filed in Uncategorized on Sep.01, 2010
ARM a9 dual-core 1GHz processor
Android 2.2 with Flash
10.1 Inch Screen
3,500mAh battery targeted to deliver 8 hours of 1080p video playback
microHDMI with 1080p out
Accelerometer
1024 X 600 capacitive touch screen
16GB of internal storage.
$500, if and when the unit is released.
filed in Android Ecosystem, Android Productivity on Sep.01, 2010
Archos looks to be on their way to become the brand to turn to for budget solutions.
However, it can be argue that their support or rather they do not provide adequate upgrades for their existing devices to the latest operating system.
These are points of consideration you have to make when thinking of purchasing an Archos device.
For now a neak peak at these machines:
filed in Android Productivity on Aug.28, 2010
I criticize Android in the past about how their applications are poorly designed and we would have to wait till Gingerbread to see some form of challenge to the iOS.
In most argument the picture I used was this Music Synthesizer application
Today, I came across an Android Paid App called RD3 Groovebox that is in the same domain.
This application looks very competent but looks short of options to what the iPAD Application can do. Nevertheless very impress by the UX from the developer!
Video Sample:
filed in Android Ecosystem, Android Productivity, Android Tut, Web Productivity on Aug.28, 2010
Mozilla have pride themselves by being very innovative in their development efforts for their desktop browser.
Their latest offering for the mobile space on Android is the Fennec.
The overall experience have been refreshing but this is not a browser that you can use everyday yet as its an alpha release and is really rough on the edges.
What I like about it is that it has brought all that we liked about Firefox over to the Android
filed in Android Productivity on Aug.26, 2010
Someone at Gizmodo France recently ran into this problem with their own Galaxy S, and rather than shrug the mishap off with a bit of frustration, they contacted Samsung, and received a strange response.
What did toubleshooters discover? Hooking a Galaxy S up to a computer via USB is just fine, unless the gadget is host to a file or files with an extension exceeding 15 characters. Wow. Who makes a file with a 16-character extension? Seesmic, apparently (Google Translate link). Deleting the culprit file fixed the odd bug.
How plausible is this? A lot of people uses Seesmic!
Take a look at the video to find out more.
Samsung Galaxy S i9000 – Crash "MTP application"
Uploaded by ITespresso-France. – Videos of the latest science discoveries and tech.
filed in Android Productivity, Android Tut on Aug.26, 2010
If you have an Android Device but yet are jealous of the very nice preview brought about by Palm Pre’s Cards switching, Visual Task Switcher could be the solution.
Basically it tries to emulate Palm Pre’s Cards Effect to preview latest background programs to enable fast app switching.
This will seriously improve your productivity I feel.
You have 2 hard button options to tie to: Home button press or Long Search press. For me I prefer the Long Search Press.
filed in Android Ecosystem, Windows Mobile Ecosystem, iOS Ecosystem on Aug.24, 2010
To all those skeptics that thinks that Microsoft will forever screw up, here is a take on their mobile internet explorer.
It shows that they don’t get the checkboards that iPhone has while scrolling up and down fast and that it loads faster than Android 2.2.
Morale of the story: Be unbiased when evaluating your future handset purchase lol.
filed in Android Ecosystem, User Experience on Aug.23, 2010
Great Design focusing on User Experience really grabs you.
The Astonishing Tribe is an astonishing company behind some great UI designs on the Android and other platforms.
Today, I saw a clip that shows their UX design on the MEEGO platform (and possibly Android) and it blows me away how smooth and sensible such a UI design can be.
Granted, not everyone will appreciate it but great standard UI toolkits are built upon these great ideas.
Take a look at this video:
filed in Uncategorized on Aug.22, 2010
Now we know that iPad doesn’t come with a stylus, as Steve Jobs just don’t think a stylus would work.
But can your iPAD really replace the desktop drawing softwares like Corel Draw?
Here is a demo of a USD 8.00 application that shows this guy doing that at the iOSDevCamp.
I am no art student but the pictures that he is able to sketch are pretty stunning! This goes to show that Tablet can really handle a lot of the things we can only do on a desktop:
This would probably mean that desktop sales in the future will fall to a terminal amount as the lines of smartphone, tablet and desktop continues to blur
[Hattip MacStories]
filed in Android Tut on Aug.22, 2010
Kyith:
I don’t really want to take all the credit here but, back in January this guy came up with the most comprehensive visual guide on how to install Eclipse, Java SDK and Android SDK and configuring it to develop Android Software.
Do hop on over his site if you are new to Android and want to learn how to set it up.
There are many ways to develop for Android and because of all the options it is sometimes a little daunting getting your environment setup. I found myself bouncing from web page to web page, not really sure if I had the right tools and if they were setup correctly. I wanted to document the process that worked for me.
Goal: Step by step instructions to install and configure your Android development environment for Windows.
Environment/tools: Here is the setup I have chosen to use.
Step 1. Install Eclipse IDE
I chose to use the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (v3.5 Galileo). You can download the it here
Step 2: Install Java Platform (JDK 6 Update 18)
Step 3: Download the Android SDK Tools, Revision 4
[For the rest of this tutorial read @ Android Code Monkey >>]
Kyith:
Additionally. there is very detail video teaching you how to setup and configure from start to finish here on youtube:
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