May 24, 2013

froyo - News


“Gigabyte Gsmart Rola”- An Android 2.2 Smartphone with Dual SIM Compatibility

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Gigabyte is preparing to launch a dual-SIM smartphone running on Android v2.2 Froyo. It’s called GSmart Rola and it will launch on the bargain 175 euro in the beginning of 2011. As a smartphone, the device is rather low-end – a 3.2 inch WQVGA resistive touchscreen, 3.2MP camera, a 528MHz processor and 512MB ROM. All [...]

ViewSonic “ViewPad 7″ Review

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The ViewSonic ViewPad 7 delivers Android 2.2 on a swift 7-inch capacitive display. But it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.One of the more intriguing underdogs of the tablet wars is ViewSonic–a company known more for computer monitors than portable computers. It’s understandable that Google’s open source Android is on the majority of tabs [...]

Samsung Releases “W899 Android Flip Phone” with AMOLED Touch-Screen

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More device news coming our way this Monday and again from Samsung.   Samsung has already launched quite a number of Android-powered phones to date but the Korean company introduced its first Android-powered flip phone, namely the Samsung W899.  Features twin 3.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen displays screens (front and back) on the top half of the [...]

Official Android 2.2 Froyo Update for Samsung Epic 4G Leaked

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For those of you dying to get your hands on an official Android 2.2 build for the Sprint Epic 4G, it looks like one has found its way onto at least one phone. The gang at Xda-developers made an important discovery. Earlier Saturday, build DK28 was leaked out and installing it on a Samsung Epic [...]

LG Star With Dual-Core Tegara 2 Processor appeared Video

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If your Hebrew is up to date, you might be able to understand what the reviewer is saying about the LG Star in this video. Considering that this is the first dual-core handset, with its Tegra 2 processor, we felt that even if you couldn’t understand the audio, you could still get an eyeful of [...]

Acer goes ahead with Windows Phone 7 developing plans :Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci

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Although Acer has totally been under the radar in the U.S. in terms of smartphones, the company is hoping to change that with a some Windows Phone 7 handsets. And while we’ve been under the impression that the manufacturer would be building Windows Phone 7 smartphones, Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci confirmed it today in an [...]

Motorola Defy to be updated to Android 2.2 in Q2 2011

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The German subsidiary of O2 has leaked via Twitter that the rugged Motorola Defy will be updated to Android 2.2 in Q1 of 2011. As Google is (presumably) getting ready to finally release Android 2.3 Gingerbread into the wild, news comes about Motorola’s plans for the Motorola Defy. This interesting, rugged smartphone has been running [...]

HTC Droid Incredible Froyo(Android 2.2) Update to Hits Vodafone Today

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HTC Droid Incredible Froyo(Android 2.2) Update to Hits Vodafone Today : After expecting Verizon to roll out the Android 2.2 Froyo update to the HTC Droid Incredible on September 1st, and then having the date retracted  from the source all together, we were beginning to lose hope that the Incredible would get some Froyo love [...]

HTC Droid Incredible Froyo Android 2.2 Update Available from August 18

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The Froyo update will be available for Droid Incredible owners on Wednesday, August 18, according to Mashable’s unnamed sources. Verizon Wireless team members are reportedly using the new version of Android on their phones already. We’ve heard from our sources that the Verizon team members already have Froyo installed on their Droid Incredibles. Now the [...]

French Nationite Unviels Android Powered 7-inch Nationite MIDnite aka WITS A81-E Tablet

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Nationite specializing in the MP3 and PMP rebadge cheap but quality, went into the bathroom with a MID Android Interestingly, Midnite aka WITS A81-E. This unit has many strings to his bow, the first of them being the integration of technology ARM Cortex A8, which is sufficiently rare in this price range (under $ 200) [...]

Notion Ink Adam Tablet Heads to Android 2.2 Froyo Release

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Notion Inks CEO Rohan Shravan mentioned on his blog last week that there were a lot of internal meetings debating the merits of launching their Tablet PC with Gingerbread 3.0 or Froyo 2.2. It seems that Notion Ink is now officially launching with Google Android 2.2 and will upgrade the operating system a few months [...]

HTC Desire Coming with Android 2.2 Froyo Update this Weekend

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HTC will be finally be rolling out Android 2.2 Froyo updates this weekend. Well, that is for owners of the HTC Desire in Europe. HTC has added a few of its own touches to the update, including a revamped caller ID app, an App Sharing widget, and support for 720p video recording. iTunes support will [...]