Tim Bray, XML co-creator said on Monday that he has now joined Google to work on Android as a Developer Advocate. With his new position, he brings some verbal also as Tim said that “It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure [...]
Look out for at least 6 new Android devices from the UK network 3. Currently selling only 1 Android unit which is the HTC Hero. David Kerrigan, chief of internet services said they will be heavily focusing on Android this year and will work in conjunction with Samsung and Sony Ericsson to name only two.
What [...]
Good news fellas Opera has just released their Opera Mini 5 Beta 2 in the Android Market and it should be compatible with Android 1.6+. This new version is blazing fast compare to Version 4 and other older releases. So how are we getting faster loads and stuff like that? We’ll Opera uses their servers [...]
Spotify mobile app for Android has received an update. Spotify is a UK music streaming service where you can have a free account or a premium account that lets the user store music or download music at a cost. Users do need to sign up for a premium account if they want to access and [...]
The video shown below caused a little stir in the Android world when it comes to home screen replacements. Now I don’t like to bring bad news, however the guys over at IntoMobile posted that’s it not likely to happen anytime soon. The developers named “TAT Home” (The Astonishing Tribe) have tweeted that it will [...]
Another great Distimo report recently released at MWC10 shows us that our beloved OS Android has the highest percentage of FREE applications available. Is this down to the OS being free also? or is this just the good developers that we have working on Android to bring us their latest goodies? I guess it could [...]
B SkyB Ltd released an Android app for us all to get our news blips from, the only problem is, I cannot seem to find it in the Android market and I think it’s down to me being stuck on Android 1.5. Anyway the application itself allows you to keep track of breaking news, headline [...]
T-Mobile branded Android smartphone Pulse Mini was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The T-Mobile Pulse Mini, which will be available on pay as you go, priced at £99.99 (USD $155) contract free will be hitting UK and Germany in Q2 2010. Thats actually a very good price for a contract free phone. [...]
Today was a good day for AT&T customers who were waiting on AT&T to start selling Android Phones. As you might know AT&T announced the Motorola Backflip today at MWC in Barcelona and it looks like AT&T is starting to promote the phone by. I can tell you all the features this phone has but [...]
This is going to be awesome. I am a huge home replacement fan and being a new Nexus One owner I am not going to root the N1 right now. I stumbled across this new home replacement coming soon to Android phones and I couldn’t be more excited.
Tat Home is [...]
I have been wondering when the first Google Buzz Android app would appear, and I admit I thought it would be from Google themselves, but it seems they have their hands full right now shoring up privacy practices with Buzz. So then I thought, “who will bring us a Android app to get us Buzzing [...]
Jealous of the Nexus One Pinch-to-Zoom feature on the Google Maps? Well today is your lucky day Google has updated it’s Google Maps and it brings Pinch-to-Zoom to all Motorola Droid owners. If you haven’t got the app update notification head over to market and find your Maps app, It should have an update ready [...]
Can’t sleep without your Android next to you? Some chancer has decided to try knocking out plain cushions for $19.99 a shot, cushions enhanced with some simple Google Android branding so PEOPLE LIKE US might be tempted into buying soft furnishings for once. “This is a 100% handcrafted, 12″x12″ square pillow, made with the softest [...]
A leak has led us to know the names of the next Android devices that HTC intends to launch. There is not much detail, just the names and screen resolution, but hey, that’s something!
The devices are:
HTC Espresso: QWERTY keyboard , 320 × 480 pixel
HTC Huangshan: No physical keyboard, 320 × 480 pixel
HTC Liberty: No physical [...]
Google’s official Nexus One Dock was TIPPED into a advert spotted running on a YouTube video recently. The ad suggests that the dock will be priced at $45 and support charging the Nexus One, playing photo sideshows & more. I’m assuming This would be the Media Dock.
If you click on the ad it re-directs [...]
We at Leakdroid really feel for the people of Haiti and want to do everything possible to help out. Personal donations are well, personal, but if you have not donated to Haiti we encourage you to do so. Regardless of whether you have or have not already donated, here is another great effort to [...]
