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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
It took what for most Nexus One owners seemed to be a lifetime, but we now have the download location for Android 2.2 (Froyo). Here's what you need to do to flash it to your phone:Update: Yeah. Hang o...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
So here's the thing: TechCrunch's M.G. Siegler apparently awoke to an over-the-air update of Android 2.2 (Froyo) on his Nexus One. And immediately, everybody and their mother started postin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 21, 2010
Yes that is a real picture, even though it's blurry as all get out. (Never claimed to be a photographer :P) No, I didn't get a magic OTA from Phil while he was at Google I/O, it's a 2.2 SDK emulator v...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
First question out of the gate today for the Android leadership at Google IO was about everybody's favorite subject: fragmentation. And VP of engineering Andy Rubin put things in ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
You guys keep asking, and here's the official answer: Android 2.2 -- Froyo -- is trickling out in the SDK now, but it's going to be a few weeks before we see it on phones en masse. That doesn't m...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We first showed you the official Froyo sculpture a week ago, and here it is, finally on the Google campus. Yummy, eh? [Twitpic via @billnapier]...
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by Darth Pooh#CB
May 20, 2010
Today brought a slew of FroYo toppings, and Adobe AIR is just one of them. While this might not be as exciting to some of us upon first glancing, it probably should be. Adobe AIR is an ea...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
We obviously have plenty of Froyo features to do deep dives on in the coming days and weeks, but there's one new feature that we want to point out that has us particularly excited: voice dialin...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
Adobe has released a lengthy piece about Flash 10.1 coming on Froyo. Here are the highlights: Battery and power: We added a new capability called instance management to intelligently load ...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
Google is showing off the next version of Android right now - Android 2.2, aka Froyo. We're liveblogging it right now, but you can watch this post to get the key bullet points of the new version as w...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
Like many of you, we are already wondering if and when our favorite Android phones will get the Froyo Android 2.2 upgrade. By "favorite Android phones" we naturally mean the hotness ma...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
The Froyo craziness continues - Google as already released the Software Development Kit for Android 2.2.If you're an Android developer, go on over to the Android Developer site to get your downlo...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
Google is currently showing off some amazing Android Marketplace improvements right now. You can now browse the Android Market from your desktop and send apps and music directly to your device o...
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by Cory Streater
May 20, 2010
Google isn't taking Apple's iAds initiative sitting down (actually at Google IO, they are having all kinds of fun tweaking Apple), they're showing off more interactive ads right now - ads that a...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We're back for Day 2 of Google IO at Moscone West in San Francisco. And today's the day, folks. We should see Froyo. We should see Flash. And we're bringing it all to you after the break.
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
What!?!?!?! No Froyo? No Android 2.2? No Flash? Sorry, folks, the first day of Google I/O is a slight snoozer as far as hard Android news is concerned. (Don't worry, it's coming on Thursday....
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by Phil Nickinson
May 18, 2010
We're winging our way out to Google I/O development conference in San Francisco (follow us on Twitter for the inside scoop), where we'll spend a couple of days deep within the Google development commu...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2010
The Evo 4G launch party
Live at the Sprint Evo 4G party
Sprint Evo 4G pricing, availability announced - $199 starting June 4
How do you feel about the Evo 4G pricing? (Updated)
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 13, 2010
Everyone is looking forward to the release of Android 2.2. So when the editors over at TechCrunch got a tip that a giant frozen yogurt sculpture was delivered, they sent a staffer over to check ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
Oh ... You mean that Froyo sculpture? Here it is, folks. Froyo. With mixed nuts and berries. Video after the break, at least until YouTube pulls it. [YouTube] Thanks, dion!
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
The good news: Tech Crunch found that USB tethering and the ability to serve as a WiFi hotspot will be built into Android 2.2, aka Froyo. The bad news: Don't count on all carriers leav...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 12, 2010
Not that Android is a slouch, but let's face it -- we'd all love a faster operating system. And it looks like may well be getting one in Android 2.2 (aka Froyo), and something to the tune of 450 time...
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by Casey Chan
May 11, 2010
We know Adobe is giving its employees Android phones in a form of "dogfooding" for Flash on mobile. We know that Flash is coming in Android 2.2 Froyo. We also believe that Android 2.2...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 30, 2010
Whoa! The WiFi Alliance certified the (likely Android) Motorola MB810 today for IEEE Standard 802.11 b/g/n. Yes, that's the Shadow, and I know a lot of us have been waiting for more ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2010
Andy Rubin, VP of engineering for Google and one of the chiefs behind Android smartphones, just slipped a little bombshell into an interview with the New York Times' Bits blog. In it he says that Flas...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 24, 2010
One of the larger issues surrounding applications and the Android Market (OK, one of a number of larger issues) is the current inability to update more than one application at a time. The above screen...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
And as if on cue, here comes the next phone from the major Dell leak currently under way. The Smoke brings a front-facing QWERTY keyboard to Android -- something a number of us have been clamori...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
Now here's an interesting mix of bringing sexy to the masses, following (or preceding?) the big daddy Dell Thunder. The Dell Flash features an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 chipset -- for those of you who a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 20, 2010
The guys at Android and Me noticed a few pings of Android 2.2 in their Google Analytics, meaning somebody's testing out what's at least labeled as a new version of our favorite mobile operating system...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 31, 2010
Remember that Sprint Evo 4G developers guide that we all kinda looked at and sniffed? Well, the lads at Neowin noticed a snippet of commented code that mentions a feature that "will be included i...
