Android Social Media

There have been a rash of announcements from carriers in the U.S. about launching new Smart Phones utilizing the Android OS (Operating System) from various manufacturers including venerable Motorola. With Motorola jumping into the Android pool head first with their launch of the ‘Cliq’ on November 19th on T-Mobile, and a second Android Smart Phone before year-end, is Android getting the traction it needs to challenge the two 800-pound Gorillas in RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s proprietary iPhone in the Mobile U.S. OS world?

Verizon is preparing to launch their first Android device and as part of the launch they are announcing a new website called Droid Does. The whole idea seems to focus on all the things that Android does that the iPhone doesn’t and of course you could fill an entire website with that kind of content. Here is a teaser video:

Brandon & I have been looking at the latest in Custom Roms since JF is no longer working. In the last week we have both updated to the most recent stable version of Cyanogen’s Build and we have partitioned our SD Cards to increase memory space and speed up the phone. So far so good. We are going to work on a new set of instructions to root your phone and a new set of instructions to update to Cyanogen if you

Good News!!! We met with a developer last week to begin work on our own line of applications. We would looking for people who would be interested in testing out our apps while in Beta mode before we release them to the Android Market. Anyone is invited to take part in the test group and all we ask is that you give us some feedback once you get a chance to play with it a little.

Google continues to change our world and Google voice is no exception. Google voice is currently available upon invite only but then again gmail used to be that way too. Your friends that already have Google voice cannot send you an invite but you can request an invite directly from Google. Visit www.google.com/voice for more [...]

T-mobile has just released an official visual voicemail application for the android market and best of all there is no additional charge. You will need to call customer service to ask them to add the service to your plan before you will be able to use the service.  For those of you who have to [...]

Getting root on your phone involves exploiting a security hole that existed in an early version of Android. The versions with the security holes are known as RC19, RC28, and RC29 (or RC7 or lower for UK phones). As of RC30 (RC8 on UK), Google patched the security hole so that your phone can not be rooted (don’t worry, we can still root it!).

Do you keep hearing the word “Cupcake” in reference to your Android phone and perhaps are wondering if there is a new app coming soon that will cook your baked goods? Sorry that is not the case. “Cupcake” refers to the development department at google and more specifically refers to the next set of updates being prepared for the android platform…