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Nexus S, next Android Phone from Google

TheDeadBandit — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:03:42 +0000

Looks like the newest offering from Google’s Android smart phones has been announced and will be available December 16, 2010. They will be sold in carrier unlocked and carrier independent offerings from Best Buy in the US. No word yet on availability in Canada.

Gingerbread comes pre-installed, and offers a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. A new feature is the Contour Display which is produced by Samsung meant to give the phone a natural contour to your face.

Connectivity
Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700
HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)
Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
microUSB 2.0
Display

4.0″ WVGA (480×800)
Contour Display with curved glass screen
Super AMOLED
235 ppi
Capacitive touch sensor
Anti-fingerprint display coating
Size and weight

63mm x 123.9mm x 10.88mm
129g
Hardware
Haptic feedback vibration
Three-axis gyroscope
Accelerometer
Digital compass
Proximity sensor
Light sensor

Processor and memory
1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor
16GB iNAND flash memory
Cameras and multimedia
Back-facing: 5 megapixels (2560×1920)
720 x 480 video resolution
H.264, H.263 MPEG4 video recording
Auto focus
Flash
Front-facing: VGA (640×480)
3.5mm, 4-conductor headset jack
(stereo audio plus microphone)
Earpiece and microphone
Software noise-cancellation

Battery
Talk time up to 6.7 hours on 3G
(14 hours on 2G)
Standby time up to 17.8 days on 3G
(29.7 days on 2G)
1500 mAH Lithum Ion

Software
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
Android Market
Calendar
Gmail
Google Earth
Google Maps with Navigation
Google Search
Google Talk
Google Voice
Voice Actions
YouTube

[ Nexus S at Google ]

[ Phone Gallery for Nexus S ]

iPhoDroid Support Removed

TheDeadBandit — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:48:40 +0000

After giving the run around and building traffic towards his site for the iPhoDroid project, the iDroid community has spoken and removed support until some major issues have been cleared.

Viruses (potentially from 3rd Party downloads)
Violation of moral and license requirements
Inclusion of copyrighted materials

Hello, we’re announcing that we after a long period of discussing the subject of what either to support and use resources on the iPhodroid installer have decided with the recently released windows version find it to be violating many moral and license requirements. This will now mean: we will not provide any form of support and/or advertising for iPhodroid as we do not find this a legitimate piece of software. Signs and notions have been made towards the inclusion of copyrighted material (Launcher Pro beta and iTunes DLL’s), along with that we’ve received complaints that the releases posted may have included viruses (signs shows it was not the ones downloaded off iphodroid.googlecode.com!) but instead may have been a third party or beta upload!

This means:

1. Locking iPhodroid forums, removing links and advertising to the project

2. No support for iPhodroid on this site until changes have been made and agreements have been made regarding the approval of iPhodroid.
clean and approved releases

[ Source from iDroid Project Forums]

iPhoDroid to be released soon! (Updated 3/9/2010)

TheDeadBandit — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:24:06 +0000

This Sunday August 29th, iPhoDroid for Windows will be released to the masses. This application will allow you to dual boot Android Froyo along with the iPhone OS on your iPhone 2G/3G in one shot with a single click.

The project is based on PlanetBeing’s work on the iDroid Project. PlanetBeing was the first to successfully load the Android OS on an iPhone 2G. His work along with others has also allowed some iPod devices and iPhone 3G to load Android with varying functionality as well. The first official iDroid Project, dubbed iDroid v1.0 MoJo, released 4 August, 2010.

An alpha version of iPhoDroid is available for Dev testing should you choose not to wait.

[ iDroid Project Wiki ]

[ @PlanetBeing's Twitter ]

[ PlanetBeing's Website: Linux on iPhone ]

EDIT @ 3/9/2010: Links to this project removed. Support has been retracted from the iDroid community.

After continual promises of releases with no delivery and loops to bring traffic to the front page of this iPhoDroid project to possibly increase revenue, various components of the project are also in violation of moral and license agreements. Potential viruses may be in these packages from 3rd party uploads.

Google Smartphone, Nexus One

TheDeadBandit — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:29:11 +0000

I love my iPhone to death. But this is looking awesome. The Nexus One is definitely going to kill everything out there as long as Google gives freedom to its developers, unlike Apple’s strict AppStore requirements. Developers bring life to your phone. Videos and links and other goodies after the jump!

Notable Features:

Display

3.7-inch (diagonal) widescreen WVGA AMOLED touchscreen
800 x 480 pixels

Camera & Flash

5 megapixels
Autofocus from 6cm to infinity
2X digital zoom
LED flash

Cellular & Wireless

UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900)
HSDPA 7.2Mbps
HSUPA 2Mbps
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
A2DP stereo Bluetooth

Processor

Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz

Capacity

512MB Flash
512MB RAM
4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)

Nexus One: “Web meets phone” Video

Nexus One – Camera and 3D Gallery

Nexus One – Customization

Nexus One – Google Voice Video

More videos at youtube.com/GoogleNexusOne.

For official information, visit Google’s Nexus One site.

Find out how Jason Calacanis (@jason) is giving away 10 unlocked Nexus One phones!