Do you just love Turner Classic Movies? TCM to be exact as it shows here in the UK. If so then you will be excited to know that a new Android app is on the way for it, iPhone got theirs today for a price of $2.99. I often watch one or two movies on [...]
Above is a screen shot of whats supposed to be Android OS 2.1 with Google Weather and Google News Widget’s. The new OS code-named “Flan” – just like previous OS versions using their dessert themed names such as “Cupcake”, “Donut” and “Eclair” – is supposed to be heading our way January 5th, loaded on-board none other than [...]
With a mysterious countdown that points to 1 January 2010. With Google’s message that workers are known to have a new phone that is not yet on the market. With photos and a list of specifications. With potential price points, pictures, and screenshots of the version of Android, so hot is the subject of the [...]
Back like a heart attack, only days after “Beautiful Widgets” developers LevelUp Studio received a C&D from HTC to stop the development of their ever popular app. If there is one single thing that’s annoyed me in the world of Android recently, then this has to be the mass winner. Ok yes HTC is a [...]
Square is a reality. It seemed like a joke or a mad project of the creator of Twitter (Who would have thought a few years ago where would this system) but we already have the complete information of the system to mount any payment platform with only an iPhone or Android phone . You do [...]
Look out Android, a new browser is now available named Dolphin which brings multi-touch capability to Android. Quite recently the only way to have multi-touch was to gain root access and pimp out the phone with the latest and greatest CyanogenMOD customised ROM, or to get yourself a HTC Hero which supports the great great [...]
The long wait is finally over. After months of application testing and multiple rounds of voting both by the community and a select panel of judges, the winners of the Android Developer Challenge 2 have finally been announced! Here’s the juice:
Awards
Prizes will be distributed as follows; all prizes are in USD:
For each of the 10 [...]
Twidroid 3.0
One of the things that many smartphone users do with their devices is ‘talk’ with other people using a twitter client. On Google’s free mobile OS, many are using Twidroid, which today, has released the new 3.0 version, with various new features And finally I got the new version of Twidroid 3.0, one of [...]
Adult nature is the name Android is the game, now available is an adult app store from the developers known as MiKandi. head on over via your browser and you will be able to download it straight to your phone and another thing…. its FREE. We love free here as Leakdroid as you can tell, [...]
One very poular application/program for Windows and Mac’s is Seesmic, which is probably one of the best Twitter clients available other than my beloved TweetDeck. Packed with features to keep you up to date with all you tweets, friends and favourites, so good news when we heard they were introducing an app and now its [...]
Intuitit’s Home++ Gets Review
Have you ever wanted to do away with the Original Launcher Drawer Tab? Would you like quick and easy access to your most used features? Intuitit has gone to market with the Home Replacement application Home++ that gives you just that and more. Home++ is an alternative that basically uses the Stock [...]
Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation (beta) for older devices that use Android OS version 1.6 or higher. It debuted as a free feature on Android 2.0 (Droid) handsets a few weeks ago and was received with much enthusiasm. Now devices such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1 will be able [...]
Android market has seen some niffty new additions over the last month or so, this one is called BeamReader, which is a PDF viewer, now most Android users would know that there isnt really a decent PDF viewer(well not that im aware of) however HTC had included a nice one into the HTC Hero which [...]
Fring, is a mobile application that lets users integrate all your contacts into one list. Users of the HTC Hero, Motorola Cliq, T-Mobile Pulse or HTC Magic can enjoy free voice calls over the internet, chat live and share files. Fring integrates your contact lists from some of the most popular social networking services, including [...]
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A few months back we reviewed a fantastic application, PhotoBurst (Photo BURST application Review) from developer Androidslide, PhotoBurst has earned its way into the second round of the ADC2 (Android Developers Challenge 2). It’s no surprise Androidslide’s newest app has been doing so well in the ADC2. That’s because Androidslide puts [...]
Toshl
What is Toshl? Toshl is an easy-to-use simple interface Expense tracking application.With Toshl you can easily track your daily and monthly expenses on the timeline. Every expense can be tagged so you can later decipher exactly what you have been spending your money on. Once you have created a tag you can simply click that [...]
