Tweet Google is avid as always and publishes a new update for Google Maps. According to the changelog, it fixes several bugs for phones as well as tablets. I can’t tell which Bugs that were, but if you have experienced any improvements, share it in the comments! However, the update is free and you might [...]
Tweet We all have been waiting for it: An official Wikipedia application. Officially released by the Wikimedia Foundation, you’ll be prepared for the next blackout of Wikipedia with it. It works, even though the page is blacked out (you remember the protest?). Nearly all the Wikipedia applications out there were only so called “WebViews”, which [...]
Tweet Today, I am not in the mood for jokes. This news are neither about the HTC Desires nor about Android. However, it’s a monumental day, not only for the U.S., probably for the whole future of the “Internetz”. The “Stop Online Piracy Act” has shown up for the first time in 2011 and was [...]
Tweet To several Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) – users a slowed WiFi connection appeared. This is a bug identified to be related to devices with some special country codes on their SIM-cards (e.g. you are using it in your tablet for an internet connection or in your smartphone for internet/telephony/SMS ). XDA-Forummember fardjad recently [...]
Tweet One goal of Google’s latest Android version 4.0 or “Ice Cream Sandwich” clearly was to give the users a more consistent using experience. A step to do that, was to merge the visual interfaces of Honeycomb with “pre-Honeycomb” to provide the same experience, no matter whether on tablets or handsets. However, that was only [...]
Tweet Very, very, very fresh news directly from Google: An update for Google’s search application has just released for all devices with Android 2.2 or later. It should give: “- Faster, smoother performance, with an updated and simplified user interface. – Suggestions for your search grouped by type, with web suggestions at the top. – [...]
Tweet CyanogenMod has a huge team of voluntary developers, who provide tons of usually the best built customROMs for lots of devices. With growing impact on the community, they also need more money to be able to afford the server capacities and maybe one or two coffees a day (coffein, that what really flows to [...]
Tweet Good news to all custom fans: HTC just published a tool to unlock the bootloader of the Desire, the Desire HD ( and Wildfire + Wildfire S) on their developer-site HTCDev.com. Back some months ago HTC promised to unlock all bootloaders - Wow! They are actually really doing it! Happy developing! Tweet
Tweet The more Android/Smartphones that are registered, the more hackers try to access your phone by unscrupulous means. This time they are posing as an Anti-Virus Software(see image(Opera Virus Scanner)). The following was taken from ZDNet If the user clicks on the link, they’ll be asked to download VirusScanner.apk, which is currently detected as Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Scavir. [...]
Tweet You are at the maybe most important electronics convention? Some months ago Google released a new feature for google Maps: Indoor Navigation. As always, only highly populated places support this feature. Including the CES now! It will surely bring some order to the chaos of such a huge convention. Just type in “Las Vegas [...]
