Posts Tagged ‘Android’
Dell Streak with Android 2.1 update exclusive preview: 720p video capture, better keyboard, and more
We have good news and bad news for fellow Streak-wielding comrades. The bad news is that Dell said tablet phone will not get Froyo update in September – and, in the UK at least. The good news is that O2 will squeeze in a 2.1 firmware for the void to fill at the beginning of next month, which probably means that the devices will also unlock the update a little earlier, if not at the same time. Now, Dell flash demo of the Streak’s Eclair build last week would have been a tad underwhelming, but as we found in the software only to us today, shows that there is actually more than just a new unlock screen and live wallpaper support . Read on to find out.
Update: Since you asked, here are some benchmark scores we got: 6949 MFLOPS on Linpack, in Quadrant 767, 30 fps at 3521 and at Fps2D An3DBench. Certainly a welcome improvement over Pocketables ’1, 6 scores.
It’s not often that we know a lot about this great smartphone prior to the announcement – not to say we complain. Latest in the never-ending series of leaks Droid 2 is this handy little flyer, apparently part of internal training for sales, pimping a variety of functions, such as Android 2.2 Out-of-the-box (something the original droid is Now just get it), the 8GB of onboard storage with one another on an 8GB microSD card included, the droid-like X UI skin Swype, and – this is interesting – a claimed 40 percent gain on the website of loading times than its predecessor thanks to 1GHz core. Of course, Froyo is quite a bit faster than Eclair, so if they are a benchmark against an Eclair 2 Froyo Droid Droid, that account could be taken for part of the performance improvement, too – not to say that we complain. Hit the gallery below for a larger version of the page.
Confirmation of our FCC-inspired suspicion, here we have a gallery of photos give us a detailed look at the latest (though probably not Motorola’s largest), Android device. Just as we posited, this is bound QWERTY slider for AT & T’s airwaves, and it comes with a Moto Blur 2 skin, most recently seen on the Droid X. We keep telling these companies that Android bone stock and a rapid upgrade cycle would be desirable, but they are not listening. You’ll have to do with Android 2.1 as the Sage launches, which can not be far away from now that our tipster has given test model had a good month already.
Yes, Dell may seem Aero peek at the head-on, but Motorola’s Glam lends to much more sophisticated, the self-proclaimed world’s lightest Android phone. “Launched today, more than in South Korea, this 2.1-based Android mobile phone (which we played with earlier in the year when it was known as the XT800) boasts a 3.7-inch capacitive multitouch screen (854 x 480 ), dual LED flash, a 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 3.5 mm headphone jack, a USB 2.0 connection, an HDMI connection, 1GB NAND Flash, 512 MB SDRAM, an 8GB microSD card, built-in GPS and support for a multitude of multimedia formats. Mum is the word on a price, but it should shuffle to SK Telecom – high heels and all – by the end of August.
If there’s one app you’ll probably die installed on your smartphone – regardless of platform – it’s as Facebook, where a new version comes out satisfied A major new functionality, then it is usually a fairly large deal. On This memorandum, Is this new build one for Android this evening that a “picture reel on the home screen will give you live updates from your news feed, Integrated video playback, SUPPORT Events and the ability to respond characteristics of friend requests without the enormous task of actually leaving the app. The update is already posted in the market, so grab it – Make sure your privacy settings, then on the up and up, you will not?




