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HTC Legend, Salsa, Tide, Buzz, Bravo

Just when you thought you finally had tabs on the flurry of Android phones(MyTouch, HTC Hero, Motorola Droid), the Storm continues.  Below is a list of next years line up from HTC alone!!  


Design/Lifestyle

HTC Legend
Release: March 2010
Processor: Qualcomm MSM 7227 600MHz
Memory: 512 Flash Memory, 256 RAM
Screen: 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen
Camera: 5.0 mega-pixel with flash
Thickness: 11.4mm
New Sense widgets
Clickable Optical Mouse
Metallic Design
FM Radio
3.5mm headphone jack

HTC Salsa
Release: June 2010
Processor: Qualcomm MSM 7225 528MHz
Memory: 512 Flash Memory, 256 RAM
Screen: 2.6-inch QVGA touch screen
Camera: 3.2 mega-pixel
4-row QWERTY
Thickness: 8.6mm
FM Radio
3.5mm headphone jack
Social

HTC Tide
Release: April 2010
Processor: Qualcomm MSM 7225 528MHz
Memory: 512 Flash Memory, 256 RAM
Screen: 2.68-inch QVGA touch screen
Camera: 3.2 mega-pixel with autofocus
Thickness: 13mm
3.5mm headphone jack

HTC Buzz
Release: May 2010
Processor: Qualcomm MSM 7225 528MHz
Memory: 512 Flash Memory, 256 RAM
Screen: 3.2-inch touch screen
Camera: 5.0 mega-pixel with autofocus, flash, face tagging
Thickness: 11mm
FM radio
3.5mm headphone jack
Performance

HTC Bravo
Release: April 2010
Processor: Qualcomm QSD 8250 1GHz
Memory: 512 Flash Memory, 256 RAM w/ 16GB microSD card
Screen: 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touch screen
Camera: 5.0 mega-pixel with flash, autofocus, and HD video capture
Thickness: 11.7mm
Optical Joystick
DivX, Dolby support
FM Radio
3.5mm headphone jack


more info on:


http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=595648

HTC Hero Android 2.1 Eclair preview

HTC Hero Android 2.1 Eclair preview





Some of what it includes:
On 26 October 2009 the 2.0 (Eclair) SDK was released.[36] Among the changes are:[37]
Optimized hardware speed
Support for more screen sizes and resolutions
Revamped UI
New browser UI and HTML5 support
New contact lists
Better white/black ratio for backgrounds
Improved Google Maps 3.1.2
Microsoft Exchange support
Built in flash support for Camera
Digital Zoom
Improved virtual keyboard
Bluetooth 2.1
more on Android:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

HTC Hero Adobe Flash first Android

Adrian Ludwig from Adobe Systems, Inc. demos websites with Flash on the HTC Hero, the first Android smartphone with Flash.



http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/htchero.html

e.g yahoo movies you can see the full movie site and trailers. E.g The Transformer movie
addictivegames.com e.g. Penguine Swings and thousands of other Flash Games

www.expedia.com content on upper right can only be used on Flash.

Dana Hanna @Tracypage @TheSoftwareJedi Twitter @ the altar.

Dana Hanna updates his Facebook and Twitter, at the altar.

Stolen Belgian iPhones recovered in Russia

Police recently cracked a big case involving hundreds of stolen iPhones(iPhone 3GS). PC World recently reported how the phones were snatched from the warehouse The crafty thieves dug a hole in the warehouse in Belgium and took the phones. Supply and Demand always breeds the best in competition and crime. The iPhone 3GS isn't yet available in Russian and many other countries where there is a high demand.

It's likely that most of the phones will be recovered. The Interpol has a list of the IMEI #'s. Yes indeed you can run but you can't hide.



More information:

David Pogue of the NY Times recently wrote an article on who pays for the stolen iPhones.

download HTC Hero 2.1 via XDA-developers & AllDroid

The HTC Hero now has the sweet Eclair(2.0) update leaked(not the official version). Only the Motorola Droid had the 2.0 and the good folks at HTC were left out. The new update includes the following below.

