Archive for January, 2009
Music applications for G1 mobile
Posted on January 30, 2009, under Google Android.
New Android app is a fully featured Last.fm radio application that supports the open nature of the Android OS. It allows you to stream your Last.fm stations, view friends’ profiles and watch out for up coming events. LastFM takes all the features from the website and crams into the little screen on the G1. Users can save stations, find the top 100, view their library of music, find items recommended by LastFM, start new stations, and the many profile tweaks and settings that the website allows you. It keeps you notified of what you are listening to via the notification tab in Android. Fans of LastFM may be pleased with all this and the fact that the app can run in the background while your doing other things, like checking your email.
MemoryUp application controversy on Android Market
Posted on January 30, 2009, under Google Android.
An Android Market application has become the center of a fire storm of controversy after users accused it of wiping data from memory cards and spamming contacts. MemoryUp Personal, distributed by eMobieStudio, is meant to optimize system memory by taking control of the Java Virtual Machine to reclaim unused memory. Whether it actually achieves that goal has been a matter of discussion on the Android Community forum for a few weeks; forum members have not been convinced of its actual efficacy. This past weekend, however, reports started appearing that MemoryUp was erasing files. According to a post at geek.com, users complained that their SD cards “were wiped totally clean.” Other accusations grew, suggesting that MemoryUp was sending spam using onboard contact information, removing calendar items, corrupting memory and placing adware onto the G1.
T-Mobile USA reports over 4 milion new customers in 2008
Posted on January 30, 2009, under Open-Source.
T-Mobile USA’s launch of 3G services was combined with a significant strengthening of the converged device offering during 2008. With the successful launch of the T-Mobile G1 with Google and the Samsung Behold, both 3G converged devices, nearly 40 percent of devices sold to contract customers in the fourth quarter of 2008 (including both upgrades and new customers) were converged devices, of which more than half were 3G enabled. The company reported over 4.1 million net new customers added in 2008, 2.94 million organic net new customers and 1.13 million acquired as part of the SunCom Wireless, Inc acquisition in February 2008. This compares to 3.64 million net new customers added in 2007.
Linux-based Moblin 2 platform is now available for download
Posted on January 29, 2009, under Open-Source.
Intel has announced the availability of the first Moblin 2 alpha release. Moblin is an open source Linux-based platform that Intel is developing for Atom-based mobile devices. The company hopes to attract a community of third-party developers to contribute to the platform and target it with their applications. Moblin has already been adopted by several Linux distributors, including Linpus, GoS, and Mandriva. These distributors plan to build custom derivatives on top of the Moblin core. It includes Pimlico, an open source suite of lightweight PIM applications that were created by OpenedHand. Xfce will eventually be dropped in favor of a richer and more mobile-friendly user interface that is built with OpenedHand’s Clutter framework. Intel acquired OpenedHand last year.
Android-based Movit tablet displayed at CES
Posted on January 26, 2009, under Google Android, Open-Source.
Movit tablet is a WiFi-enabled device which allows watching streaming videos, browse the web and share content on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. Movit device presented at Las Vegas was running the Cupcake development branch of Android or whether the Giinii developers had backported the Cupcake keyboard into a more stable Android release.