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Update Your Nexus S to Android 2.3.2

Leave a Comment Posted by on Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Google started pushing out an update for the Nexus S that brings the firmware up to 2.3.2. The file is only about 600 KB big and the build number goes from GRH78 to GRH78C, so all signs point to this being a minor update. Samsung tweeted that it fixes the SMS bug that has received [...]

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Update Your Nexus One to Android 2.2.2

1 Comment Posted by on Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Google started pushing out an update for the Nexus One that brings the firmware up to 2.2.2. The file is only about 550 KB big and the build number goes from FRG83D to FRG83G, so all signs point to this being a minor update. I haven’t seen the release notes yet, but the update is [...]

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EVO 4G Update

Leave a Comment Posted by on Friday, December 17, 2010

HTC has confirmed that a maintenance update is being pushed out to the Sprint EVO 4G customers. I’m sorry to inform you that it’s not Gingerbread. Sorry folks you’ll have to wait little longer for that. This update inclues: Software Version: 3.70.651.1 Release Date: 12/13/2010 Method: Available OTA + Retail PRL Version: 60672 Version: 1.90_003 [...]

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Google Maps Updated to 5.0

1 Comment Posted by on Thursday, December 16, 2010

It’s the moment we all been waiting for. Android users can finally get their hands on the new Google Maps 5.0 update. The next generation of mobile maps. Two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability.   Explore maps in 3D Until now, Google Maps has always downloaded the map as a set of [...]

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Facebook Updated to 1.5

Leave a Comment Posted by on Tuesday, December 14, 2010

It seems the Facebook for Android application has finally become all-encompassing, with the long-awaited features of chat and push notification finally making their way onto the Android platform. This is certainly a welcome addition to the Android application, as the lack of these features have been a gripe of many Android users for a long [...]

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Android Market Update Coming Soon

Leave a Comment Posted by on Sunday, December 12, 2010

On Dec. 10th Android Developer Blog announced that Android Market engineering team has been working hard to improve the Android Market experience for users and the developers. The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I’m pleased to announce a significant update [...]

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Another Look at the New Google Maps for Mobile 5 on the Nexus S

Leave a Comment Posted by on Saturday, December 11, 2010

Google’s Andy Rubin showed off the new Google Maps for Mobile 5 running on his Motorola Honeycomb tablet and said it would be coming to the Android Market in a matter of days, but we have yet to see the upgrade roll out yet. The brief demo we saw showed off the 3D maps and [...]

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Android 2.3 Has NO Minimum Processor Requirement

Leave a Comment Posted by on Friday, December 10, 2010

Yesterday a curious customer asked LG if his Optimus One would be receiving Android 2.3 and got the response that “Gingerbread requires 1 GHz processor”. Several sites took the quote and started reporting that Gingerbread has a CPU requirement, but once again Dan Morrill was quick to respond. LG incorrectly states on Facebook that Gingerbread [...]

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Android 2.2 OTA Update for HTC Legend to Begin Today

Leave a Comment Posted by on Thursday, December 9, 2010

With all this news about android 2.3, let’s not forget that most Android users still waiting for their Android 2.2 update to hit their phones.  But if you own the HTC Legend, it looks like your wait if finally over.  HTC UK has just posted an update to their Facebook page, indicating that Froyo for [...]

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Manually Install Froyo on the Samsung Epic 4G

Leave a Comment Posted by on Thursday, December 9, 2010

Over the weekend it was discovered that Android 2.2 was available for the Samsung Epic 4G, but a post on the official Sprint forums says it is only a test build. They warn users not to flash any update files that come from 3rd party developer sites, but the test Android 2.2 build (DK28) is [...]

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