* Optimized hardware speed
* Support for more screen sizes and resolutions
* Revamped UI
* New browser UI and HTML5 support
* New contact lists
* Better white/black ratio for backgrounds
* Improved Google Maps 3.1.2
* Microsoft Exchange support
* Built in flash support for Camera
* Digital Zoom
* Improved virtual keyboard
* Bluetooth 2.1


The HTC Hero 2.1 ROM with SenseUI is apparently bow available. NEws from Androidguys.com

via XDA-developers and AllDroid!

how-to iphone stream live video Knocking

You can download Knocking Live Video from the itunes store

The app was initially rejected by the iTunes store. The motivated developers appealed directly to Steve Jobs via email. With in 3hours of knocking on Steve Jobs door they were live and in effect.

Below is how Knocking works. A fantastic app pioneering the way for live streaming on your iPhone.

Google Wave Invites Give away for our Readers

We have another batch of Google wave invites. To Win write to ViewSpotLight @ Gmail.com as to why you need the service.. We will announce winners on the web site Thursday 5pm.

Thanks

Google Phone = Chrome OS + Google Wave + Google Voice (A Unifying Theory)

Google's Unifying Theory = Chrome OS + Google Wave + Google Voice = Google Phone

People thought the Android powered phone was the "Google Phone" and it turned out not to be THE "Google Phone".

What we think would be this: The "Google Phone" would be a cloud phone leveraging Google OS, Chrome and Google Wave". At the time when Google on the drawing board sketching out the Android phone they didn't see the possibilities that were dawning. They hadn't started with Google Voice or Chrome Browser or Chrome OS or Google Wave. Google's cash cow has come with the help of the web browsers, with out the display of the ads theirs a huge loss of revenue. The better the browsers the better their bottom line. Google has a huge map in their office that shows places around the world that are dark spots with no searches. Most of those places have cell phones. If Google can provide phones in those areas with decent searches, then they will officially rule the world.

Apple's Unifying Theory = Mac OS + Safari + iTunes + iPod = iPhone
The leaders of the Genius Phone revolution at Apple built it and centered around iTunes. Which was a checkmate to bring aboard the millions of music, movie, tv, podcast people to one home. On top of it carries their real Mac OS and Safari. FOR Google to get it right, the Chrome OS will have to be at the heart of their new phone. That is the only way they can seriously increase their earning on the cell phone side. And pose a threat to the iPhone(Really a disguise of the best iPod ever).

What we have below is the biggest credible clue that Google will go in that direction to have Chrome OS run on the cell Phones. They must have tried that by now.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

Finally from Sergey Brin(Founder of Google) "CNET, Brin said that Android and the Chrome OS "will likely converge over time," noting the common Webkit and Linux foundation of both operating systems."

Microsofts Steve Ballmer ridiculed the Chrome OS initiative saying at the windows Partners Conference "highly interesting... I don't know if they can't make up their mind or what the problem is over there, but the last time I checked, you don't need two client operating systems. It's good to have one." http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/steve-ballmer-calls-chrome-os-highly-interesting-says-google/

A Unifying theory is what Apple has, no confusing or false starts. Their miles ahead. Google has all of the pieces but it's not yet complete. The question is, with the Google Phone do it?


BoyGeniusReport.com:

While others are filing this under “certainty” we are still going to have to classify this one as a “class 1 rumor.... The article is pretty light on facts and fairly high on speculation so we’ll let you guys decide how high this one ranks on the certainty meter. While we don’t see a reason that Google would want to royally piss off their hardware partners, we also don’t see them letting much get in their way of world domination.”

TechCrunch(Michael Arrington):
But there are a few things we have absolutely confirmed: Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding... There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/17/thegoogle-phone/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/the-google-phone-may-be-data-only-voip-driven-device/



According to a trusted source who's seen it with their own eyes, the Google Phone "is a certainty." They'll don large LCDs while running a new version of Android—either Flan or the version of Android beyond it—which our source spotted running on Google's handset as well as a laptop. (Whatever the software was, it most certainly wasn't Chrome OS, we were assured.)