much success as the costs to manufacture and distribute exceeded expectations. Hopefully, with support like this, and with a light weight mobile operating system like Android, they can do a better job this time around.
Android devices these days are becoming much more affordable, and most of the desktop-style apps, like word processing, are done in the cloud via web apps such as Google Docs. This seems like the right move for OLPC and the chances of success seem much higher going this route then trying to build a machine powerful enough to run desktop software. Marvell and OLPC hope to have a prototype to show off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas early this January but arn’t making any promises.
[via intomobile]
Wireless sync is one of the holy grails of music management, so when we discovered a new way to achieve this feat, you can bet we gave it a whirl. iSyncr by JRT Studios is a 2-part app, one that runs on your Android device and another that runs on your Windows or Mac. It syncs with your iTunes library over USB cable initially. To sync over wifi you’ll need to grab the wireless add-on which currently only works with Windows.
To get started all you have to do is download and install the appropriate app on your phone, plug your phone into your PC, and mount your SD card and navigate to the iSyncr folder and install the PC client. Once up and running, pick the playlists you want to sync and let it run. Pretty simple setup and with the wifi feature, you can now have a hassle-free music sync and always have your favorite tracks ready to go. See a more detailed step-by-step tuturial and grab the appropriate QR after the jump.
Ever find yourself sitting at your computer, either at work or at home, and you’ve received a text? Ever wish you could simply have your texts go to your computer while you’re on it rather than your handheld? Then this app may interest you. It’s called TalkMyPhone.
This free app will send you notifications about your phones’ battery level, SMS messages and phone calls. All you need to do is setup a jabber account where you can log in on your computer using any jabber client such as Pidgin, Spark, Adium, or any other jabber client you’d prefer.
If you’re connected to the digital world in any way, you know how hard it is to keep things in sync (and I don’t mean boy-band Timberlake’s twitter). It can be just as painful a process to keep your digital devices syncing as well as your email forwards, blog posts, RSS feeds and micro-blogging statuses.
Thankfully, lifehacker has put together a collection of apps to help us Android users try to keep things together, for our technological sanity! They’ve put some of the most likely situations for us and given a solution for things like file management, notes and reminders, remote control, screen viewing, map locations, and iTunes library syncing to your Android device.
Do yourself a favor, and click here to see which of these may help you stay connected and organized in today’s digital world.
[via lifehacker]