Archive for August, 2009

Spoof Your Phone Number with SpoofApp

August - 13 - 2009 - Thursday ADD COMMENTS

I just tried out SpoofAPP and it’s awesome! Ever want to call someone but didn’t want them to have your phone number, use SpoofAPP.

SpoofAPP is a revolutionary Android App for Caller ID Spoofing, Voice Changing, and Call Recording. With SpoofAPP you can change the Caller ID Number people see when you make calls from your Android. You get to decide what number you want displayed when you make a call. SpoofAPP is a program that transmits your call information to a Caller ID Spoofing Provider which handles the actual calling.

 

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One of the things that most of us want to see on any touchscreen smartphone is multi-touch capability. Android has been missing multi-touch since it debuted and it is high on the list of features that many Android users want.

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Android Keyboard vs. iPhone Keyboard

August - 12 - 2009 - Wednesday ADD COMMENTS

Software keyboards on mobile phones are a HUGE issue when you talk about the usability of the product. There are a TON of different elements that make up the overall user experience and these are often boiled down to a “I love it” or an “It sucks” with little physical evidence to prove the opinion. And to be honest, a lot of it is a matter of preference. But Lukas Mathis from IgnoreTheCode.net did a much more thorough review in an article titled “Virtual Keyboards on iPhone and Android” that deserves a close look.

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Yesterday we brought you the rumored specs for Motorola’s upcoming T-Mobile handset the Motorola Morrison, but the Morrison isn’t the only Android handset Motorola plan to launch this year.

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The Motorola Sholes is more of a high-end Android smartphone than the Morrison and will be available on the Verizon network before the end of November, 2009.


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New Android MIDs from Eston Break Cover

August - 12 - 2009 - Wednesday ADD COMMENTS

Android is turning out to be a popular OS for more than just smartphones. Some computer makers still have Android-powered netbooks coming and MIDs are starting to surface with the OS. As Android grows in popularity, I am sure we will see it turn up on more and more devices.

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The latest MID to get Android is from Eston and it is called the MID-02 Slider. The device will be offered on French carrier SFR and is a rebadged Compaq P8860.

Under the cover is an Intel Atom Z500 at 800MHz, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of SSD storage and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. The device sports a 4.3-inch touchscreen. Apparently, the official release details are unknown and the Android MID can only be purchased in bulk right now.

[via SlashGear]

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BusinessWeek interviewed Eric Schmidt of Google and here is what he said about Android.

How about Android? What’s the strategy going forward?
“Android is many things. First, it’s an operating system for a mobile phone. It’s particularly powerful because of the way it was built. The software is free, you can extend it, you’re not locked into any applications vendor or any network. What we like about Android is its perfect expression of openness. A next generation of [Android-based] phones will be coming out in the fall. They won’t necessarily displace other [phones] because they’re also doing well. But we will have a significant bet in mobile phones. So from our perspective it looks like Android is going to be a success.”

[via BusinessWeek]

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The ability to natively view and edit Microsoft Office documents on smartphones is often limited to Windows Mobile devices only. For other platforms to be able to do this requires third party software like Documents to Go from DataViz.

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The Motorola Morrison was first revealed back in May as part of T-Mobile’s handset roadmap for 2009. Since then, there’s been little information revealed about Motorola’s first Android phone, other than the roadmap’s proposed launch date for the 2009 holiday season.

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HTC has been making big waves in the mobile phone world with the announcement and launch of some high profile Android phones over the last few weeks. HTC isn’t alone in rushing Android devices out to the masses; HTC and Motorola are as well.

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Jason Calacanis writes a long but thoughtful article on why he is done with Apple and their monopolistic practices. He’s not alone as many other devoted iPhone users are speaking out as well like Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and Peter Rojas of GDGT.com and the founder of Engadget.

Summary: About six years and $20,000 ago, I made the switch to Apple products after a 20-year love affair with Microsoft. That love affair started with the humble PCjr and ended with an IBM ThinkPad. From DOS to the first version of Windows (the run-time version that only loaded one program), and on to Windows 95 and XP, I dealt with the viruses, driver incompatibilities and other assorted quirks of Microsoft’s wildly open ecosystem.

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