Motorola Sholes, Verizon’s First Android Phone
Even if it’s slow, but atleast we are getting to see new Android phones coming up by other manufacturers. As announced earlier this year, Motorola is all set to come out with their Android phone in Ocrober.
It is rumoured that this phone will be released for Verizon, and if it really does, then this Android phone will be the first one to work on the EVDO Rev. A 3G network.
How to Run Live Android on PC
by Haris on July 22, 2009
in Android, Tips and Tricks
Since my post about Live Android (Live Android 0.3), I’ve been getting lots of emails on how to run it on PC or netbooks. The official site does have a how-to page, but that doesn’t explain well about how you can run Live Android on your PC.
Instead of testing Live Android on a VMware, Virtual Box or any other virtualization application, I burned the liveCD ISO and boot up my PC from it.
Create a LiveUSB of Live Android
by Haris on July 22, 2009
in Android, Freewares, Tips and Tricks
I just shared about Live Android, the live disc image of Android, Google’s mobile OS. You can downloadthe ISO file to burn on a CD, and it should probably work for live USB too.
But according to Live Android team, the live disc image of Live Android 0.2 Â is not yet ready for live USB. There are some problems with it. Live Android 0.3 will have live USB support and for that, you’ll need a live USB tool.
Download Live Android for Netbooks
A few days ago we heard of Google coming out soon with an operating system called Chrome OS. But before that, Google announced that by the next year, netbooks will be shipped with Android. Confused?
Well, we all are. Google is still lip-tight about what they’re really planning to release. Meanwhile, there is a cool new project going on using Android.
How to Take Screenshots on Android Phone
by Haris on February 6, 2009
in Android, Gadgets, Tips and Tricks
iPhone and iPod Touch have a built-in feature to capture screenshots (How to?) of our screens in whatever app we are. But Android-powered G1 doesn’t.
There is another method to take screenshots on Android, but that requires PC connectivity and is quite complicated as compared to the one I’m going to share below.
Samsung, Android Phone in First Half of 2009
It’s about time we get more Android-powered phones in the market. The only one I know of is G1. Other manufacturers have promised to release soon, but no signs of them yet.
After getting a chance to use Android on G1, I’m eagerly waiting for Android to hit other handsets i.e Samsung, Motorola etc. Samsung recently hinted of coming out with an Android phone in the first half of 2009.
HTC G1 Hands-On Review at Android Developers Workshop
Yesterday evening, a Google Android workshop took place in Lahore, Pakistan where I got a chance to play with the HTC G1.
Even though, I’m not an Android developer or Java programmer, I was lucky enough to get invited by Badar Khushnood, Google Pakistan Country Consultant, to attend the two hour session delivered by Omar Shakil, a Software Engineer at Google.
Create Ringtones for Android with Ringdroid
by Muzzammil Waheed on November 4, 2008
in Android, Freewares, Google, Tips and Tricks, Tools
Well, if you are a mobile music junkie like me and you look forward to owning a great looking Android-powered beasty smartphone soon, I bring you just the right software that you must get your hands on. It’s called as Ringdroid – a mixture of ringtones and Android.
Let’s learn a little more about Ringdroid. It is a ringtone converter that runs on your phone and provides you all the capabilities of recording, editing and creating ringtones on the phone. It supports most common music file formats such as mp3, wav and also 3GPP/AMR which is the default file format of Android.
Twitroid: Twitter Client for Android
Since Android has released, I haven’t got time to share any interesting applications. Here’s the first app that I’m be sharing for Android-based phones on Sizzled Core. From now on, I’ll be covering more interesting apps as they release.
Twitroid will be the first application on Android platform which will let you do all the that you expect from a Twitter client and will also let you upload photos on their own image hosting called Photroid.
