I'm the owner of a popular Android phone from yesteryear, the HTC Desire. It's been out for almost exactly one year from today and originally shipped with Eclair (Android 2.1), and was later updated to Froyo (2.2). HTC just announced via facebook that they will not be updating the HTC Desire any longer. Apparently it [...]
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HTC, you fail.
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Cycle London, with Android
A few weeks ago I started using the London cycle hire scheme, aka 'Boris Bikes'. My journey to work previously included a 15 minute journey underground from Victoria to Embankment, but now I do it overground on a bike which is considerably more enjoyable (provided you don't mind cycling in heavy traffic) as well as [...]
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Compile your own droid – Part 1a
Here's a confession. My inner geek woke me up the next morning at 3:00 wondering whether my android build had completed. In the end sanity took hold again, and I went back to sleep. Quite lucky really as when I checked in the morning, the java compiler had crashed with a meaningless error. After trying [...]
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Compile your own droid (for HTC Sapphire) – Part 1
I thought I'd have a go at building Android 2.0.1 from source for the HTC Magic (AKA MyTouch 3G and HTC Sapphire). Mine is the 32B board from UK Vodafone - Google branded. Current most recent firmware from HTC for the device is Android 1.6, although Android 2.0.1 source code is available from Google. Android [...]
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